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

Record-keeping seminar offered
Wyoming Business Report - Cheyenne,WY,USA
She has an Masters in Business Administration and received her Certified
Records Manager designation in 2000. To register, please send your
check to
the ...
<http://www.wyomingbusinessreport.com/article.asp?id=89289>

Library and Archives Canada Makes Tracing Your Canadian Ancestors ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
... Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec, in partnership with 
LAC
and supported by the Council of Provincial and Territorial Archivists of
Canada. ...
<http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=780849>

Shred of evidence against the law
Australian IT - Australia
TOUGH new rules on the production of electronic records in court actions
aim to put a stop to e-document "shredding", says Joe Fantuzzi, chief
executive of ...
<http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22590015-24169,00.html
>

Office of financial aid loses back up info
KATC - Lafayette,LA,USA
Iron Mountain Incorporated has notified the Louisiana Office of Student
Financial Assistance (LOSFA) that it lost back-up media belonging to 
LOSFA
on ...
<http://www.katc.com/Global/story.asp?S=7217462>

Destroying your data
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
The recent changes at ShredStation reflect a trend among paper-shredding
operations, said Robert Johnson, executive director of the Phoenix-based
National ...
<http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/147-10152007-1423750.html>

IRS Criticised Over Missing Taxpayer Casefiles
Tax-news.com (subscription) - Tortola,British Virgin Islands
For more efficient file management, the GAO has recommended that the IRS
comply with the Federal Records Act, track the number of missing files, 
...
<http://www.tax-news.com/asp/story/IRS_Criticised_Over_Missing_Taxpayer_C
asefiles_xxxx28694.html>

Artur Rubinstein Collection Seized by Nazis Donated to Juilliard
PlaybillArts - New York,NY,USA
... the German government has acknowledged to be the first time Jewish
property kept in the Berlin State Library has been returned to the legal
heirs. ...
<http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/7202.html>

Groups press White House on e-mail
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
The lawsuit requests that the administration establish "an effective
electronic records management system that ensures against the loss or
destruction of ...
<http://www.fcw.com/online/news/150516-1.html>

Fulbright & Jaworski Litigation Survey Reports Drop in Number of ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Minding the Grey Areas - Further complicating e-discovery and document
retention practices is the line that employees regularly cross between
their business ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20071015005270&newsLang=en>

Data Governance:
DMReview.com - New York,NY,USA
Most importantly, employees company-wide must be familiar and 
comfortable
with general email and document retention policies if such directives 
are
to ...
<http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1093519>

San Fran Gays Create Historic Library Collection
Queerty - New York,NY,USA
In an effort to chronicle queer American history, Eureka Valley/Harvey 
Milk
Memorial Branch Library archivist Susan Goldstein asked gays, lesbians 
and
trans ...
<http://www.queerty.com/news/san-fran-gays-create-historic-library-collec
tion-20071015/>

Dozens bring photo collections to expand SF library's gay archive
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Drew Bourn, an archivist at Stanford University who volunteered at the
library Sunday, looked across the table and nodded. "That's why we're 
doing
this," he ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/10/14/BA9SSQ023.DT
L>


Vatican archive yields Templar secrets
BBC News - UK
The Vatican's Secret Archives, one of the world's great repositories of
historical documents, is selling a limited edition of 800 numbered 
copies
of the ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7044741.stm>

Universal data retention specification demonstrated
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
October 15, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Vendors such as EMC, Hewlett-Packard
Co., Sun Microsystems Inc. and Vignette Corp. tomorrow will demonstrate
their ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9042678&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_top>

Schwarzenegger Kills Stringent Data-Protection Bill
IT Business Edge - Louisville,KY,USA
The bill would have barred merchants from storing even encrypted payment
information without a data-retention and -disposal policy, and 
prohibited
sending ...
<http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=1034>

