RAIN 070620
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Destroyed data adds to fracas over NASA IG
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
A NASA spokesman said the agency stands ready to respond to any
requests for assistance in an investigation of the data destruction
matter. ... <http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/44492-1.html>
Lawmaker claims 'extensive destruction' of e-mail records
GovExec.com - Wahington,DC,USA
... while the "extensive destruction" of e-mails points to widespread
violations of the Presidential Records Act, according to the House
Oversight and ...<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0607/061807cdpm1.htm>
Records compliance
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
The Joint Interoperability Testing Center has released Version 3 of DOD
5015.2-STD, "Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management
Applications ...<http://www.gcn.com/print/26_14/44501-1.html>
Data volume, changing technology challenge archivists
Federal Times - USA
But with oversight responsibility for 300 federal agencies and a staff
of 60 assigned to various regions across the country to oversee records
management, ...<http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2841121>
Electronic records are on the rise, but paper's here to stay
Federal Times - USA
Archives officials plan this fall to flip the switch of the Electronic
Records Archive, which will allow agencies to store files digitally.
... <http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2841117>
Posterity's last chance
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
They handed it to the Performing Arts Museum in Victoria and it was
acquired in 1984 by an institution now known as the National Film and
Sound Archive. ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/posteritys-last-chance/2007/06/19
/1182019107970.html>
Finding 'One Shot' of the past: Historical society acquires ...
Winona Daily News - Winona,MN,USA
By Jerome Christenson | Winona Daily News The Winona County Historical
Society acquired the bulk of the Merritt and Harriet Kelley photo
collection at
...<http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2007/06/19/news/01lead.txt>
Investigators find secret White House email accounts
Register - London,England,UK
... and Government Reform has released its initial findings after
investigating the use of parallel email accounts by officials in Bush's
White House.
...<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/19/whitehouse_cogr_emails/>
Professor may have lost Social Security numbers in Africa
Houston Chronicle - United States
The university had been planning to use computer-generated
identification numbers rather that Social Security numbers as of
August. <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4902159.html>
E-mail Account Holders Have Right to Privacy, Appeals Court Upholds
BetaNews - USA
By Scott M. Fulton, III, BetaNews A US federal appeals court yesterday
upheld a district court ruling in favor of an individual whose e-mail
records were ...
<http://www.betanews.com/article/Email_Account_Holders_Have_Right_to_Priv
acy_Appeals_Court_Upholds/1182286198>
Guilford Takes Public Records Off the Internet
abc11tv.com - Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville,NC,USA
Register of deeds Jeff Thigpen says the county has removed marriage,
birth and death certificate records. The county is required to make
that information
...<http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=central&id=5400198>
1898 bill deserves to pass
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA
The bill simply would require the State Archives to finish up and
distribute the final version of its exhaustive report about what is
often called the ...
http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/article/20070619/EDITORIAL/706190302>
Mayor calls for probe of FOIA practices Kalamazoo to seek outside ...
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
... by the city from obtaining public information under the state
Freedom of Information Act. McKinney also suggested that Assistant City
Manager Fay Peek,
...<http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-24/118226659
235660.xml&coll=7>
Systems needed to resolve e-mail crunch
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
The Freedom of Information Act dictates that public sector bodies must
be able to supply copies of "recorded information" on request, even if
generated ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/06/19/224883/systems-needed-
to-resolve-e-mail-crunch.htm>
Crowded Archives gets relief
News Courier - Athens,AL,USA
By Karen Middleton The Limestone County Archives will be expanding to
occupy the entire former L&N Passenger Depot. Three years ago the
County Commission ...
<http://www.enewscourier.com/homepage/local_story_169222649.html?keyword=
leadpicturestory>
From UMI to Bell & Howell to ProQuest
Ann Arbor News - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
October 2005: ProQuest sells off several lines of business from its
Information and Learning division to a group of employees, who form
National Archive ...
<http://www.mlive.com/business/aanews/index.ssf?/base/business-5/11822640
24252460.xml&coll=2>
Scoop: Register of deeds removes some records from Web
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
If you enjoy sifting through Guilford County marriage, birth and death
records online -- and who doesn't? -- then that part of your life is
over. ...
<http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070619/NEWSREC01
01/70618033/-1/NEWSREC0201>
Putin signs decree on presidential library
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
MOSCOW, June 19 (RIA Novosti) - Vladimir Putin has signed a decree
establishing a presidential library, named after the first Russian
President Boris ...<http://en.rian.ru/russia/20070619/67444728.html>
Paper chase
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ontario, Canada
Gregory was stuck in his office for four days marking documents. Every
time he thought he had made progress, a fresh stack of papers would
arrive, ...
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/opinion/story.html?id=509cf84d-
0378-4dd7-a794-a7bffc9caf79>
State Farm Accuses High-Profile Lawyer Of Ethics Violations
WLOX - Biloxi,MS,USA
In court papers, State Farm says it has been "severely prejudiced" by
having thousands of confidential documents turned over to its
"adversaries outside of
...<http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=6679800&nav=6DJI>
State Farm accuses high-profile lawyer of ethics violations
Picayune Item - Picayune,MS,USA
In court papers, State Farm says it has been "severely prejudiced" by
having thousands of confidential documents turned over to its
"adversaries outside of ...
