RAIN 070110
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Books capture rich CPR legacy
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
"What struck me as I worked with the CPR archives starting back in the
'70s is that there's a lot more there than just photographs of trains,"
Hanna says. ...
<http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=bcecaa47-a0d3-4
0f2-a59d-fe44d732877c>
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation Revolutionizes File Storage with ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
It then established information lifecycle management (ILM) policies to
automate the movement of data -- primarily media files used in
conjunction with its ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20070108005104&newsLang=en>
Walter P. Reuther Library holds a cache of Detroit history
South End - Detroit,MI,USA
... an audiovisual archivist at the Walter P. Reuther Library, there is
a myth that Reuther insisted that it be called a library instead of an
archive. ...
<http://thesouthend.typepad.com/tsenews/2007/01/walter_p_reuthe.html>
Former Qualcomm Employee Sentenced following Trade Secrets Theft
Cellular-News - UK
A former Qualcomm employee who began downloading trade secrets to his
computer just a day before he applied for a job with Nokia has been
sentenced to three ...
<http://www.cellular-news.com/story/21277.php>
United States: How Do the New Rules on Electronic Discovery Affect ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
You should communicate document retention policies through training and
direct delegation of compliance responsibilities, and should attempt to
ensure that ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=45380&searchresults=1>
Where states stand on Soviet-era police files
BBC News - UK
A 2003 law allowed individuals access to their own files created by the
communist-era secret police, and also allowed victims to see the
records of people ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6243765.stm>
Patient records OK after fire
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
... associate vice president of corporate communications at Aultman,
said the records were backups for information already contained in
patient files. ...
<http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=329062&Category=9>
Preserving the past
Waukegan News Sun - Waukegan,IL,USA
Dreiske Arnold (left), vice president, and Linda Cervac, president of
Highwood Historical Society, stand in front of a toy from the former
Haven Tavern at ...
<http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/lifestyles/202185,5_5_1_WA09_
MAINHIGHWOOD_S1.article>
City of South Beloit posts meeting minutes online
Beloit Daily News - Beloit,WI,USA
“Typically that's what municipalities are required to do under the
Freedom of Information Act,” said Roscoe Village Attorney Dave
Kurlinkus. ...
<http://www.beloitdailynews.com/articles/2007/01/09/news/news06.txt>
E-Discovery: Three Major Challenges For Employers
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
... a legitimate records management system that employs a document
destruction policy that was drafted and implemented before litigation
is on the horizon, ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_45350>
Storing Digital Pictures - What You Need To Know
WOAI - San Antonio,TX,USA
-Use Archival CD’s to save digital images on. Archival CD's are rated
from 100 to 300 years and they cost $2.50 to $3.00. You can also add
more photos until ...
<http://www.woai.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=8a072c8c-921c-41b6
-a0b1-f576e76c4233>
Board considering paperless system for managing district’s documents
Adrian Daily Telegram - Adrian,MI,USA
... to keep track of how long documents have to be saved by the
district before they can be destroyed, scan documents into files that
can be edited, ...
<http://www.lenconnect.com/articles/2007/01/09/news/news03.txt>
Retiree Data Lost in Laptop Theft
InternetNews.com - USA
Some privacy advocates consider medical records the newest target for
identity thieves, because fraudulent medical charges can easily hide
among the many ...
<http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3652901>
Oneida County records taken offline
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
Kim Landon, a journalism professor at Utica College, supported
then-Oneida County Clerk Richard Allen's decision to provide public
access to county records ...
<http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070109/NEWS/70109031
2/1001>
Records Center is the first step into history
Carthage Press - Carthage,MO,USA
The Jasper County Records Center is a primary source for such
information and people from all over the country call and write for
those materials. ...
<http://www.carthagepress.com/articles/2007/01/08/news/04%20records.txt>
The Biloxi Sun Herald, Tue, 09 Jan 2007 1:18 AM PST
Restored county records to be returned
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/16415394.htm?source=rss
&channel=sunherald_local
County leaders have decided it's time to get county records, flooded by
Katrina, back from Texas, where they were cleaned and restored by a
company that specializes in that process.
