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

Australia launches $2.2M online film archive
CBC Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia,Canada
The Australian film industry has launched a huge online archive of
newsreels, advertisements, TV shows and movie clips covering more than a
century of ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2007/07/18/aussie-archive.html>

Aust film, TV archive launched
ABC Online - Australia
(National Film and Sound Archive) The Australian film industry is 
rolling
out the red carpet on the Internet, offering unprecedented public 
access to
the ...
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/07/18/1981278.htm?section=entert
ainment>

Unlocking Lincoln's vault
Lincoln Journal - Concord,MA,USA
To safely remove some of the oversized maps and floor plans requires at
least four (gloved) hands, which, with no full-time archivist on staff, 
...
<http://www.townonline.com/lincoln/homepage/x2144990682>

Legal Group Sues for Clinton Files
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
Mr. Fitton said those files have already yielded some interesting
documents, including some suggesting that Mrs. Clinton was intimately
involved in the ...
<http://www.nysun.com/article/58694>

Spammers dump images, switch to PDF files
SecurityFocus - Cupertino,CA,USA
 From a spammers point of view, the strength of the PDF format is that 
many
companies require that their e-mail systems allow the documents to be
passed to ...
<http://www.securityfocus.com/news/11475>

Defending against the digital dark age
ZDNet UK - UK
... such as Open Document Format (ODF) and the idea of not locking 
public
documents into a format such as Open XML that is mainly championed by 
one
vendor. ...
<http://resources.zdnet.co.uk/articles/features/0,1000002000,39288099,00.
htm>

SMALL BUSINESS 101: Record management important
LondonTopic.ca - London,Ontario,Canada
Having a well-designed records management system will save time and 
money
and provide your small business with quick access to the information
necessary for ...
<http://www.londontopic.ca/article.php?artid=4210>

Business briefs
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
BOSTON -- Iron Mountain Inc., a company that stores and protects
information, said it has acquired a minority stake in SafeDoc of Athens,
Greece, giving Iron ...
<http://www.telegram.com/article/20070719/DIGESTS/707190397/1143/BUSINESS
>]

Iron Mountain Adds Michael W. Lamach of Ingersoll Rand to its ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
"Michael is a seasoned business executive and his deep experience 
running
multi-national companies is of particular importance to Iron Mountain 
as we...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NEM03916072007-1
.htm>

Worker e-mail and blog misuse seen as growing risk for companies
FinancialWeek (subscription) - New York City,NY,USA
Experts familiar with data security say corporations risk the loss of
company trade secrets and also leave themselves open to a variety of
defamation or ...
<http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/REG/707
19010/1036>

Preserving State`s Heritage
KFYR-TV - Bismarck,ND,USA
In September of 2005, a groundbreaking ceremony was held in Bismarck 
for a
$5.7 million expansion of the state archives. Now that the new addition 
is
nearly ...
<http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=8840>

E-Discovery and the SMB
E-Commerce Times - USA
"SMBs are caught between the proverbial rock and a hard spot when it 
comes to the mandates of the FRCP," said e-discovery guru Bill Spernow 
of Security ...
<http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/7fPbMrDMvOa3iE/E-Discovery-and-the-S
MB.xhtml>

Grant will help city boards go paperless
The Saratogian - Saratoga,NY,USA
Franck also announced Tuesday that the city has received a $5000 grant 
for a preservation survey of maps and other historic items in the city 
archives. ...
<http://www.saratogian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18602456&BRD=1169&PAG=461
&dept_id=602469&rfi=6>

Electronic age pits privacy against open records
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
By Susan Essoyan / [log in to unmask] Concern about a lack of 
privacy in the Digital Age is fueling efforts to keep more court 
records off the 
...<http://starbulletin.com/2007/07/19/news/story09.html>

'Paperless' prosecutor gets national attention
Battle Creek Enquirer - Battle Creek,MI,USA
"Back when we had physical files and computer records, if we had a fire 
the only thing we could recover was the computer records, not the 
physical files," ...
<http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070719/N
EWS01/707190334/1002/NEWS01>

Digitizing 'Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood' material under way at St ...
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Digitization is one way to preserve archival material because it 
eliminates the need to handle the originals, said Brother David Kelly, 
archivist for the 
...<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07200/802588-54.stm>

Ask.com To Launch AskEraser To Erase Search History & New Data ...
Search Engine Land - Redding,CT,USA
Ask.com said the will also implement a new data retention standard that 
will "completely disassociate search history from a user's IP address 
or cookie ... <http://searchengineland.com/070719-173648.php>

Ask.com to Give People Unmatched Privacy Control
CNNMoney.com - USA
In conjunction with the release of AskEraser, Ask.com will also 
globally implement a new data retention standard that will completely 
disassociate search ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQTH14919072007-
1.htm>

Potter collection donated to Lewes Historical Society
Cape Gazette - Lewes,DE,USA
Russ McCabe, Delaware state archivist, noted, "I met Helene nearly 30 
years ago at the beginning of my career when I was a fresh-faced kid 
and she was one ...
<http://www.capegazette.com/storiescurrent/200707/lewespotter071707.html>


Ex-Boeing worker pleads not guilty to computer trespass
International Herald Tribune - France
Prosecutors allege Gerald Lee Eastman, 45, took more than 320000 pages 
of confidential documents from the airplane maker, stored them on his 
home computer ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/07/18/business/NA-FIN-US-Boeing-Leak
ed-Documents.php>

