RAIN 070518
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Catalog of California state archives placed online
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
SACRAMENTO- A catalog of the collections in the California State
Archives is now available online, a boon to those researching the
state's history. ...<http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_5911365>
Statewide voter registration system hits roadblocks in Texas
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
... database and a Java based registration management application from
Hart InterCivic, an Austin based elections and records management
software maker. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=legislation_regulation&articleId=9019687&taxonomyId=70&intsr
c=kc_top>
Darwin's letters in website archive
Channel 4 News - London,UK
Thousands of letters written by Charles Darwin during his five-year
voyage on HMS Beagle in the 1830s are to be put on the internet for the
first time, ...
<http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/darwins+letters
+in+website+archive/514062>
Law.com
9th Circuit Hands Google a Copyright Victory in Dispute Over Nude
Pictures
The Recorder
An online nudie magazine's copyright infringement suit against Google
now requires some complex maneuvering after a 9th Circuit panel on
Wednesday severely limited what it could argue.
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1179330300627>
Law.com
Litigation Mounts Over Retail Chains' Data-Rich Sales Receipts
New Jersey Law Journal
A 2003 federal law designed to combat identity theft has triggered a
series of putative class action suits against nationally known
retailers over the amount of information they put on credit card and
debit card receipts.
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1179273299606>
Information Week
IBM Offers Reward For Lost Employee Data
A contractor lost the tapes containing sensitive information while
driving through New York State to a storage facility back in February.
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1996010
89>
NARA recognizes agencies for archiving excellence
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
Each year NARA bestows five Archivist Achievement Award to the federal
records management programs or activities that it feels are worthy of
recognition. ...<http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/44285-1.html>
Online storage becoming business' backup
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Storage giant Iron Mountain Digital has online products, as do small
startups such as Utah-based Berkeley Systems, which made news recently
when General ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070517.TWDATABACK17/T
PStory/Business>
Alsobrook to head Mobile city museum
Mobile Register - Mobile,AL,USA
He taught at Theodore High School from 1969 to 1972 and worked for the
state archives before the federal National Archives and Records
Administration.
<http://blog.al.com/live/2007/05/alsobrook_to_head_mobile_city.html>
Archivist hopes to find new Clinton library director this summer
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
Weinstein said Bush's library may have three or four times as many
e-mails in its archives as the Clinton library, which has about 20
million e-mails from
...<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4812817.html>
Preventing data loss and theft
Security Park - Winkfield,UK
Notification to the customer is also required where any breach of data
security leads to the loss, modification or destruction of, or
unauthorized access to
...<http://www.securitypark.co.uk/article.asp?articleid=26942&CategoryID=
1>
State revises preservation efforts
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
"There's always a balance between use and preservation," said Kevin
Anderson, western history archivist at the Casper College Library. ...
<http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2007/05/17/news/casper/10d3ac7
f51dc8348872572de0006e59b.txt>
Archivist urges open process
Danvers Herald - Beverly,MA,USA
Editor’s note: The following letter was sent May 7 to members of the
Board of Selectmen. It is republished here courtesy of the writer. ...
<http://www.townonline.com/danvers/opinion/x176111046>
Hand-colored photos bring history to life
Redlands Daily Facts - Redlands,CA,USA
Gradually people have realized that America is losing those rural
scenes which Nutting captured on glass negatives, and that his
documentation of cottages,
...<http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/news/ci_5919249>
Trouble looms for enterprises who don't know what storage they've got
Register - London,England,UK
... steps within its methodology, we move down to application
information alignment, what Garvey describes as "real ILM" [information
lifecycle management].
...<http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2007/05/17/storage_complexity/>
Poet claims former ethanol plant manager stole sensitive documents
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... of the nation’s top ethanol producers, is seeking injunctions to
keep Hanson and Akers from working in the industry or sharing
confidential documents. ...
<http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070517/NEWS/7051
7043/1001>
Nat'l Library of Scotland plans 100TB Digital Library storage project
PublicTechnology.net - UK
The National Library of Scotland (NLS) has chosen GlassHouse
Technologies to provide consultancy in the design and implementation of
a new storage ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=ar
ticle&sid=9286>
Document(ed) Thief
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
The theft and destruction of classified documents merits more than the
$50000 fine and 100 hours of community service Berger got in September
2005. ...
<http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&statu
s=article&id=264294660330130>
Industrial espionage causes 95.9 trillion won in damages: lawmaker
Yonhap News - Seoul,South Korea
SEOUL, May 17 (Yonhap) -- There were 92 cases of corporate espionage in
the 2003-06 period, causing 95.9 trillion won in financial damages to
South Korea, ...
<http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/Engnews/20070517/64000000002007051716001
7E9.html>
City withholds 7000-plus e-mails from developer
Kingman Daily Miner - Kingman,AZ,USA
Pennington's public records request was for all outgoing e-mails from
City Manager Paul Beecher and his assistant in the last four months.
...<http://www.kingmandailyminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=1
8&ArticleID=12123&TM=40574.55>
Critical business e-mail archiving
Manufacturing Talk - UK
... Aegis Media's EAS implementation was initially storage
optimisation, but data retention and compliance requirements are
increasingly coming to the fore.
