RAIN 070118
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Files missing from Miami commissioner's office
Miami Today - Miami,FL,USA
... "central files" but never physically gave the boxes to her. The
boxes remained in the District Two office, and the clerk's office never
had the records ...
<http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/070118/story3.shtml>
Take note of stricter file-retention rules
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
"The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 imposes larger penalties — for example,
imprisonment for up to 20 years — for document alteration or
destruction," Roach ...
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-inbox17jan17,1,2363822.column?coll
=la-utilities-business>
Draft report leaked from City Hall
The Spokesman Review - Spokane,WA,USA
These records management tasks have been deferred in part because the
city clerk spends so much time getting ready for city council meetings
and publishing ...
<http://www.spokesmanreview.com/breaking/story.asp?ID=8447>
EUR 300000 contract awarded to define MoREq2
Manufacturing Talk - UK
Cornwell Management Consultants, Europe's leading supplier of
independent consultancy in electronic document and records management,
has been awarded the ...
<http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/cwv/cwv100.html>
Historical society works to preserve county’s past
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - Tupelo,MS,USA
“So many people in our own town and community don’t even know this
place exists,” said AK McFerrin, chairperson of the Itawamba County
Historical Society. ...
<http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=235190&pub=4&div=News>
Historical Society houses pieces of the county's past
The Evening Sun - Hanover,PA,USA
The Adams County Historical Society in Gettysburg contains more than a
million items, pictures and documents that aid residents looking for
keys to the past ...
<http://www.eveningsun.com/adamsweekly/ci_5030532>
Identity Theft Survey Reveals Consumers are Concerned About ...
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
A robust 98 percent of consumers believe that healthcare organizations
have a responsibility to protect patient medical records however, only
40 percent of ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/News/detail.cfm?ArticleID=2273>
Basque National Historic Archives will open in 2009
EiTB - Euskadi,Spain
The Basque National Historic Archives will be open in 2009 and will
have 7000 square metres. According to the Culture councillor, Miren
Azkarate, ...
<http://www.eitb24.com/new/en/B24_30383/life/DOCUMENTARY-HERITAGE--Basque
-National-Historic-Archives/>
Backup archives and metadata
Techworld.com - London,UK
A conversation with George Symonds, Yosemite's CEO, was illuminating
about archives and backup software. Fresh thinking is flooding though
the backup...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/blogs/index.cfm?entryid=371&blogid=3>
The Guardian
Ministers overturn data protection rules in fight against organised
crime
<http://politics.guardian.co.uk/homeaffairs/story/0,,1992943,00.html?gusr
c=ticker-103704>
Dallas Morning News
SMU chief addresses faculty's Bush library concerns
He says policy institute wouldn't infringe on academic values
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/011807d
nmetsmufaculty.140d9e7.html>
Washington Post
Faculty of Dallas University Less Than Thrilled at Prospect of a Bush
Library
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/01/17/AR200701
1701784.html?referrer=emailarticle>
The Great Wall: A photographic tale
International Herald Tribune - France
He had to process his photos immediately on glass negatives in a tent
that served as a mobile darkroom. The images captured by Thomson and
other early ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/17/travel/trmelvin.php>
Park Cities People
EDITORIAL: The Great Bush Library Debate
We love a good fight. It’s nice to see SMU having one
Southern Methodist University is growing up. It has raised millions of
dollars, it has raised admissions standards, and now some faculty
members are raising a ruckus. All three are good signs of the
university’s health.
<http://shrinkster.com/ldf>
Park Cities People
The Faculty’s Questions
What the SMU profs want to know about the Bush Library
<http://shrinkster.com/lde>
Dallas Morning News
Methodist faction fighting Bush library at SMU
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/011907
dnmetbushmethodist.511bb5f9.html#>
Dallas Morning News
Bush responds to complaints about SMU library plans
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/011907dn
natbushlibary.5193df56.html>
Kent State library to get gift of $935000 Read estate to fund 10th ...
Ravenna Record Courier - Ravenna,OH,USA
By Dave O'Brien. The estate of Dr. Gerald and Victoria CT Read has made
the largest single gift in the history of the Kent State University
Library ...
<http://www.recordpub.com/news/article/1492572>
The Lives of Three Citizens -- as Told and Sold on a County Website
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
The documents are typical of documents that you can find on county
websites across the country. They are the deeds, mortgages, and other
records local...
<http://www.opednews.com/articles/opedne_david_bl_070117_the_lives_of_thr
ee_c.htm>
Anthropologist: Centuries-old document blocks a casino
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
A Canadian anthropologist testified in federal court yesterday that the
Shinnecock Indians signed 17th-century land deeds that now prevent them
from ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lishin185056973jan18,0,2
464001.story?coll=ny-linews-headlines>
Preserving Farmingdale History
Farmingdale Observer - Farmingdale,NY,USA
These are stored according to very strict archival standards and rules,
so hat they may be preserved for generations to come. The members of
this committee ...
