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RAIN 070416 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Minn. Paper Says Publisher Stole Secrets MSN Money - USA ... Dean Singleton -- chief executive of MediaNews Group Inc., which runs the Pioneer Press -- said he wasn't worried about trade secrets. ... <http://moneycentral.msn.com/inc/news/providerredir.asp?feed=AP&Date=2007 0415&ID=6742390> The official typeface of the 20th century Toronto Star - Toronto,Ontario,Canada As director Hustwit explains via email, "Seeing people lined up around the block for a film about a font is pretty strange. But when you think about it, ...<http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/203181> You could be in Gov. Perry's files San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA The names of more than 1 million Texans are housed in the database, drawn from records of state, local and soon federal law enforcement agencies. ... <http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA041407.01A.perry_reco rds.3556221.html> Security breached at UCSF San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA ... contained payroll information for about 43000 campus employees and additional records, including financial-aid files, for roughly 3000 students. ...<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/200 7/04/15/BUGM1P8API1.DTL&type=business> Genealogy: Price for National Archives historical documents going up? Terre Haute Tribune Star - Terre Haute,IN,USA These rate increases would greatly affect family historians trying to order military records, pension files, land records, ship passenger lists, ... <http://www.tribstar.com/history/local_story_105000820.html> Practices for saving e-mail vary among government agencies Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA Black said the Department of Public Safety and the governor's general counsel confirmed "that we should not have that document." ... <http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/04/15/1 5email.html> New home for old records East African - Nairobi,Kenya UGANDA IS THE ONLY CO-untry in East and Southern Africa that does not have an independent national archives, although the institution was established by law ... <http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/Magazine/Magazine1604071. htm> Heritage Center row continues The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA The amounts collected would depend on the length of the document, most of which are deeds of trust and other realty-related matters. ... <http://www.theolympian.com/112/story/81888.html> Officials' e-mail may be missing, White House says Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA Loss of the e-mail files would create a potential legal problem for the Bush White House: compliance with the Presidential Records Act, which was passed in ... <http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-emails12apr12,1,261 7097.story?coll=chi-news-hed> Bush Aides' Use of GOP E-Mail Probed Los Angeles Chronicle - Los Angeles,CA,USA 'This is entirely appropriate,' Stanzel said of the Bush White House practice. Moreover, he said, all e-mails to and from the accounts have been excluded ...<http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID =24183> Second set of UPMC data found on Internet Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA A spokesman for the Office of Civil Rights in the US Department of Health and Human Services said that even if medical records predate the enactment of ...<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07105/778182-85.stm> Monster machine helps tear identity theft fears to shreds Flint Journal - Flint,MI,USA Dan Milliken, owner of iSHRED, an Attica-based on-site document destruction company, discovered only Saturday that a credit card he uses for online ... <http://www.mlive.com/news/fljournal/index.ssf?/base/news-4/1176632864442 50.xml&coll=5> Hankering to probe Lincoln's death? Digitized documents at your ... Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA "We'll also access state archives and others domestically and internationally." Justin Schroepfer, director of marketing, said the initial response to the ...<http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660211985,00.html> History students to delve into Finger Lakes Forest history Elmira Star-Gazette - Elmira,NY,USA An experienced public historian, Ridarsky has worked as an archivist, oral history coordinator, grant writer and consultant for various organizations in the ... <http://www.stargazettenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415/COLUM NIST03/704150323> Archivists work to preserve 9/11 papers, photos and video forever 1010 Wins - New York,NY,USA ``Our goal is to make sure we all know who's got what stuff,'' said Kathleen Roe, a New York state archivist who is storing more ttors of the 9/11 Digital ... <http://www.1010wins.com/topic/ap_news.php?story=AP/APTV/State/NY/n/NY--S ept11Archive_n_n_0ny--> State pulls court's funds for database Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA That money is collected in the form of a $5 fee every time someone files a land record, including deeds, divorce decrees, tax liens and wills. ... <http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle% 2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173350747212&path=!news> Access to public records outweighs risk of identity theft TheNewsTribune.com (subscription) - Tacoma,WA,USA I learned all this from a presentation by Jerry Handfield, Washington’s state archivist and president of the Washington Coalition for Open Government. ...