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RAIN 20071116
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

The Judge Group Hires Experts in Records Management to Expand ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... and implementation of our Lifecycle Records Management Programs
including best practices and compliance with email and additional
document systems. ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20071114005140&newsLang=en>

Personal data to be removed from county records
Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton,OH,USA
By Staff reports DAYTON -- Early next year, personal information such
as driver's licenses and Social Security numbers will be
electronically scrubbed from ...
<http://www.daytondailynews.com/n/content/oh/story/news/local/2007/11/13/ddn111407localheadline.html>

Henry Snyder Wins National Humanities Medal
UC Riverside - Riverside,CA,USA
In another case, researchers combing the British National Archives -
which date back 1000 years - found 15000 copies of 9000 items, 6000 of
which had never ...
<http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1713>

Lawmakers Claim Emory Violating Open Records Act On Grady ...
Insider Advantage Georgia - Atlanta,GA,USA
... to fall within the ambit of public records for the purposes of the
Open Records Act. This is true regardless of Emory's status as a
private institution. ...
<http://www.insideradvantagegeorgia.com/restricted/2007/November%202007/11-14-07/Emory_Open_Records111419634.php>

Palmy historic places go digital
Manawatu Standard - Wellington,New Zealand
... 15 November 2007 Early next year the Palmerston North City Library
plans to go online with the first instalment of records from the city
archives. ...
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/eveningstandard/4274108a6502.html>

Group to protest for archive Friday
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
By Phil Kabler Supporters of the state archives library -- and of
fired state archivist Fred Armstrong -- will hold a rally at the
Cultural Center Friday
...<http://wvgazette.com/section/News/2007111420>


Red Cross world war archive recognized by UNESCO - Feature
Earthtimes - London,UK
The archive will join cultural treasures such as the original
manuscript of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and the literary estate of
German writer Johann...<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/142232.html>

Administrator finds family photo in archives file
Air Force Link - Washington,DC,USA
Since Mrs. Grabulis' job requires her to review classified historic
Air Force documents for declassification or further disposition, she
was reviewing a box ...<http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123075793>

Store Your Data & Stay In Compliance
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
Data storage best practices are the keys to maintaining compliance,
especially for those organizations that generate and store lots of
sensitive records. ...
<http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P2946/21p46/21p46.asp&guid=>

Firm can permanently clear those piles of files
Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada
A Windsor-based company believes it has the solution with optical
character recognition technology that scans documents such as patient
or client files and ...
<http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/columnists/story.html?id=af4620a4-17ee-469e-ae76-9a534eca2379>

The Clinton Files
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
Is Hillary Rodham Clinton sitting on documents from her days as First
Lady? That's the insinuation Republican officials are making on the
eve of the latest
...<http://chronicle.com/blogs/election/1024/the-clinton-files>

Iron Mountain Wins Award for Marketing Excellence
CNNMoney.com - USA
... knowing that we place a premium on corporate governance and
compliance." Launched in 2005, Iron Mountain's Compliant Records
Management Program consists ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NETH07915112007-1.htm>


Annapolis' past comes to life on Web
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA
Historian Jean Russo, who works for the Historic Annapolis Foundation
and the Maryland State Archives, said the new Web site promises to be
a boon for a ...
<http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/11_15-37/TOP>

War archives join Unesco heritage list
Swissinfo - Switzerland
Red Cross archives in Geneva recording the fate of two million
prisoners captured during the First World War have joined Unesco's
"Memory of the World" ...
<http://www.swissinfo.org/eng/front/detail/War_archives_join_Unesco_heritage_list.html?siteSect=105&sid=8423749&cKey=1195131449000&ty=st>

Blunt Orders E-Mail Retention System
KMBC.com - Kansas City,MO,USA
The closest the state gets is a set of guidelines that note that
"e-mail messages that document decisions, policies, procedures,
resource expenditures,
...<http://www.kmbc.com/politics/14607102/detail.html>

