RAIN 061128
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Commissioners appoint records management officer
Texarkana Gazette - Texarkana,TX,USA
NEW BOSTON, Texas—Bowie County now has a countywide records management
officer to oversee the preservation and disposition of all records
generated by ...
<http://www.texarkanagazette.com/articles/2006/11/28/local_news/news/news
20.txt>

The Paper Chase - in the Post-Paper Era
Connecticut Business News Journal - CT,USA
... outsource the fundamental requirements for record management, 
according
to Jeff Randolph, marketing manager of the American Records Management
Association (ARMA ...
<http://www.conntact.com/article_page.lasso?id=40475>

Survey: Only 7% of Corporate Counsel Attorneys Rate Their ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Strategic Records & Information Management (sRIM) group launched by
Applied Discovery in response to client demand for preventative records
management guidance ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20061128005604&newsLang=en>

Brown County offices aim for digital camera ban
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
... cameras. Register of Deeds Cathy Williquette suggested the ban. "In 
...
fee. The visitor decided not to copy the documents. Williquette ...
<http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061128/
GPG0101/611280576/1207/GPGnews>

Counties explore options
Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA
... Since January, his office has put online deeds, mortgages, powers of
attorney and similar documents that residents can view and download 
free of
charge. ...
<http://www.pennlive.com/business/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/business/11
646798057770.xml&coll=1>

Time to start archiving your email
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
... Similarly, business critical information and records may be held in
emails ... focused, legal and financial services businesses do not 
delete
historical email ...
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10412848>

Probe begins after private records blow into yard
WFAA (subscription) - Dallas,TX,USA
... But there the documents were Monday, blowing around for anyone to 
...
Heath Care said its internal investigation showed the records appear to 
be
from its files. ...
<http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/localnews/news8/stories/wfaa0
61127_mo_floatingdocs.2f986e9c.html>

LIBRARY LIFTS CURTAIN ON THEATER ARCHIVES
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
... And when you get tired, you can sit in a tiny theater and watch
excerpts culled from some 6,000 theater videos from the library's 
archives.
...
<http://www.nypost.com/seven/11282006/entertainment/theater/library_lifts
_curtain_on_theater_archives_theater_frank_scheck.htm>

Historians criticise prison service for closing archives - press
Czech Happenings - Pragues,Czech Republic
Prague- Historians criticise Prison Service head Ludek Kula for his last
week's decision to immediately close the service's archives concerning 
the
communist ...
<http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/index_view.php?id=222742>

Rise in identity theft spawns industry devoted to information ...
Montreal Gazette (subscription) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... as a Bank of Montreal laptop with hundreds of sensitive client 
records
that went ... Handing over data destruction to a third party does not
absolve a firm from ...
<http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/business/story.html?id=7a789d
b2-20bc-473c-8fed-a527870d9a18>

The York Dispatch, Tue, 28 Nov 2006 7:56 AM PST
York County struggles to house its archives
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/local/ci_4733877
Prison files must be kept 10 years after an inmate's maximum sentence. 
Voter registration cards need to be kept for as long as a person is 
eligible to vote.

PR Web, Tue, 28 Nov 2006 0:06 AM PST
Cadence Group adds Lee O. Pendergraft, Certified Records Manager, as 
SeniorPractice Partner http://prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb482476.htm
Cadence Group®, an information and records management firm based in 
Atlanta, is pleased to announce that Lee O. Pendergraft, a Certified 
Records Manager (CRM) with more than twenty-eight years of experience 
in the records and information management field, has joined our team of 
50 information professionals. (PRWeb Nov 28, 2006)


BRCC records found sloppy
 http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/4760166.html
“Haphazardly stored” student records at Baton Rouge Community College 
resulted in filing problems for financial aid and student grades, 
according to a state legislative auditor’s report released Monday.

Over 6 million copies of books, periodicals, archive documents ...
Social Rights Bulgaria - Sofia,Bulgaria
... documents out of a total of 8 million kept at the National Library 
have
been digitalized within a pilot project presented Tuesday. A total of 
2,000
files: early ...
<http://www.socialniprava.info/article1662.html>

Washington University Starts Civil Rights Online Database
Diverse - Fairfax,VA,USA
... Recent efforts at the National Archives and Records Administration
could make the clearinghouse an even more important tool in the future. 
...
<http://www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_6697.shtml>

Bones of contention
Sunderland Echo - UK
... North East has already won the support of historians and archivists
around the region, including Tyne and Wear Archives Service. Chief
archivist Liz Rees said ...
<http://www.sunderlandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1512&Articl
eID=1900884>

House bill could force library donors out of shadows
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... made the rounds before,” said Sharon Fawcett, an assistant archivist
for presidential ... only 12 presidential libraries that are part of the
national archives. ...
<http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/Business/112906_snyder.htm
l>

Companies fail to track security threats
Computing - London,UK
... companies that do not have a system to track data theft, 80 per ...
data repository and used for nefarious purposes, such as blackmail or
selling trade secrets. ...
<http://www.computing.co.uk/computing/news/2169748/companies-track-threat
s>

Baylor, SMU officials question claim Bush Library headed for ...
Waco Tribune Herald - Waco,TX,USA
A New York newspaper says a $500 million George W. Bush Presidential
Library at Southern Methodist University is a done deal, but SMU and 
Baylor
University ...
<http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/11/28/11282006wac
bushlibrary.html>

Health information stolen from Kaiser Permanente
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... The company said the information was on a laptop stolen from the
personal car of a national Kaiser Permanente employee in California. ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/local/article/0,1299,DRMN_15_51755
92,00.html>

United Kingdom: Key Data Protection Issues In An Outsourcing ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
... to premises such as a prohibition on staff bringing data storage
devices on ... are being targeted by criminals seeking access to UK
citizens’ financial records. ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=44550&searchresults=1>

Hoover association looking for new director
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA
... the association in 1989 as director of development, and helped raise
more than $3 million for the 1992 renovation of the Hoover Presidential
Library and Museum ...
<http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061129/NEWS01/
61129004/1079>

Bush library selection still up in air
Baylor University The Lariat Online - Waco,TX,USA
... Southern Methodist University dismissed an article in Monday's New 
York
Daily News saying that the $500 million George W. Bush Presidential 
Library
would be ...
<http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=43164>

AP via Yahoo! News, Wed, 29 Nov 2006 0:07 AM PST
Report: Los Alamos security flawed
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061129/ap_on_re_us/los_alamos_documents_2
The tens of millions of dollars spent to upgrade security at Los Alamos 
National Laboratory make the findings of an investigation into a recent 
security breach at the nuclear weapons lab even more troubling, says 
the Energy Department's inspector general.

Los Angeles Times, Tue, 28 Nov 2006 6:55 PM PST
Report: Los Alamos Security Flawed
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-los-alamos-doc
uments,1,777682.story
SANTA FE, N.M. -- Security at Los Alamos National Laboratory was 
"seriously flawed" when a worker removed classified documents later 
found in her home during a drug bust, the Department of Energy's 
inspector general has concluded.




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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