RAIN 070704
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
The Epoch Times, Tue, 26 Jun 2007 11:13 PM PDT
Rare Diary Published by Holocaust Memorial Museum
http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-6-27/56861.html
Washington, D.C.-In 1933, James Grover McDonald (1909-1964) sensed the
danger facing Jews in Nazi Germany before almost anyone else. He
worked hard to help German Jews emigrate and settle abroad, b...
The Charleston Gazette, Tue, 26 Jun 2007 10:10 PM PDT
Summit spotlights local history
http://www.wvgazette.com/section/News/2007062611
Inside any small library in West Virginia, visitors are likely to find
historical treasures, Jill Collins said Tuesday. But too often
librarians don?t know how to preserve the wealth of community history
they have accumulated.
The New York Sun, Tue, 26 Jun 2007 9:42 PM PDT
Comptroller Demands Wal-Mart Turn Over Company Records
http://www.nysun.com/article/57404
The city comptroller, William Thompson, is stepping up his criticism of
Wal-Mart
with a demand that the world's largest retailer turn over company
records to his
office. The custodian of the five major public pension funds for the
city, the
comptroller sent a letter to Wal-Mart last week asking for files
relating to a
potentially illegal surveillance of shareholders by the company, the ...
Asbury Park Press, Fri, 29 Jun 2007 1:33 AM PDT
Good housekeeping approval
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070629/NEWS02/706290466
In the six months that the township's records manager has been sifting
through rooms in town hall jam-packed with old files, he has emerged
with some interesting finds.
The Star-Ledger, Thu, 28 Jun 2007 9:51 PM PDT
Records preserved thanks to $21.8M
http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/essex/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1183091175244080.xml&coll=1
When Essex County clerks were collecting old records last year as part
of a
preservation project, they found the original handwritten papers that
officially
created the county in 1682, sitting in a basement vault in the Hall of
Records
in Newark.
eWeek, Tue, 03 Jul 2007 1:13 PM PDT
eCopy Helps Torrance Leave a Paperless Trail
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,2154585,00.asp?kc=EWRSS03119TX1K0000594
Case Study: The Torrance City Attorney's office uses eCopy technology
to streamline its operations.
GSA Seeks 920000 SF For Records Storage
GlobeSt. com - New York,NY,USA
The buildings will replace older facilities now used for military and
civil service records storage, but will be more modern and secure. ...
<http://www.globest.com/news/940_940/stlouis/161961-1.html>
History's overseer
Times Record News - Wichita Falls,TX,USA
Watson, Wichita County Archivist since 1990, works in the Wichita
County Archives in the downtown Museum of North Texas History. The
archives began when she ...
<http://www.timesrecordnews.com/trn/local_news/article/0,1891,TRN_5784_56
11308,00.html>
Architects apply for Bush library job at SMU
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
By BRENDAN McKENNA / The Dallas Morning News WASHINGTON - Planning for
the George W. Bush Presidential Library at SMU has taken another step
forward with at ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-bu
shlib_02met.ART.State.Edition1.433f6ea.html>
Preserving history local office's last task
The Desert Sun - Palm Springs,CA,USA
The late President Gerald R. Ford is the only one to have his
presidential library and museum on two different sites. The library is
in Ann Arbor, Mich., ...
<http://www.thedesertsun.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070702/NEWS01/7
07020307>
Bush library may soon be a Dallas draw
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
And history and politics at the George W. Bush presidential library? It
could all be in a weekend's worth of destinations for Metroplex
vacationers and
...<http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/155855.html>
On these scraps of paper
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
The National Archives of India at New Delhi has a good research room
section but fewer and fewer scholars working on India bother to go
there. ...<http://www.indianexpress.com/story/203555.html>
Judge Dismisses New York Times Lawsuit
Washington Post - United States
... and the Department of Justice, saying classified documents the
newspaper was seeking under the Freedom of Information Act were
properly withheld. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/02/AR200707
0201600.html>
SAP admits to "some inappropriate downloads" in Oracle case
PC World - USA
s strongly worded legal complaints accusing it of stealing trade
secrets in a bid to attract new customers. SAP AG waited until almost
the last minute to
...<http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134108-c,techindustrytrends/article
.html>
Data theft scam targets CEOs
Top execs in the firing line of "most sophisticated" email attack...