Historic sounds Bayonne resident contributes to PBS series
Hudson Reporter - Hoboken,NJ,USA
He gradually became one of the principle collectors, and soon found
materials in the National Archives that even government people did not
know existed. ...
<http://www.hudsonreporter.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19026414&BRD=1291&PAG=461&dept_id=532622&rfi=6>

Rule makes records' format irrelevant to maintenance timetables
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
By Ben Bain The National Archives and Records Administration has
announced today a final rule that will make new agency recordkeeping
schedules and possibly
...<http://www.fcw.com/online/news/150819-1.html>

One of NASA lost archive to be found
CNews - Moscow,Russia
One of NASA lost archive related to the Moon project Apollo containing
the so called Monday Notes by Verner fon Braun might be found out, the
newspaper ...<http://eng.cnews.ru/news/line/indexEn.shtml?2007/11/13/274774>

Doctors may be prosecuted if their laptops are stolen
Times Online - UK
Mr Thomas said: "If a doctor, or hospital [employee] leaves a laptop
containing patients' records in his car and it is stolen, it is hard
to see that is ...<http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article2873186.ece>


UK doctors face huge fines for losing laptops
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
"Criminalizing doctors for having their laptop stolen sounds to me
like cracking a nut with a sledgehammer," said Tom de Jongh of
encryption vendor safeBoot ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/111507-uk-doctors-face-huge-fines.html>

You really should pay attention to the FRCP
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
If an organization can have a civil lawsuit filed against it, then the
FRCP should figure prominently in that organization's data management
strategy in the
...<http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/gwm/2007/1112msg2.html>

At work, all e-mail can be public
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... offers e-mail activity-recording features and specifically says
that it records Hotmail, Yahoo and Gmail. "Even when they delete their
e-mail," the...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/339884_email16.html>

Museum moving stored collection
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
By JANET CAGGIANO The Black History Museum and Cultural Center of
Virginia is relocating its stored collection of African art, textiles
and archival ...
<http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/news.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2007-11-15-0087.html>

Hefner Gives $2M to USC Film School
The Associated Press -
... central exhibition space in the new headquarters of the school and
an archival repository for student films and historic documents, the
university said.
...<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iF4fMFSrRMvJfzXniugOlAw1MvugD8SUB2PG0>


Lost treasure located?
Saturday, October 27, 2007
By SHELBY G. SPIRES
Times Aerospace Writer [log in to unmask]
Atlanta federal archive may have 'Monday Notes' of von Braun
A complete set of Apollo-era memos and papers considered by many
aerospace historians as a "Holy Grail" of insight into how Dr. Wernher
von Braun managed America's rocket programs may have been discovered
in an Atlanta federal archive, Marshall Space Flight Center's chief
historian said.
<http://www.al.com/huntsvilletimes/stories/index.ssf?/base/news/119347677578210.xml&coll=1>

NU's record-keepers grapple with technology
Daily Northwestern - Evanston,IL,USA
Forty years from now, it may be difficult to figure out what the
campus looks like today. It isn't that photos aren't being taken; it's
where they are being ...
<http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/news/2007/11/15/Campus/Nus-RecordKeepers.Grapple.With.Technology-3103732.shtml>

George W. Bush's Presidential Library:
FindLaw - Mountain View,CA,USA
In addition, in conversations with presidential library professionals
(of all political persuasions), I found that they are deeply troubled
by Bush's and ...<http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dean/20071116.html>

Fox touts Mexico's first presidential library
Monterey County Herald - Monterey,CA,USA
By CLAUDIA MELÉNDEZ SALINAS Former Mexico President Vicente Fox was in
Carmel Valley on Thursday to discuss the idea of his presidential
library and museum, ...<http://origin.montereyherald.com/ci_7479188>

Reagan Library staff works on inventory of 100000 artifacts
Simi Valley Acorn - CA,USA
By Darleen Principe [log in to unmask] Hundreds of visitors at the
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library wandered through the rooms and
corridors of the ...
<http://www.simivalleyacorn.com/news/2007/1116/Front_Page/001.html>