 E-document shredding 101
Australian IT - Australia
US courts have taken a dim view of failure to produce electronic 
documents
in a timely fashion. Morgan Stanley faced a mind-focusing $US1.45 
billion
bill ...
<http://www.australianit.news.com.au/story/0,24897,22594699-24169,00.html
>

Michael D. Day Targets Paper Overload
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Once digitized, the documents are funneled into client-specific files 
that
can be accessed with a few mouse clicks. The use of e-mail fax services,
...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1192439005266
>

Entire Guardian and Observer archives go online
Press Gazette - UK
The group says the move will ensure the preservation of the papers'
legacy as microfilm and paper archives are in danger of degrading beyond
repair. ...
<http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=39107&c=
1>


$100000 stolen from Historical Society, employee charged
Kawartha Media Group - Peterborough,Ontario,Canada
The Victoria County Historical Society in Lindsay has been brought to 
its
knees after its treasurer was charged with allegedly stealing more than
$100000 ...
<http://www.mykawartha.com/article/20361>

Why data protection must be central to any business continuity plan
Continuity Central (press release) - Huddersfield,UK
There has been talk of how information lifecycle management (ILM) will 
help
drive SRM, but this is not technically true. SRM is something that all
companies ...
<http://www.continuitycentral.com/feature0516.htm>

Vatican publishes collector's edition of documents on Knights Templar
Catholic News Service - USA
The book, published by the Vatican Secret Archives, will reproduce 
original
parchment texts preserved in the Vatican, including a large folio
discovered six ...
<http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0705860.htm>

Passaic archive project draws praise
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
Since 2005, Passaic County had received $2.6 million in Public Archives
Records Infrastructure Support, or PARIS, grants, $791340, which was 
used
for ...
<http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzNTc
mZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTcyMDg3MjcmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkz>

Historical record of train wreck near Rockmart released
Rockmart Journal - Rockmart,GA,USA
At the end of that time the certificates must be transferred from the
Department of Human Resources to the state's archives for permanent
preservation and ...
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=728&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=1307221&om=1

A Hobby for Gentlemen (and Ladies), Perched Between Art and Science
New York Times - United States
Daguerreotypes quickly became the professional medium -- they worked 
well
for portrait-making -- but even after 1851, when glass negatives, which
produced a ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/16/arts/design/16ligh.html?ref=design>


Kansas History Available Online
WIBW - Topeka,KS,USA
The Kansas State Historical Society Tuesday unveiled "Kansas Memory."
It is a collection of photographs, letters, diaries and other historic 
items all
<http://www.wibw.com/home/headlines/10578641.html>

What's in the Vatican Secret Archives
Slate - USA
The Knights Templar papers are also meaty: They detail the investigation
and subsequent punishment of the secretive order for, among other 
things,...
<http://www.slate.com/id/2176016/nav/fix/>

Archives aid students' research
Kansas State Collegian - Manhattan,KS,USA
State's first official university archivist. Crawford, who also serves 
as
an associate professor and curator of manuscripts, said university 
archives...
<http://www.kstatecollegian.com/news/2007/10/16/News/Archives.Aid.Student
s.Research-3035056.shtml>

Digital data is newest form of evidence
Chicago Daily Southtown - Chicago,IL,USA
Spoliation results from mishandled ESI, and spoiled data generally is
inadmissible. It rests upon everyone involved in a case: IT directors,
business owners ...
<http://www.dailysouthtown.com/business/604277,101607computerguestcol.art
icle>

Administaff Laptop Goes Missing
ERE Media - New York,NY,USA
The laptop was allegedly stolen from one of the retailer's third-party
vendors. The Gap says not every job applicant was affected since it uses
more than ...
<http://www.ere.net/inside-recruiting/news/administaff-laptop-goes-missin
g-181299.asp>

Home Depot Laptop With Personal Employee Data Stolen
Boston Channel.com - MA, USA
Team 5 Investigates has confirmed that the laptop was stolen from the
personal car of an unnamed Massachusetts employee, while the car was 
parked
at his ...
<http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/14353117/detail.html>





Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va

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