<http://www.antonnews.com/farmingdaleobserver/2007/01/19/news/preserve.ht
ml>
Lantos introduces archival bill in spirit of Martin Luther King
San Mateo Daily Journal - San Mateo,CA,USA
... seeks to preserve, digitize, and catalogue family genealogical
records of African Americans, and to establish grant programs for
archival work....
<http://www.smdailyjournal.com/article_preview.php?id=69546>
EXCERPTS FROM THE REPORT
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA
"Ms. Cole began asking staff of the Revenue Section where certain files
such as bank contracts were. Mr. Young said that he has never known of
them having a ...
<http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/16484080.ht
m>
Courts eye paperless system
UI The Daily Iowan (subscription) - Iowa City,IA,USA
"The pressure on clerks' staff to hunt down files and make copies will
vanish." When the system is employed, people will scan documents at the
court house ...
<http://www.dailyiowan.com/home/news/2007/01/18/Metro/Courts.Eye.Paperles
s.System-2652301.shtml>
Public get chance to view restored records
Lancashire Evening Post - Preston,England,UK
Senior archivist Anna Watson said: "It gives you an insight into the
lives of people who lived in Lancashire hundreds of years ago and, in
some cases, ...
<http://www.lep.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=1980121&SectionID=73>
TJX credit data stolen; wide impact feared
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
A Bank of America spokeswoman said it knows of the breach but declined
to discuss if its customers were affected. A Sovereign Bancorp Inc.
spokesman said it ...
<http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/01/18/tjx_credit_data
_stolen_wide_impact_feared>
Loft photos baffle museum staff
Beccles and Bungay Journal - Beccles/Bungay,Norfolk/Suffolk,UK
About 200 glass negatives were discovered by builders in the roof of
Edgar Sewter School, Halesworth, when they carried out refurbishment
work. ...
<http://www.becclesandbungayjournal.co.uk/content/bbjournal/news/story.as
px?brand=BBJOnline&category=NEWS&tBrand=BBJOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=N
OED18%20Jan%202007%2017%3A52%3A14%3A300>
Opening Holocaust archive may take years
Pioneer Times-Journal - Pioneer,NM,USA
... the main archivist at the Buchenwald concentration camp memorial.
Much of the information held at Bad Arolsen is duplicated in archives
at the Yad...
<http://www.onelocalnews.com/pioneertimesjournal/ViewArticle.aspx?id=4588
8&source=2>
Opening Holocaust Archive May Take Years
Forbes - NY,USA
The archives, set up by the Allies after World War II, have been
sheltered from public scrutiny for 60 years, except for use by the Red
Cross to trace ...
<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/01/18/ap3341396.html>
EnergyAustralia suffers back-up catastrophe
ZDNet.com.au - Australia
In his e-mail, Anderson said it was attempting to recover business
critical files and directories. "There is a range of documents that may
need to be ...
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/hardware/soa/EnergyAustralia_suffers_back_u
p_catastrophe_/0,130061702,339273094,00.htm>
The secret for which Sandy risked his all
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
Hillman was indeed dissembling, Journal editors acknowledged last week:
"Mr. Berger was in a position to remove documents from Mr. Clarke's
files, ...
<http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53812>
Pile Of Sensitive Paperwork Found Outside Bluffs Cafe
KETV.com - Omaha,NE,USA
The piles Bauer found outside her business weren't the only documents
left for anyone to find. A Dumpster full of files was nearby and more
files were ...
<http://www.ketv.com/newsarchive/10775394/detail.html>
PSL attorney dumps clients' files in trash
Fort Pierce Tribune (subscription) - Fort Pierce,FL,USA
Such sensitive documents fall under the Disposal Rule of the Fair and
Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003, according to the FTC. ...
<http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,2545,TCP_16736_5286382,00
.html>
BU won't give up on library
Baylor University The Lariat Online - Waco,TX,USA
Don Evans, chairman of the Presidential Library Site Selection
Committee, contacted Tommye Lou Davis, the director of Baylor's
Presidential Library...
<http://www.baylor.edu/Lariat/news.php?action=story&story=43587>
Doris Kearns Goodwin supports SMU for Bush library
TexasGigs - Dallas,TX,USA
But DKG gave a most eloquent response in defense of SMU having the next
presidential library as part of its campus, or nearby, or whatever it's
going to be. ...
<http://www.pegasusnews.com/blogs/pegasusnewsblog/2007/jan/17/goodwin/>
Keeping JFK’s legacy alive
Arlington Advocate - Lexington,MA,USA
Putnam was recently named director of the John F. Kennedy Presidential
Library and Museum in Boston. Putnam’s new role will give him the
overall ...
<http://www.townonline.com/arlington/homepage/8998995310940258303>
Coca-Cola trade secrets trial to open
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA
ATLANTA - Prosecutors say a former Coca-Cola secretary took
confidential documents from the beverage giant and samples of products
that hadn't been launched ...
<http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/business/16461627.htm>
Jury selected in Coca-Cola trade secrets theft trial
Gwinnett Daily Post - Griffin,GA,USA
ATLANTA - Twelve jurors were selected Wednesday to decide the fate of a
former Coca-Cola secretary charged with conspiring to steal trade
secrets from the ...
