RAIN 060928
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

Archives of 'The Mighty Eighth' collected at Penn State
Penn State Live - PA,USA
... a day," said James P. Quigel, head of Historical Collections and Labor
Archives. ... Eighth Force Archivist Paul Dzyak said the bulk of the existing
collection has ...
<http://live.psu.edu/story/19738>

The Kennedys, according to Rose
Boston Globe - United States
... Megan Desnoyers, family collections archivist at the library, said
she is not aware of ... The bulk of the papers will be held in the library
archives, where they ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/09/28/the_kennedys_according_to_rose>

Schools weary of data requests
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
... But administrators say that his voluminous public records requests
are vague, time-consuming and amount to using Ohio's public records laws
as "harassment.". ...
<http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060928/NEWS0102/609280368/1058/NEWS01>

`Hotbed' of economic espionage -- Silicon Valley
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... In many espionage cases in which suspects were simply charged with
the theft of trade secrets, investigators suspected the Chinese government
was the intended ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/15625104.htm>

TX Corporate Hackers Allegedly Steal $150 Million
CBS 11 - Dallas/Fort Worth,TX,USA
... incrimination 45-times in response to questions in the lawsuit about
hacking and stealing Exel's trade secrets. ... People talk about identity
theft all the time ...
<http://cbs11tv.com/topstories/local_story_270212100.html>

National Archives Proposes Wider Checks of People Using Its ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
Researchers and all other visitors at facilities run by the National Archives
and Records Administration would be subject to close inspections of their
...
<http://chronicle.com/news/article/1054/national-archives-proposes-wider-checks-of-people-using-its-facilities>

New digital archive will preserve historic records from Their Past ...
eGov monitor - London,UK
... The Archive Awareness Campaign is co-ordinated by The National Council
on Archives, which is sponsored by the MLA Partnership and The National
Archives. ...
<http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/7839>

OSU memorabilia thefts on campus, at Gateway
OSU - The Lantern - Columbus,OH,USA
... Pam Temple, records manager for the OSU police, said that although
there have been no major thefts like this in the past, there are still
memorabilia stolen ...
<http://www.thelantern.com/news/2006/09/28/Campus/Osu-Memorabilia.Thefts.On.Campus.At.Gateway-2314274.shtml>

GE brings data leak trend to light
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
... According to reports, one of the company's employee's laptop was swiped
from his hotel ... we'll start to see an increase of clever scams using
stolen data, like ...
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/008121.html>

New law mandates that businesses destroy records with personal ...
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
Companies must start shredding or otherwise destroying records with personal
customer and employee information when they've finished with the records.
<http://www.azcentral.com/abgnews/articles/0928abg-record0928.html>

Mining Matrimonial E-Data
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... electronic data contained on a litigant's hard drive or data storage
device in ... for extensions due to various difficulties in retaining
records through regular ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1159347930960>

Ambiguity reigns in the world of compliance: report
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada
... They may be knowingly or unknowingly continuing to try and manage electronic
records along more traditional lines," Patterson said. ...
<http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=21216>

FRCP and Why You Should Care
Windows &amp; Net Magazine - Cleveland,OH,USA
... discovery requests. This is a big change; it will require electronic
records to be included unless otherwise specified. Another ...
<http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/93685/Windows_93685.html>

The Seven Deadly Sins of Records Retention (And how to avoid them)
cso.online.com.au - Australia
... around about it - this after the US Department of Defense, TriWest's
only customer, announced it was going to audit the company's document
retention practices. ...
<http://www.csoonline.com.au/index.php/id;1906801805;fp;16;fpid;0>

Chesapeake clerk, title company huddle to resolve backlog
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
... office is at least eight months behind in recording the documents,
which are ... former clerk Lillie Hart called the staffing level in her
deeds office inadequate. ...
<http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=111776&ran=116477>

GLBT Historical Society exec. director resigns
Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Matthew S. Bajko. Terence Kissack, the executive director of the GLBT
Historical Society, plans to step down in November. Kissack ...
<http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=1197>

It took 71 days, but finally we have something out of the box
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... in its files. Ever since the kickback scandal began to break in mid-2003,
the wheat trader has had squads of lawyers sorting through documents,
assembling ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/it-took-71-days-but-finally-we-have-something-out-of-the-box/2006/09/28/1159337286356.html>

News document policy under legal fire over deleted emails
The West Australian - Perth,Western Australia,Australia
A document destruction policy at News Limited could have denied the Seven
Network a fair hearing in the Federal Court, the judge hearing the long-running
C7 ...
<http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=32&ContentID=8036>

Physical delivery of sensitive data is fraught with risk; for ...
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
- Bank of America announced in 2005 that it had lost tapes that contained
the personal information for 1.2 million individuals. ...
<http://whitepaper.informationweek.com/cmpinformationweek/search/index/sol_summary/78495?pos=4&trkpg=PARTNER_SEARCH_RESULTS_CMPCOMMWEB&stype=key&n=78495&c=CMPCOMMWEB>


ARTS ARCHIVES: UT makes play for Shepard, snaps up Newman, wins ...
Austin Chronicle - Austin,TX,USA
That treasure trove of cultural archives on the 40 Acres has recently been
expanded to include a master of the photographic portrait, a maverick
playwright and ...
<http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A406097>

Preserving history one page at a time
Columbia Basin Herald - Moses Lake,WA,USA
Records from before the birth of our state to every historical event since
are contained in the storage facilities of the state archives. ...
<http://www.columbiabasinherald.com/articles/2006/09/28/editorials/edit01.txt>