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RAIN 070422 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. US Database Exposes Social Security Numbers New York Times - New York,NY,USA WASHINGTON, April 20 — The Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of people who received loans or other financial assistance from two Agriculture ...http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/20/washington/20cnd-data.html?em&ex=117 7300800&en=a3c746c4a796e177&ei=5087%0A 'Gatherer' helps build up Historical Society archives Palm Beach Daily News - Palm Beach,FL,USA But Edge's predilection for hoarding has proven beneficial in building the archives of the Historical Society of Palm Beach County. ... <http://www.palmbeachdailynews.com/news/content/news/EdgeDonation0420.htm l> Variety Digital proves problematic Industry lacks method to store footage As far as movies are concerned, digital, like diamonds, was supposed to be forever. No more dyes to fade, no more film stocks to decay or catch fire. Just pristine digital data, preserved for all time, and release prints as clear and sharp as the images caught by the camera. Just one problem: For long-term storage, digital is -- so far -- proving to be a time bomb, more permanent than sand painting but not much else. <http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117963533.html?categoryid=1019&cs=1> The Iron Archives New York Times - New York,NY,USA For “The Haunted Wood” (1998), about Soviet espionage in America during the Stalin era, Allen Weinstein, now the national archivist of the United States, ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/22/books/review/Donadio.t.html?ref=books> Thousands of Social Security Numbers Exposed by Federal Department CSO - Framingham,MA,USA The Social Security numbers of thousands of people who received loans from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) have been exposed for a number of years ...<http://www2.csoonline.com/blog_view.html?CID=32867> State archives' centuries of treasures sometimes go unseen Bradenton Herald - Bradenton,FL,USA When state archives manager Gerard Clark read a news story about a 16th century map recently auctioned off in London for a fortune, he immediately knew he'd ...<http://www.bradenton.com/331/story/28973.html> Legislature OKs plans for library, archives building in Olympia The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA A bold, $111 million library and archives building will be built in Olympia under plans agreed to by the Legislature late Friday. ... <http://www.theolympian.com/377/story/85939.html> UT acquires David Mamet collection JIM VERTUNO Associated Press Writer The papers of playwright, writer and film director David Mamet - from handwritten journals to correspondence with actors - has been acquired by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas. <http://www.theolympian.com/515/story/84100.html> District clerk still struggles with paper files Nacogdoches Daily Sentinel - Nacogdoches,TX,USA Millions of pages of court documents fill the back of the new office, and evidence and files fill an off-site storage area. ... <http://www.dailysentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2007/04/21/digita l_imaging.html> He is glass-plate positive Los Angeles Times - CA,USA ... faded manila envelopes to show friends and relatives, nearly everyone said the same thing: These old glass negatives look like the work of Ansel Adams. ... <http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-ansel21apr21,0,3958588.story?col l=la-home-headlines> Donation to help save important collection ic Coventry - Coventry,UK Mark Booth, senior archivist for the County Record Office, said: "The collection contains hundreds and hundreds of items, including an account from Sir ... <http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0150swarksnews/tm_headline=do nation-to-help-save-important-collection&method=full&objectid=18932963&si teid=50003-name_page.html> Employees' records found at horse track Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA "We are confident that the documents were not from district files," Tabachini said. "They appear to be documents that were provided to the auditor general's ... <http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1177120507 151420.xml&coll=1> £5m to keep a Scottish literary trove The Observer - UK The archive contains more than 10000 letters relating to Byron – the world's largest collection of papers on the man regarded as one of Britain's greatest ... <http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2062950,00.html> Los Angeles Times, Sun, 22 Apr 2007 0:13 AM PDT U.S. Communists' big red archives http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-communism22apr22,1,5250144.story?track=rss Decades of party relics and secrets are donated to NYU's Tamiment Library. Sorting through them may take years. NEW YORK ? Crammed with Lenin buttons, dusty memos from the McCarthy period, and crumbling pages of internal briefings dating back a century, the 2,000 cardboard boxes handed over to New York University last month hold secrets about the Communist Party USA that make archivist Peter ... NewsChannel 10 Amarillo, Sat, 21 Apr 2007 10:51 AM PDT Lawmakers shocked about security lapses at Los Alamos lab http://www.newschannel10.com/global/story.asp?s=6407324 WASHINGTON Last October, authorities conducting a drug raid found classified documents from Los Alamos National Laboratory at the home of a former archivist for a lab... Scanning to save space: Clerk of courts running out of room to ... Oshkosh Northwestern - Oshkosh,WI,USA Felonies must be kept for 50 years while misdemeanor, family and civil case files must be kept for 30 years. Small claims files must be kept for 20 years, ... <http://www.thenorthwestern.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070422/OSH01 01/704220386/1128/OSHnews> Former archivist admitted drug use early on Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA The former archivist, 23-year-old Jessica Quintana, has not been charged with a crime. But classified information — not the most sensitive — was found at ...<http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/60581.html> Google's data-storing feature fuels privacy fears By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer April 21, 2007 Facing worries about its tracking Web surfers' every move, Google Inc. is now offering a feature to track Web surfers' every move. Its free Web History service is strictly voluntary — Google users can sign up to have the Internet giant keep detailed records of every website they visit so they can easily find them again later. <http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-google21apr21,1,3373421.story?co ll=la-headlines-technology&ctrack=2&cset=true> Legal changes threaten data protection crisis within six months ComputerworldUK - UK There are two options – electronic content management, where you structure unstructured data, or digitisation through records management investment.” ... <http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/security/data-control/news/ind ex.cfm?newsid=2688> Probing the Declaration of Independence's preparation Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel Twenty-five years of research and painstaking labor have borne fruit, yielding an archive of original documents, many rescued from oblivion, ... <http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1177251147847&pagename=JPost% 2FJPArticle%2FShowFull> The State Department Surveys the Damage Strategy Page - USA Some of the activity appears to be coming from criminal gangs, who are known to do corporate espionage, for a price. Foreign nations have hired these gangs ...<http://www.strategypage.com/htmw/htiw/articles/20070422.aspx> Right-to-Know bill could make some e-mails public Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA And while the bill would make some e-mails public records, it doesn't say when, where or how they should be disclosed. That undercuts the public's right to ... <http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2007/04/22/right_t o_know_bill_could_make_some_e_mails_public> Critics blast use of private e-mail for official state business Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA E-mails and other electronic communications generated by state employees are considered public records, but Inspector General Thomas Charles said he's ...<http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17119516.htm> Peter Kurilecz Richmond Va ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =0