RAIN 070122
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Web keeps council connected
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
"We have a lot of issues here with the storage, destruction, inventory 
and organization of records, like most towns," Hart said. "Borough Hall 
was not built ...
<http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2MTE
mZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcwNjI5MjEmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkz>

Berger mystery deepens
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
Some new revelations about Sandy Berger, the Clinton national security 
adviser who admitted taking top-secret documents from the National 
Archives, ...
<http://news.bostonherald.com/editorial/view.bg?articleid=178247&srvc=hom
e>

Cities go high-tech to fight paper war
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
Groveland recently started posting files online for residents to view 
the same electronic copies of the agenda and documents that council 
members receive. ...
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/southwest/orl-swgroveland2107j
an21,0,2663160.story?coll=orl-news-headlines-swest>

Look Before You Leap into Presidential Libraries
History News Network - Seattle,WA,USA
Not all the files were emptied, of course. Over time, the 
donor-restricted Presidential Libraries of Presidents Hoover through 
Carter have released useful ...
<http://hnn.us/articles/34128.html>

Individual political views shouldn't influence Library
smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA
In recent weeks, there has been a great deal of discussion among SMU 
faculty members about the George W. Bush Presidential Library and 
Institute. ...
<http://www.smudailycampus.com/home/news/2007/01/18/Opinion/Individual.Po
litical.Views.Shouldnt.Influence.Library-2652612.shtml>

Public records request could cost city $22K
Miami Herald - FL,USA
City officials received a response from the Miami-Dade County Manager's 
office on the lengthy public records request the city placed in 
December....
<http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/local/states/florida/counties/
miami-dade/cities_neighborhoods/northwest/16504812.htm>


Historic document returning home
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
... constitutions — are housed by the historical society’s library and 
archives division, said Matt Veatch, state archivist and assistant 
division director. ...
<http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jan/21/historic_document_returning_hom
e/?city_local>

Information Week
The Problems With E-Mail
As e-mails multiply, so do the problems, from the unabated increases in 
spam to increasing scrutiny by regulators.
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1969021
29>

New York Times
NATIONAL   | January 22, 2007
Unabomber Wages Legal Battle to Halt the Sale of Papers
By SERGE F. KOVALESKI
Theodore J. Kaczynski is fighting to reclaim more than 40,000 pages of 
his writings so he can preserve them for the public to read.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/us/22unabomber.html?ex=1170133200&en=b
1f0fffec5889177&ei=5070&emc=eta1>

San Antonio Express News, Sun, 21 Jan 2007 7:45 PM PST
S.A. archivist assists churches hit hard during hurricane
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA012207.01B.Brother_Loc
h.1769065.html
He helps New Orleans parishes tally religious objects that survived.

The Idaho Statesman, Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:40 PM PST
Steunenberg documents available on college Web site
http://www.idahostatesman.com/166/story/68367.html
Albertson College of Idaho has posted on its Web site dozens of letters 
and other correspondence that detail the events leading up to and 
including the assassination of Idaho Gov. Frank Steunenberg in 1905 
from a booby-trap bomb

The Times-News, Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:07 PM PST
College puts letters on governor's assassination on Web site
http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/01/22/ap-state-id/d8mq0jno0.txt
CALDWELL, Idaho - Albertson College of Idaho has placed on its Web site 
dozens of letters and other correspondences that detail the events 
leading up to and including the assassination of Idaho Gov. Frank 
Steunenberg.


San Diego Union-Tribune, Mon, 22 Jan 2007 2:30 AM PST
Descendant fights to regain piece of family archive
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/northcounty/20070122-9999-1n22paper.html
CARLSBAD, Jan. 22 (UNION-TRIBUNE): The decision was as good as a death 
sentence.
In August 1938, Carl Cohn and Minna Korach saw the horror descending on 
Nazi Germany and knew that, as Jews, they were in danger. They went to 
the U.S. Consulate in Berlin expecting to get visas because their late 
father, Henry Cohn, had been a U.S. citizen. Instead, the consulate 
revoked their father's citizenship.

Prosecutor says greed drove Coke theft
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
Williams, Edmund Duhaney and Ibrahim Dimson were indicted in July, 
accused of stealing new product samples and confidential documents from 
The Coca-Cola Co. ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/4488614.html>

Horses for courses - archive and backup
Techworld.com - London,UK
... which we have pioneered over the years. This provides a pragmatic 
approach to the challenges of ILM (information lifecycle management)."
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=3&entryid=374>

University of Dallas Withdraws Bid for George W. Bush Presidential ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
IRVING, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The University of Dallas (UD) today 
officially informed the George W. Bush Presidential Library Site 
Selection Committee ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20070122005770&newsLang=en>

Fox to Build Mexico’s First Presidential Library
Mexidata.info - San Diego,CA,USA
Fox’s biggest project is the preparation of his proposed presidential 
library, to be located in the state of Guanajuato. Fox’s proposal, 
announced several ...
<http://www.mexidata.info/id1221.html>

City record storage plan faces shelving
Attleboro Sun Chronicle - Attleboro,MA,USA
BY GEORGE W. RHODES SUN CHRONICLE STAFF. ATTLEBORO - A plan to store an 
estimated 2.5 million building department records in computers rather 
than in ...
<http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2007/01/22/news/news7.txt>

