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RAIN 070202 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. RedNova, Tue, 30 Jan 2007 5:13 AM PST Maryland Green Party Fights Subpoena of Lawyer's Personnel File http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/819720/maryland_green_party_fights_s ubpoena_of_lawyers_personnel_file/index.html?source=r_science By Barbara Grzincic Backed by a host of civil rights groups, the Maryland Green Party is fighting a subpoena of a lawyer's personnel records and files on his employer's computer. AP via Yahoo! News, Tue, 30 Jan 2007 10:41 AM PST U.S. court to rule on WWII insurance http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070130/ap_on_re_eu/holocaust_insurance_1 The Nazis were about to arrest his family in 1944, and Alex Moskovic remembers his father burying family documents in a 3-foot-deep hole under the shed behind their home in Czechoslovakia. Kingston Daily Freeman, Fri, 02 Feb 2007 9:53 AM PST Documents missing from office of Ulster environmental agency http://www.zwire.com/site/index.cfm?BRD=1769&dept_id=74958&newsid=1779853 4&PAG=461&rfi=9 STONE RIDGE - Ulster County Legislature Chairman David Donaldson said records for about 20 years worth of work by the county's Environmental Management and Water Quality Management Agency are missing, a potential hurdle for tracking grant money as the county seeks to reorganize the agency. BizJournals, Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:02 AM PST Coke secretary found guilty in trade secrets case http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2007/01/29/daily44.html?from_r ss=1 A federal grand jury in Atlanta has found Coca-Cola executive assistant Joya Williams was guilty of conspiring to steal Coke trade secrets to sell them to Pepsi. Waynesboro Record Herald, Sat, 03 Feb 2007 5:44 AM PST Washington Twp. looks to computerize records http://www.therecordherald.com/articles/2007/02/03/local_news/news02.txt WAYNESBORO The average person might have one or two filing cabinets in his or her office at work. 1010 WINS New York, Fri, 02 Feb 2007 7:51 PM PST Soc. Sec. No.'s Listed on NY State Dept Web Site http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=311509 The New York Department of State on Friday froze portions of a Web site listing commercial records that identity thieves could have used to access the Social Security Numbers of some New Yorkers - including billionaire mogul Donald Trump. Daily Nebraskan, Sun, 28 Jan 2007 9:15 PM PST New letters expand UNL archives on Cather <http://media.www.dailynebraskan.com/media/storage/paper857/news/2007/01/ 29/News/New-Letters.Expand.Unl.Archives.On.Cather-2681903.shtml?sourcedom ain=www.dailynebraskan.com&MIIHost=media.collegepublisher.com> Former Pulitzer Prize winner and University of Nebraska-Lincoln graduate Willa Cather's influence continues to spread throughout the campus. Just ask those who received the largest collection of Cather's letters ever donated to UNL - more than 350 letters - which contain a significant amount of her personal correspondence and triples the number of Cather's letters archived by UNL Libraries. The Mac Weekly, Sun, 28 Jan 2007 9:13 PM PST Recording oral history http://www.themacweekly.com/articles/20070126/news/10976 The newest generation of Macalester students rarely has the opportunity to become acquainted with the college’s heavy weights of days gone by. Recently retired faculty and staff witnessed an era of change, a period in which Macalester became the college it is today. AP via Yahoo! News, Tue, 30 Jan 2007 1:33 PM PST Congress scrutinizes Los Alamos security http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070130/ap_on_go_co/congress_nuclear_security _2 Lawmakers threatened Tuesday to strip the Los Alamos National Laboratory of classified operations or even shut it down after a decade of security lapses. Lexington Herald-Leader, Wed, 31 Jan 2007 0:17 AM PST Web of history http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/16577234.htm?source=rss&channel =kentucky_news What do Tubby Smith, Eugene Jones and Nellie Conley have in common? Besides being some of the most famous Americans of their times, the three are among hundreds of names listed on the University of Kentucky's Notable Kentucky African Americans Web site, a resource for people looking for information about notable black Kentuckians. Guardian Unlimited, Sat, 03 Feb 2007 6:28 PM PST Girls' schools reveal secret trove of historic papers http://www.guardian.co.uk/Education/schools/story/0,,2005560,00.html?gusr c=rss&feed=11 Forgotten archives show how Edwardian girls were groomed in grammar and housewifery. The Observer, Sat, 03 Feb 2007 4:10 PM PST Girls' schools reveal secret trove of historic papers http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2005538,00.html Thousands of old photographs, exam papers, magazines and books unearthed from the cellars of some of the country's leading girls' schools have revealed a remarkable picture of school life in Victorian and Edwardian Britain. Historic Texas documents restored, brought to library TCU Daily Skiff - Fort Worth,TX,USA ... 