RAIN 20071128
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

Two years of doctor's files found so far
The Grand Rapids Press - MLive.com - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... but Kent County Health Department officials believe thousands more
documents are yet to be found. The records confiscated in a search of
Stokes' Grand ...
<http://www.mlive.com/news/grpress/index.ssf?/base/news-39/1196174898266470.xml&coll=6>

Getting a Grip on Internal Data Leaks
Top Tech News - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
The ability to manage and control where documents live within a file system
does not require sophisticated technology, Gilliland said, but many
companies ...
<http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=1230048OG4NR>

Morgan Stanley, UBS No Longer Can Keep Secrets: Susan Antilla
Bloomberg - USA
All companies face the risk that plaintiffs can demand access to
potentially incriminating documents from electronic files. Among brokerage
firms, though, ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&sid=angOR81HFzEM&refer=home>

Jane Wallace Claymore
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
"THERE are some things I have no control over," Joe Manchin said of the
Fred Armstrong firing at the Division of Culture and History. Well! ...
<http://wvgazette.com/section/Opinion/200711268>

Archives facility serves Southeast
al.com - Birmingham,AL,USA
The archives has both a microfilm research room and an archival research
room. There is an extensive microfilm holding of value for genealogy
research and ...
<http://www.al.com/news/press-register/baldwin.ssf?/base/news/1196159023250070.xml&coll=3>

Black Sox files up for auction
ABC7Chicago.com - IL, USA
The papers are believed to have been found in a box purchased at a file
sale. They include documents from the 1921 criminal trial against the Sox
players ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=5785657>

Would you trust Google with your files?
Gizmodo.com - USA
It will probably mostly be used for showing/sending other people files or
printing off word documents somewhere else (instead of emailing to
yourself). ...
<http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/question-of-the-day/would-you-trust-google-with-your-files-327073.php>

Google preparing service to let users save files on its servers ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
The service would allow users to access files such as word-processing
documents, digital music, video clips and pictures from different computers
via the ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-21259451.htm>

Storing precious data
Baltimore Sun - United States
... data storage space in a Baltimore warehouse recently. That's roughly
the number of records that onguard Direct tracks from licensed
professionals, ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/business/bal-bz.datacenters27nov27,0,4560145.story>

Government delay Information Management guide in wake of HMRC debacle
Information World Review - London,UK
By Mark Chillingworth 27 Nov 2007 Government information ministers and
departments including the National Archives are battening down the hatches
as the ...
<http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2204414/government-delay-information>

Telephone number archive will connect you to your ancestors
Times Online - UK
It is for the less notable among the 280 million that the digital archive
is intended, however. The contents can be searched at Ancestry.co.uk as a
result ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2957224.ece>

Perry will share his e-mails, send a bill
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
Jesse Wilkins, a records retention expert at Houston-based Access Sciences,
last month headlined an "e-records" conference in Austin designed to help
state ...
<http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/325944.html>


Daily Orange, Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:51 PM PST
Letters to the editor
http://www.dailyorange.com/news/2007/11/28/Opinion/Letters.To.The.Editor-3119092.shtml

As a university archivist, I read with interest the Nov. 15 Daily
Orange article regarding Syracuse University's color - ORANGE. As
keepers of SU's historical
record, the archives staff members are continually asked about the color, often
around National Orange Day.

former head of archives to fight firing
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
... the past 22 years as state archivist. lees said he would pursue several
options, beginning with filing a grievance with the state personnel board.
...
<http://www.dailymail.com/mostRecent/200711270040>

Whitley secures files destined for shredder
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
Jim Corridan, director of the commission on public records and state
archivist, agreed that warrants and support checks aren't considered
confidential ...
<http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071128/LOCAL/711280317/-1/LOCAL07>

Draconian rules on archives use cast a chill on researchers
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
Security agents from the Royal BC Museum, which manages the provincial
archives, carried out the first formal audit Monday at the office of
Dominique ...
<http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/sports/story.html?id=6e2b95ff-cfce-4258-8365-89cd6030e48c>

The Red Cross' International Tracing Service will open its ...
Jewish Telegraphic Agency - New York,NY,USA
Historical researchers and others can examine archives and documents from
World War II at the Tracing Service in Bad Arolsen, Germany. ...
<http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/105579.html>

Stop infiltrations into National Archives
Joy Online - Accra,Ghana
... research conducted at the place revealed that some people were
inserting documents into the archives to suit the desires of some members
of society. ...
<http://www.myjoyonline.com/news/200711/10862.asp>


Infoworld
Cost of data breaches keeps rising
Data breaches are costing organizations an average of $197 per lost or
stolen customer record, an annual study finds

