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RAIN 070528
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Old photos coming into sharper focus
Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA
A retired Air Force veteran, he works part-time in three history 
positions: archivist for the state Supreme Court, lighthouse historian 
at the St. Marks ...
<http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070526/BREAKINGN
EWS/70526012>

Text wiped? Your spouse can find it...
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
The only way the material could be deleted was by overwriting the hard 
drive, which would then delete all the other files on it. ... 
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/4074730a28.html>

Gartner Puts IBM ECM in Pole Position
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
The year also saw the market grow by 12 percent compared with 2005, 
driven by new interest in web content management, records management 
and content ...<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8463>

Everything in its place
Bangkok Post - Klong Toey,Bangkok,Thailand
''It's a profession, you can do a university degree on records 
management or degrees specifically on document management controllers _ 
it's very highly 
...<http://www.bangkokpost.com/Yourmoney/28May2007_money43.php>

Pitt Library System to Receive the Most Extensive Collection of ...
University of Pittsburgh News (press release) - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
ULS also will digitize a large portion of the collection and upload it 
onto the Internet as part of Pitt's Archive of European Integration 
(AEI). ... 
<http://mac10.umc.pitt.edu/m/FMPro?-db=ma&-lay=a&-format=d.html&id=2942&-
Find>

University of Pittsburgh to receive large collection of European ...
International Herald Tribune - France
... will receive what is believed to be North America's largest 
collection
of European Union and European Community public documents and 
publications.
...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/05/27/america/NA-GEN-US-University-E
U-Documents.php>

Hoffman archiving his equipment
MLB.com - USA
Moores, as well, says his club archivist won't dig that deep into 
Hoffman's wardrobe. Already, the club pays for the recurring costs of 
new caps, 
...<http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20070527&content_id=1989579&v
key=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb>

BERGER'S ETERNAL SECRET
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
... and why - Bill Clinton's national security adviser, Sandy "Sticky 
Fingers" Berger, stole and destroyed classified documents from the 
National Archives. ...
<http://www.nypost.com/seven/05272007/postopinion/editorials/bergers_eter
nal_secret_editorials_.htm>

Andy Monshaw: We passed HP and have EMC in our sights
Ha&#39;aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
Since then, digital storage has developed somewhat. IBM's latest 
offerings could store all Shakespeare's works - in 76 million copies. 
... <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/863644.html>

Record storage becoming new mission for the old county jail
Adrian Daily Telegram - Adrian,MI,USA
... vacant when prisoners were transferred to the new facility in 
February 2005 is also filling up with a variety of other new uses 
besides record storage. 
...<http://www.lenconnect.com/articles/2007/05/27/news/news04.txt>

Franklin County blocks some online records amid security concerns
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
... people's identities and when the office began posting documents 
online in 2000, it took steps to ensure that none contained Social 
Security numbers. 
...<http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17289017.htm>

Petabyte power
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
You don't notice it, while doing work or paying bills on-line, but 
modern commerce and industry is rooted in immense realms of data 
storage. 
...<http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2007/05/27/news/business/
a2cc2a8d5c8059b6872572e60069879e.txt>

NASA official grilled on destruction of meeting videos
GovExec.com - Wahington,DC,USA
Wholley said before destroying the tapes, he consulted the Federal 
Records Act and concluded that they did not constitute official 
records, ... 
<http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=37015&dcn=todaysnews>

Subcommittee Investigates Destruction of Video Records by Senior ...
Space Ref (press release) - USA
"One of his jobs is to tell people what they don't want to hear, 
certainly not to participate in the destruction of records he knows are 
relevant to a ...<http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=22704>

Woodlawn Cemetery Uncovers Old Archives
Gothamist - NY,USA
The NY Times reports this will be true on another level soon as the 
Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library, who took title of the 
cemetery archives a 
...<http://www.gothamist.com/2007/05/27/woodlawn.php>

Celebrating Fifty Years Of Sound Archives
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
New Zealand history captured in sound will be a focus of attention as 
Radio New Zealand Sound Archives/Nga Taonga Korero celebrates its 50th 
birthday this ...<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU0705/S00296.htm>

No to county meeting
Northumberland Gazette - UK
David Crook, senior archives, research, knowledge and academic services 
department at The National Archives, told Alnwick Town Council that 
Alnwick is still 
...<http://www.northumberlandtoday.co.uk/news?articleid=2901497>

Risk management focus of seminar
The Nation Newspaper - Bridgetown,St. Michael,Barbados
... and Cheryl Peterson - chairman of the board of directors of the 
Association of Records Management Administrators (International), the 
internationally ...<http://www.nationnews.com/story/4657479049113.php>

Proof of POW Forced Labor for Japan's Foreign Minister: The Aso Mines
Japan Focus - Ithaca,NY,USA
"The Ministry of Foreign Affairs is continuing the disturbing Japanese 
government trend of being unwilling to search its own archives for the 
corroborating ...<http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2432>

Mapping a city's history: 1830s cartographic masterpiece back on ...
Gloucester Daily Times - Gloucester,MA,USA
It is a historical treasure and a monetary treasure as well, though the 
city's volunteer Archives Committee doesn't have a guess what it would 
be worth at 
...<http://www.gloucestertimes.com/pulife/local_story_148093904>

What is excessive?
Kingman Daily Miner - Kingman,AZ,USA
The city manager, according to documents turned over recently, withheld 
 from a public records request 3930 e-mails deemed "personal." ... 
<http://www.kingmandailyminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=13&SubSectionID=18&A
rticleID=12195&TM=66187.94>

Holographic evidence coming to a court near you
Law Times - Aurora,Ontario,Canada
Counsel are required to prove the authenticity as well as a chain of 
custody for electronic records, including material downloaded from the 
internet, 
...<http://www.lawtimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
=2077&Itemid=82>

Deed info online
News &amp; Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
Wake County recently became one of the state's first to store all 
documents filed with its register of deeds dating to 1900 in a 
searchable online database. 
...<http://www.newsobserver.com/business/story/582475.html>

Pensioners filing lawsuits over lost pension payment records
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
The lawyer himself is a victim because records for years of his pension 
payments were lost. Since he has no evidence of the payments, his files 
were not 
...<http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20070528p2a00m0na039000c.
html>





Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA

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