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RAIN 20071018 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. MiFID gives 64% of firms a record-keeping problem, says survey Out-Law.com - London,England,UK But most are struggling with the Directive's record-keeping duties, according to survey findings published today. The Markets in Financial Directive ... <http://www.out-law.com/page-8555> Pickens County to make records available online Anderson Independent Mail (subscription) - Anderson,SC,USA The system, which was demonstrated and explained by Registrar of Deeds Paul McGuffin, would allow the public to search for records, such as property deeds, ... <http://www.independentmail.com/news/2007/oct/15/pickens-county-make-reco rds-available-online/> Scott County's archive yields WWI grenade Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA While browsing through the Scott County Historical Society's collection, Kathleen Klehr got a potentially explosive reminder about why museum curators try ... <http://www.startribune.com/south/story/1489477.html> Gov. Schwarzenegger says "hasta la vista" to California data ... Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA The AB 779 would impose limits on what kind of information companies can retain, prohibit companies without data retention policies from collecting ... <http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071016-governator-terminates-cali fornia-data-protection-law.html> Kroll Ontrack Launches First Enterprise-Wide Data Erasing Product Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA Helping companies protect against security breaches and comply with laws and regulations regarding data retention and privacy, Ontrack Eraser deletes all ... <http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news _view&newsId=20071016005158&newsLang=en> David Wins Over Goliath Again: FIRELOCK Innovative Vault ... TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA ARM has provided various records storage services since 1995. The goal at ARM is to create "win-win" partnerships with clients by simply providing accurate ... <http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-david-wins-over-goliath-aga-firelock-inno vative-vault-/2007/10/15/3015622.htm> GOVERNMENT PLEDGES £25M TO PRESERVE UK'S FILM ARCHIVES 24 Hour Museum - UK This money, together with £3m of UK Film Council funding to digitise film archives will mean that the regional and national archives can protect, ... <http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART51464.html> $2.6 million FEMA funding will help preserve Arizona documents Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA The regional offices of the National Archives and Records Administration and FEMA in Oakland, Calif., will support the effort. Founded in 1864, the Arizona ... <http://www.bizjournals.com/phoenix/stories/2007/10/15/daily28.html> Secret History Knoxville Metro Pulse - Knoxville,TN,USA Today, that reading room, locked and off limits to the public, is packed with shelved archives. Tyler's beam paintings depicting the history of the written ... <http://www.metropulse.com/articles/2007/17_42/secrethistory.html> Kansas history: Snapshots to the world Topeka Capital Journal (subscription) - Topeka,KS,USA Patricia Michaelis, director of the society's state archives and library, said that in choosing the items to post on the Web site initially, the focus was ... <http://cjonline.com/stories/101707/loc_209157946.shtml> Student data lost in security breach The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA 19 while Iron Mountain Inc., a Boston data-storage company with a state contract, was transporting them from Port Allen across the Mississippi River to ... <http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/student_data_lost_in_securit y.html> 9 Years of La. Applicants' Data Lost The Associated Press - Sudnik said the man had worked five years for Iron Mountain and his workrecord had been in good standing. The loss of the case was an accident without ... <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jSxSHo3QLsA8tHTfIuokDLqk631QD8SB3UM80 > Gov't publishes records management manual BVI News Online - Road Town,Tortola,British Virgin Islands The handbook, published by the Archives and Records Management Unit in the Deputy Governor's Office, provides detailed guidance on a wide range of topics ... <http://www.bvinews.com/link.asp?smenu=198&twindow=&sdetail=3645&mad=&wpa ge=1&skeyword=&sidate=> Saving Bowie's Justice Court the electronic way Range News - Willcox,AZ,USA ... then ended up using a portion of it to hire a student to help with the daunting task of changing all the court's paper records to electronic records. ... <http://www.willcoxrangenews.com/articles/2007/10/17/news/news2.txt> Companies facing information overload VNUNet.com - UK The problem is exacerbated by regulations demanding ever more data retention. "This idea of just keeping everything is not going to work," said Bob ... <http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2201336/companies-facing-information> Panel focuses on politics as theme of Archives Week UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA A panel discussed politics and archival work in the Pharmacy Building in celebration of American Archives Month and Austin's Archives Week, sponsored by the ... <http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2007/10/17/TopStories/Panel.Focuses .On.Politics.As.Theme.Of.Archives.Week-3037500.shtml> CHAPS working hard to preserve history Cochrane Times - Cochrane,Alberta,Canada The Cochrane Historical Archival Preservation Society (CHAPS) has been