What the Auditor Is Told, a Plaintiff Could Exploit
New York Times - United States
To comply, corporate lawyers have been generating large amounts of
confidential documents on issues that could affect a company's bottom
line. ...<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/16/business/16audit.html?ref=business>

Armstrong's Capitol tour (feature photo)
Charleston Gazette - WV, USA
Fred Armstrong leads a state Capitol tour for the group Leadership
West Virginia on Thursday. Armstrong had agreed to lead the tour
before he was fired as
...<http://sundaygazettemail.com/section/News/2007111541>

A Test of Time: Did Perry's office purge e-mail too quickly?
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
State archivists approve an agency's document-retention plan, which
must provide for various periods of time that records must be saved,
if at all. ...<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/editorials/stories/DN-perry_16edi.ART.State.Edition1.377104a.html>

Key documents missing in New Times inquiry
East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA
Judge Anna Baca wrote in her order that documents were missing from
the court file when she held a hearing Oct. 24 pertaining to the
investigation. ...<http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/102169>

Deja vu all over again at Veterans Administration
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The records belong to patients who were treated at the hospital and
include Social Security numbers and other personally identifiable
information. ...<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=13&articleId=9047482&intsrc=hm_topic>

Report: Korean Execs Stole $1.8B in Trade Secrets
Dark Reading - New York,NY,USA
By Tim Wilson Two top executives of a major Korean electric power
business illegally brought more than $1.8 billion in trade secrets
with them when they ...
<http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=139010&f_src=darkreading_gnews>

Archives Library Protest
WSAZ-TV - Huntington,WV,USA
A genealogy group is holding a rally Friday evening to protest plans
to move the archives library at the Cultural Center. The group, Mining
Your History ...<http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/11473771.html>


Newspaper gets digital archives
Red and Black - Athens,GA,USA
The digital archive, found on the University library Web site,
contains issues of The Red & Black through 1979 and upon completion,
the archive will contain
...<http://www.redandblack.com/home/news/2007/11/16/News/Newspaper.Gets.Digital.Archives-3106265.shtml>

The Medical Ordeals of JFK
Atlantic Online - USA
Before, during, and since his presidency, the Kennedys have guarded
JFK's medical records from public view, apparently worrying that even
posthumous ...<http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200212/dallek-jfk>

Document-Sharing Web Site Finds Racy Content Piling Up
Wall Street Journal - USA
But rivaling Scribd's growing collection of schoolwork, public
documents and other miscellanea is a significant amount of adult
content, which the start-up
...<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119516733147494899.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>

Stop, thief! All in a librarian's work
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
By Dawn Miller ONE day about 20 years ago, librarians at the state
Archive had their eye on a suspicious-looking visitor who was known to
have a criminal ...<http://wvgazette.com/section/Opinion/2007111510>

Blunt questions Nixon's right to e-mail probe
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
His announcement came just hours before Nixon announced the launching
of the investigation into whether Blunt staffers had violated the
state's open-records ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/1E597C98FFBB41928625739500153F0F?OpenDocument>

IBM Recognized by Independent Research Firm as a Leader in ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
... by offering the richest core set of ECM capabilities: imaging,
document management, content archiving, records management, and
content integration.
...<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/marketwire/0329925.htm>


Picture book tells UT's story
The Daily Beacon - Knoxville,TN,USA
... university archivist at UT. All of the proceeds he would normally
receive from the book he signed over to the university to help fund
the archives. ...<http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=52399>

Big attraction
Shetland Times - Lerwick,Scotland,UK
Archivist Brian Smith told the meeting that the use of the archives is
now four times greater than it previously had been when the archives
were housed in ...<http://www.shetlandtoday.co.uk/Shetlandtimes/content_details.asp?ContentID=24295>

ITWeb - Gauteng,South Africa
As an unintended side effect, few, if any, large organisations have a
complete view of how their most sensitive content - trade secrets,
financial data,
...<http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/industryinsight/security/biehn071116.asp?O=FPII>




-- 
Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va