By Matt Hines
November 28, 2007
Organizations that experience data breaches are paying more than ever
to recover from the incidents and retain customers once the events
become public knowledge, according to a new research report.
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/11/28/Cost-of-data-breaches-keeps-rising_1.html?t=sendEmail.jsp>

Deputy PM: Vietnam to help Laos in archive work
Nhan Dan - Hanoi,Vietnam
Deputy Prime Minister Nguyen Sinh Hung confirmed Vietnam's archives
co-operation with Laos during his meeting with the visiting Lao Prime
Minister Office ...
<http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/news/281107/domestic_laos.htm>

Vast Nazi Archive Opens to Public
The Associated Press -
The archive's managers planned a conference of scholars next year to map
out its unexplored contents. The files entrusted to the International
Tracing ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gUI4zi4gtLbygYK4AWVXcl0yKikQD8T6SAIG0>

records archive moving to Valmeyer
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
By Philip Dine WASHINGTON -- A new National Archives and Records
Administration storage facility will be built in Valmeyer, on Boulder Blvd.
off Bluff Road. ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/AE06CD87AE6B85A2862573A1005E8AB1?OpenDocument>

Archivists say slavery research is slowgoing
Diamondback Online - College Park,MD,USA
But she is kept busy working on other projects for the archives and hasn't
been able to dedicate the time or resources to fully explore the issue. ...
<http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/2007/11/28/News/Archivists.Say.Slavery.Research.Is.Slowgoing-3118767.shtml>


Minnesota Personnel Record Review Act Amended
Mondaq News Alerts (subscription) - London,UK
An employer must comply with an employee's good faith, written request
to review his or her file within seven working days if the record is
within the state
...<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=54742>

RFID Solution Tracks 100000 Individual Documents
RFID Update - Alexandria,VA,USA
The MSTRP-5050 is used to identify files and documents packed in records
boxes. It can inventory 10000 tagged items in a few seconds. ...
<http://www.rfidupdate.com/articles/index.php?id=1493>

Documents: Counties changed, destroyed records in starvation case
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
... that documents filed in the case reveal that Armstrong County officials
admitted that they added details to Kristen's case file after police found
her ...
<http://www.timesleader.com/news/ap?articleID=248316>

Bizarre scramble at the shredder raises new 'Bonusgate' concerns
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
The sensitive records had been removed from file cabinets, placed in boxes
and mixed with routine paperwork already to be shredded. ...
<http://www.mcall.com/news/opinion/all-editorial1.6157334nov28,0,1280930.story>

One Year Later: Kroll Ontrack Reveals the Most Significant ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Focusing primarily on interpreting the new FRCP, common topics
reoccurring in judicial opinions issued in 2007 included: the
importance of early case ...
<http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071128005113&newsLang=en>

Securing the Future of the Center for Jewish History: NYU Has ...
Forward - New York,NY,USA
Located just a few blocks from our campus at New York University, the
center combines the phenomenal archival resources of the YIVO
Institute, ..<http://www.forward.com/articles/12133/>

Head of Rove Inquiry in Hot Seat Himself
Wall Street Journal - USA
The agency plans to interview officials at more than 20 agencies and
is examining White House emails and documents. In one email, sent by
the US ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119621772122306160.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>


Insecurity in the digital world
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
But this column is not about the favorable aspects of electronic data
retention. Rather, I want to examine what's become the soft underbelly of
the digital ...
<http://www.news.com/Insecurity-in-the-digital-world/2010-1029_3-6220520.html?tag=nefd.top>

Email banter behind data explosion
VNUNet.com - UK
Large data gluts are often blamed on increasing data retention regulations
which require companies to store more information. But consulting firm
Detica ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2204493/gossip-regulation-behind-data>

Wall St Journal
Google Plans Service to Store Users' Data
By KEVIN J. DELANEY and VAUHINI VARA
November 27, 2007; Page B1
Google Inc. wants to offer consumers a new way to store their files on
its hard drives, in a strategy that could accelerate a shift to
Web-based computing and intensify the Internet company's competition
with Microsoft Corp.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119612660573504716-email.html>

Wall St Journal
Email's Friendly Fire
Re: Brownies in the Kitchen!
Too Much 'Colleague Spam'
Inspires New Sorting Tools
By REBECCA BUCKMAN
November 27, 2007; Page B1
Until recently, Mukesh Lulla, president of a networking and
security-software company called TeamF1 Inc., spent so much time
sorting through emails he received each day that he barely had time to
run his business.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119612732031704719-email.html>




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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va