RAIN 20071004
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Archive center work approved
Black Hills Pioneer - Spearfish,SD,USA
By Brandon Benentt Lyle Murtha of Stateline Architecture of Casper, Wyo.
gave a presentation to the body. "What we plan is to do some work on the
outside, ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18875638&BRD=1300&PAG=461&dept
_id=156923&rfi=6>

How is data lost?
SC Magazine US - USA
The laptop, which contained the names, social security numbers and
dates of
birth of as many as 26.5 million veterans and their families, ...
<http://www.scmagazineus.com/How-is-data-lost/article/35904/>

Online job hunters grapple with misuse of personal data
Boston Globe - United States
... telephone numbers, e-mail addresses - even Social Security numbers,
which some job-seekers include to speed up background checks by 
potential
employers. ...
<http://www.boston.com/bostonworks/news/articles/2007/10/01/online_job_hu
nters_grapple_with_misuse_of_personal_data>

Archives Material Moving to New Space
KFYR-TV - Bismarck,ND,USA
The North Dakota Heritage Center has millions of those recorded memories
stored away in the state archives. There will soon be more space to 
store
this ...
<http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=11309>

Detroit-area doctor is fined $1M for unsecured records
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
Abandoned medical records have been an ongoing problem at the shuttered
hospital on the Hamtramck/Detroit border. Kim owned it as a part of 
Quality
Health ...
<http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071003/UPDATE/710030
445/1409/METRO>

State files suit over burned medical records
The Ann Arbor News - MLive.com - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
The state filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the owner of a Salem 
Township
property where huge piles of burning medical records were found in 
August.
<http://blog.mlive.com/annarbornews/2007/10/state_files_suit_over_burned_
m.html>

"It Felt Like a Real Discovery"
Smithsonian - USA
At that point, his work--including original plate-glass negatives,
corresponding logbooks in his elegant script and more than 100 volumes 
of
vintage ...
<http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/10025056.html>

Information Department assesses its audiovisual records
BVI News Online - Road Town,Tortola,British Virgin Islands
"The proposed National Archives Repository would provide the environment
necessary for managing and preserving this significant segment of our
heritage," ...
<http://www.bvinews.com/link.asp?smenu=198&twindow=&sdetail=3551&mad=&wpa
ge=1&skeyword=&sidate=>

Protecting Data With an Ancient Remedy
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Nick Akerman is a partner in the New York office of Dorsey & Whitney who
specializes in the protection of trade secrets and computer data.
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1191315790288
>

Long-lost scrapbook of Waterbury soldier turns up in Falls Village
Waterbury Republican American - Waterbury,CT,USA
Enlistment papers describe him as "ruddy." Better known by his nickname
"Pop," he was classified as a marksman, with skills as a Teletype 
operator.
<http://www.rep-am.com/articles/2007/10/02/news/288584.txt>

E-Mail Attackers Target Corporate Execs
The Associated Press -
"It may be to steal intellectual property, it may be corporate 
espionage,
it may be to get into the database." Attacks of this kind have become 
much
simpler ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iu4syixvrZjc19vywOUSQqzbYBlAD8S1IBT81
>

Compliant storage and archiving - an oxymoron?
CMSWatch - Silver Spring,MD,USA
One of the great divides in the ECM world is the gulf between (and
different understanding of) the needs of records management on the one
hand, ...
<http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1029-Compliant-storage-and-archiving---an
-oxymoron>


Mass. accidentally sends out disks with personal information
Boston Globe - United States
11, failed to delete the Social Security numbers of those on the lists 
--
including engineers, nursing home administrators, certified public
accountants and ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2007/10/03/mass_
accidentally_sends_out_disks_with_personal_information?p1=MEWell_Pos4>

Carrying antique Adirondack images to the global market
Adirondack Daily Enterprise - Saranac Lake,NY,USA
Many of the pictures are on glass negatives and are hard to find. Among
other rarities are well sweeps, which were found near Newcomb. ...
<http://www.adirondackdailyenterprise.com/news/articles.asp?articleID=879
0>

Workhouse records project points the way to a collaborative model
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Workhouse records, archived by central government, are the latest items 
in
National Archives' 175km of shelving to be digitised. ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/04/guardianweeklytechnolog
ysection.freeourdata>

Digitizing Our Past at PHC
Brampton News - Brampton,Ontario,Canada
... its extensive archive collection. The Digitizing Peel: Archives
Collection Project will digitize thousands of images from the Region of
Peel Archives. ...
<http://www.thebramptonnews.com/articles/2644/1/Digitizing-Our-Past-at-PH
C/Page1.html>

Robots Drive Around Courtroom--But Still No Decision As Witness ...
xconomy - USA
... million military contract awarded to Robotic FX on September 14, at
least until iRobot's lawsuit alleging theft of trade secrets is sorted
out at trial. ...
<http://www.xconomy.com/2007/10/03/robots-drive-around-courtroom-but-stil
l-no-decision-as-witness-testimony-ends-in-irobot-robotic-fx-case/>

Document retention is about keeping things in order - and within ...
Sun Publications Chicago - Chicago,IL,USA
A business in the midst of litigation that destroys documents at random
times can be subject to claims for "spoliation of evidence" if it, ...
<http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/napervillesun/business/586715,6_3_NA0
4_LAWTALK_S1.article>


Microsoft Launches Health Records Site
The Associated Press -
Between 80 percent and 85 percent of doctors in private practice don't 
keep
electronic records, and hospitals aren't much better, according to 
Lynne...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iy5EyVZhy8fKKxR6IjFBjQ9pUiKgD8S2KL6O0
>





Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA

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