SMU president addresses concerns regarding Bush Library
TexasGigs - Dallas,TX,USA
As you know, SMU has been competing to be the site of the George W.
Bush Presidential Library and Museum since 2001, and for the past
several months has ...
<http://www.pegasusnews.com/news/2007/jan/09/smu-president-addresses-conc
erns-regarding-bush-li/>
DA Launches Missing Files Investigation
KFDM-TV News - Beaumont,Texas,USA
KFDM News has learned the Jefferson County district attorney's office
has begun investigating reports that paper documents and computer files
might be ...
<http://www.kfdm.com/onset?id=18402&template=article.html>
Historic passenger lists of ships go online
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Released by Britain's National Archives, the passenger manifests give
an insight into all long-distance trips made by 30 million travellers
from the ...
<http://in.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=technologyNews&st
oryID=2007-01-10T073008Z_01_NOOTR_RTRJONC_0_India-282948-1.xml>
House report: Berger hurt national security
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
As WND reported, a newly released investigation report by the National
Archives and Records Administration showed President Bill Clinton
signed a letter ...
<http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53697>
Nero Fiddles With Optical Security
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... have dogged the likes of Time Warner and Iron Mountain. (See A Tale
of Lost Tapes, Iron Mountain Keeps Truckin', and Pundits Ponder
Potential Pitfalls. ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=114115&WT.svl=news1_1>
Five predictions for instant messaging security in 2007
SC Magazine - Australia
The final threat-related prediction by Shaw was that 2007 will also see
the rise of corporate espionage through IM. This partially is a result
of the ...
<http://www.scmagazine.com.au/news/44140,five-predictions-for-instant-mes
saging-security-in-2007.aspx>
Are Mobile Devices Portable Security Threats?
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... conducted by the Ponemon Institute, found that 81 percent of
respondents had experienced a lost or stolen laptop or portable storage
device. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1168336934590
>
Retirement Data Are Reported Stolen
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
Last month, Boeing Co. fired an employee whose laptop -- containing the
personal information on 382000 workers and retirees -- was stolen after
the employee ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116829611935870675.html?mod=googlenews_w
sj>
Report says documents may have never reached Sept. 11 commission
abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA
(1/09/07 - WASHINGTON) - Some classified documents that were unlawfully
removed from the National Archives three years ago may never have
reached their ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4921345>
United States: Document Retention And E-Discovery: Important ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
For example, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act imposes criminal penalties for the
improper destruction of documents that might impede or obstruct
official ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=45276&searchresults=1>
Portal to the Past
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
M ore than a million people pass by the big bronze doors of the
National Archives Building each year, and nearly every one of them goes
to see the ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR200701
0901300.html>
Document-Theft Probe Is Criticized
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
The Justice Department and the National Archives improperly assured the
Sept. 11 commission that its members had access to all relevant
materials about the ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/09/AR200701
0901929.html>
Historic passenger lists of ships go online
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Manifests listing migrants and others who traveled to and from Britain
are being released by the National Archives. By Reuters ...
<http://news.com.com/Historic+passenger+lists+of+ships+go+online/2100-104
7_3-6148931.html>
National Archives and Footnote Launch Project to Digitize Historic ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
By February 6, the digitized materials will also be available at no
charge in National Archives research rooms in Washington DC and
regional facilities ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/070110/law069.html?.v=81>
CREW sues National Archives over Abramoff visitor logs: What is ...
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
NARA failed to adequately respond to CREW's Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request for documents related to the destruction of Secret
Service visitor ...
<http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_49057.shtml>
Group sues National Archives over Secret Service records
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
WASHINGTON - A private group sued the National Archives on Wednesday,
seeking information about the Secret Service’s suspension of its
destruction of White ...
<http://news.bostonherald.com/politics/view.bg?articleid=176389>
An Historic Declassification FBI Stories
Student Operated Press - Vero Beach,FL,USA
Make a request to the [ National Archives] www.archives.gov/research or
to us through our [ Freedom of Information Act website]
http://foia.fbi.gov....