<http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/riskmanagement/0,38000139
89,39167709,00.htm>
Wall St Journal
Signing Up for E-Signatures
More Companies Are Using New Technology to Cut Costs -- and Fraud
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118341662407555908-email.html>
VA Investigator Blames IT Specialist, Lax Security For Major Data Loss
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Leading up to the data loss, the IT specialist failed to
password-protect files, and extracted identifiable patient information
from records without ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20090026
3&subSection=News>
Potter County plans to shred old papers
Amarillo.com (subscription) - Amarillo,TX,USA
Sandra Hanna, Potter County Records Manager, said that since 1980, when
she started managing records, the county has burned old files. ...
<http://www.amarillo.com/stories/070307/new_7875786.shtml>
UCLA Archive Gives New Glimpse at Town's Past
Palisadian-Post - Pacific Palisades,CA,USA
UCLA's Charles E. Young Research Library recently launched 'Changing
Times: Los Angeles in Photographs, 1920-1990,' an online collection of
more than 5000
...<http://www.palisadespost.com/content/index.cfm?Story_ID=3025>
Hackers make dog's dinner of vet school security
VNUNet.com - UK
The hacked data included names, birth dates and Social Security
numbers. Unconfirmed reports suggested that data from 375 students from
the 2004/2005 intake
...<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2193346/hackers-dog-dinner-vet-scho
ol>
State to remove Social Security numbers from Web site by fall
Coshocton Tribune - Coshocton,OH,USA
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - The job of removing all Social Security numbers
from financial documents posted on the Ohio secretary of state's Web
site will be ...
<http://www.coshoctontribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070701/NEWS
01/707010325/1002>
UK enterprise search provider buys Zantaz
Search Storage - USA
The deal comes a week after Iron Mountain's acquisition of records
management software firm, Accutrac. The combination of Autonomy, which
claims 17000 ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci126
3051,00.html>
State destroyed its records of insurance-company complaints
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
Klimek said the agency has put a hold on the record destruction. In
individual cases, Merlin and other attorneys said they gather civil
remedy notices to ...
<http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070701/CAPITOLNE
WS/707010326>
Survey Says: Email Archiving Needed
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
... C2C claims that only a small percentage of the companies polled
have a solution in place, even if interest in email archival solutions
is high. ...<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8586>
City leaders unaware of problems
Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
Commissioner Sean McCann said he supports an independent inquiry into
past FOIA responses, the city's public-information procedures and
alleged problems ...
<http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-24/118347617131
7430.xml&coll=7>
National Archive tackles 'digital dark age'
Silicon.com - UK
By Tim Ferguson The National Archive and Microsoft are working to
preserve important digital material and make it accessible for future
generations.
...<http://www.silicon.com/publicsector/0,3800010403,39167726,00.htm>
National Archives to use Virtual PC to unlock historic files
ComputerworldUK - UK
Changes in software and operating systems have made viewing those
documents in their original format impossible, said David Thomas,
director of technology ...
<http://www.computerworlduk.com/technology/applications/desktop/news/inde
x.cfm?newsid=3843>
Scouting memories
BBC News - UK
Scout Archivist for Avon, Richard Ivens said, "It has been a
fascinating task bringing together all the material we will have on
display. ...
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/bristol/content/articles/2007/07/03/scouting_featur
e.shtml>
SAP Admits 'Inappropriate' Downloading of Oracle Documents
Destination CRM - New York,NY,USA
by Jessica Tsai In a response filed yesterday in federal court, SAP
acknowledged that a subsidiary had wrongly accessed files and
electronic documents
...<http://www.destinationcrm.com/articles/default.asp?ArticleID=7029>
Presidential library system is a national resource for Americans
Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
The Roosevelt library established the precedent of private philanthropy
and public administration for what would become the presidential
library system. ...
<http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/columnists/story.html?id=b30f1818-
23c9-471a-a4a9-b5db30314783>
Past by parchment
Indian Express - New Delhi,India
In contrast, think of Nehru's papers. While most of them have been
published, some are still not accessible to the public. Or, to be more
precise, ...<http://www.indianexpress.com/story/203663.html>
National Archive project to avert digital dark age
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The National Archives and Microsoft yesterday announced a partnership
to prevent what was described as "a digital dark age", and unlock
millions of
..<http://www.guardian.co.uk/Technology/news/story/0,,2117863,00.html>
All companies need a disaster recovery plan
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
The National Archives and Records Administration says 93 percent of
companies that lose access to their data for 10 days or more file for
bankruptcy within
...<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/A638B34271B44
1908625730E00048181?OpenDocument>
Fidelity: employee stole, sold 2.3 million consumer records
SC Magazine US - USA
... 160 million records containing sensitive personal information have
been involved in security breaches since the ChoicePoint incident in
early 2005. ...
<http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/668566/fidelity-employee-stole-sol
d-23-million-consumer-records/>
Spiegel
From Hamburg to the New World: New Museum Pays Respect to Europe's
Emigrants
Everyone knows that millions of European emigrants ended up at Ellis
Island in New York. But where did they come from? A new museum in
Hamburg documents the millions who began their journey across the
Atlantic from the shores of Germany.
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,492388,00.html>
How To Design a Lincoln Museum
Slate - USA
The first Abraham Lincoln you meet at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential
Library and Museum is not monumental but life-size, as all newly made
Lincolns are, ...<http://www.slate.com/id/2169527/>
2.3M consumer records stolen, sold
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA
Certegy also sued Sullivan, formerly a senior database administrator,
for misappropriation of trade secrets, breach of fiduciary duty and
breach of ...<http://www.miamiherald.com/103/story/159889.html>
National Archives to avert 'digital dark age'
VNUNet.com - UK
Microsoft has joined forces with the UK's National Archives to help
ensure the preservation of the UK's digital records. As the UK
government's official
...<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2193462/microsoft-national-archive-
join>
National Archives and MS strike preservation deal
Register - London,England,UK
By Kablenet More by this author The National Archives (TNA) and
Microsoft have come to an arrangement to support long term access to
digital documents.
...<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/04/national_archives_ms_deal/>
AG throws wrench in city's public-records plan
Robertson County Times - TN,USA
By Katrina Cornwell A court of appeals judge's ruling that
municipalities cannot require written requests for public records
applies statewide, ...
<http://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070704/MICRO060101/3
07040048/1310/MTCN0301>
Defunct archive files open for access
Techworld.com - London,UK
In 1995 the Public Record Office established the Electronic Records
from Office Systems (EROS) Programme focused on the management of
electronic records ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=9372&pagtype=all>
Fidelity: Ex-Worker Stole 2.3 Million Customer Records
PC World - USA
He added that Certegy at this stage of the investigation believes that
the database administrator didn't transmit the files electronically
over a network
...<http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134154-c,cybercrime/article.html>
DEP faces bulk of records requests
Bridgewater Courier News - NJ, United States
... to mention an off-site warehouse hosting 45000 boxes of files – the
amount of paperwork involved with complying with the state Open Public
Records Act, ...
<http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070704/NEWS/707040303>
County begins e-storing documents; Digital file storage to save ...
Newszap Maryland - MD,USA
Mr. Keys said the system is for storage and retention of completed
documents. Items in process are not stored there, only items completed
and ready for ...<
<http://www.newszap.com/articles/2007/07/03/dm/eastern_shore_of_maryland/
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Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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