RAIN 20071008
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

National Archives Ignores Court Ruling
The Conservative Voice - Kernersville,NC,USA
... 2007, the US National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
submitted a "Status Report and Processing Schedule" for Hillary
Clinton's White House ...
<http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/28408.html>

Ford Museum collection tells American story
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
Presidential library collections also belong to the National Archives 
and
have a bit more leeway to accept donations such as personal letters from
citizens, ...
<http://www.mlive.com/entertainment/grpress/index.ssf?/base/entertainment
-2/1191738404252060.xml&coll=6>

Documentation of Arizona's history
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The typewritten Constitution is one of a myriad of objects, documents 
and
items in the State Archives, which is observing its 70th anniversary 
this
year. ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/1007archives1007
.html>

Archives preserve clues to family history
Robertson County Times - TN,USA
You go to the Sumner County Archive building and search. "Our first
responsibility of course is to protect the records of Sumner County,"
said Archive ...
<http://www.rctimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071007/MICRO060101/7
1005065/1310/MTCN0301>

'Britain's Leonardo' rescued on safety net
Times Online - UK
The innovative "digital folio" provides unprecedented public access to
hundreds of pages of manuscript notes and minutes kept by Robert Hooke, 
...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2609262.ece>

History needs a home
Standard Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA
There were maps, drawings and records of Hazleton and its mines and
tunnels, deeds to 1783, employee records, surveyors' drawings and 52
boxes of letters. ...
<http://www.standardspeaker.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
=6025&Itemid=2>

San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
Wallace Stegner and Big Oil Oil drillers in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, circa
1939. The search for oil in the region by the Arabian American Oil 
Company
(Aramco) ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/books/ci_7110386>

Jamaican ministries shredding documents
Caribbean Broadcasting Corporation - Barbados
He says the shredding of documents is a long-standing protocol dating 
back
to the 1950's. Dr Davis has explained that the cabinet papers of 
ministers...
<http://www.cbc.bb/content/view/12495/45/>

Commentary: Defining Digital Forensics
Forensic - Amherst,NH,USA
The distinction of "digital" versus "analog" can refer to method of
input, data storage and transfer, the internal working of an instrument,
and the kind of ... <http://www.forensicmag.com/articles.asp?pid=130>

Benchmark Study Reveals 65 Percent of Organizations have not ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
Key findings of Iron Mountain's Compliance Benchmark Study include: --
Records Management oversight is unclear: 73 percent of organizations 
state
that ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NEM01908102007-1
.htm>

A spectacular destruction: How one email led to the downfall of a ...
Daily Mail - UK
It was 12.52pm on September 22 last year when he sent an email from an
electrical store, which happened to have internet access, in London's
Tottenham Court ...
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article
_id=486484&in_page_id=1770>

NATIONAL ARCHIVE'S CONCERN OVER THE DIGITALIZATION OF THE DOCUMENTS
AZG Armenian Daily - Yerevan,Armenia
According to the National Archive director Amatuni Virabian, only half
million of 300 million documents of the archive are digitalized yet. ...
<http://www.azg.am/?lang=EN&num=2007100904>

Big Two-Hearted Archive
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
"Tell me about this Ernest Hemingway archive," I said. He told me his 
name
was Andrew M. Wentink and that he was the curator of special collections
and ...
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i07/07a00602.htm>

Government archivist appointed
BVI News Online - Road Town,Tortola,British Virgin Islands
His Excellency the Governor has appointed Christopher Varlack to be the
government's first archivist. Mr. Varlack is working in the Archives and
Records ...
<http://www.bvinews.com/link.asp?smenu=198&twindow=&sdetail=3581&mad=&wpa
ge=1&skeyword=&sidate=>





Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA

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