RAIN 20071010
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
State to prosecute over missing files
Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
The Act will give the Government free rein to deal with persons
responsible
for lost State documents. Heritage minister, Mr Suleiman Shakombo, ...
<http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143975686>
State hunts missing disks containing sensitive info
Boston Herald - United States
By Kelly Paice State investigators are traveling cross-country to hunt
down
the last disk mistakenly released with Social Security numbers of about
450000 ...
<http://news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=103
6855>
Robert Hooke, Britain's Leonardo, papers go online
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Newton was president of the Royal Society at the time and some scholars
suspect he ordered its destruction. Prof Jardine added that feuds of
this kind still ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/eart
h/2007/10/08/scihooke108.xml>
Papers on Kenya history recovered
Daily Nation (subscription) - Nairobi,Kenya
Each of the film has 2000 pages," said National Archives director
Lawrence Mwangi. He spoke yesterday in Nairobi together with Heritage
minister Suleiman ...
<http://www.nationmedia.com/dailynation/nmgcontententry.asp?category_id=1
&newsid=108069>
Digitizing Grayson Co. records
KXII-TV - Sherman,TX,USA
They've been piling up for at least the past fifty years if not longer,
so the county commissioners have come up with a plan, digitizing all
county records ...
<http://www.kxii.com/home/headlines/10325362.html>
Wall Street Journal
Recovered Emails Bedevil Qualcomm in Court
By DON CLARK
October 9, 2007; Page B1
Chip maker Qualcomm Inc. has long battled rivals in court. Near the end
of one trial in January, Viji Raveendran, a senior company engineer,
made a surprise disclosure: a search by her lawyers had turned up
emails about a key issue that hadn't been shared with defendant
Broadcom Corp.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119188620775552815-email.html>
HRHarmer and Archives International Announce the Historic American ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Dr. Robert Schwartz, President of Archives International, "To be able
to study this archival treasure trove of material from American Bank
Note has been a ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20071009006010&newsLang=en>
Giles Collection To Be Digitised By British Cartoon Archive
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
After his death in 1995, his archive - containing 6000 original
drawings, 5750 printed cartoons, 2750 glass negatives of cartoons and
2300 cartoon proofs ...
<http://www.huliq.com/37302/giles-collection-to-be-digitised-by-british-c
artoon-archive>
Ruling Could Speed Release Of Records From Clinton Library
Hillary Project - Newport Beach,CA,USA
... of documents archivists have cleared for release from his
presidential library in Arkansas because of a recent court ruling,
federal officials say. ...
<http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/en/story-details/ruling_could_s
peed_release_of_records_from_clinton_library/>
New Survey on Email Management Reveals Employee Habits Increase ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Respondents reported that over 58 percent of the emails that they
received and filed on a daily basis could best be classified as 'nice
to have' or ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20071009005626&newsLang=en>
Officials conclude investigation on private documents
University Daily Kansan - Lawrence,KS,USA
Only the shredding company can unlock them. "We are using this
opportunity to educate people on the importance of disposing private
documents," Martin said. ...
<http://www.kansan.com/stories/2007/oct/09/records/?news>
Staff suspended for leaking George Clooney's records
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
... pay for allegedly accessing George Clooney's medical records and
handing the information over to the media, violating the actor's
privacy rights. ...
<http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/2007/10/09/2007-10-09_staff_suspended_
for_leaking_george_cloon.html>
Hospital workers suspended for peeking at Clooney's medical info
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... including doctors, were suspended without pay, accused of accessing
Clooney's medical records and possibly providing information to the
media,
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--clooney-medic
alre1009oct09,0,116251.story?coll=ny_home_rail_headlines>
New Proposal to Create Registry for Adult Film Stars Hopes to ...
FOX News - USA
"If they can't get you for obscenity, they'll get you for violating
record keeping." (And, by "get you," he means the office can slap you
with hefty ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,300141,00.html>
County to pay almost $200K to protect old land records
Siftings Herald - Arkadelphia,AR,USA
Ross said the fund will replenish itself as deeds and mortgages are
filed. In other business, the court agreed to allow county Judge Ron
Daniell to order a ...
<http://www.siftingsherald.com/articles/2007/10/09/news/news1.txt>
Preserving Home Movies
Hartford Courant - United States
"Home movies can show the neighborhood you grew up in as you once knew
it," the manuscript archivist at Yale University said. "That's your
only portal into ...
<http://www.courant.com/features/lifestyle/hc-homemovies.artoct10,0,12169
47.story>
UCA archivist earns professional distinction
UCA Today - Conway,AR,USA
UCA archivist Jimmy Bryant recently earned the title of Certified
Archivist (CA) from the Academy of Certified Archivists, making him the
first certified ...
<http://www.uca.edu/news/index.php?itemid=1779>
Joshua Tree Artifacts Lost in Historical Society Fire
KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA
A lot of history went up in smoke Friday after the Joshua Tree
Historical Society storage building caught fire. It happened just
before 10 AM at Commercial ...
<http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=7176683&nav=9qrx>
University of California fined over security breach
Nature.com (subscription) - London,England,UK
In a raid in 2006, police found classified material in the home of a
subcontractor who had been scanning lab documents for a work project.
...
<http://www.nature.com/news/2007/071010/full/449649a.html>
States Launching E-Discovery Rules
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
"Then you get into spoliation [destruction of evidence] issues," he
said. Indiana's rules, which took effect on Sept. 10, should add some
sanity to the ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1191834195459
>
Company says fired employee stole trade secrets, other info
West Virginia Record - Charleston,WV,USA
According to the suit, Barrett's actions were willful and malicious,
and he
obtained the information through theft and misrepresentation. ...
<http://www.wvrecord.com/news/202335-company-says-fired-employee-stole-tr
ade-secrets-other-info>
For a compulsive email archiver, it's difficult to admit when the ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Why not be brutal and delete everything after a year? Or perhaps I'll
make that two? Financial records are usually kept for six years, so
maybe that's the ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2007/oct/11/guardianweeklytechnolog
ysection.comment2>
who knew too much about Clooney
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
By Gina Piccalo, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer George Clooney's
medical records and the hospital staff who may or may not have leaked
them to reporters ...
<http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/celebrity/la-et-palisades11oct
11,0,6702313.story?coll=la-home-entertainment>
Rare Photographs Show Holocaust Perpetrators
Voice of America - USA
Rebecca Erbelding is the archivist who received the album. "It's so
easy to
group Nazis as red-eyed, pointy-toothed, evil monsters. ...
<http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-10-09-voa32.cfm>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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