<http://www.thesop.org/article.php?id=3833>
DA Launches Missing Files Investigation
KFDM-TV News - Beaumont,Texas,USA
KFDM News has learned the Jefferson County District Attorney's office
has begun investigating reports that paper documents and computer files
might be ...
<http://www.kfdm.com/onset?id=18411&template=article.html>
FIPPA means filing with care
News@UofT - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
U of T employees should give a bit of thought to how they go about
creating and maintaining their files and documents, now that all
university records are ...
<http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin6/070109-2857.asp>
Kennedy Presidential Library names director
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
"Tom is fully prepared for the challenge of administering a word-class
archive, library, and museum," said Allen Weinstein, the Archivist of
the United ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/globe/city_region/breaking_news/2007/01/kenne
dy_preside.html>
History vs. Hagiography
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
And the huge increase in the volume of presidential papers — while
archivist positions to manage the papers have not increased —
effectively means that it ...
<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/01/10/bush>
Dubya's Tower of Babel
Media Transparency - USA
... the Bush Administration is hatching plans to celebrate itself with
a $500 million library (the costliest presidential library ever) to be
built sometime ...
<http://www.mediatransparency.org/story.php?storyID=171>
Wilton grad to lead Hoover Presidential Library
West Branch Times - West Branch,IA,USA
The new executive director of the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library
Association — the non-profit organization that supports the other two
“legs,” the ...
<http://www.westbranchtimes.com/article.php?id=1410>
Chief Justice: E-filing raises security issues
Cedar Rapids Gazette - Cedar Rapids,IA,USA
She suggested the switch may require special court rules and
legislative changes to Iowa's public records statute to balance access
and privacy issues. ...
<http://www.crgazette.com/2007/01/10/Home/judiciary.htm>
Sandy Berger Compromised National Security
Judicial Watch - Washington,DC,USA
Details of Berger’s premeditated crime were released last month in a
lengthy report issued by the National Archives Inspector General, but
this latest ...
<http://www.corruptionchronicles.com/2007/01/sandy_berger_compromised_nat
io.html>
Truth can still be slow to surface 17 years after fall of communism
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
The Stasi files comprise around two billion documents, providing a grim
reading about life in which anyone suspected of "decadence" or dissent
was filmed or ...
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10418619>
History takes up room
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
... central office is also running out of places to put documents, said
Elisabeth Fuller, the district's coordinator of instruction and records
manager. ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/southofjames/dp-24200sy0jan10,0,646
325.story?coll=dp-news-local-soj>
Damage from Berger's theft understated, Davis says
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
"We now know Mr. Berger left stolen highly classified documents at a
construction site to avoid detection," he said. "We know Mr. Berger
insisted on privacy ...
<http://washingtontimes.com/national/20070110-120727-4365r.htm>
NPR, Tue, 09 Jan 2007 3:58 PM PST
The Politics of Document Declassification
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6764583
Talk of the Nation , January 9, 2007 • On New Year's Day, millions of
confidential documents were officially declassified. The move followed
a decade-old deadline from former President Bill Clinton mandating that
25-year-old documents automatically be made public.
Damaged records to be refurbished
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA
... according to City Clerk Susan M. Egan, water seeped into a
sub-basement City Hall vault her office uses for long-term vital record
storage. ...
<http://www.masslive.com/holyokeplus/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-2/11
68421427185610.xml&coll=1>
EU data retention laws 'too costly' for telcos
Out-Law.com - London,England,UK
Service providers and operators need to adapt their systems by the time
various national governments implement the European provisions on data
retention as ...
<http://www.out-law.com/page-7635>
Ungrateful Living Dead
East Bay Express - Berkeley,CA,USA
In the next few weeks, the Dead are scheduled to go to court against
concert memorabilia megasite Wolfgang's Vault, while simultaneously
counting the cash ...
<http://www.eastbayexpress.com/Issues/2007-01-10/music/pressplay.html>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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