RAIN 070108 - 33
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

The Mail Tribune, Sun, 07 Jan 2007 2:18 AM PST
That was then, this is now
http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2007/0107/local/stories/repeat-photos.
htm
If a single photograph is worth a thousand words, Paul Hosten figures 
two photographs can tell a whole story. Particularly if the second 
photograph is taken from the same site a century or so later.

Safety data a trade secret?
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
... submitted a letter to NHTSA calling for the proposed changes to be 
scrapped because they violate the letter and spirit of the Freedom of 
Information Act ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/0
1/07/BUG8KNE2811.DTL&type=business>

Former Mound employees, advocates question destruction of records
Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton,OH,USA
The Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health is expected to 
consider the records destruction issue as part of its deliberations on 
whether to approve a ...
<http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/01/06/
ddn010707moundinside.html>

BusinessWeek's online archive is a hidden gem
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
BusinessWeek maintains archives going back months, and sometimes years, 
depending on the feature. While you can download the current version of 
these ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/0
1/07/BUG9FND8IO1.DTL&type=business>

How Internet Benefits Local Businesses
Wiglaf Journal - Chicago,IL,USA
Google’s new “News Archives” allows history buffs to search through 200 
years of historical content, including many articles not previously 
available via ...
<http://www.wiglafjournal.com/Articles/2007/07-01-InternetPotpourri.htm>

Trove of old records may aid justice in Guatemala
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
For now, his office is releasing almost no information, fearing that 
even hinting at the files' secrets could encourage sabotage by those 
threatened with ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4451160.html>


Morgan personnel manual says all electronic records belong to ...
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
It’s highly possible for someone from the public to get these records 
and match them to county records.” The commission fired the human 
resources director, ...
<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070107/email.shtml>

Big Cache for Small Cash With Online Data Storage
E-Commerce Times - USA
Storing computer files through an online service means never having to 
buy or manage backup disks. You can have access to your files from any 
computer ...
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/55000.html>

Preparing Your eBay Business for a Crisis
Auctionbytes - USA
Paul is also a fan of online data storage sites. These routinely charge 
a monthly fee, but your information is stored at a remote location, 
making it safe ...
<http://www.auctionbytes.com/cab/abu/y207/m01/abu0182/s02>

US government wants restrictions during Coke trade secrets trial
International Herald Tribune - France
In the unusual request, the US government also asked that any exhibits 
containing Coca-Cola trade secrets that are entered into evidence 
during Joya ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/04/business/NA_FIN_US_Coca_Cola_T
rade_Secrets.php>

Former Qualcomm employee sentenced for stealing trade secrets
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO A former Qualcomm employee who downloaded nearly 450-thousand 
files of proprietary source code to his home computer before quitting 
to work at ...
<http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5888920&nav=9qrx>

Ill former nuclear workers question why Mound records were buried
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
She said documentation shows the records were lab notebooks, scientific 
records, nonpersonnel X-ray film, accounting files and records of 
weapons components ...
<http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/16405728.htm>

Document Destruction Firm Tears Its Way to Success
University of Wyoming News - Laramie,WY,USA
Merrie, who was working for a large bank, wondered how the bank’s 
confidential documents were destroyed, and the idea for A Thru Z 
Document Destruction, ...
<http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=12421>


Multiple Document Repositories And The Complexities Of Enterprise ...
ECM Connection (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
This meant document destruction could be achieved by simply shredding 
of the requisite paper. Supplying boxes and boxes of documents 
satisfied document ...
<http://www.ecmconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B89E5E581-
9813-4976-B159-9BACF4D1A317%7D&Bucket=Contributed+Editorial>

Bottling up Coke secrets
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
... bar jurors at the trial of a former Coca-Cola secretary charged in 
a trade-secrets-theft case from disclosing confidential materials they 
are presented. ...
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/business/orl-cola0507jan05,0,1839509.stor
y?coll=orl-business-headlines>

Clash over records contract Freeholders say Jersey City firm ...
Hudson Reporter - Hoboken,NJ,USA
... and improve the infrastructure of public-records administration for 
the county and municipal governments, and archives and records programs 
statewide. ...
<http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17683231&BRD=1291&PAG
=461&dept_id=523586&rfi=6>

Author researched 1840s Pittsburgh for mystery novel 'The Spectrum'
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The idea for a series of historical novels about a constable in 1840s 
Pittsburgh came to Link in the 1990s, when he was a records manager for 
Allegheny ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07008/752049-44.stm>

