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RAIN 070208 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Fighting to protect copyright 'orphans' By Daniel Terdiman Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle is attempting to gain public domain status for out-of-print books despite court setbacks. <http://news.com.com/Fighting+to+protect+copyright+orphans/2008-1025_3-61 54860.html?tag=sas.email> Chronicle of Higher Education "How Do You Cite Wikipedia on a History Paper? At Middlebury College, You Don't. A Professor Explains Why" <http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=zKkqb3ybKnVywQ8z5j3rhhznfzTG2zQs > Tennessean, Wed, 07 Feb 2007 0:08 AM PST Nashville man lays legal claim to artwork Hitler wanted http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/NEWS03/702070449 His uncle, an art dealer, died in Auschwitz after Nazis confiscated, sold his collection Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:21 PM PST Splendor of state for the asking http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/302703_publicart07.html?source=rss The age of digital imaging is revolutionizing the way archivists and curators around the world are managing their collections. Now Washington is catching up with the trend. Fairview Observer, Wed, 07 Feb 2007 1:41 AM PST Nashville man lays legal claim to artwork Hitler wanted http://www.fairviewobserver.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/NEWS03/702070449 More than six decades after the arrest, torture and murder of Walter Westfeld, the art dealer's prized works — millions of dollars worth of treasures scattered in museums and in private hands around the world — are being sought in a Nashville court. The Fayetteville Observer, Tue, 06 Feb 2007 9:06 PM PST Where are the other 13 copies now? http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=253985 The state of North Carolina isn’t the only state to go without its original copy of the Bill of Rights. Still missing-in-action are the original copies that President George Washington transmitted to Georgia and New York on Oct. 2, 1789. Their location? St. Thomas Times-Journal, Tue, 06 Feb 2007 7:27 AM PST Firing said due to evolution County aims to hire curator to take museum in ‘aggressive direction’ http://www.stthomastimesjournal.com/News/285428.html Elgin’s manager of cultural services on Monday defended the firing of Elgin County Museum’s curator, saying the job had evolved beyond the scope of the post for which Ninette Gyorody was hired on a one-year contract. <http://cgi.bowesonline.com/pedro.php?id=5&x=story&xid=285429> Giving immortality Library patrons get a genealogy lesson Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT,USA But the hobby's true joys will require genealogists to step away from their computers and visit places such as New York City's archives in lower Manhattan. ... <http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-a1genealogyfeb07,0,57748. story?coll=green-news-local-headlines> Digitizing 80 million documents to help unearth atrocities Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA Villagrán says his agency uses a Kodak scanner to digitize documents and a Minolta scanner to digitize bound records. Workers often have to clean the... <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic& taxonomyName=business_intelligence&articleId=9010718&taxonomyId=9&intsrc= kc_top> Ed Esau to share work indexing Natchez history Natchez Democrat - Natchez,MS,USA Esau will speak at 9 am Friday, telling about the work he has done on court dockets, chattel mortgages, land deeds, circuit court minutes and “all kinds of ...<http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/articles/2007/02/07/news/news374.txt> Progress by the clerk Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA Documents such as mortgages and deeds are available only for the clerk's official records department. People still must visit court offices to see or obtain ... <http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2007/02/07/m 16a_slclerk_edit_0207.html Archives get a high-tech home Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA By Bob Strauss, Film Writer. The UCLA Film & Television Archive makes its long-awaited move to the new, state-of-the-art Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer ... <http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_5169484> Ethiopia: Records, Archives Improper Handling Said Negatively ... AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA The lack of attention to the proper handling of records has negatively been affecting the country's development endeavours, the National Archives and ...<http://allafrica.com/stories/200702070609.html> Dutchess Clerk seeks grant to digitize land records Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA Poughkeepsie – Dutchess County Clerk Bradford Kendall has submitted a grant application for $75000 to the New York State Archives Department, ...<http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/DC_landrec_digit-07Feb07.html> Paper jams ease online DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA "We're supportive of the clerk's desire to digitize county records. In fact, it's our belief that record digitization should be used throughout the county," ... <http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/METRO01/70207 0364/1006> Broken water pipe soaks voting screens The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA Several years ago, it was converted into the county’s records storage center. Election Systems and Software has advised the county that it has a supply of ... <http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_037233403.html> UBC Library Digitizes Rare Darwin Letters, Now Available Online ... University of British Columbia - Vancouver,BC,Canada University Archives has digitized 52 letters to and from Darwin (1809-1882), the pioneering evolutionary biologist and originator of the concept of natural ... <http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/releases/2007/mr-07-012.html> Florist's story tells volumes about life Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA Archivist Beth Golding drove from Tallahassee to see Kuhn's collection, taking much of it away to be stored in a climate-controlled environment, . <http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/020707/met_7831690.shtml> Library and institute will do more good than harm smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA Recently, national attention has come upon SMU over the placement of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. As elected representatives of the student body ... <http://www.smudailycampus.com/home/news/2007/02/07/Opinion/Library.And.I nstitute.Will.Do.More.Good.Than.Harm-2702488.shtml> University Park residents debate land sale to SMU smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA ... on Tuesday for a regular meeting and special public hearing on a small strip of parkland that could be part of the George W. Bush Presidential Library. ... <http://www.smudailycampus.com/news/2007/02/07/News/University.Park.Resid ents.Debate.Land.Sale.To.Smu-2702618.shtml> Shredding companies recycle confidential documents Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA By Rob Amen. The mountain of confetti-sized shredded paper is enough to make Times Square envious on New Year's Eve. It also shows how much the on-site ... <http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/tribpm/s_492150.html > Yes, minister, it's time for the data debate Guardian Unlimited - UK One is that the merger was in practice a takeover by the National Archives, suggesting a lowering of priorities. Second was that the name "archives" is ...