RAIN 070816
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Coast Guard loses 3500 sensitive records
NavyTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA
According to the Coast Guard, no electronic files were lost. Service
officials think the records likely were discarded or destroyed in the 
move,
...
<http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/08/coastguard_lost_info_070814w/>

Private, equine library and archives donated to Kentucky Horse Park
News-Democrat &amp; Leader - Russellville,KY,USA
An archivist has been hired by the museum to investigate and create an
inventory of the material, and to prepare it for use by visiting 
scholars
and the ...
<http://www.newsdemocratleader.com/articles/2007/08/14/news/features/feat
ures02.txt>

Archives hold varied pieces of Maine history
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
By SUSAN M. COVER, Blethen Maine News Service August 12, 2007 The State
Archives in Augusta include historic Maine photos such as this portrait 
of
a Civil ...
<http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=126932&ac=PHnws>

Mayor said to forge documents for EU grant
Prague Daily Monitor - Prague,Czech Republic
The man has been charged with the crimes of abuse of power of a public
official, forging and altering public documents and an attempted fraud. 
...
<http://launch.praguemonitor.com/en/146/czech_national_news/10678/>

Govt clueless about first flag of Independent India
Times of India - India
The National Museum, Red Fort Museum, National Archives, Nehru Memorial,
MEA Toshakahana, Rashtrapati Bhawan Museum and the museum in Parliament 
do
not have ...
<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Govt_clueless_about_first_flag_
of_Independent_India/articleshow/2279802.cms>

Central Plains Region of National Archives to relocate to Union ...
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
By KEVIN COLLISON and MATT CAMPBELL The National Archives is on its way 
to
Union Station following lengthy negotiations that got hung up, oddly
enough, ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/business/story/232044.html>

Clinton papers: Unlikely before 2008 - Yahoo! News
By ANDREW DeMILLO, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 14, 9:31 PM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - Millions of documents from Hillary Rodham Clinton's 
days in the White House, including phone logs, schedules and other 
files, may not be released before the 2008 presidential election.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070815/ap_on_el_pr/hillary_clinton_papers_3

County reverses stand on archives facility
Robertson County Times - TN,USA
Sumner has been moving toward a plan to build a new archives facility 
and
another building for records storage behind the county administration
building. ...
<http://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070815/MICRO060101/7
0814092/1310/MTCN0301>

Iron Mountain CTO dishes on digital archiving plans
Search Storage - USA
By Beth Pariseau, News Writer Fred Engel has just been announced as the 
new
chief technology officer (CTO) for Iron Mountain Digital, a growing
business ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci126
8117,00.html>

Access Information Management Acquires DataStor
Scure Destruction Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
Access Information Management has announced that it has acquired 
DataStor
Inc., a business records management firm based in Martinez , Calif. ...
<http://www.sdbmagazine.com/news/news.asp?ID=8158>

County receives funding for records preservation
NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
... Records Infrastructure Support -- the Board of Chosen Freeholders 
and
records management officials were presented with a check for more than
$891000. ...
<http://blog.nj.com/gloucester/2007/08/county_receives_funding_for_re.htm
l>

BBHC receives archival grant
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
... digital versions of photographs from five archival collections, 
making
the images available for worldwide dissemination through the BBHC's Web
site. ...
<http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/08/15/news/wyoming/80-bbhc.
txt>

Museum pursues Georgia's vanishing Jewish history
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Breman's archivist, Sandra Berman, also plopped on the carpet, nodded. 
She
reached again into a cardboard box brimming with old photos, 
newsletters,
...
<http://www.ajc.com/news/content/living/stories/2007/08/15/jewish0815.htm
l>

2nd Stasi order to fire on people fleeing East Germany found in ...
International Herald Tribune - France
The second copy of the order, unlike the first one, was signed by a 
company
commander, the Stasi archives agency said in a statement. ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/15/europe/EU-GEN-Germany-Border-S
hootings.php>

Boxes Full Of Personal Information Found In The Trash
KOTV - Tulsa,OK,USA
All that shredding could have cost up to $1000, however, News On 6 crime
reporter Lori Fullbright contacted the owner of Shredders Inc. in West
Tulsa; ...
<http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=133886>

