RAIN 20071022
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

Newsweek
Papers? I Don't See Any Papers.
He says he's 'pro-disclosure,' but Bill has kept Hillary's White House
files under wraps.
When author Sally Bedell Smith was researching her new book about Bill
and Hillary Clinton's White House years, she flew to Little Rock to
visit the one place she thought could be an invaluable resource: the
new William J. Clinton Presidential Library. Smith was hoping to
inspect records that could shed light on what role the First Lady
played in her husband's administration. But Smith quickly discovered
the frustrations of dealing with a library critics call "Little Rock's
Fort Knox."
<http://www.newsweek.com/id/57351/output/print>

Hundreds of thousands support protest to return Civil War Archives ...
Typically Spanish - Malaga,Spain
It led Salamanca City Hall deciding to rename the street which holds
the archives in the city as 'pillage street.' One of the most
emotional moments at ...
<http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_13159.shtml>

Images from state's digital archives available on Web
al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
More than 800 pictures already are in the agency's on-line digital
collections at www.archives.alabama.gov, and staffers plan to add at
least 100 more ...
<http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1192954702321160.xml&coll=2>

Fate of county archives shelved
Sharon Herald - Sharon,PA,USA
Philson said that is why he advocates storing the records in Mercer
County's old jail, which is being converted into records storage. ...
<http://www.sharonherald.com/local/local_story_293182536.html>

No easy task to archive state e-mails (aka public records)
Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA
Maybe you remember when administrative assistants -- they were called
"secretaries" back then -- put pieces of paper and carbon filters into
typewriters and ...
<http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/columns/4385422.html>

Stephen Glover on the press
Independent - London,England,UK
That is why the news that The Economist will soon put its entire
archive online from 1843 to 2003 is so sensational. The Guardian is
creating an archive ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article3081862.ece>


Firms struggle with backups
BCS - Swindon,UK
... with a third of daily primary data backups taking over nine hours,
according to BridgeHead Software's Annual Information Lifecycle Management
Audit. ...
<http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.15370>

Many US Consumers are Failing to Protect their Priceless ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
... finds that the digital files most valued are personal photos (39
percent), followed by text documents and emails (23 percent)
financial/business records ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/AQM07922102007-1.htm>

Editorial: Akron's mistakes cost the public its documents and ...
The Plain Dealer - cleveland.com - Cleveland,OH,USA
And the maddening irony when public agencies are punished for mistakes with
public records is that it's the public that pays the financial penalty.
<http://www.cleveland.com/politics/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/opinion/119304210635840.xml&coll=2>

Archives on African American community dated before the Civil War
The Spectator - Eau Claire,WI,USA
... the history of one of the oldest African American communities in
northwest Wisconsin, specifically in Pierce County, as part of
American Archives Month. ...
<http://www.spectatornews.com/home/news/2007/10/22/CampusNews/Archives.On.African.American.Community.Dated.Before.The.Civil.War-3046176.shtml>

Compliance leaders struggle to change user habits
ITBusiness.ca - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
To get there, Dintino has implemented a three-part structure,
utilizing IBM's Records Manager, CommonStore, Content Manager, and
Integro's E-mail Manager. ...
<http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=45585&cid=6>

Docs suggest Bill keeping Hillary's papers under wraps
Raw Story - Cambridge,MA,USA
For those hoping to illuminate Hillary Clinton's role in her husband's
administration, a visit to the William J. Clinton Presidential Library
in Little Rock ...
<http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Clinton_library_keeping_Hillarys_documents_under_1022.html>

Centre salutes Tyree
The Nelson Mail - Nelson,New Zealand
The Tyree collection includes 250000 glass negatives, with subjects
such as
gold-mining, industrial and rural development, social activities and
transport ...
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/4246793a6510.html>

Rescued archive gives precious insight
East Anglian Daily Times - Ipswich,England,UK
He passed the salvaged glass negatives to Dave Kindred, formerly chief
photographer of the East Anglian Daily Times and Evening Star, knowing he
was ...
<http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/features/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=Features&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=features&itemid=IPED22%20Oct%202007%2013%3A02%3A10%3A373>

Banneker-Douglass library to be named for its founder
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA
Dr. Jones began working at the museum as its librarian-archivist in March.
She got the idea to name the library and archives for her aunt while she
was ...
<http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/10_22-24/TOP>

Purging shelves of old evidence can be the pits
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign,IL,USA
A professional shredding company from Rantoul takes care of items like
pictures, maps and posters. "The stuff that can't be shredded,
typically I set it all ...
<http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2007/10/22/purging_shelves_of_old_evidence_can_be>

Examining E-Discovery Chain of Custody
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Powering up computers destroys or overwrites valuable clues and
changes metadata, which can lead to charges of spoliation and possible
inadmissibility of ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1193043816651>

Safety watchdog moves to electronic records management
ComputerworldUK - UK
He added: "The rising popularity of desktop tools has led us further
away from print and a traditional records management culture. ...
<http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-sector/news/index.cfm?newsid=5779>

Library's go-online proposal criticized
Billings Gazette - MT, USA
By AP HELENA - A plan by the Montana State Library to restrict walk-in
access as part of a move to put its archives on the Internet has been
criticized by ...
<http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/2007/10/20/news/state/39-library.txt>


Motion claims Skermont deleted key e-mails
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
Skermont acknowledged she changed her e-mail retention procedures after
receiving the subpoena, she states in a court document. Prior to that, she
said, ...
<http://www.uticaod.com/education/x1633048801>

News Brief for the week of Oct. 22, 2007
Current - St. Louis,MO,USA
Doris Wesley, archivist at the Thomas Jefferson Library on campus, died
last Wednesday at her home in North St. Louis County. She was 54. ...
<http://www.thecurrentonline.com/news/2007/10/22/News/News-Brief.For.The.Week.Of.Oct.22.2007-3047744.shtml>

New York Times
TECHNOLOGY   | October 22, 2007
Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
By KATIE HAFNER
Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and
Microsoft to scan their books, instead signing on with a nonprofit
effort.
<http://tinyurl.com/39vmgw>

Wall Street Journal
Dumped Mortgage Files
Invite Identity Theft
By MICHAEL HUDSON
October 23, 2007; Page B1
Last month, Waldell Thomas, a maintenance worker at Montego Apartments
in Atlanta, made a discovery inside the complex's Dumpster: a cache of
40 boxes of loan files containing Social Security numbers, credit
reports and other data on customers of Ameriquest Mortgage Co.
"I said: 'God, this is people's personal information,' " Mr. Thomas
recalls. "What if that had been my information and somebody had come
along and got it?"
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119309606825767724-email.html>




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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va