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

A storied portrait of a team set apart
Globe and Mail - Canada
The Vancouver Sun bought more than 5000 of his photographs and negatives in
1954, before donating them to the city archives in 1963, three years
after the ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071031.BCHAWTHORN31/TPStory/National>

The Quest To Uncover All The Facts: The Role Of Computer Forensics ...
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel - Mountainside,NJ,USA
In order to avoid spoliation claims and potential sanctions, any strategic
plan needs to clearly define the collection methodology to avoid potential
...
<http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artType=view&artMonth=November&artYear=2007&EntryNo=7448>

Stratford Herald, Thu, 01 Nov 2007 3:22 AM PDT
CYCLING ARCHIVIST RETIRES FROM SBT
http://www.stratford-herald.co.uk/mainstory.php?ID=1198
SHAKESPEARE as an astute businessman and not just a great playwright is a theme
that intrigues Dr Robert Bearman, pictured, recently retired head of
archives and local studies at the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust.

The New Yorker
Future Reading
Digitization and its discontents.
<http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton>

Telecoms associations raise concerns over Data Retention Law
TeleGeography - Washington,DC,USA
Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, is due to debate and vote on the
German Data Retention Law next week. The Law incorporates the
principles of the EU ...
<http://www.telegeography.com/cu/article.php?article_id=20353&email=html>

Mesa air 'stunned' by ruling against it
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
Tuesday's ruling doesn't mention the damaging sideshow that included
evidence that Mesa's chief financial officer, Peter Murnane, destroyed
documents key to ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/business/articles/1031biz-mesaair1101.html>


Iron Mountain Advances Records Management Strategy, Grabs Stratify
CMSWire - San Francisco,CA,USA
Once regarded as little more than a records storage company, it's been
spending big on acquisitions poised to help it become the
industry-beating digital ...
<http://www.cmswire.com/cms/records-management/iron-mountain-advances-records-management-strategy-grabs-stratify-001910.php>

Committee adds $38.6M archive plan to city budget
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
A $38.6-million plan to centralize the city's archive holdings in a
new facility was added to the city's 2008 capital budget pressures
Thursday by ...
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=86c4dd66-a17d-4be3-9d24-b9f88604ae12&k=65243>

Auditing records can be corporate 'soft spots' in US courts
International Herald Tribune - France
To comply with those rules, corporate lawyers have been generating
growing amounts of confidential documents listing their assessment of
hot-button issues ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/01/business/audit.php>

Discovering Data
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The 2006 FRCP amendments distinguish in rule 26(b)(2)B) between
production from sources of electronic information that are reasonably
accessible and those ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1193821429062>

Bye-Bye Birgie: Archives to close doors
Strand (subscription) - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Victoria University's Birge-Carnegie Archives is set to close December
21st of this year. The impending closure is to allow for the four
month long ...
<http://www.thestrand.ca/news/2007/11/01/News/ByeBye.Birgie.Archives.To.Close.Doors-3068652.shtml>

Interwoven and Alphawest to Handle War Memorial Archives
IDM.net.au - Surry Hills,NSW,Australia
Besides increasing requests for information, the War Memorial is also
digitising increasing amounts of its archives paper archives. ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8975>

Georgia Archives Launches Virtual Georgia
Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USA
Atlanta (November 1, 2007) - The Georgia Archives, a division of the
Office of Secretary of State, has created a way for Georgians to help
preserve the ...
<http://www.theweekly.com/news/2007/November/01/Virtual_Georgia.html>

US Archives given albums documenting art looted by Nazis
Ha&#39;aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent The United States National
Archives were given Thursday two original leather-bound albums
documenting art that was
...<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/919545.html>

Police told to delete old criminal records
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Mr Thomas has issued enforcement notices requiring Humberside,
Northumbria, Staffordshire and West Midlands forces to delete records
from the police ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/crime/article/0,,2203121,00.html>

What You Need to Know About Storing Records Electronically
HR.BLR.com - USA
Employers must train their employees not to "hit the delete key" to
get rid of those documents they think may be incriminating. While most
documents can be ...<http://hr.blr.com/news.aspx?id=77357>

Long Island's oldest land deed sold for $156000
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
BY BILL BLEYER | [log in to unmask] 2:34 PM EDT, October 31, 2007
A document described as the oldest surviving land deed for Long Island
land was ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/ny-liland1101,0,5825597.story?coll=ny_news_local_politics_promo>

State acquires Native American papers
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
"These records complement the BIA microfilms for all the South Dakota
reservations which are already housed in the state archives," said
Marvene Riis, ...
<http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071101/MORNINGEXPRESS/71101019/1001/NEWS>

Blunt says not all emails for public record
KWMU - St. Louis,MO,USA
State law requires some documents to be kept for the state archives, but
others can be destroyed after a certain amount of time.
<http://publicbroadcasting.net/kwmu/news.newsmain?action=article&ARTICLE_ID=1176260&sectionID=1>

