RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news stories from around the world.

 

Expatica, Thu, 14 Apr 2005 7:29 AM PDT
Hitler's salt mine stash
http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=26&story_id=19087
As American troops raced towards Berlin in early 1945, Hitler ordered
Reichsbank gold reserves and stolen art to be stashed in a remote salt mine.
Roland Boehm looks at the strange story of Operation Walrus.

 

Librarians fuming over Intel magazine bounty
By Michael Kanellos

After Intel offers bounty for magazine containing announcement of Moore's Law, librarians are beset by thieves, security problems.

<<http://news.com.com/Librarians+fuming+over+Intel+magazine+bounty/2100-1006_3-5671169.html?tag=sas.email>>

 

NDTV.COM

Over one lakh books burnt in Imphal library

<http://ndtv.com/template/template.asp?template=Northeast&callid=1&id=71498>

 

LOST love story defied canned heat
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... t know what was really in there," says Elif Rongen-Kaynakci, a Filmmuseum
archivist. ... George Eastman House in Rochester, one of the largest film
archives in the ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/Film/Lost-love-story-defied-canned-heat/2005/04/14/1113251726479.html>

 

AP via Yahoo! News, Thu, 14 Apr 2005 9:32 PM PDT
IRS Denies It's Refusing to Release Papers
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050415/ap_on_go_ot/foia_lawsuits_4
The Internal Revenue Service recently refused to provide two university
researchers with records requested under the Freedom of Information Act
while simultaneously asserting, "We are not denying the release" of the
documents.

 

Kinston Free Press, Thu, 14 Apr 2005 9:46 PM PDT
Civil War museum readies for tours
http://www.kinston.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=26933&Section=Local
Lined across the walls in worn, well-used covers are 86 volumes of
records and letters from the Civil War. The books march across the shelves in much
the same way Confederate and Union troops marched across Lenoir County in those
final embattled days.

 

Asbury Park Press, Fri, 15 Apr 2005 2:08 AM PDT
Panel delays ruling on public records charge, dismisses others
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050415/NEWS03/504150354/1007
TRENTON After nearly two hours of heated, courtroom-style questioning,
the state Government Records Council postponed a decision Thursday on whether to
impose a $1,000 fine on a North Jersey township clerk for allegedly withholding
public documents.

 

Detroit News, Thu, 14 Apr 2005 11:01 PM PDT
Thursday Briefs
http://www.detnews.com/2005/livingston/0504/15/C05L-150099.htm
Wind scattered about 50 people's medical records that fell off a truck
near the St. Joseph Mercy Woodland Health Care Center on Wednesday morning.

 

nsideBayArea, Fri, 15 Apr 2005 3:52 AM PDT
Protecting consumers' personal information may not be possible
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_2662889
WHAT WERE the files containing the account information of 200 customers
doing on the floor of a Volvo dealership? That's what University of California,
Berkeley researcher Diana Jones wants to know.

 

Missoulian, Thu, 14 Apr 2005 10:46 PM PDT
Plains historian has spent the last 25 years gathering details on
Sanders County
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2005/04/15/hometowns/ht01.txt
HORSE PLAINS - It was sometime in the 1970s, Maurice Helterline
recalls, that he got bit by the history bug, which grew into his life's greatest passion.

 

Groton Landmark, Fri, 15 Apr 2005 6:53 AM PDT
Lawrence Academy unveils unique historical collection
http://www.grotonlandmark.com/Stories/0,1413,107~5174~2818075,00.html
GROTON -- Historical memorabilia compiled by Dr. Samuel Abbott Green
has been uncovered.

 

SCAFFIES? They've aye bin the thing in auld Aberdeen
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... The city's archives are also a superbly rich historical resource mainly
because they avoided the depredations of Cromwell and Edward I's troops,
unlike other ...
<http://www.theherald.co.uk/37387.shtml>

 

RALPH Lauren, HSBC in data breach debacle
Register - London,England,UK
... follows reports of massive breaches at data brokers LexisNexis and
ChoicePoint - several of which have yet to be disclosed - payroll handler
PayMaxx, Bank of ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/15/ralph_lauren_loses_data/>

 

WEYERHAEUSER document destruction center in Calif. joins ...
Waste News - Akron,OH,USA
... Weyerhaeuser´s Sacramento location has both shredding and recycling
capabilities, ISPA said. ... paper, we can put our customers´ shredded
documents to immediate ...
<http://www.wastenews.com/headlines2.html?id=1113589821>

 

THREAT hidden in trail of paper
Henderson Hall News - Arlington Station,VA,USA
... Each pound contains approximately 100 sheets of paper, making 750,000
legible documents full of ... Although shredding paper may seem to be
a mundane job that is ...
<http://www.dcmilitary.com/marines/hendersonhall/10_15/features/34412-1.html>

 

JUNIOR college secretary accused of altering dozens of school ...
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
... Tenn., is accused of altering the grades and other records while working
... Her replacement was reviewing student files as part of her training
and noticed some ...
<http://www.ljworld.com/section/stateregional/story/201990>

 

STUDENTS help preserve history
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
It's part of the state's Adopt A Map program, which relies on private donations
to restore some of the 35 million documents in the Texas State Archive.
...
<http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=135356>

 

CREDIT Card Issuer Discloses Retail Data Breach
DM News - New York,NY,USA
... Bank of America confirmed Feb. 25 that some of its computer data tapes
containing personal and account information for 1.2 million federal government
charge ...
<http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=32527>

 

ARCHIVIST: Nixon archives transfer proceeding
San Jose Mercury News - USA
"I am pleased to announce that plans for accepting the Nixon Library into
the National Archives Presidential Library system in the winter of 2006
continue on ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/states/california/northern_california/11407176.htm>

 

PUBLIC records e-mail computer to stay
Charlotte Sun-Herald - Charlotte,FL,USA
That was the consensus at Thursday night's Public Records Ad Hoc Committee
meeting. They agreed there was no problem in how the process is working
now. ...
<http://www.sun-herald.com/NewsArchive2/041505/tp4np7.htm?date=041505&story=tp4np7.htm>

 

LAWRENCE Academy unveils unique historical collection
Groton Landmark - Groton,MA,USA
... Each document, large and small, will be carefully removed, enclosed
in archival plastic and catalogued for reference by Lawrence Academy archivists.
...
<http://www.grotonlandmark.com/Stories/0,1413,107~5174~2818075,00.html>

 

HISTORICAL Society announces new computer system
Norton Mirror - Milford,MA,USA
... few months, the Norton Historical Society has been busy setting up
and familiarizing its members with the new computer system and archival
cataloging software. ...
<http://www2.townonline.com/norton/artsLifestyle/view.bg?articleid=226173>