RAIN 060701
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Companies awarded records center contract
Carlsbad Current Argus - Carlsbad,NM,USA
... This will create new jobs.". George said he's already hired a 
certified
records manager to act as project manager. "He's waiting to go to work,"
he said. ...
<http://www.currentargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060701/NEWS01/6
07010306/1001>

Bank Manager Accused Of Selling Customer Records
cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA
... on north Highway 287 in Lafayette and had access to all bank 
records.
... Ridge police recovered a number of fraudulent checks, IDs, 
confidential
files, as well as ...
<http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_181233407.html>

Vaulted microfilm to be digitized and posted online
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
... Huge files on the Web site are also freely accessible in public 
libraries.
... The extent of records to be imaged and available in home computers
is the result of ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/features/religion/dp-61922sy0jul01,1,5817818.s
tory?coll=dp-features-faithlife>

Iron Mountain combines backup, encryption
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
July 1, 2006—Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm of Iron Mountain
Inc., has combined its backup software product, Connected Backup/PC, and
its data ...
<http://www.infostor.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&SubSe
ction=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=23&ARTICLE_ID=259128>

Librarian ensnared in privacy conflict
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... Reutty, who is vice president and president-elect of the state 
library
association, stands behind her decision to have police secure a subpoena
before turning ...
<http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZ
nYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2OTU1NjU2JnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==>

Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a nation
Globe and Mail - Canada
... Jeffrey Murray is a senior archivist in the map division of Library
and Archives Canada, and his book utilizes maps drawn principally from
the vaults of that ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060701.BKMAPP01/TPSto
ry/Entertainment>
Half of money to cover King loan raised
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA, USA
... Meanwhile, Morehouse College is having to embark on its own 
fund-raising
initiative to hire an archivist and curator for the collection as well
as cover the ...
<http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/atlanta/stories/0702king.html>

Federal charter returns to sender
Swissinfo - Switzerland
... The charter, which had been insured for SFr1 million ($815,000), was
to travel back in a special suitcase handcuffed to Kaspar Michel, the
archivist of canton ...
<http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/Federal_charter_returns_to_sen
der.html?siteSect=105&sid=6860986&cKey=1151745032000>

Vatican will release files on Pope Pius XI
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... Researchers will be allowed to access the files beginning Sept. 18.
In 2003, the Vatican began opening to scholars millions of Vatican 
documents
from the years ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0701vatican-archive0701.html>

Missing evidence of 1999 Timor violence recovered
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... He said the documents lost were audio, video and photo files 
depicting
"murder, violence and other actions carried out by the TNI (Indonesian
Armed Forces)". ...
<http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=110518>

A Pen That's More Than Meets the Paper
New York Times - United States
... All these forms, with their filled-in entries and signatures, must
be scanned before they can become part of his computer records — a 
time-consuming
process. ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/02/business/yourmoney/02novel.html>

Beneath a Treasure of Documents, a Stinky Mess
Washington Post - United States
The chief archivist of the United States of America immediately seized
on a single ... him at 1:40 am Monday to report massive flooding at the
National Archives. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/29/AR200606
2902221.html>


Remembrance of styles past
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... for example, have all relaunched hard-to-find items from their 
archives.
... in clothing, clothing with cultural significance," says Levi's 
archivist
Lynn Downey. ...
<http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c717e7e4-081f-11db-b9b2-0000779e2340.html>

Forgotten for 50 years … secret diary of Soviet Union’s ‘ ...
Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... The diaries were unearthed in 2001 in the Russian State Archive by
Irina Osipova, a researcher for Memorial, an organisation that tries to
keep alive the ...
<http://www.sundayherald.com/56486>

NZZ, Sat, 01 Jul 2006 2:33 AM PDT
Federal charter returns to sender
http://www.nzz.ch/2006/07/01/eng/article6860986.html
The Schweizer Bundesbrief, a 17:line parchment document that made
Switzerland the world's first republic, is returning home after being 
on display in
the United States.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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