RAIN 070226
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
New York Times
Millions of Videos, and Now a Way to Search Inside Them
By JASON PONTIN
THE World Wide Web is awash in digital video, but too often we can’t
find the videos we want or browse for what we might like.
That’s a loss, because if we could search for Internet videos, they
might become the content of a global television station, just as the
Web’s hypertext, once it was organized and tamed by search, became the
stuff of a universal library.
What we need, says Suranga Chandratillake, a co-founder of Blinkx, a
start-up in San Francisco, is a remote control for the Web’s videos, a
kind of electronic TV Guide. He’s got just the thing.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/business/yourmoney/25slip.html?ex=1173
070800&en=328e11e183cba12b&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
New York Times
Flame First, Think Later: New Clues to E-Mail Misbehavior
By DANIEL GOLEMAN
Jett Lucas, a 14-year-old friend, tells me the kids in his middle
school send one other a steady stream of instant messages through the
day. But there’s a problem.
“Kids will say things to each other in their messages that are too
embarrassing to say in person,” Jett tells me. “Then when they actually
meet up, they are too shy to bring up what they said in the message. It
makes things tense.”
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/health/psychology/20essa.html?ex=11730
70800&en=496e538279e21db3&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
New York Times
Call It Serendipity: A Missing Piece of Washington’s War Tent Is Found
By EMILY B. HAGER
For nearly a century, a large oval-shape linen tent where George
Washington is believed to have slept during the Revolutionary War sat
on display in Valley Forge, Pa., with a gaping hole in its roof.
But now a combination of luck and forensic detective work has led to
the discovery of the missing section of fabric — snipped out,
historians believe, by a memorabilia seeker — and to the discovery that
the tent was originally striped blue and white.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/science/20tent.html?ex=1173070800&en=c
98161a20522a6e1&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
New York Times
A History Department Bans Citing Wikipedia as a Research Source
By NOAM COHEN
When half a dozen students in Neil Waters’s Japanese history class at
Middlebury College asserted on exams that the Jesuits supported the
Shimabara Rebellion in 17th-century Japan, he knew something was wrong.
The Jesuits were in “no position to aid a revolution,” he said; the few
of them in Japan were in hiding.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/education/21wikipedia.html?ex=11730708
00&en=75570b616b9b827c&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
Sussex plans to sue tax records provider
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
In a decision defining municipalities' requirement to comply with the
state open records law, the appellate court last month ordered Sussex
and two other ...<http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=569943>
Missing records at fire district prompt inquiry
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
The police investigation of the missing documents was prompted by an
open records — or “Sunshine Law” — request filed by the Missourian in
January, ...<http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=24407>
City archives just about history
Canoe.ca - Canada
The city's archives -- treasures of the area's history dating back
hundreds of years --are in desperate need of a new home.
...<http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/OttawaAndRegion/2007/02/25/3664169-sun.ht
ml>
Archivist preserves major King collection
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
"She's knowledgeable about archival practices, processes and trends.
There's a whole world — a whole science — that relates to archival
management and ...
<http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS01/702250421/
1004/NEWS02>
BFI clicks with Hewlett-Packard
Variety - USA
The BFI national archive goes back to the earliest days of film and
contains over 230000 movies and 675000 TV shows, including historic
footage of the
...<http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117959957.html?categoryid=19>
BFI throws open rare film archive
Silicon.com - UK
... month - will give visitors free access to more than 300 films and
TV shows from the BFI National Archive, spanning more than 100 years of
moving images. ...
<http://hardware.silicon.com/desktops/0,39024645,39165940,00.htm>
Online record access debated
HeraldNet - Everett,WA,USA
He said he looks for family with county records, but, at his age, he
can't traipse to the courthouse every time he wants a public record.
... <http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/07/02/25/100loc_b1records001.cfm>
Archivist shares link to Wilson
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
Today, Link works with Heidi Hackford, director of digital archives at
the museum, helping to transcribe scanned documents. ...
<http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS01/702
250353/1002>
Retiree's volunteer efforts put her on right track at History ...
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The Frank B. Fairbanks Rail Transportation Archive opened last month at
the History & Landmarks offices in Station Square. And Harvey has a new
title: ...
