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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Yorkshire Post, Mon, 21 Nov 2005 1:50 AM PST Charity records to be held in city archives http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1084&ArticleI D=1261366 Alexandra Wood RECORDS of thousands of orphans of seafarers who walked through the doors of a Hull charity have been donated to the city's archives. AN open book The Lawyer - London,UK What effect does the Freedom of Information Act have on the Land Registry? By Joann Bainton. On 1 January, the provisions of the ... <http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=117733&d=122&h=24&f=46> PATIENTS' Private Records Found In Dumpster WDIV - Detroit,MI,USA DETROIT -- Medical records found behind a Detroit shopping center this weekend has patients concerned about their privacy. "Why is this on the street? ... <http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/5374520/detail.html> DON'T charge twice for looking at records DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA ... Just because the law allows the governor's office to charge for the time spent complying with a records request does not mean it should. ... <http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051121/OPINION 03/511210304/1035/OPINION> GUATEMALA'S Secret Police Files May Hold Clues to War Atrocities New York Times - United States ... Everything seems to be there: from traffic tickets, driver's license applications and personnel files, to spy logs and interrogation records. ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/international/americas/21guatemala.htm l> GRAN'S blow to tobacco firms The Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia ... awarded $700,000 compensation from British American Tobacco after a Victorian Supreme Court judge ruled that the company had deliberately destroyed documents. ... <http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/grans-blow-to-tobacco-firms/2005/ 11/21/1132421604635.html> WHAT to consider when deploying integrated backup, recovery and ... ComputerWorld - USA ... Ideally, archive storage systems should offer functionality to support long-term data-retention requirements of active archives, easy scalability and management ... <http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,106421 ,00.html> CONNERY'S milkman wages revealed BBC News - UK ... The records have been earmarked for part of an exhibition ... staff to check and throw out old files at the ... The documents relating to Thomas S.Connery were found ... <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4457708.stm> ARCHIVIST Weinstein Introduces 'American Conversations'; Inaugural ... U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA 21 /US Newswire/ -- On Wednesday, November 30 at 7 pm Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States, will launch a new National Archives program entitled ... <http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=57019> MICROSOFT to give Office access to rivals Financial Times - London,England,UK ... The Commission is eager to promote e-government services, but is concerned about access to public documents created in proprietary formats such as Microsoft ... <http://news.ft.com/cms/s/e9f5c0f8-5ab7-11da-8628-0000779e2340.html> NEW archives building delayed; site, function debated Arizona Capitol Times - Phoenix,AZ,USA Legislators balked at setting construction of a state archives building in motion at a Nov. 16 meeting, instead opting to revisit ... <http://www.azcapitoltimes.com/main.asp?SectionID=2&SubSectionID=2&Articl eID=2772> TOBACCO 'insider' salutes Aussie's legacy Australian - Australia ... firm Slater & Gordon, while working on the McCabe case, that thousands of vital documents had been destroyed under the so-called document-retention policy was ... <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,17323423%2 55E23289,00.html> IBM to Add Native XML Storage Support to DB2 ComputerWorld - USA ... that Viper will be able to store data such as multimedia files, Excel spreadsheets and ... as an object that isn't relationally indexed, or by "shredding" the file ... <http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/software/story/0,10801, 106367,00.html> SOLVING The Storage Riddle InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA ... Other factors driving demand for storage services include regulatory compliance, information-life-cycle management, security, and storage on demand. ... <http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1744001 15&tid=13692> NATIONAL Archive Receives TV Equipment Fijivillage - Suva,Fiji By fijivillage. The Fiji National Archives Department and the Information Ministry, today received a generous boost from the Japanese ... <http://www.fijivillage.com/artman/publish/article_24953.shtml> CZECH Radio uncovers long-lost audio from Milada Horakova's trial Radio Prague - Prague,Czech Republic ... original recording. In contact with the National Archive we found out about the existence of three old boxes of dusty magnetic tape. It ... < http://www.radio.cz/en/article/72910> SENATE Panel Approves Data-Breach Bill eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA Data breaches have been foremost on the mind of this Congress following the high-profile disclosures earlier this year from ChoicePoint Inc. ... <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1891550,00.asp> VERMONT must update identity theft law BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA ... this year when 111 Vermonters discovered that their personal information might have been stolen from an enormous databank held by ChoicePoint, a company that ... <http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051121/O PINION/511210314/1006/NEWS05> SAVING weather data from the elements Australian IT - Australia ... "We believe the paper records are at greater risk of destruction due to high humidity and poor storage," project manager Rod Hutchinson said. ... <http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,17316231%5E15321%5E%5Enb v%5E15306,00.html> Peter A. 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