Archivist named new chair of Moore Library
Rider University The Rider News - Lawrenceville Lawrence,NJ,USA
Prior to becoming the library's chair, Congleton served as the
library's head archivist and primary cataloguer of the serial database
before becoming the ...
<http://comm.rider.edu/wordpress/2007/11/02/archivist-named-new-chair-of-moore-library/>


Archivists rediscover renowned Yellowknife photographer
Northern News Services (subscription) - Yellowknife,Northwest Territories,Canada
"He had a way of bringing out really lovely characters when he was taking
portraits of people," said archivist Erin Suliak. Last year the museum
received a ...
<http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/oct31_07bus.html>

Albums cataloging Nazi-looted art presented to National Archives
CNN - USA
Allen Wallenstein, chief archivist of the United States, called it,
"One of the most significant finds related to Hitler's premeditated
theft of art and ...<http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11/01/nazi.art/>

Users: Storage security becoming a priority
Search Storage - USA
... such as backup tape losses at Citigroup and Bank of America Corp., and
costly email retention blunders from Morgan-Stanley and Intel Corp. ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci1280529,00.html>

Computer data gone, Sottile says; Cahill alleges cover-up
Kingston Daily Freeman - Kingston,NY,USA
By Paul Kiry, Freeman staff KINGSTON - Computer records that would
show which Internet sites Mayor James Sottile visited from his work
computer at City Hall ...
<http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18976850&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=6>

Archives Acquire Photo Record of Nazi Art Trove
Washington Post - United States
By Jacqueline Trescott The National Archives yesterday accepted two
newly discovered photograph albums kept by the Nazis to document the
art they were ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/01/AR2007110102493.html>

National Archives Gets Catalogs of Looted Art
New York Times - United States
Greg Bradsher, a senior archivist at the National Archives, said the
albums would "add another piece to the jigsaw puzzle."
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02nazi.html?ref=world>

Your Incredible Neighbors: Tubac archivist develops passion for ...
Green Valley News - Green Valley,AZ,USA
He enrolled in the Pratt Institute School of Library and Information
Science in Brooklyn, NY and earned a library degree, concentrating in
archives and rare
.<http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2007/11/01/news/news01.txt>


Your help needed to buy ancient Berwick documents
Berwick Today - Berwick Upon Tweed,Scotland,UK
The archivist, Linda Bankier, and the Friends of Berwick and District
Museum and Archives (FBDMA) have been seeking funding to buy the
documents but are ...
<http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/Your-help-needed-to-buy.3433034.jp>

Digitization of Archives records a boon
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
By Nancianne Parkes Suber The National Archives has been working on a
series of agreements with various partners to digitize portions of its
vast holdings. ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071102/FEAT05/711020303/1191>

Book Documenting Looted Nazi Art Donated to National Archives
Voice of America - USA
The US National Archives Thursday accepted the donation of an original
photo album, documenting some of the art the Nazis seized in World War
II. ...<http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-02-voa33.cfm>

New Records & Information Management: Are You Spending Right on ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
CHAPEL HILL, NC, Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Records and Information
Management (RIM) programs have long played a vital role in the success
of their parent ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/11-02-2007/0004696336&EDATE=>

Plan being drafted for open-records disputes
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
By Steve Young South Dakota Attorney General Larry Long is drafting a
plan to handle disputes over access to government records similar to
the way courts ...
<http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071102/MORNINGEXPRESS/71102017/1001/NEWS

Bill Clinton rejects archive delay accusations
Reuters - USA
Clinton's rivals criticized the front-runner for a 2002 letter written
by her husband to the National Archives requesting certain documents
from his ...<http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSN0259361520071102>

A Simple Approach to Today's Complex Data Protection Requirements
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Therefore, it becomes complicated for them to describe their
document-retention policy to regulators or reporters upon request.
Archiving just adds to this ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3026&Itemid=44>


Los Angeles Times
Radio relics preserved, then tainted
Transformer fire at storage site rained toxins upon remnants of L.A.
broadcasting history.
<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-radio26oct26,1,2789270.story?ctrack=1&cset=true>>

The Document Shredding Organization Web Site Adds a Resource for ...
PR.com (press release) - Levittown,NY,USA
The web site http://www.document-shredding.org, a popular online
resource for document destruction companies and related paper
shredding services has added
...<http://www.pr.com/press-release/58641>

Documents Of Dallas Students Found In Dumpster
CBS 11 - Dallas,TX,USA
These were not," DISD Records Manager Christopher Stone told CBS 11
News. "I cannot speak to why they're here, but we'll go back to the
campus and try to
...<http://cbs11tv.com/local/local_story_306165933.html>

Recorder accepts 1st e-document
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader - Wilkes Barre,PA,USA
Luzerne County Recorder of Deeds Mary Dysleski announced that her
office has accepted the first electronic recording of real estate
documents in ...
<http://www.timesleader.com/news/20071102_02deeds_jen_ART.html>

Record Removal
American Spectator - USA
Mike Huckabee and one current employee of the office that did some of
the destruction are saying that the media shouldn't assume that all
computer data and
...<http://www.spectator.org/dsp_article.asp?art_id=12254>

NPR
Dumpster of Forgotten Musicians Launches Quest
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=15772871>




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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va