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RAIN 20071026 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Bitcentral's Revolutionary Digital Newsroom Solution Sweeps across ... Broadcast Newsroom - Newport Beach,CA,USA "Instead of purchasing ultra-expensive robotic, digital tape offline archives for old materials, as well as paying an archivist to manage the mess, ... <http://www.broadcastnewsroom.com/articles/viewarticle.jsp?id=206855> Morgan Stanley May Face Wave of Suits After Admitting It Withheld ... Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA Attorneys intend to file new cases on behalf of claimants for spoliation of evidence and are gunning for punitive damages. Attorneys for investors are ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1193216619851> P*rn Record-Keeping Law Ruled Unconstitutional Wired News - USA The statute requires record keeping when "sexually explicit conduct" is depicted. Such conduct is defined to include images of "sexual intercourse, ... <http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/2007/10/porn_law> Encrypt data stored off site, warns Louisiana agency Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA October 25, 2007 (Computerworld) -- The loss of unencrypted storage media from an Iron Mountain Inc. vehicle last month renewed calls for IT managers to ... <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9044122&taxonomyId=149&intsrc=kc_top> Vatican to sell documents on Knights Templar trials Guardian Unlimited - UK Secret Vatican City archive documents detailing the heresy trials of the Knights Templar are to be sold for the first time from today. ... <http://www.guardian.co.uk/pope/story/0,,2198930,00.html> The United Church Archives Finds a New Home Market Wire (press release) - USA Granka says that the studio space has great potential for storing archival records. The studio is self-contained, with a separate, existing heating, ... <http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=785082> HR Firm Administaff Loses Laptop Consumer Affairs - USA And a laptop containing personal information on an undisclosed number of employees for Internet domain registrar VeriSign was stolen from an employee's car ... <http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2007/10/administaff.html> Vanderbilt hospital fights archive growth with grid Search Storage - USA There was no way, however, to get Centera to automatically roll its data off to tape for deep archive. Centera can write to tape but chiefly relies on ... <http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1279021,00.html> German Holocaust Archive to be Made Public Deutsche Welle - Germany The last remaining hurdle to the opening up a massive Holocaust archive held in Germany has been cleared after Greece voted to change an international ... <http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2846406,00.html> Technology lets poets speak across the ages Golden Gate [X]Press - San Francisco,CA,USA "This is a really important archive," Gray said. "To see and hear someone's work can be invaluable in regards to understanding it." Ginsberg's famed "Howl" ... <http://xpress.sfsu.edu/archives/arts/009391.html> Keep 'Smoking Gun' E-Mails From Backfiring Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA [FOOTNOTE 3] Rule 901(b)(4) is the most common method for authenticating e-mail and other electronic records. This rule allows for authentication by ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1193216624194> California Fires: Putting Your Family First and Saving Your ... Digitaltrends.com - Lake Oswego,OR,USA If you have a lot of scanned documents both Google and OmniPage (by Nuance) have plug ins that will allow for the scanning of PDF files which should help ... <http://news.digitaltrends.com/talkback218.html> MVNU going digital with archived records Mount Vernon News - Mount Vernon,OH,USA "For example," Severns said, "we can pull up documents from the Cincinnati site, and access student files from here, whereas before someone had to ... <http://www.mountvernonnews.com/local/07/10/24/mvnu.digital.html> Archives may anchor Great Park Orange County Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA By SONYA SMITH IRVINE A West Coast museum branch of the National Archives may open as early as late 2011 in the Great Park, according to an update by... <http://www.ocregister.com/news/archives-park-national-1910124-museum-great> Social networking sites: threats and remedies ComputerWeekly.com - UK 1.15 Corporate espionage: social engineering attacks using SNSs are a growing and often underrated risk to corporate IT infrastructure. ... <http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/10/25/227708/social-networking-sites-threats-and-remedies.htm> Company says personal information untapped on stolen laptop Houston Chronicle - United States The machine had information including Social Security numbers, names and addresses for 63000 employees and 96000 former employees who were paid by the ... <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/business/5246457.html> Flash drive lost with student info News Record - Cincinnati,OH,USA Following two separate thefts of data containing the Social Security numbers and other personal information about more than 7000 students, University of ... <http://www.newsrecord.org/news/2007/10/25/News/Flash.Drive.Lost.With.Student.Info-3055419.shtml> That Clinton library not handing out cards just yet Baltimore Sun - United States Bill Clinton has sought to blame the Bush White House for the backlog. "Look, I'm pro-disclosure," Newsweek reported he answered testily recently. ... <http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/news/politics/blog/2007/10/that_clinton_library_not_handi.html> No New Light on Clinton Papers Washington Post - United States LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- The Clinton presidential library here is designed to evoke openness: towering glass windows, high ceilings and sleek exhibit designs. ... <http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2007/10/22/clinton_library_donors.html> Monroe estate files suit Hollywood Reporter - United States ... who allegedly is in possession of letters, notes, financial records, recipes, jewelry, fur coats, hats, purses