270 texas legation records from the first two years of the Texas Republic, said Chris LaPlante, state archivist at the Texas State Library and Archives. ... <http://www.tcudailyskiff.com/news/2007/02/02/News/Historic.Texas.Documen ts.Restored.Brought.To.Library-2693036.shtml> Church receives ‘rare’ photo archives Anglican Journal - Toronto,ON,Canada An article in the September issue of the Anglican Journal which reported that the archives is seeking residential schools records in preparation for the ... <http://www.anglicanjournal.com/issues/2007/133/jan/01/article/church-rec eives-rare-photo-archives/> The Dynamic Center: Learning to Listen to History 411mania.com - Sugar Land,TX,USA He is the archivist at his monastery and is the preeminent scholar in Black Catholic studies. His notoriety, skills as a historian and experience as an... <http://www.411mania.com/politics/columns/50355/The-Dynamic-Center:-Learn ing-to-Listen-to-History.htm> Records fail to keep up with seed imports New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand He said biosecurity computer records showed 30 corn consignments during the past 12 months with incomplete records. In one case, a consignment of seed corn ... <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10422046> House raid yields Local 183 papers Daily Commercial News - Toronto,Ontario,Canada Lawyers for Laborers International Union of North America (LIUNA) are in Barrie court today looking to get their hands on computer records and Local 183 ... <http://dcnonl.com/article/20070202200> A much loved, maligned president retains respect over decades Hyde Park Townsman - Hyde Park,NY,USA Clark works firsthand with international scholars and high school researchers, who tap FDR's presidential library. It is the oldest of presidential ... <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1704&dept_id=71705&newsid=1778832 4&PAG=461&rfi=9> Student Senate endorses quest for Bush Library smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA The past few weeks have sparked a great deal of debate nationwide regarding the possibility of SMU hosting the George W. Bush Presidential Library. ... <http://www.smudailycampus.com/home/news/2007/01/31/News/Student.Senate.E ndorses.Quest.For.Bush.Library-2687602.shtml> New Ways to Archive Old Movies Studio Daily - New York,NY,USA Film May be the Best Way to Archive Film, But Does Digital Storage Have Its Own Advantages? By Bryant Frazer. Judging from the program at the Hollywood Post ... <http://www.studiodaily.com/main/news/headlines/7662.html> About that e-mail, never mind St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA Florida law requires those with custody of public records to deliver them to their successors upon leaving office. E-mails related to government business ... <http://www.sptimes.com/2007/02/02/Hillsborough/About_that_e_mail__ne.sht ml> City moves toward Web-based documents Daily News Tribune - Waltham,MA,USA ... with electronic document management software that might eventually allow residents to search a raft of public documents from the comfort of home. ... <http://www.dailynewstribune.com/homepage/8998962929134993407> Stolen Laptop Tattles, but Mine Doesn't MIT Technology Review - Cambridge,MA,USA When the police showed up at the apartment to apprehend the stolen property, they found the drugs too. It's great to hear that the laptop-recovery system ... <http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/post.aspx?id=17514&author=garfinkel > District Attorney Could Complete Missing Files Investigation ... KFDM-TV News - Beaumont,Texas,USA Maness must now decide if the elimination of those documents proves that someone committed the crime of "tampering with a government record." <http://www.kfdm.com/onset?id=18798&template=article.html> Shredding a sensitive matter London Free Press - London,Ontario,Canada It's not for the organization to use the same blue recycling bin for documents requiring shredding as the bin used for recycling, which sit under desks or <http://lfpress.ca/newsstand/Business/2007/02/01/3497614-sun.html> Yale Daily News Faculty object to searches Univ. copies info from hard drives in response to grant accounting investigation <http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/19728> ONLINE ARCHIVES BRING HISTORY TO LIFE Montclarion - Montclair,CA,USA The history room also contains old city directories, birth and death certificates, Oakland public school archives, an extensive Jack London collection and ... <http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/local/states/california /alameda_county/montclair/16605759.htm> Governor's paper-trail plan gets mostly good reviews Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA Charlie Crist on Thursday moved to delete the controversial touch-screen voting machines from Florida's political memory, as he endorsed a $32.5 million ... <http://www.heraldtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/NEWS/70 2020364> Records change jams up truckers Central Penn Business Journal - Harrisburg,PA,USA Companies often need those records to defend themselves against lawsuits, such as after accidents. Companies will spend more money backing up files that are ... <http://www.centralpennbusiness.com/weekly_article.asp?aID=64907804.45244 47.772876.3107988.6931952.111&aID2=59443> Digging deep to save our heritage This Is Lancashire - Blackburn,England,UK ... Greater Manchester Authorities, considering the possibilities which are emerging from the development of the Greater Manchester County Records Office. ... <http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1165731.0.d igging_deep_to_save_our_heritage.php> Emerging issues in electronic record-keeping and discovery NH Business Review (subscription) - Manchester,NH,USA Developing and implementing a formal document retention policy to formalize rules for saving and destroying documents, including electronic documents. ... <http://www.nh.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070202/BUSINESSREVIEW05/7 0131033/-1/BUSINESSREVIEW> Bush Library will receive facelift Texas A&M The Battalion - College Station,TX,USA The George Bush Presidential Library Complex is a few months away from getting a major facelift. "The Museum has a lot of outdated technology and needs to ... <http://www.thebatt.com/news/2007/02/02/News/Bush-Library.Will.Receive.Fa celift-2693604.shtml> Jury Convicts Ex-Coca-Cola Secretary Forbes - NY,USA The government said Williams stole confidential documents and samples of products that hadn't been launched from The Coca-Cola Co. and gave them to Ibrahim ... <http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/02/ap3391250.html> Sensitive data dumped at recycling center Indian Consulate tossed ... San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA Alerted by The Chronicle to the presence of confidential documents in a corner of the recycling yard -- many of the white boxes were clearly marked "visa ... <http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/02/02/MNGHNNTLI81.D TL> Duracell employee pleads guilty to stealing trade secrets Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA "The theft of trade secrets is a serious crime that has the potential to cause significant economic damage to the owners of trade secrets and their ... <http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2007/02/02/duracel l_employee_pleads_guilty_to_stealing_trade_secrets> Public e-mail access examined Hartselle Enquirer - Hartselle,AL,USA Chairman John Glasscock suggested commissioners pass on any ideas they may have on a public records access policy to Attorney Shinn. <http://www.hartselleenquirer.com/articles/2007/02/02/news/news2.txt> Will standard archival specifications be included in this new ... Stabroek News - Georgetown,Guyana It is distressing that these records remain threatened and at risk of total destruction and loss. A classic example is the weather beaten records, <http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_letters?id=56513166> Intellectual Property: Patent or Padlock: Patents and Trade ... Bio Pharm - Fords,NJ,USA A typical life sciences company probably keeps more than two-thirds of its proprietary information in the form of trade secrets. ...<http://www.biopharm-mag.com/biopharm/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=400 870> Peter Kurilecz Richmond, Va ________________________________________________________________________ Check out the new AOL. Most comprehensive set of free safety and security tools, free access to millions of high-quality videos from across the web, free AOL Mail and more.