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/today/s_494392.html>
E-Discovery: Understanding The Safe Harbor Provision
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
This safe harbor provision attempts to reconcile the evolution to a
paperless society with the historical doctrine of spoliation of
evidence. ...<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_46082>
ow the London Maritime Museum rebuffed a German claim in 1965
Art Newspaper - UK
Since then, however, attitudes towards 1933-45 spoliation have
toughened, particularly with the 1999 national museums’ Statement of
Principles and the
...<http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=562>
NGV relaxed about looted Nazi art
Crikey - Templestowe,Australia
In a paper delivered by Laurie Benson, Assistant Curator of
International Art in 2001 on issues of spoliation, she stated that,
given that the NGV has the ...
<http://www.crikey.com.au/Media/20070213-NGV-relaxed-about-looted-Nazi-ar
t.html>
Washing hands of e-mail Glasscock delegates processing some ...
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... said the policy there was recently revised, but he remains in
charge of public records kept in his office and computer records in
data processing.
...<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070225/email.shtml>
'Montford Point' documents the nation's first black Marines
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA
He and historian William Hine of South Carolina State University had to
make several trips to Washington to search the files of the National
Archives and ...
<http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/NEWS/7
02250335/1004>
The Daily Comet, Sun, 25 Feb 2007 9:02 PM PST
Catawba author donates collection to university
http://www.dailycomet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070225/APN/702253518
The author of a new book about the Catawba Indian tribe has also
donated his collection of historical documents and other materials
relating to the tribe to the University of South Carolina Lancaster.
The GW Hatchet, Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:45 PM PST
What's the deal with... the Gelman memorabilia museum?
http://www.gwhatchet.com/news/2007/02/26/Life/Whats.The.Deal.With.The.Gelman.Memorabilia.Museum-2742094.shtml
Tons of students rush in and out of Gelman Library's doors each day but
most fail to notice the little room stashed off by the left-hand side
of the foyer. The small, inconspicuous place, called the David S. Brown
Memorabilia Room, is filled with artifacts from authentic documents to
photographs to significant objects, quietly chronicling GW's history.
UL Archives may be Acadiana's attic
The Daily Advertiser - Lafayette,LA,USA
The answer is that all of them are housed in the UL Archives, a
treasure trove of documents and photographs and artifacts that are
connected to the history ...
<http://www.theadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070226/LIFESTY
LE/702260325/1024>
Cardinal opens new archives at the English College in Rome
Independent Catholic News - London,UK
Cardinal Jean-Louis Tauran, Archivist of the Vatican Secret Archives
and Librarian of the Holy Roman Church, formerly opened the Archives
and Third Library ...<http://www.indcatholicnews.com/archive214.html>
Bank of America Gives $1 Million
Atlanta Daily World - Atlanta,GA,USA
The gift will be used to upgrade the Archives & Special Collections
reading room, which supports scholarly access to the many manuscripts,
...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17897736&BRD=1077&PAG=461&dept
_id=237827&rfi=6>
UC-Irvine's Fight for Derrida Archives May Stem From Harassment Case
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
... investigation of a Russian-studies professor who was accused of
sexually harassing a female doctoral student, and tried to use his
archives as leverage. ...
<http://chronicle.com/news/article/1712/uc-irvines-fight-for-derrida-arch
ives-may-stem-from-harassment-case>
Los Angeles Times
A philosophical view of sex
Deconstructionist Jacques Derrida reportedly had tried to use his
coveted archives as leverage to derail a sexual harassment case against
a professor at UC Irvine.
By Roy Rivenburg, Times Staff Writer
February 25, 2007
When a vampire expert allegedly seduced a tipsy UC Irvine student four
years ago, he inadvertently set off a chain of events that now
jeopardizes the school's control of a dead philosopher's prized
archives.
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-derrida25feb25,1,599040.story?co
ll=la-headlines-california>
Ark., other states contending with public business online
WMC-TV - Memphis,TN,USA
While the state Freedom of Information Act requires open meetings and
public access, the law was written before Blackberries, laptops and
video conferencing
...<http://www.wmcstations.com/Global/story.asp?S=6143308>
E-mail Archiving Software Helps Manage Messages
Insurance Networking News - New York,NY,USA
The parties must agree on what records to share and what electronic
format to use, as well as on a definition for "accessible data." ...
<http://www.insurancenetworking.com/protected/article.cfm?articleId=4570&
pb=ros>
Above Town
New Yorker - New York,NY,USA
He had been examining a large collection of images—nearly twenty
thousand glass negatives and a hundred and thirteen scrapbooks of
prints—when he realized ...
