RAIN 20071018
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
MiFID gives 64% of firms a record-keeping problem, says survey
Out-Law.com - London,England,UK
But most are struggling with the Directive's record-keeping duties,
according to survey findings published today. The Markets in Financial
Directive ...
<http://www.out-law.com/page-8555>
Pickens County to make records available online
Anderson Independent Mail (subscription) - Anderson,SC,USA
The system, which was demonstrated and explained by Registrar of Deeds
Paul McGuffin, would allow the public to search for records, such as
property deeds, ...
<http://www.independentmail.com/news/2007/oct/15/pickens-county-make-reco
rds-available-online/>
Scott County's archive yields WWI grenade
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
While browsing through the Scott County Historical Society's
collection, Kathleen Klehr got a potentially explosive reminder about
why museum curators try ...
<http://www.startribune.com/south/story/1489477.html>
Gov. Schwarzenegger says "hasta la vista" to California data ...
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
The AB 779 would impose limits on what kind of information companies
can retain, prohibit companies without data retention policies from
collecting ...
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071016-governator-terminates-cali
fornia-data-protection-law.html>
Kroll Ontrack Launches First Enterprise-Wide Data Erasing Product
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Helping companies protect against security breaches and comply with
laws and regulations regarding data retention and privacy, Ontrack
Eraser deletes all ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20071016005158&newsLang=en>
David Wins Over Goliath Again: FIRELOCK Innovative Vault ...
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
ARM has provided various records storage services since 1995. The goal
at ARM is to create "win-win" partnerships with clients by simply
providing accurate ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-david-wins-over-goliath-aga-firelock-inno
vative-vault-/2007/10/15/3015622.htm>
GOVERNMENT PLEDGES £25M TO PRESERVE UK'S FILM ARCHIVES
24 Hour Museum - UK
This money, together with £3m of UK Film Council funding to digitise
film archives will mean that the regional and national archives can
protect, ...
<http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART51464.html>
$2.6 million FEMA funding will help preserve Arizona documents
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The regional offices of the National Archives and Records
Administration and FEMA in Oakland, Calif., will support the effort.
Founded in 1864, the Arizona ...
<http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2007/10/15/daily28.html>
Secret History
Knoxville Metro Pulse - Knoxville,TN,USA
Today, that reading room, locked and off limits to the public, is
packed with shelved archives. Tyler's beam paintings depicting the
history of the written ...
<http://www.metropulse.com/articles/2007/17_42/secrethistory.html>
Kansas history: Snapshots to the world
Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) - Topeka,KS,USA
Patricia Michaelis, director of the society's state archives and
library, said that in choosing the items to post on the Web site
initially, the focus was ...
<http://cjonline.com/stories/101707/loc_209157946.shtml>
Student data lost in security breach
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA
19 while Iron Mountain Inc., a Boston data-storage company with a state
contract, was transporting them from Port Allen across the Mississippi
River to ...
<http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/student_data_lost_in_securit
y.html>
9 Years of La. Applicants' Data Lost
The Associated Press -
Sudnik said the man had worked five years for Iron Mountain and his
workrecord had been in good standing. The loss of the case was an
accident without ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jSxSHo3QLsA8tHTfIuokDLqk631QD8SB3UM80
>
Gov't publishes records management manual
BVI News Online - Road Town,Tortola,British Virgin Islands
The handbook, published by the Archives and Records Management Unit in
the
Deputy Governor's Office, provides detailed guidance on a wide range of
topics ...
<http://www.bvinews.com/link.asp?smenu=198&twindow=&sdetail=3645&mad=&wpa
ge=1&skeyword=&sidate=>
Saving Bowie's Justice Court the electronic way
Range News - Willcox,AZ,USA
... then ended up using a portion of it to hire a student to help with
the
daunting task of changing all the court's paper records to electronic
records. ...
<http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2007/10/17/news/news2.txt>
Companies facing information overload
VNUNet.com - UK
The problem is exacerbated by regulations demanding ever more data
retention. "This idea of just keeping everything is not going to work,"
said Bob ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2201336/companies-facing-information>
Panel focuses on politics as theme of Archives Week
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
A panel discussed politics and archival work in the Pharmacy Building
in celebration of American Archives Month and Austin's Archives Week,
sponsored by the ...
