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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

ID theft measure set for final OK
Boston Globe - United States
... including paper, computer, and biometric records, such as 
fingerprints
and eye scans. "The typical destruction method would be shredding,
incinerating, ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/07/17/id_theft_measure_se
t_for_final_ok>

Saratoga Springs may go digital with tonight's vote
Glens Falls Post-Star - Glens Falls,NY,USA
The State Archives and Records Administration has awarded the city a 
$55987
grant to fund the purchase, installation and integration of a software
system ...
<http://www.poststar.com/articles/2007/07/17/news/latest/doc469cdb85047fe
136461817.txt>

NASCIO Releases Part II of Electronic Records Management and ...
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
Part II in this series focuses on economic, legal, and organizational
issues and recommended actions for State CIOs related to electronic 
records
management ...
<http://www.govtech.com/gt/127031?topic=117688>

OMB, DHS outline data security best practices
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
... the Adequate Protection of Government Information," OMB and DHS
discuss common problems in areas such as training, contracting and 
records
management. ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article103240-07-17-07-Web>

Book Review: IT Manager Battles The Undead In "The Atrocity Archive"
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Not until Bob Howard, the hero of The Atrocity Archive, by Charles 
Stross.
Howard is an IT manager for the Laundry, a super-secret British 
government
agency ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2007/07/book_review_it
.html>

Holocaust Files Still Basically Inaccessible Since Being Made Public
Blogger News Network - USA
After the records were opened in May 2006, about 425000 requests from
survivors poured in to access their files. However, some tight rules 
have
been ...
<http://www.bloggernews.net/18665>

Electronic discovery about more than unplugging shredders
WTN News - Madison,WI,USA
My colleagues have discussed the changes to the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure and the importance of a document retention and destruction
policy. ...
<http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=4061>

Documents with personal info found in Irving trash bin
Houston Chronicle - United States
That includes shredding documents the county paid to have destroyed and
throwing out items the county didn't consider to be sensitive. ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4976081.html>

Rocky Mount Telegram
Library gives up on Killebrew photos
Half a million photographic negatives documenting Rocky Mount from the 
1940s to the 1990s sit dormant in subzero temperatures in a Raleigh 
storage room.
Braswell Memorial Library's ambition to convert the Charles S. 
Killebrew collection into digital images outpaced its funding, 
resources and ability.
<http://www.rockymounttelegram.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/07/16ki
llebrewcollection.html>

Google Cuts Back on Cookie Preservatives
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
By Thomas Claburn In keeping with Google's ongoing effort to balance
privacy concerns with data retention requirements and its own concern 
for
quality of ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20100183
1>

Freedom of Information delays drag on for years
USA Today - USA
He has long since given up getting what he asked for under the Freedom 
of
Information Act (FOIA), enacted in 1966 to give US citizens greater 
access
to the ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-07-17-foia-delays_N.htm>

Confidential personnel documents were found dumped on a public tip ...
Milton Keynes Citizen - Milton Keynes,England,UK
The confidential documents all belong to Vision International Nursing
Agency, formerly of Fishermead. The nursing agency was dissolved in 
March
this year. ...
<http://www.miltonkeynes.co.uk/news?articleid=3035237>

Gay/Lesbian Library in Fort Lauderdale Finds New Home, Despite ...
Library Journal - New York,NY,USA
"It's not an open archive," Katzen noted. Researchers must make 
appointments, and an archivist must be present during the research. ... 
<http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6461138.html>

Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit to Obtain Records From Clinton ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
On January 20, 2006, more than 80 million pages of documents and 20 
million e-mails from the Clinton administration were supposed to be 
made available to ...
<http://www2.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=279694>

Lawyers fined for releasing confidential 3M documents
LaCrosse Tribune - LaCrosse,WI,USA
When the lawyers realized they'd released confidential documents, they
asked the agency and the newspaper to return the documents. The agency 
did,
while the ...
<http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/07/14/mn/04minn0714.txt>

Ex-Boeing Worker Pleads Not Guilty
Forbes - NY,USA
Prosecutors allege Gerald Lee Eastman, 45, of suburban Kent, took more 
than
320000 pages of confidential documents from the airplane maker, storing
them on ...
<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/18/ap3927050.html>

La. Security Breach Exposes Thousands To ID Theft
WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA
In all, more than 80000 names and Social Security numbers were 
accessible
via the Internet for perhaps as long as two years. ...
<http://www.wdsu.com/news/13698832/detail.html>

US public interest group says it is suing to obtain Hillary ...
International Herald Tribune - France
Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit Monday in US District Court for the
District of Columbia against the National Archives. It contends the
archives is obliged ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/18/america/NA-POL-US-Clinton-Reco
rds.php>

HP and MIT team up on open-source archiving
ZDNet UK - UK
The importance of open-source approaches to digital archives was 
highlighted earlier this month when the UK's National Archives released 
a joint press ...
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39288102,00.htm>

Town's history preserved in archives
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT,USA
By Meredith Blake The document that marks the founding of Greenwich 367 
years ago today is carefully tucked away in the town archives, and is 
the oldest ...
<http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-a1archivesjul18,0,7034457
.story?coll=green-news-local-headlines>

DSpace Foundation Created To Digitally Preserve Research Collections
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
DSpace archives can be linked to let researchers to search across other
repositories. The effort supports next-generation digital format 
archiving
that is ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20100207
0>

UNT to turn old papers into bits
Project to digitize turn-of-the-century Texas newspapers
11:38 PM CDT on Sunday, July 15, 2007
Staff report
  The University of North Texas is one of eight universities in the 
nation and the only one from Texas to receive a National Endowment for 
the Humanities grant to digitize Texas newspapers for the National 
Digital Newspaper Program called "Chronicling America: Historic 
American Newspapers."
<http://www.dentonrc.com/sharedcontent/dws/drc/localnews/stories/DRC_digi
tize_newspapers_7-16.7c55606a.html>





Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA

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