RAIN 20071028
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

For sale: secret Vatican papers that cleared heretic Templars
Times Online - UK
The Vatican began a scheme to market treasures from its Secret
Archives yesterday, beginning with luxury reproductions of a
14th-century papal parchment ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article2741437.ece>

Hundreds of Key Oracle Records Allegedly Withheld From Plaintiffs
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Now, a showdown over the plaintiffs' request for default judgment as a
sanction for alleged document destruction, as well as motions on both
sides for ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1193389426082>

Vatican proves Maltese author correct
Times of Malta - Valletta,Malta
Dr Buttigieg too was inspired by this story and painstakingly
researched the 1307 - 1312 period of the Templars' destruction. Prof.
...
<http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=5601>

Enterprise data management: Analyzing business processes and ...
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
Some companies may engage in e-discovery/ or records-management
projects. Others may need to satisfy Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data
Security Standard ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid14_gci1279335,00.html>

Colonial-era fort lives on in archives
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
By Shorelines Beaches historians, a professor and his students
recently dug up archives that served as a reminder that a little-known
Spanish colonial site ...
<http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/102707/nes_212118859.shtml>

Private Pentagon files surface in Alvin home
Houston Chronicle - United States
Members of an Alvin family looking for salvageable materials a few
days ago hauled the file cabinet holding the records home from a small
house on Lee ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5249904.html>

New Professional Litigation And Investigation Journal Launches
Newswire Today (press release) - London,UK
And the more investigators, the more chances for spoliation or
disqualification of the evidence. Expert Witness Development Journal
launched its first issue ...
<http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/25371/>

Consider purging data
Canadian Underwriter - Toronto,ON,Canada
He warns the biggest mistake a number of companies make is using
archival material for backup purposes. Archival material, used to
restore the system ...
<http://www.canadianunderwriter.ca/issues/ISArticle.asp?id=75605&issue=10262007>

How Giuliani tried to control his NYC legacy
Chicago Tribune - United States
Saul Cohen, president of the Giuliani Center, said the mayor's papers
were handled according to strict archival standards and were not
screened for ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-giuliani_bdoct28,1,6179203.story>

Bad Arolsen archive to be opened to public
United Press International - USA
BAD AROLSEN, Germany, Oct. 26 (UPI) -- The Bad Arolsen Holocaust archive in
Germany is to be opened to the public soon and made available on the
Internet. ...
<http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/10/26/bad_arolsen_archive_to_be_opened_to_public/1223/>

Dentist aims to freeze chart seizure
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Board inspectors take files away for as long as four months. But
documents can disappear from a dentist's practice for longer periods.
...
<http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=2f2fd6e3-54dc-4fe1-9e60-275effe8c672&k=85529>

Point to Point: Valuable Papers Insurance
Amerisurv (press release) - Frederick,MD,USA
Calamities tend to be indiscriminate in their destruction, taking the
fresh and not-paid-for work as well as the paid-for and archived work.
...
<http://www.amerisurv.com/content/view/4520/>

Letters, faxes, and e-mail
The Birmingham News - al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
This work affords archivists and record-keepers surprising power and
unexpected degrees of influence over what, and whose, stories come to
light. ...
<http://www.al.com/opinion/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/opinion/1193473146180570.xml&coll=2>

Precious archives to remain in county
East Anglian Daily Times - Ipswich,England,UK
HISTORIC archives chronicling the business affairs of the Saumarez
family, whose ancestral home is in Suffolk, will remain in the county
permanently, ...
<http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=News&itemid=IPED26%20Oct%202007%2018%3A27%3A45%3A833>

Spies Do a Huge Volume of Work in Invisible Ink
New York Times - United States
The federal Information Security Oversight Office says 460 million
pages of previously classified records have been made public since
1996, usually after a ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/weekinreview/28shane.html?ref=weekinreview>

'It's public record'
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Eliminating the ability to go Downtown and search by name through
Allegheny County records is out of the question, said Valerie McDonald
Roberts, ...
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_535015.html>

Southern Miss archivist has story worth telling
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
At 69, she is an archivist at Southern Miss' McCain Library. Around
campus, the 16-year employee is most noted as the woman who dressed up
as a 1912 ...
<http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071028/LIFESTYLE/710280311>

Family historians aghast as paper records locked away before ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Four complete sets of the microfiche index are being made available in
the National Archives space until March, when the whole building will
close to the ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2200996,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=technology>




-- 
Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va