identifying, protecting and preserving historic sites of Cochrane for more than eight ... <http://www.cochranetimes.com/News/346785.html> UK government saves BFI archive Variety - USA It's vital that we safeguard its future." The BFI National Archive contains more than 60000 fiction pics, 120000 nonfiction titles and around 675000 TV shows. <http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117974188.html?categoryId=18> Campaign evidence found in Dems' files Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA House documents to be considered in grand jury probe of illegal work By Tracie Mauriello, Post-Gazette Harrisburg Bureau HARRISBURG -- Files seized from a ... <http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07291/826389-85.stm> EMC tackles inappropriate access to its own data Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA The problem area was management of large file-sharing environments, in which employees deposit Microsoft Word documents, Excel spreadsheets, PDFs and other ... <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic& articleId=9043013&intsrc=news_ts_head> Conservation group wins battle for Forest Service records The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA The US Forest Service had refused to waive fees for providing the information, so Wildlands CPR sued under the Freedom of Information Act. The Forest ... <http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-21/119 266439067440.xml&storylist=orlocal> Focus On: E-mail management and archiving Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA New .pst files should be aggressively deleted as the new archive will house the e-mails of record. The challenge is that e-mail archiving initiatives will ... <http://www.infostor.com/display_article/305936/23/ARTCL/none/none/1/Focu s-On:-E-mail-management-and-archiving/> Texas discovery rules make case research daunting task Southeast Texas Record - Beaumont,TX,USA Since 1999, parties are not required to have pre-trial discovery submitted to the case file as public record. Jefferson and Orange counties have also... <http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/202771-texas-discovery-rules-make-case -research-daunting-task> Home Depot and Iron Mountain report missing data SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA Atlanta-based Home Depot acknowledged Wednesday, the names, home addresses and Social Security numbers of 10000 employees -- most from the Northeast -- was ... <http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1 277471,00.html> Discussions continue on preserving government e-mails Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA By SUSAN M. COVER AUGUSTA -- State archives officials are continuing to work on a proposal to develop a comprehensive way to save and catalog important ... <http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/news/local/4368907.html> UNESCO displays prototype of World Digital Library at Paris ... ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia "Future Presidential Library takes an active part in the project, too," Kozhin said. "It will embody many ideas which are just arising within the framework ... <http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=11978925&PageNum=0> Financial-aid records lost; notices go out KTBS - Shreveport,LA,USA Colleges across the state are sending out notices that personal and financial-aid records could be exposed. The company the state pays for data storage lost ... <http://www.ktbs.com/news/Financial-aid-records-lost;-notices-go-out-5767 /> Wal-Mart: Stop leaking Black Friday deals CNNMoney.com - USA What's more, Naughton believes that that Wal-Mart is threatening legal action based more on misuse, or theft of confidential information and trade secrets. ... <http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/18/news/companies/walmart_blackfridaylegal/ ?postversion=2007101815> Iron Mountain loses college students' data Search Storage - USA By Beth Pariseau, News Writer Iron Mountain Inc. said a driver mishandled backup tapes containing data on thousands of college students and their parents ... <http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci127 7622,00.html> Brewery offers lifetime beer supply for stolen laptop DigitalJournal.com - Toronto,Ontario,Canada A small New Zealand brewery is offering a lifetime supply of beer for the return of a stolen laptop computer containing years of financial information and ... <http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/241123/Brewery_offers_lifetime_bee r_supply_for_stolen_laptop> Voices from the past heard online as world's digital archive nears ... Independent - London,England,UK Reporters were yesterday shown a prototype of the new archive, which is being put together by the US Library of Congress, the United Nations Educational, ... <http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article3075695.ece> Economist to put archive online Guardian Unlimited - UK More than 160 years of articles from the Economist are set to become available online with the launch of The Economist Historical Archive 1843-2003. ... <http://media.guardian.co.uk/presspublishing/story/0,,2193231,00.html?gus rc=rss&feed=4> Government's £25m boost to save British Film Institute's archive Times Online - UK The British Film Institute's national archive is one of the world's greatest collections of film and television, containing over 500000 hours of material. ... <http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/a rticle2685772.ece> Peter Kurilecz Richmond, Va ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. 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