RAIN 060407
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

Celebrate Archives Awareness Week 2006 - just a little bit late
Ancaster News - Ontario, Canada
... this year. Thanks to a grant from the Trillium Foundation, the
Dundas
Museum was able to hire an archivist in August 2005. Since ...
<http://www.ancasternews.com/an/news/news_557041.html>

Secret Service closes investigation of missing tapes
ComputerWorld - USA
... Iron Mountain Inc., the records storage and management company whose
courier truck lost Time Warner backup tapes, has announced that it now
offers customers an ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,110170,00
.html>

Dig at Statehouse site finds pieces of history
Newark Star Ledger - NJ, USA
... "This is a once-in-a-200-year opportunity," state Archivist Karl J.
Niederer said yesterday as state officials and history enthusiasts
gathered
outside the ...
<http://www.nj.com/statehouse/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1144389739100
320.xml&coll=1>

Tom Jennings: Records Center holds wealth of information
Sebastian Sun (subscription) - Sebastian,FL,USA
NPRC, a central repository of personnel-related records, both military
and civil service, is one of the National Archives and Records
Administration's
largest ...
<http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/community_correspondents/article/0,2542,TCP_16
496_4598790,00.html>

Beyond compliance
CMPnetAsia - Singapore
... If you look at the parts of content management that are growing the
fastest, you see records management, digital asset management, and
e-mail
and communication ...
<http://www.cmpnetasia.com/oct3_nw_viewart.cfm?Artid=28553&Catid=8&subcat
=76&section=Features>

County charging for vital records
The Jackson Citizen-Patriot - Jackson,MI,USA
... With the exception of divorces, those public records had been
available
free of charge. Divorces previously were 15 cents per case. ...
<http://www.mlive.com/news/jacitpat/index.ssf?/base/news-16/1144425907314
580.xml&coll=3>


Bill to make governor's office open records defeated
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... Ryder. Ryder said the governor's office has been exempt from the
state's
public records law since the law was put in place in 1940. ...
<http://www.nola.com/newsflash/louisiana/index.ssf?/base/news-24/11443616
50308240.xml&storylist=louisiana>

Remains of state archives building uncovered
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
... project redesigning the State House entrance for modern security
concerns
has unearthed the remains of New Jersey's original archives building,
the second ...
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060407/NEW
S01/604070373/1006/NEWS01>

Editor singing blues of open records
UW Badger Herald - Madison,WI,USA
... face as the segment comes on, it is clear something is different
this
time around: his spot is being preceded by WTDY playing "The Open
Records
Blues," the ...
<http://badgerherald.com/artsetc/2006/04/07/editor_singing_blues.php>

Guardian Unlimited, Tue, 04 Apr 2006 7:19 PM PDT
The postwar photographs that British authorities tried to keep hidden
http://politics.guardian.co.uk/politicspast/story/0,,1745663,00.html
For almost 60 years, the evidence of Britain's clandestine torture
programme in postwar Germany has lain hidden in the government's files.

LOOKING BACK: ERIKA MAILMAN: Group commemorates 1906 earthquake ...
Montclarion - Montclair,CA,USA
... at the time of the earthquake, and his photographs show both San
Francisco
and Oakland. The glass negatives are part of the library's History Room
collection. ...
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california
/alameda_county/montclair/14286914.htm>

BC News, Sat, 08 Apr 2006 3:31 AM PDT
1916 collection goes under hammer
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/northern_ireland/4889982.stm
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the Easter Rising - but it also
marks the largest collection of 1916 memorabilia ever to go on sale.


Nevada Appeal, Thu, 06 Apr 2006 7:31 AM PDT
Rebate check helps archives preserve Civil War documents
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20060406/NEWS/104060067/-1/rss01
Some of Nevada's historic Civil War documents received hope of
restoration Wednesday thanks to a donation from a local foundation.

Contra Costa Times, Wed, 05 Apr 2006 3:23 AM PDT
Cal relishes Examiner archives
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/14267598.htm?source=rss&

channel=cctimes_news
The job for archivists at UC Berkeley's Bancroft library just got
delightfully harder. School officials announced Tuesday that the
library has been
gifted the archives of the San Francisco Examiner, a collection of
first drafts,
as it were, of the Bay Area's history. The gift includes the former
Hearst
flagship newspaper's photo archives as well as bound issues of the paper
spanning much of the




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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