RAIN 070116
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Following the rules on keeping, tossing records
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
Adhering to professional records management practices is not at all 
glitzy, but the recent uproar over the destruction of misdemeanor court 
records by
  
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/OPINI
ON02/701150452>

Release of Archives Helps Fill Gap in Files on Wartime Atrocities
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
That destruction was so immense that many copies of Japan's wartime 
cables now exist only in translated American records. "Because the 
United States was ...
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i20/20a00901.htm>

Do US Archives Still Hold Classified Evidence of Japanese War Crimes?
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
In 1998 Congress created a task force to find, declassify, and release 
any remaining documents in the US archives related to war crimes 
committed by Germany ...
<http://chronicle.com/live/2007/01/records/>

Sailing off into history
Biloxi Sun Herald - Biloxi,MS,USA
At the National Archives, Portas will scour records for any information 
on the Pilot, Iola and Louise, all handcrafted at Krebs Shipyard. ...
<http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/local/16462720.htm>

Councilman wants his e-mail to be open book
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
But it usually takes a public-records request to access the e-mail, 
plus time and energy on the part of the city staff to find the relevant 
documents. ...
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003525571_openrecords15
m.html>

More E-Mail Woe for Morgn Stanley
Enterprise Networks &amp; Servers - USA
However, the company did not disclose that the e-mail records still 
existed. Although many of the facts in the case are in dispute, for 
example, ...
<http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/opinionw/art.php?274>

Small towns struggle to build high-quality websites
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
And easy web accessibility to public documents is beneficial to the 
public and the town, Bow Town Manager James Pitts said. ...
<http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070114/REPOSI
TORY/701140333/1043/48HOURS>
Public records requests pile up in Prosser
Mid Columbia Tri City Herald - Mid-Columbia,WA,USA
And she said the city isn't trying to block people's right to get 
public documents. "I think everyone here believes in open public 
records," she said. ...
<http://www.tri-cityherald.com/tch/local/story/8564256p-8457845c.html>

Fire Dept. sets policy
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
“Some of the requests (for public documents) have been abusive, some 
have been from people who filed suit against us,” said board attorney 
Craig Davidson. ...
<http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/5191147.html>

D-Lib Magazine, Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:37 PM PST
Digital Preservation in a National Context
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/january07/gladney/01gladney.html

Railroad museum has new director
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
As a volunteer, Frank contributes time as a director of the Brown 
County Historical Society and as the archivist for the Richie-Ritche 
Memorial Association ...
<http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070115/
GPG03/701150531/1247/GPGbusiness>

Cayman FOI ‘soon come’
Cay Compass - Grand Cayman,Cayman Islands
He said the Public Records bill will deal with how government agencies 
archive and store records that may be requested under FOI. ...
<http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1019238>

Plugging Financial Data Leaks
E-Commerce Times - USA
The mortgage lending industry has encountered the same data breaches as 
in other parts of the economy, which have resulted primarily from lost 
tapes and ...
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/KW2eDJizRL7YTy/Plugging-Financial-Da
ta-Leaks.xhtml>

Coca-Cola Secrets Theft Trial Set to Open
FOX News - USA
"She did not take any documents she believed to be trade secrets to 
share with these people or to harm Coke and benefit Pepsi, nor did she 
intentionally ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,243707,00.html>

In the Trenches: Casual discovery of confidential information
Plant Services - Itasca,IL,USA
An Acme employee is fired for cause after snooping around some personal 
files of a manager and is denied severance benefits. She brings a civil 
lawsuit ...
<http://www.plantservices.com/articles/2007/012.html>
EC awards €300000 contract to Cornwell Management Consultants to ...
SourceWire (press release) - London,UK
Cornwell Management Consultants plc, Europe’s leading supplier of 
independent consultancy in electronic document and records management, 
has been awarded ...
<http://sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=29083&hilite=>

Tories demand independent probe into crime files row
This is London - London,England,UK
The Government came under mounting pressure in the Commons today to 
hold an independent inquiry into the Home Office criminal records 
debacle. ...
<http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23381824-details/Tories%20dem
and%20independent%20probe%20into%20crime%20files%20row/article.do>

Court Clerk Keeps Life In Harmony
Fort Smith Times Record - Fort Smith,AR,USA
“You straighten up files. You go through them to make sure the papers 
are filed correctly; they have to be in order by date. Or you’re 
putting them back on ...
<http://www.swtimes.com/articles/2007/01/15/news/news01.txt>

IT Streamlining Bureaucracy
Arab News - Jeddah,Saudi Arabia
The official said there was still much to be done regarding increasing 
the awareness among public regarding electronic records. ...
<http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1&section=0&article=91004&d=16&m=1&y=2007>


Public records kept in the dark
Pasadena Star-News - Pasadena,CA,USA
In many locations, officers required auditors to give their names and 
thepurpose of their public records request, although the California 
Public Records ...
<http://www.pasadenastarnews.com/news/ci_4998484>

Under weraps: Statewide audit finds law enforcement averse to ...
Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA
In order to gauge the response an average citizen might face in making 
a public records request, journalists participating in the survey asked 
police for ...
<http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/nation/16444200.htm>

Bid to build train archive
Basingstoke Gazette - Basingstoke,England,UK
Chris Cornell, the Watercress Line's archivist, is hoping to hear from 
anyone who would like to share their memories of travelling, working or 
even living ...
<http://www.thisishampshire.net/display.var.1114566.0.bid_to_build_train_
archive.php>


Guardian Unlimited, Mon, 15 Jan 2007 2:08 AM PST
Light bulb collection proves a bright idea
http://money.guardian.co.uk/investments/alternativeinvesting/story/0,,198
9744,00.html
Who would pay £100,000 for some old light bulbs? So far, nobody. Maybe 
£95,000, then?

