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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Search online for your workhouse forebears
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
Now, the National Archives, in collaboration with the National Trust
and volunteer family historians, has sifted through the correspondence
of a Poor Law ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/03/narchive
03.xml>
State to shred documents Action follows discovery of personal ...
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
The television station found records request forms that state agencies
use to retrieve records from the state archives. As an example, a state
worker may ...
<http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/3866579.html>
Audit Finds Problems At DA Office
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
They included 8669 files that were deleted from one computer that were
not recoverable because a shredding program had been attached. ...
<http://www.kotv.com/news/topstory/?id=126474>
Iron Mountain Signs Deal to Acquire Record Storage Firm
Scure Destruction Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
During its quarterly report Iron Mountain announced that it has signed
an agreement to acquire ArchivesOne, a company providing records and
information ...<http://www.sdbmagazine.com/news/news.asp?ID=8064>
Iron Mountain to Buy ArchivesOne
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
BOSTON — Iron Mountain Inc., a records storage and information
management company, said Wednesday it agreed to buy smaller rival
ArchivesOne Inc. ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/4768755.html>
ABC: An Introduction to Identity Management
CIO - Framingham,MA,USA
In 2005, ID heists at ChoicePoint, Bank of America and LexusNexis lit a
veritable bonfire under US congressional behinds, and lawmakers began
making moves ...
<http://www.cio.com/article/107603/ABC_An_Introduction_to_Identity_Manage
ment_>
Six month countdown to data protection crisis begins
Creditman - UK
... paper based records could include education and social work
records, while in the private sector, personnel, pension and customer
files may be affected.
...<http://www.creditman.biz/uk/members/news-view.asp?newsviewID=7183>
Audit shows records deleted during former Muskogee County DA's ...
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA
This resulted in the deletion of 8669 files, according to a special
audit report released Wednesday by the Oklahoma Office of the State
Auditor and...
<http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/article.aspx?articleID=070502_1__MUSKO883
67>
Backing Up Your SME’s Email
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
During the legal discovery process, Intel noted it had “document
retention lapses” that included neglecting to tell employees they
should back up emails ...
<http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P2918/21
p18/21p18.asp&guid=>
DNR names, Social Security numbers are missing
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA
A thumb drive containing the names and Social Security numbers of about
1400 past and present employees of the state Department of Natural
Resources is ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/politics/bal-dnrstory0503,0,55581
74.story?coll=bal-home-headlines>
USDA will take years to clean SSNs from systems
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
The Agriculture Department may take several years to scrub all
unnecessary Social Security numbers from systems or replace systems
containing the personal
...<http://www.fcw.com/article102623-05-03-07-Web>
Atlanta Archdiocese’s Founding Archivist Dies
Georgia Bulletin - Georgia
Mr. Dees was hired as the archdiocesan archivist in 1992, but first
worked as a consultant in 1990, when the archdiocese asked him to make
recommendations
...<http://www.georgiabulletin.org/local/2007/05/03/tony_dees/>
Williamsburg Art & Historical Center Obtains Rare Milton Editions
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
Since the covers had detached themselves, the center’s library
archivist examined the volume to determine the best method of repair.
...<http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&i
d=12664>
Los Alamos Blocks Researcher Access To Archives
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
In effect, when it comes to historical or other public research, the
Los Alamos archives are closed for business. It's "terrible news" for
scholars, ...<http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_56219.shtml>
History recorded at C-SPAN Archives
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
This nondescript Indiana office park, which is home to the C-SPAN
Archives -- West Lafayette's little-known stretch of the Potomac on the
Wabash. ...
<http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=586229&category=ARTS&
newsdate=5/3/2007>
British Library to launch email archive
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
Email Britain will allow us to archive a vast snapshot of our
present-day communications and will be of great value for future
researchers. ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/05/03/narchive
103.xml>
Sunrise fires finance chief
Milwaukee Business Journal - Milwaukee,WI,USA
In a statement last month, Sunrise said its board concluded that
"actions taken by Mr. Rush were not consistent with the document
retention directives ...
<http://milwaukee.bizjournals.com/washington/stories/2007/04/30/daily34.h
tml>
Brothers Spot Stolen, Historic Documents In eBay Auction
WGAL - Lancaster,PA,USA
Investigative archivist Mitch Yockelson has looked at the stolen
documents. All but three in the case have been recovered. "They're
taking things from the
...<http://www.wgal.com/news/13253158/detail.html>
Probes highlight problems with agencies' e-mail storage
GovExec.com - Wahington,DC,USA
Current rules, or lack thereof, on retention make it easy for agencies
to purge e-mails, said Patrice McDermott, a former employee at the
National Archives
...<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0507/050307tdpm1.htm>
Data storage warnings from ONStor
Zycko - Cirencester,UK
Data storage supplier ONStor has warned UK companies that maintaining
paper-based records after October 2007 could result in the imposition
of fines. ...
