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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Disaster Recovery: Power Up "Monday was not a good day." That's how Ray Johnson, CIO of New Orleans-based Entergy, remembers Aug. 29, 2005--the day Hurricane Katrina hammered the Gulf Coast. And he would see darker days. But he and his team would also see success, as they struggled against the odds to restore electric power to more than a million customers. Read his account. http://www.cio.com/go/index.html?ID=7022&PMID=33548082&s=1&f=1 CommsDesign, Thu, 15 Sep 2005 3:10 PM PDT OmniRIM's eConnector for FileNet P8 Provides Unified Records Management Solution for Regulatory Compliance http://www.commsdesign.com/press_releases/prnewswire/showPressRelease.jht ml?&CompanyId=1&HeadlineId=X367800 Casper Star-Tribune, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 1:04 AM PDT Former State Museum manager sues http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/09/20/news/wyoming/d7dde0a b3d0d4f758725708100826425.txt CHEYENNE -- The former program manager of the State Museum claims she was transferred to a nonexistent job in Laramie with no work, no phone, no computer and no supervisor in order to force her resignation, according to a civil rights lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Cheyenne. PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, Thu, 22 Sep 2005 5:00 AM PDT FileNet to Highlight Risks of Non-Compliance With Records Management Regulations During Nationwide Mock Trial Tour http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050922/lath030.html?.v=27 q?s=file&d=t"> Sydney Morning Herald, Thu, 22 Sep 2005 7:05 AM PDT Lessons of the Domesday project http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/lessons-of-the-domesday-project/200 5/09/22/1126982184212.html There is probably no more dramatic example of the risk involved in relying on digital records than that of the BBC's Domesday Book project. Press-Citizen, Wed, 21 Sep 2005 9:51 AM PDT UI preservation expert headed to Gulf Coast http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050921/NEWS01/5 0921001/1079/RSS01 The conservator from the preservation department of the University of Iowa Libraries is headed to Mississippi to help preserve historic books and artifacts damaged by Katrina. IT-Analysis, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 11:10 PM PDT The Mining of the Invisible Web http://www.it-analysis.com/article.php?articleid=12903& Yahoo, Google, and other major search engine companies have estimated there are between 8 and 20 billion documents on the web. It isn't so. The truth is that the web is home to more than 500 billion web based documents that have thus far been unreachable by today's crop of search engines. KTLA 5, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 0:04 AM PDT Caltech Mines a Rich Trove of Voices From the Past http://ktla.trb.com/news/local/la-me-caltech19sep19,0,4257530.story?coll= ktla-news-1 An oral history project offers insights into the lives of top U.S. scientists with ties to the campus. Ever heard the story about Albert Einstein and the Long Beach earthquake of 1933? Sydney Morning Herald, Thu, 22 Sep 2005 7:04 AM PDT The digital Dark Age http://www.smh.com.au/news/technology/the-digital-dark-age/2005/09/22/112 6982184206.html Dark age the Powerhouse Museum's Matthew Connell with an ancient clay tablet that will probably outlive the 1980s tape in his right hand. The quicker we are to record and store our lives in digital form, the bleaker the future of information looks, writes John Huxley. Brandon Sun, Thu, 22 Sep 2005 7:13 AM PDT Some experts think digital craze could be dark age http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=4542 TORONTO Did your parents keep volumes of books filled with embarrassing baby photos? Do you have a pic from your sweet 16? Your first car? Some experts think today s babies might not be so lucky now that the snapshot generation has gone digital PR Web, Fri, 23 Sep 2005 0:06 AM PDT Lorman Education Services Presents "Document Retention And Destruction" Seminar November 8, 2005. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb288226.htm This "Document Retention And Destruction" seminar will not only provide organizations with guidelines on how to establish a records management program, it will provide those guidelines for electronic and other formats. The Clarion-Ledger, Fri, 16 Sep 2005 3:13 AM PDT Reconstructing records after disaster possible http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050916/BIZ/5091 60337/1005 WASHINGTON â?" Following Hurricane Katrina, we're all being told to do some disaster planning. Create an evacuation box that contains your key personal documents, experts say. National Catholic Reporter, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 9:20 AM PDT Stumbling upon Guatemala's past http://ncronline.org/NCR_Online/archives2/2005c/092305/092305t.htm In late July, human rights workers in Guatemala stumbled onto an enormous cache of documents believed to contain the details of that country's brutal 36-year civil war that ended with the signing of peace accords in 1996. PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 6:00 AM PDT MDY Expands its Offering of Federated RM(TM) to Manage Corporate Silos of Content http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050920/cltu509.html?.v=9 MDY, ., today announced that the Federated