RAIN 070731
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Aging Lawrence County Courthouse coping with fire hazards ...
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... files out of the way." Commission did not immediately remove the
records from hallways and fire escapes and discontinue the use of 
extension
cords. ...
<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070729/court.shtml>

Sink to switch to paperless records
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
There will no longer be a way to submit such files, making the 
destruction
of those records moot. Sink's own office plans to use the new database 
to
track ...
<http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070729/CAPITOLNE
WS/707290328/1010/NEWS01>

Innovative Duke archivist fights for open government records
News &amp; Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
He is an archivist little known outside his field, but his system for
organizing documents -- informally known as "Hensen" -- is the standard 
for
archives ...
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/653236.html>

Renzhofer on baseball: Here's a new look at filing things away
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
"It really is a large collection," said Benjamin Harry, media archivist 
and
recording manager of the National Baseball Hall of Fame. ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/sports/ci_6491998>

Souvenirs provide portal to past at San Bernardino County Museum
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
"A Smiley Library archivist dates the plate to the early 1900s because 
it
shows the tower that was taken down as a precaution after the 1933 Long
Beach ...
<http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_B_bsouvenirs29.
3cd38df.html>

E-mail records leave some gaps
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
With it went records of e-mails sent and received by city workers and
elected officials, public records for a portion of the spring and summer
that Robinson ...
<http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/072807/met_187661357.shtml
>

Albemarle public records Web site up and running
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
By Liesel Nowak / [log in to unmask] | 978-7274 Wills, mortgage
papers, deeds, divorce decrees and other public documents filed in
Albemarle County ...
<http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%
2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173352179173&path=!news>

Destruction drives shredding business
Herald Times Reporter - Manitowoc,WI,USA
Those non-Lakeshore area clients mean their mobile shredding unit and 
two
"straight trucks" used for picking up documents to be shredded cost
significantly ...
<http://www.htrnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070729/MAN03/7072904
76/1397/MANbusiness>

Change in German Law Makes All Cracking Software Illegal
Wi-Fi Networking News - Seattle,WA,USA
A demonstration is planned for August 9, as the law also requires 
onerous data retention policies. The Stop the Data Retaining 
movement--it sounds better in ...
<http://wifinetnews.com/archives/007808.html>

Learned librarian keeps state's treasures
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
It was just odd timing that former state librarian, Nolan T. Yelich,
retired and the state Library Board picked Treadway for the top spot 
only a
month ...
<http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-07-29-
0191.html>

Software engineer held for cyber crime
Hindu - Chennai,India
... company's server headquartered at Peoria in Illinois, US, using 
another employee's user ID and password and downloaded over 4000 
confidential documents. ...
<http://www.hindu.com/2007/07/29/stories/2007072959470300.htm>

FIA rules McLaren had confidential documents of rival Ferrari, but ...
SI.com - USA
PARIS (AP) -Motor sport's world governing body imposed no penalty on 
McLaren despite ruling Thursday that the Formula One leader was in 
possession of ...
<http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/racing/wires/07/26/3010.ap.car.f1.
mclaren.hearing.0185/>

Spy row shifts gear as Ferrari claim flaw in McLaren case
Guardian Unlimited - UK
"I wonder [what would have happened] if 780 confidential documents of
another team had been found in the house of a Ferrari designer, the 
chief
designer," ...
<http://sport.guardian.co.uk/motorsport/story/0,,2136710,00.html>

New project preserving South Dakota in pictures
Rapid City Journal - Rapid City,SD,USA
Illingworth's photos are among those being digitized by the South 
Dakota State Historical Society. They will be available online in about 
a year. ...
<http://www.rapidcityjournal.com/articles/2007/07/29/news/local/doc46ad51
f97f719914098313.txt>

Web site archives the dead of MySpace
BusinessWeek - USA
MyDeathSpace.com, a Web site that archives the pages of deceased MySpace
members. Behold a community spawned from twin American obsessions:
Memorializing ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/tech/D8QMCBDO1.htm>

WSJ
Office Technology
Ten Things Your IT Department Won't Tell You
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118539543272477927-email.html>