<http://www.gwinnettdailypost.com/index.php?s=&url_channel_id=35&url_arti
cle_id=23765&url_subchannel_id=&change_well_id=2>
Deploying Information Lifecycle Management
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
Some consider information lifecycle management to be an extension of
data resource management or data life management; it’s often a
confusing term because ...
<http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fp2903%
2F31p03%2F31p03.asp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&bJumpTo=True>
Storage Management: The Key To Controlling The Data Explosion
IT Reseller Online (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
Although it may not sound as high-tech as other topics like ILM
(information lifecycle management), minimizing the amount of time it
takes to back up data ...
<http://www.itreselleronline.com/content/news/article.asp?docid=%7B544876
CD-A305-47DF-8F66-96C1FC6340B3%7D>
Mouldy no more, obscure film restored
Channel News Asia - Singapore
Gour had handed some reels of his early films to the AFA, who passed
them to the National Archives of Singapore for much needed restorative
and preservative ...
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/252966/1/
.html>
Scripps Howard News Service
HNN Huntingtonnews.net - Huntington,WV,USA
Lyndon Johnson's gleaming marble monument in Austin, Texas, makes the
mother ship, the National Archives, look gray and dowdy. ...
<http://www.huntingtonnews.net/columns/070118-shns-comment.html>
City ponders next move in Nike public records case
Beaverton Valley Times - Portland,OR,USA
Beaverton officials are keeping their options open about an appeal of a
judgment in the public records legal battle with Nike Inc. ...
<http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=116914609362
261900>
Judge says Beaverton must pay Nike $175000 in public record case
Beaverton Valley Times - Portland,OR,USA
By Christina Lent. The decision is in: Beaverton will have to pay
$175000 in attorney’s fees to Nike. The city will also have to foot the
entire bill of the ...
<http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=116900232014
067300>
Judge says Beaverton owes Nike $175000 in legal fees
The Register-Guard - Eugene,OR,USA
Nachtigal ruled in September that city officials were in contempt for
deliberately withholding public documents, including a 19-page draft
annexation plan ...
<http://www.registerguard.com/news/2007/01/18/c5.bz.nikeannexation.0118.p
1.php?section=business>
City leaders eager to move past Nike case
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
Washington County Circuit Judge Gayle Nachtigal ruled in September that
city officials were in contempt for deliberately withholding public
documents, ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/metrowest/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/metro_west
_news/116908894340540.xml&coll=7>
President Ho photos, recordings come home
Viet Nam News - Hanoi,Vietnam
... previously undisclosed documents about President Ho Chi Minh held
in 15 archives kept by the Russian State Archive of Socio-Political
History (RSASH). ...
<http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/showarticle.php?num=01CUL170107>
DA Says No Criminal Charges In Missing Landfill Records; WTVM ...
WTVM - Columbus,GA,USA
Strain, for his part, says he was shredding personal information of
customers, as well his own personal material. The former revenue
division manager told ...
<http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5946641>
Data Sharing on a National Scale - An Ambitious Aim that is ...
CRM Today - USA
For example, the UK s five year long e-Government programme mandated
that councils improved their document records management processes by
identifying areas ...
<http://www.crm2day.com/news/crm/121095.php>
Reducing the Time, Cost and Risk Electronic Discovery for Customers
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... preserve and discover unstructured digital information—including
email, IM, files, scanned documents, and other electronic records—and
review and ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/news/detail.cfm?articleID=2274>
Attorney general to talk data retention with new Congress
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
The attorney general suggested "reasonable" data retention is necessary
to help investigators of online sex crimes, and members of Congress and
state ...
<http://news.com.com/Attorney+general+to+talk+data+retention+with+new+Con
gress/2100-1036_3-6151325.html>
Fears grow over EU data retention law
PC Pro - London,UK
The EU Data Retention Directive came into effect on May 2006. The
directive obligates all ISPs and network operators of mobile, fixed and
internet telephony ...
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/news_story.php?id=102171>
Historical Society begins cataloging images
Block Island Times - Block Island,RI,USA
One year ago the Block Island Historical Society began cataloging its
collection of objects and documents. To date nearly 2000 objects and
ten linear feet ...
<http://www.blockislandtimes.com/news/2007/0120/News/022.html>
Attorney General Responds To Theft Of Personal Data At TJ Maxx
The Chattanoogan - Chattanooga,TN,USA
Shred files containing Social Security numbers, account numbers, and
birth dates before disposing of them. Use hard-drive shredding software
to destroy your ...
<http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_100017.asp>
Bristol ready for LGBT History Month
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
On Thursday 8th February, Bristol Record Office highlights the city's
archive of historical material about prosecutions for sodomy in the
18th and 19th ...
<http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/articles/2005-3517.html>
Houston Press
Belle Époque
For a brief, glorious period, two brothers captured life in Arequipa,
Peru
By Kelly Klaasmeyer
<http://www.houstonpress.com/Issues/2007-01-18/culture/art.html>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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