Microsoft looks into digital storage for delivery decades later
The Columbian - Vancouver,WA,USA
SEATTLE (AP) -- Every so often a letter or package becomes an 
unintended capsule, inexplicably arriving years or decades after it was 
mailed. ...
<http://www.columbian.com/news/APStories/AP01222007news95719.cfm>

Iron Mountain in further data loss
Zycko - Cirencester,UK
... over a year after it lost 600000 past and current Time Warner 
employees' data. The latest breach involves the company mislaying 
back-up tapes for two of ...
<http://www.zycko.com/corporate/news/17110305/Iron_Mountain_in_further_da
ta_loss>

Case Study [e-Government National Awards winner]: National Archives
PublicTechnology.net - UK
The National Archives' digitisation programme was a winner in the Award 
category of Central e-Government excellence: Take-up in the 
e-Government National ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=ar
ticle&sid=7462>

Audit stirs controversy
Daily Democrat - Woodland,CA,USA
CalAware scored the agencies based on how well they complied with both 
written and oral public records requests. The results showed that only 
three agencies ...
<http://www.dailydemocrat.com/news/ci_5061572>

New Hampshire Union Leader, Sat, 20 Jan 2007 9:17 PM PST
In Berlin, a paper history
http://www.unionleader.com/rssarticle.aspx?articleId=8128d931-7715-427d-a
26c-d969e0605a9a
Historians sift through a trove of documents that paint a rich picture 
of the industry that dominated the North Country.

Mondaq, Sun, 21 Jan 2007 6:33 AM PST
Labour & Employment
http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=45350&hotopic=1
The December 1, 2006 amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure 
have focused intense attention on the burdens and risks of electronic 
discovery. Employment litigation magnifies those burdens and risks for 
reasons typically absent from other forms of litigation.

Daily Telegraph, Sat, 20 Jan 2007 4:37 PM PST
Honours probe police hacked No10 computers
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/01/21/npeers21.
xml
Detectives in the cash-for-honours inquiry were forced to "hack" into 
Downing Street computers in the search for evidence, The Sunday 
Telegraph has discovered.

Asbury Park Press, Mon, 22 Jan 2007 6:05 AM PST
Hang onto your work e-mail
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070122/BUSINESS/70122003
Your business computer's hard drive is filling up with what seem to be 
outdated and useless documents. Your e-mail box is cluttered with 
messages  covering everything from lunch invitations to 
employee-evaluation memos. You might just have the urge to purge. But 
don't be too quick to hit the delete key, legal experts say. Under new 
federal court rules that took effect Dec. 1, businesses should ...

Lahontan Valley News, Mon, 22 Jan 2007 0:14 AM PST
Courts must comply with new law to protect Social Security numbers
http://www.lahontanvalleynews.com/article/20070122/News/101220009/-1/rss0
2
Churchill County agencies that must comply with a new law to protect 
Social Security numbers are scrambling to make sure the personal 
information is kept confidential on official documents.

Court records destroyed despite order
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... then interim Jefferson Circuit Court Clerk Michael Losavio gave the 
state permission to seize and destroy misdemeanor microfilm and 
electronic records. ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070122/NEWS0
1/70122056/1008>

Immigration service set rules for online system
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
... A-Files, and then work directly with USCIS records employees to 
view those portions of the online files they need to get specific 
information from. ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article97436-01-22-07-Web>

Iron Mountain fires prompt backup urgency
Zycko - Cirencester,UK
Two fires at Iron Mountain facilities have fuelled companies' desires 
to transfer from remote physical storage to electronic systems. ...
<http://www.zycko.com/corporate/news/17454235/Iron_Mountain_fires_prompt_
backup_urgency>

Donation highlights the obvious
Lihue Garden Island - Lihue,HI,USA
A collection of negatives turned in to the Kaua‘i Historical Society 
Friday by local photographer Carol Ann Davis will keep these Kaua‘I 
images alive. ...
<http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2007/01/22/news/news01.txt>

Lawmakers Want Polygraph of Berger Over Stolen 9/11 Documents
FOX News - USA
Berger admitted to taking documents on two of the four occasions he 
went to the National Archives to bone up on his responses for the Sept. 
...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,245658,00.html>

Photos from Kiel's history going digital
Sheboygan Press - Sheboygan,WI,USA
The grant will pay for the photos, glass negatives or other images to 
be scanned using state-of-the-art equipment by the University of 
Wisconsin's Digital ...
<http://www.sheboygan-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070122/SHE01
01/701220420/1973>


Your workplace: Don't be quick to trash work files
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
Your business computer's hard drive is filling up with what seem to be
outdated and useless documents. Your e-mail box is cluttered with 
messages
covering ...
<http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070122/NEWS0
5/701200309/1064>


The Idaho Statesman, Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:19 PM PST
Historians fault Jackson's BSU remark
http://www.idahostatesman.com/164/story/68477.html
The Rev. Jesse Jackson's remarks to a Boise State University audience 
Friday that black football players weren't welcome in the 1950s and 
1960s prompted a flurry of questioning by local historians.




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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