<http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2007/10/17/TopStories/Panel.Focuses
.On.Politics.As.Theme.Of.Archives.Week-3037500.shtml>
CHAPS working hard to preserve history
Cochrane Times - Cochrane,Alberta,Canada
The Cochrane Historical Archival Preservation Society (CHAPS) has been
identifying, protecting and preserving historic sites of Cochrane for
more than eight ...
<http://www.cochranetimes.com/News/346785.html>
UK government saves BFI archive
Variety - USA
It's vital that we safeguard its future." The BFI National Archive
contains more than 60000 fiction pics, 120000 nonfiction titles and
around 675000 TV
shows.
<http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117974188.html?categoryId=18>
Campaign evidence found in Dems' files
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
House documents to be considered in grand jury probe of illegal work By
Tracie Mauriello, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG -- Files
seized from a ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07291/826389-85.stm>
EMC tackles inappropriate access to its own data
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The problem area was management of large file-sharing environments, in
which employees deposit Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets,
PDFs and other ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
articleId=9043013&intsrc=news_ts_head>
Conservation group wins battle for Forest Service records
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
The US Forest Service had refused to waive fees for providing the
information, so Wildlands CPR sued under the Freedom of Information
Act. The Forest ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-21/119
266439067440.xml&storylist=orlocal>
Focus On: E-mail management and archiving
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
New .pst files should be aggressively deleted as the new archive will
house the e-mails of record. The challenge is that e-mail archiving
initiatives will ...
<http://www.infostor.com/display_article/305936/23/ARTCL/none/none/1/Focu
s-On:-E-mail-management-and-archiving/>
Texas discovery rules make case research daunting task
Southeast Texas Record - Beaumont,TX,USA
Since 1999, parties are not required to have pre-trial discovery
submitted to the case file as public record. Jefferson and Orange
counties have also...
<http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/202771-texas-discovery-rules-make-case
-research-daunting-task>
Home Depot and Iron Mountain report missing data
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
Atlanta-based Home Depot acknowledged Wednesday, the names, home
addresses and Social Security numbers of 10000 employees -- most from
the Northeast -- was ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1
277471,00.html>
Discussions continue on preserving government e-mails
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
By SUSAN M. COVER AUGUSTA -- State archives officials are continuing to
work on a proposal to develop a comprehensive way to save and catalog
important ...
<http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4368907.html>
UNESCO displays prototype of World Digital Library at Paris ...
ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia
"Future Presidential Library takes an active part in the project, too,"
Kozhin said. "It will embody many ideas which are just arising within
the
framework ...
<http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11978925&PageNum=0>
Financial-aid records lost; notices go out
KTBS - Shreveport,LA,USA
Colleges across the state are sending out notices that personal and
financial-aid records could be exposed. The company the state pays for
data
storage lost ...
<http://www.ktbs.com/news/Financial-aid-records-lost;-notices-go-out-5767
/>
Wal-Mart: Stop leaking Black Friday deals
CNNMoney.com - USA
What's more, Naughton believes that that Wal-Mart is threatening legal
action based more on misuse, or theft of confidential information and
trade
secrets. ...
<http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/18/news/companies/walmart_blackfridaylegal/
?postversion=2007101815>
Iron Mountain loses college students' data
Search Storage - USA
By Beth Pariseau, News Writer Iron Mountain Inc. said a driver
mishandled
backup tapes containing data on thousands of college students and their
parents ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci127
7622,00.html>
Brewery offers lifetime beer supply for stolen laptop
DigitalJournal.com - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
A small New Zealand brewery is offering a lifetime supply of beer for
the
return of a stolen laptop computer containing years of financial
information and ...
<http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/241123/Brewery_offers_lifetime_bee
r_supply_for_stolen_laptop>
Voices from the past heard online as world's digital archive nears ...
Independent - London,England,UK
Reporters were yesterday shown a prototype of the new archive, which is
being put together by the US Library of Congress, the United Nations
Educational, ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3075695.ece>
Economist to put archive online
Guardian Unlimited - UK
More than 160 years of articles from the Economist are set to become
available online with the launch of The Economist Historical Archive
1843-2003. ...
<http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,2193231,00.html?gus
rc=rss&feed=4>
Government's £25m boost to save British Film Institute's archive
Times Online - UK
The British Film Institute's national archive is one of the world's
greatest collections of film and television, containing over 500000
hours
of material. ...
<http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/a
rticle2685772.ece>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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