<http://www.thenewstribune.com/310/story/39415.html> Wall St Journal Legal Worries Over Missing Emails Grow White House May Face Questions Over Past Probes <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117669454310570978-email.html> Trentonian, Sun, 15 Apr 2007 0:12 AM PDT Beat generation tools and words inspire teacher http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18212488&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6 LAWRENCE -- The old manual typewriter has become the inspiration for an English professor to challenge her students at Lawrenceville School to a difficult task. The Telegraph, Sat, 14 Apr 2007 2:44 PM PDT SCANNING THE PAST http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070415/asp/opinion/story_7634474.asp One of the ?side effects?, so to say, of the email-and-SMS age is the decline in snail mail or letter-writing in urban areas. What?s more, not many keep a record of what has been written ? the delete key is used all too often, by both the writer and the recipient. Boston Globe, Mon, 16 Apr 2007 2:09 AM PDT Small school given Digital's past http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/04/16/small_school_given_digitals_past Legendary computer engineer Ken Olsen graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1950. But when he decided to give his personal archives to a college, the founder of Digital Equipment Corp. didn't choose his alma mater; he donated his trove of papers and electronic artifacts to Gordon College, a small Christian campus north of Boston. Data Protection Guernsey Press and Star - Vale,Guernsey,UK ... states increasingly converted global networks into platforms of surveillance by data retention, forced identification and renationalisation. ...<http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/showbusinessarticle.pl?ArticleID=1 12967> LOST WHITE HOUSE EMAILS ALSO COMMON ISSUE FOR US BUSINESSES dBusinessNews Austin (press release) - Austin,TX,USA ... a variety of topics related to email, instant messaging, spam, collaboration, security, storage, archiving, data retention, compliance and other areas. <http://austin.dbusinessnews.com/shownews.php?newsid=115179&type_news=lat est> Taming content Eric Wilson Australian IT - Australia But Rob Koplowitz, principal analyst with Forrester Research, says regulatory compliance issues now face all businesses, because of ever-increasing legal ... <http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21553498%5E15841%5E%5Enb v%5E,00.html> Audit office quits the paper trail Australian IT - Australia Interwoven's Records Manager has recently achieved compliance with the US Department of Defence's records management security standard. ... <http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,21553500%5E15841%5E%5Enb v%5E,00.html> USPS shifts to electronic personnel records FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA According to USPS, the electronic versions of the files will reside in a secure central database, unlike the paper files, which are housed in various ...<http://www.fcw.com/article98240-04-16-07-Web> Secret police files infiltrated The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia ... have told The Age she has been accused of wiping the records of possibly hundreds of criminals and selling information from the confidential files. ... <http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/secret-police-files-infiltrated/2 007/04/13/1175971353176.html> Proposal worries archivist Regina Leader-Post (subscription) - Regina,Saskatchewan,Canada A proposal to save money in the operation of the city clerk's department at city hall could reduce public access to city archives, according to a spokesman ... <http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/news/story.html?id=3113589a-1a0c- 4573-b98b-6884def8f025> John Constance Retires from the National Archives PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria WASHINGTON, April 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, today announced the retirement of John Constance, ... <http://www.pr-inside.com/john-constance-retires-from-the-national-r95050 .htm> John Constance Retires from the National Archives Earthtimes.org - USA Mr. Constance has served as the National Archives liaison to Capitol Hill for 14 years and currently supervises congressional relations, public affairs, ...<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,90163.shtm l> Archives NZ Goes International IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia April 16, 2007: Archives New Zealand has taken its Digital records Standard to the world with Australia, South Africa and the International Standards ...