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/covers/articles/070305on_onlineonly01>
Lights, Camera … Interview!
SHRM Magazine - Alexandria,VA,USA
What’s more, taped interviews should be retained or discarded in
accordance with a company’s document retention policies pertaining to
employee recruitment ...
<http://www.shrm.org/hrmagazine/articles/0307/0307aganda_empstaff.asp>
Presidential politics on campus from DC to Dallas
The George Washington University The GW Hatchet - Washington,DC,USA
... in December when Southern Methodist University learned that it was
the finalist in the campaign to land the George W. Bush Presidential
Library complex. ...
<http://www.gwhatchet.com/news/2007/02/26/Life/Presidential.Politics.On.C
ampus.From.D.c.To.Dallas-2742082.shtml>
Oracle Ships Free Information Lifecycle Management Tool
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Oracle Corp. has made available at no charge an information lifecycle
management (ILM) tool for the company's namesake database. ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19700877
2>
Next-Generation Backup and Archive
Search Storage - USA
As a result, Paul has a thorough knowledge of backup and archive
technology, deployment and management -- and is uniquely qualified to
share his experience ...
<http://events.techtarget.com/next_gen_backup/?OfferSTwnemc226>
Newspaper Archive Digitization Program Puts Historical Content Online
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
To date, the company has scanned more than two million newspaper pages
of its 20 million page archive and its digital database is expanding
daily. ...<http://www.pr.com/press-release/31032>
'Ding' Darling Exhibit and Digital Archive in Iowa
Editor & Publisher - USA
By E&P Staff. NEW YORK An exhibit of editorial cartoons and
illustrations by Jay N. "Ding" Darling will run through this Wednesday
at Drake University's ...
<http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/departments/syndicates/article_d
isplay.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003550445>
Microsoft's 'dirty tricks' archive turns into hot Torrent
Register - London,England,UK
We can't vouch for the completeness of the archive, which can be
downloaded in a few hours, but it contains over 3000 files and adds up
to 2.7GB. ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/26/microsoft_archive_goes_torrent/>
Social Security numbers must be removed from records
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Arlington,VA,USA
... a 2005 amendment to the state's Public Information Act to prevent
the disclosure of all Social Security numbers of living persons on
public documents.
...<http://www.rcfp.org/news/2007/0226-foi-social.html>
Securing Storage
Express Computers - Bombay,India
... breaches in 2006 some of the biggest incidents at firms like Bank
of America, Citibank, ABN Amro, and Marriott were the result of lost
backup tapes. ...
<http://www.expresscomputeronline.com/20070226/securitydatastorage01.shtm
l>
Records lockdown at courthouse forced by AG's ruling
Lufkin Daily News - Lufkin,TX,USA
In place of independent browsing or researching public records,
specific requests must be tendered to the district and county clerks
who will provide a copy ...
<http://www.lufkindailynews.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/02/27/coun
ty_clerk.html>
Hospital Laptop Stolen; Info on 7800 Patients At Risk
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
A laptop stolen from a secure office in a Texas-based hospital group is
putting at risk identifying information on 7800 patients without health
insurance. ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19700871
1>
New push to halt data thefts
Federal Times - USA
It’s the number of veterans and military personnel whose personal data
was on a Veterans Affairs Department laptop stolen last May.
...<http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2578316>
Centralized approach ensures records compliance
Federal Times - USA
The corporate world has discovered that an effective records management
system is critical to managing compliance-driven policies. By 2008,
approximately 75 ...<http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2578105>
Wrexham Council to go 'paperless' with Civica
24dash.com - Hereford,Herefordshire,UK
The benefits of electronic document and records management and
automated workflow include conversion of all types of correspondence to
electronic documents ...<http://www.24dash.com/egovernment/17122.htm>
State gets Washington's copy of historic
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Edward Papenfuse, the state archivist who worked on acquiring the
speech, described it as "that priceless link on paper to the mind of
the man who believed
...<http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20070225-105142-5494r.htm>
Not fotgotten: Historians, FHSAA try to preserve records
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
Watford knows, too, that combing through old newspaper files probably
will yield little information. "Everybody will admit that the media did
not cover the ...
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/highschools/content/sports/epaper/2007/02/2
6/a1c_FHSAA_0226.html>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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