Washington Post, Mon, 15 Jan 2007 10:18 PM PST
How to Bury a Secret: Turn It Into Paperwork
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/15/AR2007011
501216.html
At the stroke of midnight on Dec. 31, something profound happened in 
the government secrecy system. With little fanfare, the paradigm of 
secrecy shifted.

Hampshire Chronicle, Mon, 15 Jan 2007 12:40 PM PST
Bid to build train archive
http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1114566.mostviewed.bi
d_to_build_train_archive.php
AN APPEAL for memories of the Watercress Line prior to 1973 has been 
launched to mark the attraction's 30th anniversary.

Healthy Exchange
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
When the city flooded, providers lost tons of paper records. Even many 
doctors who had electronic medical records lost access because their 
servers drowned. ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=103051>

Get Gephardt: Look Up The Value Of Old Stocks
KUTV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Our search began with archivist Gina Strack. She took us to their 
microfilm library, and, right away, found the stocks we asked about. As 
you might imagine, ...
<http://kutv.com/consumer/local_story_015222531.html>

100000 Pages Declassified in Search for Japanese War Crimes Records
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
IWG Chair and Archivist of the United States, Allen Weinstein, said, 
“The new volume and records guide will become invaluable tools to 
researchers and ...
<http://media-newswire.com/release_1041313.html>

Ain't no news like old news
Manawatu Standard - Manawatu,New Zealand
The Palmerston North City Library has a hand-written note by former 
city archivist Ian Mathesonattached to a photocopy of a Manawatu 
Standard clipping ...
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/3930388a6502.html>


SMU faculty members oppose Bush library
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
The area is reported to be part of the proposed location for the George 
W. Bush Presidential Library. (AP Photo/Tony Gutierrez) ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/01/12/smu_faculty_member
s_oppose_bush_library?p1=MEWell_Pos5>

A world of wonder on the stage
Sunderland Echo - Sunderland,England,UK
Details of the many shows are contained in a collection of 97 
handbills, known as playbills, which have just been catalogued by Ron 
Lawson, archivist for ...
<http://www.sunderlandtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1512&Articl
eID=1973880>

Compass Minerals buys British document storage firm
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Compass Minerals International Inc. today said it has acquired 
Interactive Records Management, a London-based document storage firm. 
...
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/16471780.htm>

The Berger Files
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
The more we learn about Sandy Berger's brilliant career as a document 
thief, the clearer it becomes that there is plenty we still don't know 
and may never ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116865385502175933.html?mod=googlenews_w
sj>

Photos worth more than words, worth preserving
Community Press - Florence,KY,USA
Recently the Kenton County Historical Society and the Kenton County 
Library announced they want to expand their digital photo archives. ...
<http://news.communitypress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070116/EDIT/
701160310/1079/Local>

Singapore to set up library to collect Asia's film heritage
People&#39;s Daily Online - Beijing,China
Singapore's National Library Board (NLB) and the Asian Film Archive 
(AFA) signed a pack Tuesday to set up a public reference library to 
collect Asian films. ...
<http://english.people.com.cn/200701/16/eng20070116_341750.html>

Regional Planning Director Gives Statement To DA About Missing Files
KFDM-TV News - Beaumont,Texas,USA
County Judge Ron Walker says when he took over the office from Carl 
Griffith, he discovered paper files were missing from filing cabinets 
and documents had ...
<http://www.kfdm.com/onset?id=18519&template=article.html>

An information trove in Holocaust archive
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
Which is worse: That millions of Holocaust documents have been hidden 
 from the public for 60 years or that their stewards, even after 
agreeing in May to ...
<http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/editorial/16470975.htm>

Iron Mountain Recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of America's ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
In the magazine's January 8th issue, Iron Mountain is listed among 21 
Business Services and Supplies companies. Iron Mountain's reputation as 
a leader has ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0
1-16-2007/0004506523&EDATE=>

AP via Yahoo! News, Sun, 14 Jan 2007 9:22 PM PST
Coca-Cola trade secrets trial to open
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070115/ap_on_bi_ge/coca_cola_trade_secrets_4

Prosecutors say a former Coca-Cola secretary took confidential 
documents from the beverage giant and samples of products that hadn't 
been launched with the aim of selling them to rival Pepsi. Her lawyer 
says she was duped by two ex-cons and didn't commit a crime.

AP via Yahoo! News, Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:03 PM PST
National Archives digitizes documents
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_on_hi_te/techbit_digital_records_2

Anyone interested in finding out who the FBI was investigating before 
it became the FBI or seeing the works of noted Civil War photographer 
Mathew Brady will soon be able to do so digitally.

Eastern Arizona Courier, Wed, 17 Jan 2007 12:11 PM PST
What does a recorder do?
http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2007/01/17/local_news/news06.txt
Employees of the Graham County Recorder’s Office do not play the 
recorder — a musical instrument — nor do they record music or other 
sounds. Instead, they record legal documents.




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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