RAIN 070210
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
DUI Lawyer Believes "Evidence" Is Being Destroyed
First Coast News - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Robbins plans to argue before a judge that destroying those images is
tantamount to destroying evidence. "That the State Attorney had
knowledge of these ...
<http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=75465
>
Wall St Journal
Playboy Archives Go Digital;
That Means Its Articles, Too
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117098783205303226-email.html>
Danger of shredder slicing up history
Evesham Journal - Evesham,UK
Those more than 200 years old we have already sent to the County
Records Office, and we have a huge fireproof storage area for clients'
deeds and documents ...
<http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/ejnewslatest/display.var.1182580.0.
danger_of_shredder_slicing_up_history.php>
Carter Center OK, But Bush Library 'Heresy'?
Crosswalk.com - Chesterfield,VA,USA
"But academic freedom, at least for these bishops, apparently does not
include the desire to host a Bush presidential library" at Southern
Methodist ...
<http://www.crosswalk.com/news/11529382/>
Anne's insights into Washington
Sebastian Sun (subscription) - Sebastian,FL,USA
Although President Bush still has two years left in office, the
competition to house his presidential library is already fully
underway.
...<http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/lifestyle/article/0,2821,TCP_24451_5335530,
00.html>
New museum gets the female touch
Shetland News - Vidlin,Shetland,UK
Shetland museum and archives and Women's History Scotland are
collaborating on the project, which is one of the pilot events being
held in the run up to the ...
<http://www.shetland-news.co.uk/pages/news%20stories/02_2007/new_museum_g
ets_the_female_touch.htm>
In search of black history
Ocala.com - Ocala,FL,USA
Brenda Vereen, curator and archivist of the museum, gave me a tour and
helped me sift through documents. Marion County has a rich black
history,...
<http://www.ocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070209/NEWS/202090371/
1335/news01>
Feds want Coke secrets thief jailed now
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - Atlanta,GA,USA
First, Williams defied conventional wisdom and went to trial even
though her accomplices pleaded guilty to trying to sell confidential
documents and test ...
<http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/coke/stories/2007/02/09/020
9bizcoke.html>
Secret SDF documents lost due to sloppy handling
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
But some cases were apparently the result of sloppy management in which
members failed to recollect confidential documents after meetings.
...<http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070210TDY04005.htm>
Destroyed Hard Drive Becomes Focus of Hearing in Sullivan ...
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The judge declined to order the return of specific documents but
admonished Charney to "[t]reat it as if it was your own client's
confidential documents."
...<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1170928971102>
US hospital loses computer records
PC Advisor - London,UK
Johns Hopkins university and hospital has announced that backup tapes
containing payroll data on 52000 workers and medical information on
83000 patients
...<http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=8348>
Back in time
Times of India - New Delhi,India
With almost 100 rare manuscripts on display, National Mission for
Manuscripts (NMM) in association with National Archives of India, the
exhibition not only ...
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Delhi/Back_in_time/articleshow
/1581381.cms>
UCR symposium to honor Tuskegee pilots
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
Buford Johnson, right, shows archivist Chuck Wilson some Tuskegee
Airmen materials he will donate to UCR. "It's important to remember the
past, ...
<http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_airmen09.2641
b2a.html>
Corporate espionage goes undetected, unsolved in India
Business Standard - India
However, a majority of corporate espionage cases go undetected. If
detected, very few complaints come to light. And in the few cases that
complaints are ...
<http://www.business-standard.com/compindustry/storypage.php?leftnm=1&sub
Left=1&chklogin=N&autono=274229&tab=r>
Debate growing over data security
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
A year ago, the Federal Trade Commission ordered data broker
ChoicePoint to pay $15 million in penalties and consumer redress after
it was found to have ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/bal-te.bz.encryption09feb09,0
,3332305.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines>
Bredesen wants ombudsman for public records access
Nashville City Paper - Nashville,TN,USA
Phil Bredesen said Thursday that he wants the state to hire an
ombudsman to assist ordinary citizens with obtaining public records. ...
<http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=9&screen=news&new
s_id=54545>
Bredesen wants to help public access public records
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
Phil Bredesen said Thursday that the state needs an open government
ombudsman who can help people who are refused access to public records,
...
<http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070209/NEWS01/702
090420/1006>
Bill to protect sensitive records rides fine line
Omaha World-Herald (subscription) - Omaha,NE,USA
"It's going to result in the closing off of the public, including the
media, from all kinds of public records," he said.
...<http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2798&u_sid=2328347>
Crowds gather to see historic document
News 14 Carolina - Raleigh,NC,USA
Sarah Koonts, who manages the collections for the state archive, said
that’s what the Founding Fathers wanted. "Congress intended for this to
be a living
...<http://rdu.news14.com/content/headlines/?ArID=99926&SecID=2>
Bill of Rights attracts students, soldiers
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA
Dick Lankford’s job as a state archivist is to protect documents
important to North Carolina’s history. The tools used to protect aging
papers and parchment ...<http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=254323>
Congress: We want our porn labeled and our data retained
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
Edward Markey (D-MA) was so concerned about the dangers of mandatory
data retention last year that he proposed legislation requiring ISPs to
delete personal ...
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070209-8804.html>
Spyware, data privacy bills reappear in House
ZDNet - USA
This follows recent announcements on topics including pretexting, data
breaches, Net neutrality, image monitoring, and data retention.
...<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6157826.html>
Electronic Medical Records Sound Good, Privacy an Issue, Says Survey
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
The potential benefits of electronic medical records (EMRs) sounds
appealing to most people, but when the issue of privacy is raised, many
people become
...<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/103868>
New building for archives 'necessary'
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
John Heney, president of the Friends of the City of Ottawa Archives,
welcomed the proposal as a visionary plan that council should support.
...
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/story.html?id=122cca64-ed81-4e5e-bc6
5-c61c3a4c6825&k=0>
Fumo's lawyer: Charges political
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The senator's office simply followed a longstanding "document
retention" policy that called for the office to routinely clear
computers of old e-mails. ...
<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/states/pennsylvania/counti
es/philadelphia_county/philadelphia/16657269.htm>
The Plain Dealer, Sat, 10 Feb 2007 1:50 AM PST
Fame may now stick to man who helped turn sap into syrup
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/summit/117110024840280.xml&coll=2
Hudson- As maple syrup producers head to the woods this month to tap
trees and boil sap in sugarhouses, their success will be largely due to
a little-known inventor whose innovations in the late 1800s are
relatively unchanged.
AP via Yahoo! News, Sat, 10 Feb 2007 10:11 AM PST
Still a struggle to ID Holocaust victims
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070210/ap_on_re_eu/holocaust_papers_searching_for185403_1
The hunt begins with a number.
Oops: Macquarie reveals it lost contract
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
An email from the university's records manager, Lachlan Morgan, on
October 26 last year, called "The search for records re the employment
contract of ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/oops-macquarie-reveals-it-lost-contr
act/2007/02/07/1170524164288.html>
City to determine fate of old documents
The Eureka Reporter - Eureka,CA,USA
The council is considering several options for the destruction of the
documents, including shredding and incinerating. At least two
representatives of the ...
<http://www.eurekareporter.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?ArticleID=20373>
New bar archives show achievements of black lawyers
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
One such event occurred last week, when the newly constructed National
Bar Association Archives Room was dedicated in the Drake University Law
Library. ...
<http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070210/OPINION
03/702100311/1110>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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