RAIN 060414
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

Say 'yes' for history's sake
Globe and Mail - Canada
... As part of the deal, all census returns from 1911 to 2001 will be
released
by Library and Archives Canada (formerly the National Archives) on a
regular
basis ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20060414.wxcocensus04
14/BNStory/specialComment/home>

When wind hit, privacy flew out the window
Indianapolis Star - United States
... 24th-floor office, but several court briefs and other public
documents
laying nearby ... He said: 'None of those records that blew out were my
files, were they ...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060414/BUSINESS/604
140425/-1/ZONES04>

Deceit by the truckload
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... Buried in the files of the old regime was the evidence of the
company's
kickbacks ... Among the documents being uncovered were handwritten
records
from the ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/deceit-by-the-truckload/2006/04/14/1
144521506851.html>

Flea-market secrets
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Among the files contained on some drives were documents that named
... For others, they provide an easy way to move records from one
posting
to the next. ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-bagram14apr14,0,227
6855.story?coll=la-news-comment-editorials>

43,000 warned: Identity thieves may have data
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
... But while the records were in the possession of the ... copies were
made of some of the documents, said Attorney ... a "fraud alert" on
their
credit files, to prevent ...
<http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060414/NE
WS03/604140361/1001/NEWS>


State warns of mass identity record theft
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... he said, "unauthorized copies of some of the records were made.".
Bennett
advised potential victims to put a fraud alert on their credit files and
request ...
<http://starbulletin.com/2006/04/14/news/story01.html>

Require lawmakers to save records
Wisconsin State Journal - Madison,WI,USA
... un-exempt themselves from a state law prohibiting the destruction of
public records. ... be if lawmakers are allowed to willy-nilly shred
papers
and delete e-mails ...
<http://www.madison.com/wsj/home/opinion/index.php?ntid=80160&ntpid=1>

Is a new perception of ILM emerging?
ComputerWorld - USA
... Industry Center (ISIC) at the University of California-San Diego
have
released the preliminary findings of a study on information life-cycle
management (ILM). ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,110526,00
.html>

Recorder's office limits public access to online data
TMCnet - USA
... The change means people interested in online documents, such a deeds
and mortgages, must first go to the recorder's office and supply their
name, address, and ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-recorders-office-limits-public-access-onl
ine-data-/2006/04/14/1573077.htm>

Allen Weinstein
Federal Times - USA
... Now, the archivist must resolve an unanticipated problem: Federal
agencies
have been removing previously declassified records from the public
shelves
quietly ...
<http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=1686611>

Third of Staff Can be Redeployed by Using Data Capture ...
CRM Today - USA
Document management and imaging author, Version One has undertaken
research
with ... more varied and challenging can also radically improve staff
retention rates.".
<http://www.crm2day.com/news/crm/118193.php>


Judge rules for private screening of governor's state e-mail ...
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... A reporter for The Courier-Journal of Louisville had filed an open
records request with the governor's office in June seeking access to
"any
and all e-mails ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/14345948.htm>

Finding the wrong answer
USA Today - USA
... To his credit, the current archivist, Allen Weinstein, has announced
a moratorium on ... when 20th century historians doing research in the
Archives began finding ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2006-04-13-airline-archi
ves_x.htm>

Dinner Celebrates LGBT Untold History
CU Columbia Spectator - New York City,NY,USA
... by Riverside’s queer ministry, Maranatha, and the LGBT Religious
Archives Network, a ... It was a culture of secrecy,” Doris Malkmus,
Archivist for RAN, said. ...
<http://www.columbiaspectator.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/04/14/443f371d
29aa4>

Hill Family Moves From Arlen to Alkek
Texas State University The University Star - San Marcos,TX,USA
... Katie Salzmann, the lead archivist of the Writer’s Collection, is
still sorting and processing the vast archive collection, which will not
be available to ...
<http://star.txstate.edu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1460>

US to drop charges against researchers
Boston Globe - United States
... from Harvard wasn't proprietary so there was no evidence to support
allegations that the researchers were involved in the theft of trade
secrets,
Sullivan said ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/14/us_to
_drop_charges_against_researchers>


BBC News, Sat, 08 Apr 2006 4:53 AM PDT
Lost words of a German conscript
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent
/4887702.stm
Andrew Joynes discovers letters sent from a Nazi concentration camp...
written by a German inmate.

The New York Sun, Tue, 11 Apr 2006 0:07 AM PDT
Portion of Famed Painting of Antietam Battle Surfaces
http://www.nysun.com/article/30776
After the Civil War, a former lieutenant of the Union Army, artist
James Hope, took up painting scenes from his notebook of sketches of
the war that
pitted brother against brother. One of the most famous results was "The
Aftermath," which depicted the gory trench known as Bloody Lane that
was said to
have been piled six deep with bodies after the battle of Antietam on
September
17, 1862.

Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune, Mon, 10 Apr 2006 8:32 PM PDT
Critics: Deal would seal Enron files
http://www.startribune.com/535/story/363427.html
The government is moving to bar public access permanently to most of
the audiotapes, e-mail messages, and other documents that show how Enron
earned billions of dollars by manipulating electric-power markets,
according
to one senator and others opposed to a proposed settlement with Enron.
Enron
traders boasted of cheating unsuspecting customers, some of whom they
mocked as
"poor grandmothers" who

RedNova, Mon, 10 Apr 2006 7:43 PM PDT
Too Many Attorneys Unaware of Data Intergrity Issue in Records
Management
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/465281/too_many_attorneys_unaware

_of_data_intergrity_issue_in_records/index.html?source=r_technology
By Caryn Tamber So you've advised your corporate clients to read up on
  the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, keep accurate records and find a reliable way
of
destroying papers they no longer need.

TechWeb, Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:19 AM PDT
PayPal Ordered To Hand Over Customer Records
http://www.techweb.com/headlines_week/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=1853007
57
Online payment service PayPal has reportedly been ordered to hand
overcustomer
records in a federal investigation of tax cheats.

Detroit News, Wed, 12 Apr 2006 1:19 AM PDT
Sloppy records cited in audits
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060412/METRO01/604120

350/1006/rss01
Missing time sheets, chaotic worker's compensation files and
undocumented payments has made it nearly impossible to verify Wayne
County's
accounting since 2003, and the sloppy record-keeping is costing
taxpayers, according to
the agency hired to audit county finances.


Contra Costa Times, Sat, 08 Apr 2006 6:54 PM PDT
Cal relishes Examiner archives
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/cctimes/living/education/14267598.htm?source

=rss&channel=cctimes_education
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

Stanford Report, Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:41 AM PDT
Earthquake exhibit documents human story behind 1906 wreckage
http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2006/april12/quake-041206.html
In her work as university archivist, Margaret Kimball has encountered
hundreds of photographs documenting the devastation that the April 18,
1906,
earthquake left in its wake. Many of the most illuminating and dramatic
of the
images have found their way into the centennial exhibit 'The Earthquake
of 1906:
Stanford University and Environs', on view at Green Library through
Sept. 15.

USA Today, Wed, 12 Apr 2006 5:29 PM PDT
Historians strive to save old sounds
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/techinnovations/2006-04-12-preserving-o

ld-pop_x.htm?csp=34
With the help of donations, the University of California at Santa
Barbara has digitized songs and spoken-word performances from more than
6,000
cylinders, the early precursors of vinyl records and compact discs. The
music is a
selection of long-forgotten pop music that can now be loaded on iPods.





Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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