<http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2007590,00.html> RSA Conference: Experts say companies need data theft response plans SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA The panel was moderated by Richard Baich, the former ChoicePoint CISO who found himself in the eye of a media maelstrom two years ago after the company ... <http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1 242664,00.html> Loudon commissioners defer action on records plan Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA Rather than debate the cost of copying records, Franke said the goal should be to make all public records available on the Internet. ... <http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5332895,00 .html> Treated like a thief' over access to papers Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia WHEN the records manager at Macquarie University, Lachlan Morgan, arrived at Building E11A at 7.35am on September 19 last year, he found removalists loading ... <http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/treated-like-a-thief-over-access-to- papers/2007/02/07/1170524164294.html> Bar Harbor Times, Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:38 AM PST Town works to preserve old records http://www.mainecoastnow.com/articles/2007/02/07/bar_harbor_times/local_news/doc45c9e1dc03038319643309.txt BAR HARBOR — Part of Bar Harbor’s history is fading away, and the town is starting to take steps to ensure that it isn’t lost forever. To Shred or Not to Shred PC World - USA Dumpster diving for your company records is a favorite investigative technique, and it's often legal. Here are some tips on best shredding practices. ...<http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128830/article.html> Electronic Records Archive to debut in September FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA Development of the Electronic Records Archive, a project that aims to collect and preserve government records in electronic format, could be supported by ...<http://www.fcw.com/article97592-02-06-07-Web> Computer Point ends paper use era at Makerere New Vision - Kampala,Uganda “Students will access their academic records promptly, register without queuing and obtain academic transcripts without physical movement of files,” ...<http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/220/547633> E-mail retention policies, Part 2 NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA Examples include destruction of the track-changes records in word-processing and spreadsheet files known to be significant in a legal discovery process or ... <http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2007/0205sec2.html> Charlotte-area Businesses Fine for Illegally Dumping Files abc11tv.com - Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville,NC,USA Movie Gallery received a 50-thousand dollar fine after the owner of a neighboring business in Gastonia found files in a trash bin that contained personal ...<http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=central&id=5015972> Goodbye to archivist who gave us a present of our past Camden New Journal - London,UK MALCOLM Holmes, the head of Camden’s history archives, retires this week after 40 years chronicling life in the borough. ...<http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/020807/news020807_13.html> Feds want mandatory paper ballot trail The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA Computer records are retained. If race results are contested, results are held at least one month after the results are resolved. ... <http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070208/FON0101/7 0208130/1985> Hopkins: Employee, patient computer records lost Baltimore Examiner - Baltimore,MD,USA BALTIMORE - Johns Hopkins University revealed Wednesday morning that personal information on about 135000 employees and patients has gone missing. ... <http://www.examiner.com/a-553811~Hopkins__Employee__patient_computer_rec ords_lost.html> RSA 2007 | Hackers love those careless PC users Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA And many companies have left millions of computer records flapping in the wind through lost laptops and unsecured databases. Don't misrepresent the security ... <http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003561921_secu rity08.html> Presidential Order 13233 and the purpose of Presidential Libraries smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA As historians at SMU we have no collective position about bringing the Bush Presidential Library, Museum and Institute to this campus. Some of us favor it; ... <http://www.smudailycampus.com/home/news/2007/02/08/Opinion/Presidential. Order.13233.And.The.Purpose.Of.Presidential.Libraries-2705710.shtml> Surveying a Career Scure Destruction Business - Cleveland,OH,USA ... courtesy of Jim Teske of O’Neil Software, a records center software provider, led Brodsky and his partners to enter the document destruction industry. ... <http://www.sdbmagazine.com/articles/article.asp?MagID=4&ID=5673&IssueID= 243> San Francisco Consulate Battles Data Leak Fiasco San Leandro India West - San Leandro,CA,USA Calling the dumping of documents "totally unacceptable," he assured that "immediate remedial measures had been taken," and pledged that "it will never recur ... <http://www.indiawest.com/view.php?subaction=showfull&id=1170965689&archi ve=&start_from=&ucat=1> Johns Hopkins loses 135000 worker, patient records Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA 2 disclosure by the University of Missouri about a January hack that involved files on nearly 4000 researchers. On Jan. 26, meanwhile, tapes containing ... <http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxo nomyName=security&articleId=9010919&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top> Severe Fire Damaged RAID System No Match for DriveSavers Earthtimes.org - USA "The hearing tests are graphic files, audiograms that are stored as a picture. Without those records, I would be starting over from scratch with every ... <http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,57536.shtml> Watauga Democrat, Thu, 08 Feb 2007 1:19 PM PST New construction damages older deed records http://www.wataugademocrat.com/2007/0205web/newconstructiondamagesdeeds.php Those who complained about having to read “Moby Dick” in high school will get little sympathy from the Watauga County Register of Deeds office. Due to construction damage, thousands of pages will have to be recopied, checked, and certified as part of permanent land records. 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