and perfume bottles that belonged to ... <http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/features/people/e3i11356e5762144f4367d8d2a90edad9ee> Ex-Krum mayor accused of tampering with records Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA ... office are investigating whether Krum's former mayor Larry Lamonica tampered with government records after he removed files from City Hall in May. ... <http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-lamonica_25met.ART.North.Edition1.4254dd0.html> Akron Beacon Journal, Thu, 25 Oct 2007 10:41 PM PDT Gustave Grimm revolutionized syrup industry http://www.ohio.com/news/10809946.html HUDSON: Gwen Mayer is an easy mark in her position as archivist for the Hudson Library and Historical Society when it comes to doing the work on other people'sbright ideas. University of Melbourne University News, Thu, 25 Oct 2007 8:33 PM PDT Convict archive http://uninews.unimelb.edu.au/unarticleid_4723.html Internationally recognised archivist and head of the University of Melbourne’s E-Scholarship Research Centre Gavan McCarthy (School of Historical Studies) has won a $15 000 award from National Archives Australia (NAA) to preserve records of Tasmanian convicts. Taunting Thames 135 Years Of Change Captured For First Time HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA Many of his glass negatives were smashed up while others were cleaned off for use as greenhouse glass. Fortunately EE Skuce, who was the Oxford City ... <http://www.huliq.com/39452/taunting-thames-135-years-of-change-captured-for-first-time> Lionel, MTH Near Deal in Toy-Train Rift Houston Chronicle - United States 2007 AP WASHINGTON -- Lionel LLC has reached a tentative deal with rival MTH Electric Trains to settle a long-running trade-secrets battle and to put the ... <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5248856.html> NASCIO Releases Part III in a Series on Records Management and ... Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA Electronic records management and digital preservation are necessary disciplines for managing the knowledge assets of the enterprise. ... <http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/159418> Scrap collector finds military files, including retired General Powell abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA ... discovery is rather 'off beat' and they don't know how the records may have gotten here. Moreno is waiting for word on what he should do with the files. <http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=local&id=5727206> Plug EDD Into Global Investigations Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA Potential issues of spoliation can become a very real concern unless investigations teams are governed by consistently applied methodologies for handling ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1193303022310> P*rn Actor ID Regs Struck Down Gay City News - USA Congress's entire justification for this record-keeping law was to deter the production of child pornography and assist in the prosecution of child ... <http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18956676&BRD=2729&PAG=461&dept_id=568860&rfi=6> Wisconsin: No Backups of Election Records VoteTrustUSA - Berkeley,CA,USA I sent out open records requests to various municipalities in the state for copies of the electronic backups created pursuant to 7.23(1)(g) for both the ... <http://www.votetrustusa.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2617&Itemid=113> Saving history costly deal Canoe.ca (subscription) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada ... airborne pollutants," says the report. The city archives are visited by about 30 people a day and responds to 8000 requests for info rmation every year. <http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/OttawaAndRegion/2007/10/26/4606460-sun.html> Seven things to know about reducing risk with an e-mail archive Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA The secondary requirement for an e-mail archive is that it allows the exploitation of that data to help reduce risk to the organization. ... <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9044308> With 43000 film scripts in possession, NFAI plans to digitise the ... Pune Newsline - Pune,India Pune, October 26 Though the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) is known mainly for its one-of-a-kind collection of films, ironically enough little is ... <http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/With-43-000-film-scripts-in-possession-NFAI-plans-to-digitise-the-collection/232761/> Montana Historical Society preserving records KPAX-TV - Missoula,MT,USA The grant will be used to create online training plans for archivists and Montana Historical Society Archivist Jodie Foley says the training will allow them ... <http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=7270510&nav=menu227_7> NASA to Search Files on UFO Incident The Associated Press - WASHINGTON (AP) -- NASA has agreed to search its archives once again for documents on a 1965 UFO incident in Pennsylvania, a step the space agency fought in ... <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hY-pEhBhV6UBddtjWRMkax_ecxFAD8SH5MS80> Dentist fights back over patients' privacy Montreal Gazette - Montreal,Quebec,Canada Board inspectors take files away for up to four months. But documents can disappear from a dentist's practice for longer periods. ... <http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/story.html?id=142bd6d6-c580-466a-942c-f693252e6127&k=9412> State cites Hobart audit for issues Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA BY KAREN SNELLING Post-Tribune staff writer HOBART -- Human error and computer problems continued to compromise the integrity of the city's financial ... <http://www.post-trib.com/news/621623,hbaudit.article> Panel: Official e-mails public Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA By Jim Siegel State and local government officials should no longer be allowed to skirt Ohio public-records laws by using private e-mail accounts to conduct ... <http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/10/26/RecordsReport.ART_ART_10-26-07_B1_SF89KUS.html?sid=101> -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA Richmond, Va