RAIN 060510
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Iron Mountain Expands Government Services
Scure Destruction Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
... Iron Mountain offers a number of services to government clients, 
including
secure shredding, records and document management, offsite tape 
vaulting,
PC data ...
<http://www.sdbmagazine.com/news/news.asp?ID=7702>

Original Shred-It Inc. Changes Name
Scure Destruction Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
... any way affiliated with Shred-It, the Canadian-based mobile 
shredding
franchise. ... name now reflects our complete line of services, 
including
records storage and ...
<http://www.sdbmagazine.com/news/news.asp?ID=7705>

Cameroon: Buea Archives in Dire Need of Renovation
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Buea National Archives officially opened in 1959 by the British 
couple
Edwin and Shirley Ardernel who came to Cameroon under the canopy of the
British ...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200605100197.html>

China releases old diplomatic files to public
Xinhua - China
... The Archives Bureau is open to the public during the week (expect 
Friday
afternoon) from 8:00-11:30 am and 1:00-4:30 pm People interested in the
files ...
<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/10/content_4531252.htm>

Morgan Stanley paying $15M fine on charges
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... In March 2004, Bank of America Corp.'s securities division agreed to
pay a $10 million fine - a record - to settle the SEC's allegations that
it failed ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1310AP_Morgan_Stanley_Fined.html>


The importance of back-up
Express Hotelier - Mumbai,India
... In this computer savvy world, all our records related to business 
are
lying in an ... When necessary files get lost or the hard disk crashes,
one can revert to the ...
<http://www.expresshospitality.com/20060515/edge02.shtml>

BNSF Railway Historic Photos Now Available Through Index Stock
Market Wire (press release) - USA
FORT WORTH, TX and NEW YORK, NY -- (MARKET WIRE) -- 05/10/2006 -- 
Selections
from the BNSF Railway archival photo collection are now available online
for the ...
<http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=128432>

Symantec unveils IT Compliance solution
TMCnet - USA
... offering automates various aspects of IT compliance, including IT 
controls
assessment, policy management, policy enforcement, document retention
and collection ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-symantec-unveils-it-compliance-solution-/
2006/05/09/1644765.htm>

Scraping to fill the shelves of the Bush library
Boston Globe - United States
IN THE Texas competition for the George W. Bush Presidential Library, 
the
city of Irving promises $50 million in hotel tax revenue on behalf of
the University ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2006/05
/10/scraping_to_fill_the_shelves_of_the_bush_library>

Presidential Papers Found In Trash
CBS News - USA
... trying to learn more about the papers, CBS News ... The documents 
also
offer the order of vehicles in ... Service says the document is not 
classified,
Leshan reports. ...
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/05/10/politics/main1605056.shtml>

Police doctor left confidential documents at public bin
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
Dr Kameran Kader, 43, left up to 700 confidential documents ripped up by
the bin in the Lidget Green area of Bradford, the General Medical 
Council
was told. ...
<http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID
=1492537>

Email is Exhibit A
CMPnetAsia - Singapore
... A few years ago, many businesses said they should delete [old E ...
Consultants offer advice on classification and policy services, records
management and assessment ...
<http://www.cmpnetasia.com/oct3_nw_viewart.cfm?Artid=28694&Catid=5&subcat
=46&section=Features>


The Case of Roberts's Missing Papers
Washington Post - United States
... Susan Cooper, an Archives spokeswoman, said yesterday that agency 
officials
provided ... Allen Weinstein, the archivist of the United States, 
disclosed
that the ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/10/AR200605
1002232.html>

Historical society's archives to move
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... Those archives are housed in the Boynton Beach City Library, Smith
said. They are available from Janet DeVries, archivist for the 
Schoolhouse
Children's Museum ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-bb07archivesmay07,0
,569475.story?coll=sfl-news-palmcomm>

Quality archives key to preserving nation's history, heritage ...
Borneo Bulletin - borneo,Brunei Darussalam
... accessible to the people as stipulated on the International Council
on Archives (ICA) code ... It is therefore a professional obligation for
every archivist to get ...
<http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/wed/may10h13.htm>

Herald & Review, Tue, 09 May 2006 9:35 PM PDT
Hidden treasures: Expert examines Decatur library holdings for possible
cultural center
http://www.herald-review.com/articles/2006/05/10/news/local_news/1015067.

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DECATUR - Community treasures continue to be unearthed at Decatur
Public Library.

Knight-Ridder Washington Bureau, Wed, 10 May 2006 2:14 PM PDT
 Wednesday, May 10, 2006
http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/14547345.htm
 MOSCOW - Photographers for the old Soviet TASS news agency labored
under censors  and government demands that their work promote official 
ideology. But
they also  enjoyed prestige and privileged access as they chronicled 
seven
decades of the  remarkable and the mundane.


Kathimerini, Wed, 10 May 2006 1:05 AM PDT
 A 170-year-old treasury of records made more accessible
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell__KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp
?fdate=10/05/2006
 Old photographs of laboratories in various schools at Athens
University are  examples of the intriguing material held in the 
collections of the
university’s  historical archives, now being digitized with the help of 
the EU’s
Information  Society program.

FCW.com, Tue, 09 May 2006 3:11 PM PDT
 ISO approves open document format; Mass. may use MS Office and ODF
 http://www.fcw.com/article94322-05-09-06-Web&RSS=yes
 The major international standards body has endorsed the first
nonproprietary  technology for archiving government records. At the 
same time, one
state  government is hinting that it may soften its mandate to adopt 
such
technologies.  Yesterday, The International Organization for 
Standardization
announced it has  granted international standard status to the Open 
Document Format
(ODF), an  open,



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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