RAIN 070806
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Feds: LI Exec Admits To Destroying Competitor's Trade Secrets
WNBC - New York,NY,USA
A Long Island business executive admitted Wednesday to conspiring to
destroy the trade secrets of a competitor, prosecutors said. Robert A.
Schetty, III, ...
<http://www.wnbc.com/investigations/13798716/detail.html>
P-to-P users expose US government secrets
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
Among the files shared: physical threat assessments for multiple
cities, including Philadelphia and Miami; a physical security attack
assessment for a US ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/23569F310CA45087CC25732C0009B9D
A>
Financial records missing after finance director leaves
Macomb Daily - Mount Clemens,MI,USA
By Mitch Hotts The transition of a new administration in Mount Clemens
Community Schools has hit a roadblock after it discovered the former
finance director ...
<http://www.macombdaily.com/stories/080507/loc_laptop001.shtml>
Massachusetts Adopts Open Documents Format Compromise
CIO - Framingham,MA,USA
... state technology master plan that embraces both OpenDocument Format
(ODF) and Microsoft's Office Open XML as viable ways to store public
documents. ...
<http://www.cio.com/article/127500/Massachusetts_Adopts_Open_Documents_Fo
rmat_Compromise>
A handy way to lose data
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
A Texas A&M professor made headlines in May when he lost a flash drive
containing 8000 student Social Security numbers on a vacation in
Madagascar.
...<http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/stories/2007/08/05/flash.html>
Archives seek storage for Bush papers set for library
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
In a letter to developers, the National Archives and Records
Administration said it needs to rent a secure 60000-square-foot space
from Oct. 1, 2008, ...
<http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/08/06/0806bushl
ibrary.html>
Data protection crucial to business
ITWeb - Rivonia,Gauteng,South Africa
Lewis says large-scale natural disasters, political events and data
retention regulations of the last decade have reinforced the importance
of replicating ...
<http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/enterprise/2007/0708061331.asp?A=ENT&S=E
nterprise&T=News&O=ST>
Peter Fleischer
The Lawyer - London,UK
The company is currently embroiled in 'regulatory dialogues' with
European regulatory bodies on its data-retention policies. Given the
demanding legal ...
<http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=127727&d=195&h=24&f=46>
The data landscape
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
GCN: Why do you need good records management? Ambur: The real benefits
of records management is the day-to-day management of activities of the
agencies ...<http://www.gcn.com/print/26_20/44805-1.html>
Bergman archive 'pleads for cash'
BBC News - UK
The Swedish government provides 2m kroner (£146000) a year for an
archive set up by the country's film institute. But one employee was
quoted as saying ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6932817.stm>
Iron Mountain retrofits truck fleet with self-designed security system
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
August 06, 2007 (Computerworld) -- No longer relying only on its truck
drivers to ensure the safe delivery of data and backup tapes, Iron
Mountain Inc. is ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
articleId=9029139&intsrc=news_ts_head>
'Afro' Archives to Be Unlocked By New Grant
Johns Hopkins Gazette - Baltimore,MD,USA
The Mellon grant will support the development of a new archival
training practicum and internship program that will train students in
collection assessment, ...
<http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2007/06aug07/06afro.html>
In Dusty Archives, a Theory of Affluence
New York Times - United States
A scholar who has spent the last 20 years scanning medieval English
archives has now emerged with startling answers for both questions. ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/07indu.html>
National Archives Partners With CreateSpace and Amazon to Digitize ...
InfoToday.com - USA
by Barbara Quint The National Archives and Records Administration
(NARA; www.nara.gov), the federal government's official archivist, has
entered into an ...
<http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=37140>
Dumped papers spark lawsuit
Gulf Daily News - Manama,Bahrain
"The documents and photographs are original and not copies," he said.
"We would have believed that what happened was a mistake if only two or
three files ...
<http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/Story.asp?Article=189841&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=
30140>
HBO Film Airs A-Bomb Footage Kept from Media for Decades
Editor & Publisher - USA
An archivist there told me at the time, "If no one knows about the film
to ask for it, it's as closed as when it was classified. ...
<http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1
003622202>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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