Document shredding service made permanent by agency
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
By Bob Downing Beacon Journal staff writer Shredding paper financial
records and recycling old telephone books are now permanent activities 
of
the ...
<http://www.ohio.com/news/9166457.html>

Documents with personal information found in Boerne trash bin
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
"We came across these files here, that not only have people's names and 
addresses, but they also have their Social Security numbers, and a few 
of them even ...
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA081507.docsintrash.ke
ns.374edd39.html>

UPDATE:Executive Pleads Guilty To Conspiracy In Trade Secrets Case
CNNMoney.com - USA
... pleaded guilty to conspiracy to destroy trade secrets of a 
competitor at a hearing before US District Judge Sandra J. Feuerstein 
in Central Islip, ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/djf500/200708011537DOWJONES
DJONLINE001035_FORTUNE5.htm>

Grocers' secrets revealed
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
"Companies who compete in any marketplace have trade secrets and 
information that they don't want the competitor to see," she said. ... 
<http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_6624029>

Whole Foods' secrets are out of the box
Marketplace - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Some "trade secrets" involving the country's leading natural food chain 
aren't so secret anymore. The Federal Trade Commission filed papers 
with an 
...<http://marketplace.publicradio.org/shows/2007/08/15/PM200708151.html>


FTC Lets Whole Foods Trade Secrets Out Via Microsoft Word
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
Instead, the documents were word processor docs where the redacted 
sections
containing Whole Foods trade secrets were merely changed to have a black
...<http://retail.seekingalpha.com/article/44530>

Archives getting a new home
Times Daily (subscription) - Florence,AL,USA
By Tom Smith Gina Luker, an archivist with the Lawrence County 
Archives, looks for a box that houses some of the county's historical 
documents. 
...<http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20070814/NEWS/708140316/-1/TOPADS02
>

The Record of Your Life as a Digital Archive
New York Times - United States
HP's Scanjet G4050 ($200) scans up to 16 slides or 30 negatives 
simultaneously, and saves them as separate files. It does not, however, 
include an automatic 
...<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/16/technology/circuits/16basics.html?r
ef=circuits>

Sebetela calls for amendment to archives Bill
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
PARLIAMENT - Debate on the National Archives Amendment Bill adjourned on
Monday after Palapye legislator, Mr Boyce Sebetela, proposed an 
amendment.
...
<http://www.gov.bw/cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20070815&i=Sebetela_calls_for_amend
ment_to_archives_Bill>

Hillary's Secrets
Investor&#39;s Business Daily (subscription) - USA
"Because the former President independently retains the right to assert
constitutionally based privileges," Bush's order states, "the Archivist
shall not ...
<http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&statu
s=article&id=271983072736809>

Maine archivists attempt to preserve the fleeting e-mail
Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA
By SUSAN M. COVER VIRTUAL SAVE: State Archivist David Cheever gestures
during a tour of some of the State Archives storage areas on Friday
afternoon in ...
<http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/4151047.html>

State wrestles with saving electronic records
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
By SUSAN M. COVER, Blethen Maine News Service August 12, 2007 David
Cheever, the state archivist, talks about preserving state records in a
storage area in ...
<http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/story.php?id=126896&ac=PHnws>

Pheto presents National Archieves Bill
Republic of Botswana - Gaberones,Botswana
Electronic records have specific challenges in their management, 
because of
their format/medium and need to be defined and further provide for their
...
<http://www.gov.bw/cgi-bin/news.cgi?d=20070815&i=Pheto_presents_National_
Archieves_Bill>

Agencies must prepare for e-discovery, experts say
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Agencies, which typically have less funding than private companies, are
facing a tough balancing act in designing their electronic records
management ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article103511-08-15-07-Web>

Bingo files go missing
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
"When it became clear that documents were missing, our law department
became immediately involved and forwarded the information directly to 
the
district ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/crime/ny-libing165333831aug16,0,485313
8.story>

