RAIN 070722
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Unsecured server may have left personnel files vulnerable
Stars and Stripes - Washington,DC,USA
... files of more than 580000 military households may have been left
open
to identity thieves by a Defense Department contractor processing
Tricare
records, ...
<http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=47527>
Japanese cop puts police records on P2P network
VNUNet.com - UK
By not limiting the sharing of files he allowed 6600 police documents
onto
the P2P network, including interrogation reports and classified
locations
of ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2194711/peer-peer-causes-police>
Ask To Allow Users to Control Data Retention
Wired News - USA
Google has been under scrutiny in recent months for its data retention
practices. The company defends its policy of keeping information on
every
user's ...
<http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2007/07/ask-to-allow-us.html>
Ask.com Plans Anonymous Search
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Ask also said that it planned to adopt a new data retention policy to
disassociate all user searches histories with IP address and cookies
information after ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=20120028
2>
Tennessee worker charged with classified leak
Los Alamos Monitor - Los Alamos,NM,USA
... documents and computer storage devices containing classified
information that had been taken from LANL by an archivist handling
nuclear
weapons data. ...
<http://www.lamonitor.com/articles/2007/07/21/headline_news/news03.txt>
Hacker accesses personal information from UM database
Detroit Free Press - United States
The databases, however, did have names, addresses, some Social Security
numbers and some birth dates, and in some cases, the school districts
where
former ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070721/NEWS06/70721011
>
Ex-Boeing worker pleads not guilty
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Prosecutors allege that Gerald Lee Eastman, 45, took more than 320000
pages
of confidential documents from the airplane maker, stored them on his
home
...
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-briefs19.5jul19,1,67804.story?coll
=la-headlines-business>
Report faults policy over theft of data
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
Over the ensuing weeks, the state has reviewed the device's on-site
twin,
determining that the tape contains names, Social Security numbers, ...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070721/NEWS24/707210
03>
Joan Dawson charting history again
The Daily News - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
The selection and writing-up of the maps took much longer, as there are
so
many to choose from in the Nova Scotia Archives and Records Management
collection ...
<http://www.hfxnews.ca/index.cfm?sid=46689&sc=258>
Kasztner archives given to Yad Vashem
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - New York,NY,USA
Family members said they hoped these private archives, including three
boxes of letters documenting Kasztner's correspondence with family,
Jewish groups and ...
<http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/103185.html>
Upholding history
The Southern - Carbondale,IL,USA
The Illinois Regional Archives Depository, which is a branch of the
Illinois State Archives, microfilms city and county records at no
charge....
<http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2007/07/21/local/20896457.txt>
Dust and mold threaten records at courthouse
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
Mr. Nutter said commissioners have looked at possible rental space in
downtown Tiffin and considered building a structure that could house
county
records ...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070722/NEWS17/707220
342>
After Katrina, a different salvation
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
NEW ORLEANS - In her spare office, Emilie Leumas, the new archivist for
the
Archdiocese of New Orleans, unties a string-bound folder and exposes the
loose, ...
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/features/lifestyle/orl-churchrecords07jul
22,0,1767578.story>
New Orleans Times-Picayune, Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:03 PM PDT
Church is slowly restoring archives
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1183959980206770.xml&coll=1
In her spare sixth-floor office in downtown New Orleans, Emilie Leumas,
the new
archivist for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, unties a string-bound
folder and
exposes the loose ruined pages of an old parish ledger book an
assistant has
wheeled in on a librarian's cart.
US House approves money for Clayton State
Henry Herald - McDonough,GA,USA
Clayton State is next door to the Georgia Archives and National Archives
Southeast region facilities. Dr. Randall Gooden, an archivist at the
Georgia ...
<http://www.henryherald.com/local/local_story_201212148.html>
County gets grant to preserve records
Neosho Daily News - Neosho,MO,USA
More than $6 million has been distributed to support local public
records
management and preservation since the program's inception in 1991. ...
<http://www.neoshodailynews.com/articles/2007/07/22/news/03records.txt>
State museum eager to exit basement
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
It was only in 2004, when planning for the African American Museum and a
new Tennessee State Library and Archives got under way, that the state
museum began ...
<http://tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070722/NEWS01/7072203
98/1006/NEWS>
Khaleej Times, Sat, 07 Jul 2007 8:07 PM PDT
Ministry making progress in e-filing to become paperless
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticleNew.asp?xfile=data/theuae/2007/July/theuae_July236.xml§ion=theuae&col=
DUBAI — A large number of documents and papers belonging to various
sections
at the Ministry of Economy (MoE) have been saved in electronic files in
a bid to
turn all paper records at the ministry into e-records as part of a
project
launched by the ministry during March this year to make the working at
the
ministry paperless.
AP via Yahoo! News, Wed, 11 Jul 2007 1:30 PM PDT
Nixon library loses Watergate whitewash
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070711/ap_on_re_us/nixon_library_watergate_5
The privately operated Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace was
officially
handed over to federal archivists Wednesday and researchers can pore
over
documents and tapes detailing "the good, the bad and the ugly" on the
37th
president and his legacy.
USA Today, Wed, 11 Jul 2007 4:30 PM PDT
Feds get control of Nixon library
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-07-11-nixon-library_N.htm?csp=34
The privately operated Richard M. Nixon Library and Birthplace was
officially
handed over to federal archivists Wednesday and researchers can pore
over
documents and tapes detailing "the good, the bad and the ugly" on the
37th
president and his legacy.
The Dalton Daily Citizen, Fri, 13 Jul 2007 7:39 PM PDT
Archivist brought in to help preserve Prater's Mill
http://www.northwestgeorgia.com/local/local_story_194223205.html
Reading the day books of an old country store can be a little like
reading a
small town newspaper. “They kept a record of each recorded sale, what
was the
item and how much was paid for it. But I’ve seen ledgers that had a lot
of
personal information.
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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