News tapes expand eclectic archive
Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA
The Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archive is expanding its 
collection with tapes of TV newscasts from the 1970s and '80s. 
...<http://www.miamiherald.com/460/story/186645.html>

College to put WWII letters from DC in Internet archive
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
About 400 letters written from 1942 to 1947 are being collected into a 
searchable online archive, including images of the letters and reprints 
of the text. ...
<http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2007/07/29/news/doc46ad51f9b342926400
1550.txt>

FRCP And MetaData - Avoid The Lurking E-Discovery Disaster
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel - Mountainside,NJ,USA
The new FRCP amendments move metadata from the frontier of e-Discovery 
to
the mainstream, with possible involvement in every case. ...
<http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artType=view&artMonth=August
&artYear=2007&EntryNo=7022>

The Vital Role Of The Forensic Accountant In Investigations
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel - Mountainside,NJ,USA
With the recent changes in the FRCP, we are also being retained by 
general
counsel to assist with records management processes that incorporate the
FRCP ...
<http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artType=view&artMonth=August
&artYear=2007&EntryNo=7002>

Luton addresses questions about shredding files
Tahlequah Daily Press - Tahlequah,OK,USA
Luton also took some time to speak about a state audit report that says 
his
office shredded thousands of files needed to prosecute cases. ...
<http://www.tahlequahdailypress.com/local/local_story_211102216.html>

Apartheid-era secrets now in ashes
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
This is largely because De Klerk, in an act that historians and 
archivists
would describe as gross vandalism, ordered the destruction of tons of 
files
and ...
<http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn200707300244
52863C421717>

Archival Ambition
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
The director of the Harry Ransom center at the U. of Texas talks about
risks and rewards in literary collecting By RICHARD BYRNE In late 1956, 
...
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i48/48a01001.htm>

Best-kept campus secrets
Queen&#39;s Journal - Kingston,Ontario,Canada
"It's the largest university archives in Canada, with holdings that
rival the National Archives [in Ottawa]," said Jeremy Heil, technical
archivist. ...
<http://www.queensjournal.ca/story/2007-07-31/supplement/best-kept-campus
-secrets/>

Library gets boost from bill
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
By Mindi Westhoff/staff STAUNTON -- For the Woodrow Wilson Presidential
Library and Museum, it's back to the drawing board. On Monday, museum
officials ...
<http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070724/NEWS01/707
240318/1002>

Thieves take stamps from historic records
Kentucky Post - Covington,KY,USA
State law says tampering with public records is a Class D felony,
punishable by up to five years in jail. Trace Kirkwood, regional
administrator for the ...
<http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070730/NEWS02/707300
355/1014>

Ultima creator to throw high-flying fiesta fundraiser
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
He is hoping to help raise $150000 so UT can hire a professional 
archivist
to take care of all the materials that he and other game developers are
donating. ...
<http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/07/31/0731gamea
rchive.html>

Amazon to Copy and Sell Archives' Footage
Washington Post - United States
By Michael E. Ruane The National Archives and Records Administration
announced yesterday that it has reached a non-exclusive agreement with
Amazon.com and ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/30/AR200707
3001589.html>

San Antonio launches historical archives program
San Antonio Business Journal - San Antonio,TX,USA
San Antonio has opened the city's first archives program to preserve the
Alamo City's rich past. Recently hired City Archivist Amanda Carvell is
managing ...
<http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2007/07/30/daily15.
html?jst=b_ln_hl>

Bexar County Death Records Missing
ClickonSA.com - San Antonio,TX,USA
SAN ANTONIO -- San Antonio Metropolitan Health District admitted Monday 
to
families in Bexar County that hundreds of death records have been lost. 
...
<http://www.ksat.com/news/13785669/detail.html>

Namibia: Digital Preservation of Culture
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The project is a combined one between the Polytechnic of Namibia, the
National Archives and the Utah Valley State College in the United 
States.
...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200707310273.html>

Study: Users want self-healing, 50-year storage
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
A whopping 80% of the 276 organizations included in this study reported 
a
need to retain electronic records for more than 50 years. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
articleId=9028545&intsrc=hm_list>




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA

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