Whole Foods looking into leak of trade secrets
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
A federal District Court judge had ordered that the company's trade 
secrets be sealed. The FTC is working to block Whole Foods' $565 
purchase of its rival 
...<http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/stories/2007/08/13/daily24.htm
l>

The Texas Collection Designated as Baylor University's Official ...
Baylor University - Waco,TX,USA
Working with Tom Charlton, archivist Ellen Brown, and many others in 
our organization, we will start this process." "The standards are 
extremely high here, 
...<http://www.baylor.edu/pr/news.php?action=story&story=46345>

Botswana: Archives Advisory Council Coming
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The Department of National Archives and Records Services (DNARS) will 
implement a proposal made by the then Permanent Secretary to the 
President in 1992 to ...<http://allafrica.com/stories/200708160240.html>

Woodrow Wilson Library
WHSV - Harrisonburg,VA,USA
The Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library is one of the few places the 
History Channel may cover. The library recently obtained more than 
10000 new artifacts, 
...<http://www.whsv.com/news/headlines/9188232.html>


Personal Checks Discovered Blowing Down Street
WCCO - Minneapolis,MN,USA
The document shredding company in New Hope is owned by Iron Mountain, a
Boston, Mass. information protection and storage corporation. ...
<http://wcco.com/topstories/local_story_227225048.html>

Qualcomm: Broadcom injunction may cost $2.4 billion
EETimes.com - USA
Also Wednesday, Qualcomm filed court documents accusing Broadcom of
destroying evidence related to the case. A lawyer for Broadcom said the
accusation ...
<http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=201800483
>

Historic Tlingit photos arrive at state library
Juneau Empire (subscription) - Juneau,AK,USA
Where: Alaska State Library Historical Collections reading room, eighth
floor, State Office Building. "Even true anthropologists forget that 
their
way of ...
<http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/081607/loc_20070816018.shtml>

Former historical museum director Maddox dies at 57
Fort Pierce Tribune (subscription) - Fort Pierce,FL,USA
"She was an archivist and a preservationist and instituted many new
procedures. We had not been paying attention to those things because of 
the
pressure of ...
<http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2007/aug/16/former-historical-museum-director
-maddox-dies-at/>

Archive row adds new twist to life story of Cossack chorus founder
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The couple this summer went to America to photograph and catalogue the 
archive after it was discovered dumped outside Jaroff's derelict home 
in New Jersey. ...
<http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1620931.0.0.php>

UI Libraries Want to Save History
KCRG - Cedar Rapids,IA,USA
The university wants to spend up to $10 million on an archival facility.
Keeping one million items in the best condition possible will take some
real ...
<http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/9202252.html>

Archives on CD-Rom
Le Monde Diplomatique - Paris,France
More than 35000 documents - articles, maps, bibliographical notes - on
international relations, political, economic, social issues, media,
environment, ...
<http://mondediplo.com/0000/00/cdrom>

Researching History...Digitally
Missourinet.com - Jefferson City,MO,USA
The initiative creates a partnership between the State Archives and the
State Library and local governments, public libraries and other 
community
groups. ...
<http://www.missourinet.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=7123A9D1-EDBE-6F53-54
940FC2F5D53294>

Fading away: The problem of digital sustainability
ANU Reporter - Canberra,ACT,Australia
Software incompatibility is a serious problem for long-term data 
storage.
Some software programs are simply no longer readable, such as WordStar 
or
...
<http://info.anu.edu.au/mac/Newsletters_and_Journals/ANU_Reporter/096PP_2
007/_03PP_Winter/_fading.asp>

FTC's Whole Foods Case Revealed
Tuesday August 14, 9:56 pm ET
By Christopher S. Rugaber, AP Business Writer

FTC Error Reveals Redacted Details of Antitrust Claims Surrounding 
Whole Foods-Wild Oats Deal
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal regulators filed court documents Tuesday 
outlining concerns that stores in competitive markets would close and 
consumers would face higher prices if Whole Foods Market Inc.'s $565 
million purchase of Wild Oats Markets Inc. is completed.
<http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070814/whole_foods_wild_oats.html?.v=11>





Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA

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