...<http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/zat/zat106.html>
Michigan Tech University Archives exhibit debuts
Daily Mining Gazette - Houghton,MI,USA
HOUGHTON — Whether through a quick stroll or a mouse click, it’s
getting easier to see the sights in the Michigan Tech University
Archives and Copper
...<http://www.mininggazette.com/stories/articles.asp?articleID=7064>
Cal State Archives go online - but system is weak on usability
ZDNet.com blogs - USA
“Minerva offers a real-time listing of everything we have on hand in
the California State Archives, whether it’sa videotape we’ve just
received or an old ...<http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3155>
County records to move online
Augusta Chronicle (subscription) - Augusta,GA,USA
By Justin Boron | Staff Writer. Long waits and red tape that taxpayers
often face in dealing with the local government could soon be history
at two Augusta
...<http://chronicle.augusta.com/stories/051807/met_128927.shtml>
Reference work under way at library
Cleveland Daily Banner - Cleveland,TN,USA
“In our records room we have many volumes of county records to be
transcribed,” said Fagan. “I feel a responsibility not only to care for
this information ...
<http://www.clevelandbanner.com/NF/omf/daily_banner/news_story.html?rkey=
0066289+cr=gdn>
Buried treasure in Virginia?
WorldNetDaily - Grants Pass,OR,USA
They learned about John Smith's faith from his own words, examined the
Christian documents that gave legal sanction for the founding of
America, ...<http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55755>
Loudoun's Treasure Trove Of Court Records
Leesburg Today - Leesburg,VA,USA
County residents can get a rare peek at some of the county's most
historic documents tomorrow during the day-long celebration of the
county's 250th
...<http://www.leesburg2day.com/articles/2007/05/18/news/fp932court051807
.txt>
When going shopping was a real pleasure
Chichester Today - Bath,England,UK
“It is an extensive collection of some 15000 glass negatives providing
us with a superb photographic record of Chichester in the 1950s. ...
<http://www.chichestertoday.co.uk/news?articleid=2883552>
Nazi Holocaust archives finally opened
NZZ Online - Zurich,Switzerland
The name index refers to 17.5 million victims, and the documents fill
25 linear kilometres of shelves. Until now, the files have been used to
track missing ...<http://www.nzz.ch/2007/05/16/eng/article7824146.html>
Frustration follows exposure of IPS data
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
IPS continues its investigation into how thousands of files on two
unsecured servers were accessible to the public with Google searches.
...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070518/LOCAL18/7051
80472/-1/LOCAL17>
$3.0m for new national archive
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
ABOUT $3.8million will be used to build a new complex and renovate the
old National Archives. Government archivist Setareki Tale said
construction of the ...<http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=62912>
Using slave register to trace your roots
Bermuda Sun - Bermuda
Government Archivist Karla Hayward told the Bermuda Sun in 2005 that
some slave owners initially balked at registering their slaves, but
became more...
<http://www.bermudasun.bm/main.asp?SectionID=24&SubSectionID=270&ArticleI
D=33762&TM=58103.31>
Survivors Blast Museum Over Archive
Florida Jewish News - FL,USA
A museum spokesman reiterated the institution’s stance that the files
will not be made accessible via the Internet. At first the museum
claimed that the ...
<http://floridajewishnews.com/News/National/Survivors_Blast_Museum_Over_A
rchive_200705181132/>
Lybarger explains record retention
Mount Vernon News - Mount Vernon,OH,USA
... between private and public e-mails but, basically, private e-mails
can be disposed of, whereas public e-mails should be retained as public
documents.
...<http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/07/05/18/lybarger.html>
AG: Lawmakers' instant messages may break Idaho open-records law
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA
The Idaho Supreme Court recently ruled that lawmaker e-mails are public
records whether a lawmaker uses a personal or state-owned computer, and
whether the ...
<http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/05/18/ap-state-id/d8p6v79g1.txt
>
<<http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=6536783>>
Town gets $12000 grant for historic document preservation
Journal Inquirer - Manchester,CT,USA
The legislation charges the Public Records Administration with the
responsibility of establishing and administering an historic documents
preservation grant ...
<http://www.journalinquirer.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18360080&BRD=985&PAG
=461&dept_id=569436&rfi=6>
Duracell IP thief sentenced
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Putting an end to an interesting case of attempted corporate espionage,
the United States District Attorney for Connecticut, Kevin J. O'Connor,
announced on
...<http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/011958.html>
IBM contractor loses employee data
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Long Island Railroad and Time Warner have blamed data protection vendor
Iron Mountain for lost tapes. And United Parcel Service of America has
been fingered ...
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/05/15/IBM-contractor-loses-employee-
data_1.html>
The End of the Line for the Sandy Berger Investigation
National Review Online - New York,NY,USA
By giving up his law license, Berger avoids more questions. By Byron
York.
There’s been some confusion in the last few days about the latest
development in ...
<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmUxM2EyZDBkMjRiODQ3YjBlZWUwYWNjMTR
hZDkwODk=>
The authenticity of a found document
ITworld.com - Southboro,MA,USA
My expertise is storage, not litigation support, so I turned to
AdamsGrayson Consulting, a dedicated e-discovery and data retention
planning firm in
...<http://storage.itworld.com/5002/nlsstoragehill070523/page_1.html>
Sioux City Journal
City avoids sanctions in Doctor John's case
The city of Sioux City received what a judge called a "get out of jail
free" card by avoiding sanctions for destroying records from closed
meetings while defending itself in a lawsuit filed by Doctor John's
Lingerie Boutique.
<http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/05/18/news/local/76a23d8b1
44e1d0d862572df000ceda0.txt>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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