<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8283> Lost White House Emails Also Common Issue for US Businesses SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA The survey, conducted this month, strongly suggests that corporate email storage and retrieval is not well managed and with increasing legal requests for ...<http://www.sys-con.com/read/361889.htm> Make Sure Everyone Is on the Same Page Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA He was concerned that having such a policy could subject the company to sanctions for spoliation of evidence, as happened to Arthur Andersen in the Enron ...<http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1176727155365> Red Bull seek legal action on design leak autosport.com - Teddington,Middlesex,UK Spyker would not reveal how they got hold of these confidential documents, but sources told autosport.com at Sepang that the blueprints were mailed to the ...<http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/58170> ID theft soars 70% as firms ignore risk Glasgow Evening Times - Glasgow,Scotland,UK More than 25% of respondents didn't see the point in shredding documents - despite Home Office calculations showing identity theft has cost the economy ... <http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1330345.0.id_theft_soars_ 70_as_firms_ignore_risk.php> BBC to put its entire archive online E-consultancy - London,UK The BBC is planning to make its entire archive available to watch, listen to and download online, in a scheme expected to be announced by thecorporation ... <http://www.e-consultancy.com/news-blog/363081/bbc-to-put-its-entire-arch ive-online.html> Stolen Civil War Papers CBS 21 - Harrisburg,PA,USA That's when Dean quickly noticed the documents were originals he himself made copies of several years ago at the National Archives in Philadelphia. ... <http://www.whptv.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=66fb130c-af4c-45c7 -935e-e7c69b45b32d> Companies at risk with untested disaster recovery systems eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada ... experience one week of data center downtime will be out of business within 12 months, according to the National Archives and Records Administration. ...<http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=21900> Data Breach Aided University Phishing Scam Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA "That's when I decided to file the [public records] request," he said. Investigators found phishing kits - ready-made scam e-mails and Web pages - designed ... <http://blog.washingtonpost.com/securityfix/2007/04/data_breach_may_have_ aided_uni_1.html?nav=rss_blog> Paper, files and records managed with software Manufacturing Talk - UK Paper, files and records are being managed at an Ellesmere Port office with Alchemy Document and records management from Timezone Digital Storage and ...<http://www.manufacturingtalk.com/news/avq/avq102.html> Red Bull worried about theft of designs GrandPrix - Tappan,NY,USA Red Bull immediately launched an internal investigation in Milton Keynes and in Faenza to try to find out how these confidential documents got to Spyker. ...<http://www.grandprix.com/ns/ns19043.html> Archive Offers Engineer’s View of Twin Towers Architectural Record - USA Willis says that the museum is now collecting materials to document development of the planned Freedom Tower, but adding them to the archive will require ... <http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070417archive.asp > New archive for historic plants BBC News - UK Three million historic plant samples have been moved into a special archive at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. The UK's most important plant specimens ... <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6563697.s tm> Questions arise about records fees, practices Daily News - Galveston County - TX,USA FRIENDSWOOD — Documents released through an open records request show the city of Friendswood inconsistently waives open-record request fees and, ... <http://galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=a2117fa770ccd2b6&-session =TheDailyNews:42F942220a2eb00D71vrK3F0734C> Pioneer Press alleges corporate espionage by former publisher Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA Earlier this year, a former secretary at The Coca-Cola Co. was convicted of conspiracy after federal prosecutors said she stole confidential documents and ... <http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?a =290750&z=2> UPMC patient data mistakenly put on Web remained in Net archive NEPA News - PA,USA But the paper reported Saturday that the information could still be accessed on The Internet Archive, an Internet library. "It's too late. ... <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18213193&BRD=2212&PAG=461&dept _id=465812&rfi=6> Newspaper says photographer altered more pictures Bucyrus Telegraph Forum - Bucyrus,OH,USA It is removing Detrich's photographs from its Web site and has blocked access to his photographs in the newspaper's archive. ... <http://www.bucyrustelegraphforum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070415 /UPDATES01/70415001/1002/NEWS01> Peter Kurilecz Richmond Va ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =0