RAIN 060410
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

OPSEC tool pulverizes paper
PressZoom (press release) - Amsterdam,Netherlands
Cassandra Ali, 379th Expeditionary Communications Squadron base records
manager, keeps track ... fine dust escapes from the bag during the
shredding
process, but a ...
<http://presszoom.com/story_116049.html>

Boise Cascade Turns Customer Data into a Valuable Asset
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... disk expenses were about 10 times higher than commodity data storage
products linked ... and loading the data into a system for mainframe
records
management, Boise ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18
4429461&subSection=Best+Practices>

Casper Seminars on Records Management for Small Businesses
University of Wyoming News - Laramie,WY,USA
... will teach the seminars. She holds an MBA degree, and in 2000
received
her Certified Records Manager designation. The WSBDC is a ...
<http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=7680>

City finds home for 260 years of history
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... But Reed's biggest contribution to city history might be what he
rescued
from the trash -- and plans to fashion into a public archives. ...
<http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1144661082
127270.xml&coll=1>

Archivist Statement on Declassification of MOU Between National ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
WASHINGTON, April 10 /US Newswire/ -- Today the redacted "Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) between the National Archives and Records
Administration
and the ...
<http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=63847>

National Archives Names Director of Nixon Presidential Library and ...
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
... Currently 7 million pages of records are available to the public
including
almost all of the White House Special Files, a large portion of the
National
<http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=63831>


Winning the data war
MIS Magazine - Australia
... set up a senior-level committee to oversee e-communications policies
and the content, so it will set the rights, the policies, the data
retention
period, all ...
<http://www.misweb.com/magarticle.asp?doc_id=25668&rgid=5&listed_months=0
>

Poker Archivist: The World Series of Poker Collection at UNLV
PokerNews.com - USA
Dave Schwartz (Dr. Dave, with a Ph. D. in history from UCLA) is the
coordinator
of the Center for Gaming Research at the University ...
<http://www.pokernews.com/news/2006/4/poker-archivist-unlv.htm>

National Archives name first federal director of Nixon Library
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... In the wake of an embarrassing episode last year in which the
library
canceled a conference on Vietnam, National Archivist Allen Weinstein
secured
agreements ...
<http://www.pe.com/ap_news/California2/CA_Nixon_Library_232382CA.shtml>

ADDING UP A COVERUP
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... Francisco was 478. To former city librarian and retired city
archivist
Gladys Hansen, that just didn't seem right. For 40 years ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/14307303.htm>

Light Shines on Former County Recorder's Technology Deal
digitalBURG.com - Warrensburg,MO,USA
... Jan Jones succeeded Mifflin as Record of Deeds on August 17, 2005.
Documents show that the $3,190 invoice for the software included not
one,
but two SF ...
< http://www.digitalburg.com/artman/publish/article_1457.shtml>

Lott Lawyer: State Farm Destroying Papers
Washington Post - United States
... They said one report traced the destruction to Katrina's winds while
a later report ... State Farm is asking the judge to bar Hood himself
from seeing the records. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/10/AR200604
1001130.html>


A State House privy seal?
Trenton Times - Trenton,NJ,USA
... The documents that once were housed in the the old building now form
the core collection of the modern state archives, said Karl J. Niederer,
director of the ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/times/index.ssf?/base/news-1/1144398036103450.xml
&coll=5>

Time capsule reveals 'Ktaadn' mystique
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
... Leavitt's son, Lawrence, donated the glass negatives to Bangor
Public
Library. Merrill photographed Katahdin from a variety of perspectives,
near and far. ...
<http://www.bangornews.com/news/templates/?a=131870>

Florida county Web Site serves up sensitive information
ComputerWorld - USA
... several years and poses a serious risk of identity theft and fraud,
said Bruce Hogman, a county resident who informed the Broward County
Records
Division of ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/privacy/story/0,108
01,110389,00.html>

Big Ideas energize, create momentum
Charlotte Business Journal - Charlotte,NC,USA
... There's Denny Hammack at Patterson Pope, a records-storage company
that has taken advantage of the latest technology to shift its focus to
records and ...
<http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/charlotte/stories/2006/04/10/smallb7.ht
ml>

Easily Deny Access to Email and Documents
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... and documents. If a user’s laptop or computer is stolen, the user
can log-in to their account from another computer and remotely deny
access
to all files ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/news/detail.cfm?articleID=1750>

National Archives name first federal director of Nixon Library
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... the only presidential library not part of the National Archives
system
... in which the library canceled a conference on Vietnam, National
Archivist
Allen Weinstein ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/
northern_california/14311063.htm>

Backup-Tape Security: Enter the “Brown Bag”
Enterprise Systems - USA
... The roster of companies that lost backup tapes this year or last ...
million), CitiFinancial (3.9 million), City National Bank (unknown), and
Time Warner (600,000). ...
<http://www.esj.com/security/article.aspx?EditorialsID=1669>


Users get mixed results tiering storage
Search Storage - USA
... During a session on data classification and information lifecycle
management
at Storage Networking World (SNW) in San Diego, several users raised
their
hands ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci117
9461,00.html>

Mortgage firm alleges trade theft
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
... Computer records show they changed information in the computer
system
to give the impression that customers went elsewhere of their own
accord,
they contend. ...
<http://news.newstimeslive.com/story.php?id=82283&category=Local>

City Hall to audit records of employees
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... mayor's office won't permit any non-routine deletion of records from
the ... filing that Daley's former patronage chief, Robert Sorich,
ordered
files shredded and ...
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/hired/hired11a.html>

Feds: Patronage chief had records destroyed
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... intergovernmental affairs where Sorich was patronage chief to get
records
of how ... city's mainframe, Sorich told him to "get the mainframe files
deleted, using ...
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/sorich10.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
[log in to unmask]
http://www.frappr.com/recmgmt