RM methodology can accelerate time to market and reduce costs associated with managing multi-repositories while helping organizations centralize their records and compliance management programs across the Enterprise. Intranet Journal, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 8:42 AM PDT Interwoven Puts Records Management Front and Center http://www.intranetjournal.com/articles/200509/ij_09_19_05a.html Traditionally a back-office task focused mostly on paper, records management is integrated with e-mail and document management systems in Interwoven's Records Manager 5.0. Fort Wayne Journal Gazette, Mon, 19 Sep 2005 3:29 AM PDT The call for backup: People turn Web into storage unit http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/12685353.htm When disaster strikes and every second counts, there?s rarely time to sift through file cabinets for insurance policies or flip through photo albums to grab irreplaceable pictures. Indian Country Today, Fri, 23 Sep 2005 1:52 PM PDT ICT [2005/09/23] Discarded Trust documents found http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096411617 WASHINGTON - Someone in the Department of Interior may have intentionally discarded records pertinent to Indian Trust accountability, according to a letter from the Office of General Counsel. Hartford Courant, Fri, 23 Sep 2005 0:23 AM PDT Data Backup Gets Easier http://www.courant.com/technology/hc-hometechstorage.artsep23,0,243056.st ory?&track=rss When disaster strikes and every second counts, there's rarely time to sift through file cabinets for insurance policies or flip through photo albums to grab irreplaceable pictures. CNN.com, Wed, 21 Sep 2005 8:01 PM PDT Federal Indian records found discarded http://www.cnn.com/rssclick/2005/POLITICS/09/21/indian.money.ap/index.htm l?section=cnn_latest WASHINGTON (AP) -- Federal officials are investigating how National Archives documents of interest to Indians suing the Interior Department were found discarded in a trash bin and a wastebasket. Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:06 PM PDT Historic trust rallies to preserve damaged New Orleans buildings http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05264/575108.stm There will be no rush to judgment on the approximately 100,000 buildings in New Orleans damaged by Hurricane Katrina, and there will be no demolitions without public review. WNDU 16, Tue, 20 Sep 2005 10:09 AM PDT News: Studebaker Museum rolls out of old home http://www.wndu.com/news/092005/news_44848.php South Bend, IN - With the possible gas price increase, hopefully all the Studebaker cars are already gassed up as the band of classic cars is on the move. Eweek EU Data Retention <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1861850,00.asp> EU States Propose Massive Data Retention Plan eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA ... Council, the Commission fails to provide any evidence for the need and benefits of data retention," said civil liberties group EDRI (European Digital Rights ... <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1862184,00.asp> FILENET announces agreement to acquire Yaletown Technology Group Al-Bawaba - Amman,Jordan ... "As much as 80 per cent of a company's content assets remain unmanaged and uncontrolled by electronic records management systems presenting potential business ... <http://www.albawaba.com/en/countries/UAE/189382> ELECTRONIC storage sought by city clerk Orange Transcript - NJ, USA ... law, to be the city's records manager ... Laserfiche system takes images of the documents, either scanned from paper or imported from electronic files, and stores ... <http://www.localsource.com/articles/2005/09/21/orange_transcript/news/lo cal/doc433213e32edbd873073403.txt> FILENET to Highlight Risks of Non-Compliance With Records ... PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA ... FileNet Records Manager and Email Manager FileNet's ECM platform, FileNet P8, and its Records Manager and Email Manager suites are being adopted by a number of ... <http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0 9-22-2005/0004113104&EDATE=> LORMAN Education Services presents "Document Retention And ... PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA ... Les T. Bossert is the corporate records manager for MDU Resources Group, Inc., with their corporate offices in Bismarck, North Dakota, where he has accumulated ... <http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/9/prweb286993.htm> CLINTON Co. argues over tax records destruction Centralia Morning Sentinel - Centralia,IL,USA ... Supporters of the destruction of the old records say finding storage for the records will be a burden on taxpayers. Mueller contends ... <http://www.morningsentinel.com/news/2005/0920/Front_Page/004.html> COUNTRY Folk, Rescued From Oblivion New York Sun (subscription) - New York,NY,USA ... Until recently Disfarmer's work was known mostly through prints that had been made from the 3,000 glass negatives that were saved from his studio when it was ... <http://www.nysun.com/article/20398> PROTECTION Gets Granular InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA ... accounts were exposed to fraud; Citigroup notified 3.9 million customers that it had lost archive tapes containing their data; Bank of America notified 1.2 ... <http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1712002 08&tid=5979> Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]