Is There Intelligent Life in Storage?
Server Watch - Darien,CT,USA
Intelligence, it seems, has displaced Information Lifecycle Management 
(ILM) as the buzzword of the month in storage. Most vendors take pains 
to stress how ...<http://www.serverwatch.com/trends/article.php/3689901>

That sinking ILM feeling
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By Ian Lamont on Thu, 07/19/2007 - 4:47pm Information Lifecycle 
Management has been a storage buzzword in recent years, but recent 
research from TheInfoPro, 
...<http://www.computerworld.com/blogs/node/5872>

Iron Mountain Purchase in Windsor, Canada

Boston-based Iron Mountain Inc., which already serviced the Windsor
area, has purchased Document Management Systems at 610 Sprucewood Ave. 
for $1.2 million.
<<http://digital.windsorstar.com/epaper/viewer.aspx>>

Public loses in ruling on e-mail record access
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
Judge Haddock ruled that because the defendants did not manage or 
control the offices or electronic records of other county officials, 
they wouldn't know 
...<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/opinion/editorials/070720a.s
html>

Want Your Search History Scrubbed? Just Ask.com
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
Rivals like Google have been criticized lately for their own data 
retention policies. Does Ask have enough market clout to compel its 
competitors to follow ...<http://www.technewsworld.com/story/58421.html>

Historical Society about halfway toward goal of buying former site ...
KXMC - Minot,ND,USA
BISMARCK, ND (AP) The director of the North Dakota's State Historical 
Society says the society is about halfway toward its goal of raising 
one (m) ...<http://www.kxmc.com/News/145384.asp>

Works of Photographer Robert Heriot at the Georgia Historical Society
Savannah Business Report - Savannah,GA,USA
(SAVANNAH, GA) The Georgia Historical Society has recently opened the 
Robert Heriot photographs and records (1908-1986) for research. 
...<http://www.savannahbusiness.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleI
D=8135&SectionID=50&SubSectionID=96>

Audit of Idaho Historical Society wraps up
Fox 12 Boise - Nampa,ID,USA
Boise, Idaho -- The Idaho Historical Society is again in the news 
regarding questionable spending that occurred there while under the 
direction of Steve 
...<http://www.fox12news.com/Global/story.asp?S=6816016>


Historical society is now part of history
Croydon Guardian - Croydon,England,UK
By Kerry McQueeney One of Croydon's most prominent local history groups 
has folded after it failed to find enough younger members to carry on 
its work. 
...<http://www.croydonguardian.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1560266.0
.historical_society_is_now_part_of_history.php>

SAIC Warns of Possible Data Breach
Forbes - NY,USA
SAIC said Friday it has not found any evidence that the information 
-names, addresses, birth dates, Social Security numbers and health 
information - was 
...<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/20/ap3936804.html>

Ex-Pfizer Employee Sues for Data Breach
Forbes - NY,USA
Pfizer learned in April that the names and Social Security numbers, and 
in some cases addresses, home and cellular phone numbers and bonus 
information, 
...<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/20/ap3936757.html>

Watchdog: Ohio Mishandled Sensitive Data
Forbes - NY,USA
Charles said this failure continued despite a warning from the state 
auditor in February that Social Security numbers were easily 
accessible. 
...<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/07/20/ap3937199.html>

Pieces of paper record our lives
Northumberland Today - Cobourg,Ontario,Canada
One of the jobs of The Cobourg and District Historical Society Archives 
is to preserve some of these important pieces of paper. We hold of the 
birth, ...
<http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/webapp/sitepages/content.asp?contenti
d=620079&catname=Local%20News&classif=>

Ark. court orders review of whether employee's e-mails are public
Pine Bluff Commercial - Pine Bluff,AR,USA
Justices said it's impossible to determine whether the e-mails are 
public records without a review by the judge. "We hold that in this 
particular case it is 
...<http://www.pbcommercial.com/articles/2007/07/20/ap-state-ar/d8qgdlm00
.txt>

Open records in the computer age
LaCrosse Tribune - LaCrosse,WI,USA
By Tribune staff An interesting case pending before the Wisconsin 
Supreme Court will have an impact on public records in a technological 
age. ... 
<http://www.lacrossetribune.com/articles/2007/07/20/opinion/editorial/edi
t20.txt>

Carver public officials try to hide documents
Brockton Enterprise - MA, United States
Johnson is a longtime citizen activist who has taken advantage of 
public records laws to request town documents, which officials in 
Carver and other towns ...
<http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2007/07/20/news/opinion/opi
nion01.txt>

ILM isn't just about storage
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... ILM solutions are companies that are implementing compliance 
programs for corporate and regulatory governance. The records 
management community has been ...
<http://www.infostor.com/display_article/300566/23/ARTCL/none/none/ILM-is
n%E2%80%99t-just-about-storage/>

Spies among us
Financial Express - Bombay,India
Traditionally, corporate espionage involved physical break-ins or human 
spies. In today's scenario, one fact remains the same. Pradhan adds, 
"Trade secrets ...
<http://www.financialexpress.com/fe_full_story.php?content_id=170169>

Company fined for dumping records
Charlotte Business Journal - Charlotte,NC,USA
... of other records, and the state Office of Consumer Protection has 
made arrangements to destroy the files picked from a Niu Valley 
recycling dumpster and ...
<http://charlotte.bizjournals.com/pacific/stories/2007/07/16/daily50.html
>

20.5M Decisions to Classify Documents
FOX News - USA
The report comes as the office of Vice President Dick Cheney is 
refusing to
cooperate with the office of the National Archives. ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2007Jul16/0,4670,GovernmentSecrecy,00.html>






Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA

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