<http://www.picayuneitem.com/local/local_story_171123606.html>
Backup Tapes in Mass Tort Litigation
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
22, 2003) (finding company liable for spoliation of evidence for
failure to preserve backup tapes). The leading cases on preservation of
backup tapes are
...<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1182243951
535>
Council opts not to restore city historian position
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
She has doubled as city archivist or records manager since 2004. City
Hall expects to save $58000 annually with the cut. City Council
President Lois Giess ...
<http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070619/
NEWS01/70619033/1002/NEWS>
City historian post is gone
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
The city historian post -- held for the past two decades by Ruth
Rosenberg-Naparsteck of Rochester -- has doubled as city archivist or
records manager since ...
<http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070620/
NEWS01/706200384/1002/NEWS>
Business holds grand opening
Daily American Online (subscription) - Somerset,PA,USA
Within the cavernous warehouse is an entire section devoted to the
shredding and destruction of all kinds of documents. The two-story
shredding machine
...<http://www.dailyamerican.com/articles/2007/06/19/news/news446.txt>
AHIMA Calls on Congress to Expand, Standardize Personal Health ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
... but also by the healthcare industry's continued transformation from
a paper-intensive industry to one of electronic records transmissions.
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,125339.shtml>
Wiley Rein, Insurer Sanctioned $1.25 Million
Mark Hamblett
Failure to disclose a key document on insurance coverage for the Port
Authority at the World Trade Center in the aftermath of the Sept. 11
terror attacks and other discovery abuses is going to cost Wiley Rein
and Coughlin Duffy.
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1182243960096>
Wall Street Journal
PowerPoint Turns 20, As Its Creators Ponder A Dark Side to Success
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118228116940840904-email.html>
Wall Street Journal
Making Lists of Everything in Your Life
Web Site Compiles Results for Sharing; A Haircut History
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118230101733141376-email.html>
Wall Street Journal
Wikis at Work
Companies turn the Wikipedia concept into a powerful
corporate-information tool for employees
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118194629405937232-email.html>
Panel created to examine making public records more accessible
Palm Beach Post - FL, United States
Charlie Crist created a commission Tuesday to look for ways to make
public records more accessible, and appointed to it an open records
advocate and a ...
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2007/06/20/a5
a_crist_0620.html>
UMC misses records deadline
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
25-61-5 - All public records are declared to be public property. ... No
public body shall adopt procedures which authorize the public body to
produce or ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070620/NEWS/70
6200362/1001/news>
MSNBC
Not fiction? Herman Munster's identity stolen
Thieves apparently didn't realize he is a fictional 1960s TV character
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19334522/from/ET/>
Democrats call Tony Snow's Clinton-era White House e-mail ...
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
... published a memo written by former Clinton Chief of Staff John
Podesta in 1993 which ordered the preservation of all electronic
records as well. ...
<http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Democrats_say_Tony_Snow_wrong_about_0620.h
tml>
No access to code in eVoting case
ZDNet - USA
The ruling of the lower court was that Jennings wanted access to ES&S
trade secrets "based on nothing more than speculation and conjecture"
and that ...<http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=5446>
Opinion: New laws encourage destruction of data and truth
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
So if an email or document is only subject to SEC Rule 17a-4 and they
have kept it for the time specified by the law, why keep it longer? ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9025367&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_feat>
Pfizer P2P Security Breach
Slyck - Astoria,NY,USA
Many high profile events have stemmed from such misusage, from the
sharing of secrete military documents, social security numbers, and
other sensitive ...<http://www.slyck.com/story1496.html>
Rumblings Over Missing White House E-Mails Getting Louder
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
The RNC's policy is to delete e-mails after a certain period of time.
E-mails sent from the White House, by contrast, must be preserved
indefinitely. ...
<http://www.technewsworld.com/story/76lLOR1kLLROFf/Rumblings-Over-Missing
-White-House-E-Mails-Getting-Louder.xhtml>
Archivists Prepare To Unveil Nixon's Archives
WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA
(CBS News) COLLEGE PARK, Md. Angela Drews and her colleagues at the
National Archives have been packing for months. Plain cardboard boxes
with odds and ends
...<http://wjz.com/watercooler/watercooler_story_171221806.html>
Ghasia: Deceit affects archives care
Daily News - TSN - Dar Es Salaam,United Republic of Tanzania
CORRPUTION and fraud has been linked to poor record keeping and
archives management, which hinder transparency and accountability in
government proceedings.
...<http://www.dailynews-tsn.com/page.php?id=7377>
Inside Nixon's Archives
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
"This is the Nixon White House taping system," said National Archives
and Records Administration archivist John Powers, who has looked over
and looked after ...
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/06/20/eveningnews/main2956112.shtml>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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