Records Management — From The Basement To The Boardroom
ECM Connection (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
All of a sudden the records manager is in the hot seat to find the 
document in the sea of e-mail, paper and electronic file stores. The 
records manager who ...
<http://www.ecmconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7BF442D4B1-
D25E-4DCF-9D30-383CE0CE0628%7D&Bucket=Supplier+News>

SUNY Brockport history depicted in photographs
Spencerport Westside News - Spencerport,NY,USA
Gigliotti, college archivist at Brockport, first discovered the 
photograph in a much more tattered state than it appears in the book, 
and they were afraid ...
<http://westsidenewsonline.com/OldSite/westside/news/2007/0107/features/S
UNY%20brockhist.html>

Director letters to go on display
BBC News - UK
... which holds an archive on Lindsay Anderson. The collection's 
archivist Karl Magee said: "The discovery of this file is a very 
exciting development. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/6241105.
stm>

E-gov progress report
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
E-Records management initiative owners completed their work, and 
agencies are building their own records management schedules. ...
<http://www.gcn.com/print/26_01/42885-1.html>

Building A Solid Safety Net For E-mail Content And Records
ECM Connection (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
... coupled with enterprises’ fear of non-compliance, has created an 
unprecedented focus on effective enterprise content and records 
management....
<http://www.ecmconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B9585A168-
8C8A-4568-9FCB-20E7907C6AD9%7D&Bucket=Supplier+News>

Thacher Proffitt Makes Records Management History
ECM Connection (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
... federated approach to records management. For those new to 
Federated RM™, this solution enables organizations to achieve 
regulatory compliance and legal ...
<http://www.ecmconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7BC88252C0-
3CC6-4690-BD0C-F5230976C01F%7D&Bucket=Supplier+News>

Client records retention - The bane of lawyers existence
NewsReleaseWire.com (press release) - USA
Keep backup copies of all electronic records, as well as crucial paper 
records such as master files, time and billing records, court dates and 
appointments, ...
<http://www.expertclick.com/NewsReleaseWire/default.cfm?Action=ReleaseDet
ail&ID=15077>

Operators face 'onerous burden' of EU data retention laws
IT PRO - London,Greater London,UK
Communications players are in the midst of readying themselves for the 
arduous task of getting their systems in shape for new data retention 
laws designed ...
<http://www.itpro.co.uk/internet/news/101456/operators-face-onerous-burde
n-of-eu-data-retention-laws.html>

Library maps returning to view
Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA
Officials originally estimated that it could take as long as seven 
years to restore or replace damaged or destroyed documents. ...
<http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070108/NE
WS07/701080334/1012/EDUCATION>

Managing Corporate Silos Of Knowledge
ECM Connection (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
Some department specific applications (eg Case Management, Accounting, 
ERP) have integrated document management, records management or imaging 
functionality ...
<http://www.ecmconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7BE16757F5-
FDA5-4746-9ED1-CA0C4BA1DFE3%7D&Bucket=Supplier+News>

Protecting Our Identity
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
The first of the year is a popular time for businesses and people to 
clean out their old files. This is not the way to do that, paper tossed 
into a dumpster ...
<http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=117689>

BankTech, Mon, 08 Jan 2007 1:15 PM PST
Wells Fargo Automates Records Life Cycle
http://www.banktech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196800486
Joint solution helps bank meet associated compliance needs.

E-mails don't belong in public record
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
However, I do have a problem that e-mail is among the items legally 
identified as public records and therefore subject to FOIA requests. ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-17090sy0jan08,0,2989263.story?
coll=dp-opinion-editorials>

Raiders of the lost archives
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
TELEVISION stars have been shown footage of themselves they thought 
they'd never see again. A young Michael Parkinson sees his first 
television job in...
<http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/men/news/showbiz/s/232/232538_rai
ders_of_the_lost_archives.html>

Judge: Ficano can move county records
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
Wayne County Executive Robert Ficano can move county records from a 
downtown Detroit office building to a facility in Southgate despite 
Clerk Cathy ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070108/NEWS02/70108033
/1004>

County records taken off-line
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
UTICA – As of today, records from the Oneida County clerk’s office have 
been removed from the Internet. Oneida County Clerk Sandra J. DePerno 
said she is ...
<http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070108/NEWS/70108034
>




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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