<http://www.zycko.com/corporate/news/18139022/Data_storage_warnings_from_
ONStor>
Data center disaster recovery trends for 2007
SearchDataCenter.com - Needham,MA,USA
On the low-tech side, backup tape companies like Iron Mountain are
coming under scrutiny for using common shipping services like FedEx and
UPS for sensitive ...
<http://searchdatacenter.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid80_gci1253791,00.
html>
Discovery Savings: Going Native
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Consequently, de-duplication alone has reduced the overall volume of
files we review in a typical case by 22 percent, of which 8 percent to
11 percent is ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1178183080005
>
Backup guidelines: Keeping off-site storage 'in-house'
Pierre Dorion
02.17.2006
Rating: --- (out of 5)
What you will learn from this tip: You may have considered handling
your long-term tape media storage internally for security or
cost-efficiency reasons. This tip provides tape handling and storage
information that can save you some future pains and unpleasant
surprises.
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid5_gci1166490,00.htm
l>
Active archiving vs. deep archiving
ITworld.com - Southboro,MA,USA
The key benefit for the new active archive disk pool of storage is that
it can now be data-retention managed. You need
retention-managed-storage to be able
...<http://storage.itworld.com/5002/nlsstorage050508/page_1.html>
IRS Proposal Could Impact Millions of Internet Users
Center for Democracy and Technology - Washington,DC,USA
These "data retention" proposals would force the creation of massive,
privately maintained databases of personally identifiable data that
government ...<http://www.cdt.org/publications/policyposts/2007/07>
Sunrise Fires CFO After Documents Flap
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
"In fact, no conclusions have been reached that records or documents
were destroyed by Mr. Rush in contravention of a document retention
directive issued by ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/03/AR200705
0302058.html>
How credit-card information went out wireless door
The Northwest Florida Daily News - Fort Walton Beach,FL,USA
The TJX hackers also got personal information such as driver's license
numbers, military identification and Social Security numbers of 451000
customers, ...<http://www.nwfdailynews.com/article/4295>
Lawyer: Feds offer plea deal to archivist
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
The US Attorney's Office has made a plea offer to Jessica Quintana, the
former archivist at Los Alamos National Laboratory caught up in a
security ...<http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/61003.html>
Former Mobile Mayor Lambert C. Mims donates papers to USA Archives
Mobile Register - Mobile,AL,USA
Mims, 76, who suffered a stroke six months ago, used a cane for support
Thursday, but had no difficulty in speaking to a reporter at the
archives on the USA ...
<http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/index.ssf?/base/news/1178270271356
60.xml&coll=3>
Children's files on eBay computer
BBC News - UK
Documents included fostering, child protection, placement plans and
adoption records between 1999 and 2003. The council said it handed the
computer, ...<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6627265.stm>
Rains ruin historic McKinney documents
KVUE (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
More recent documents are being loaded up for hopeful preservation – JP
records, like traffic tickets and eviction notices, district attorney
files,
...<http://www.kvue.com/news/state/stories/050407kvuemckinneydocs-cb.3924
26d5.html>
Metis history goes online with database (5:30 pm)
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
For the past three years, Frank Tough and the Metis Archival Project
(MAP), based at the U of A's Faculty of Native Studies, have been
developing a database ...
<http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=5b69fecd-092a-4
9b3-9f54-716a2882c80e&k=30085>
Asheville Citizen-Times, Fri, 04 May 2007 12:25 PM PDT
New archive will let slave descendants trace roots
http://citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770504053&source=rss
CHARLESTON, S.C. -- Descendants of slaves who toiled at Magnolia
Plantation and nearby Drayton Hall will soon be able to trace their
roots through an online archive thought to be one of the first of its
kind.
u.tv, Thu, 03 May 2007 1:14 AM PDT
NEWS http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=81948&pt=n
US presidential hopeful Barack Obama's ancestry has been traced back to
a shoemaker in a small Irish village. Records unearthed in the home of
an elderly parishioner who died recently have shed new light on the
prominent Illinois senator`s roots.
Galveston County Daily News, Sat, 05 May 2007 10:34 PM PDT
Go back in time with calendars
http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=3ef31bea436dc0d8&
GALVESTON ? The Rosenberg Library?s Galveston and Texas History Center
announces the exhibit ?Captivating Commercial Calendars: Glimpses into
Galveston?s Business History, 1906-1938.?
WIBW-TV Topeka, Fri, 04 May 2007 7:08 AM PDT
Kate Rogge has spent 35 years as a technical writer and editor. She has
worked with many nationally recognized firms ...
http://www.wibw.com/news/headlines/7333326.html
To that end, Ms. Rogge is finishing up her master's degree in library
and information services at Emporia State, trying to become an
archivist. She has been active in the Kansas City Area Archivists, even
serving as the co-chair on their Education Committee.
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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