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RAIN 20071202
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

A Disturbing Find Behind A Metro Business: Personal Information
MyFox Kansas City - Kansas City,MO,USA
We let Carolyn shred her own, but for all the other employees whose files
ended up in the trash, this problem's solved! Federal law requires the
destruction ...
<http://www.myfoxkc.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5092410&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=3.2.1>

Analytics Brief: Gaining Value From ILM
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
In our survey of 291 readers, records management and file archiving were
the most common reasons for undertaking an ILM initiative (see Figure 1,
below).
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=204301244>

Police: Photos, Artifacts Missing From Historical Society
NBC5i.com - Fort Worth,TX,USA
DALLAS -- Police said they are searching for more than 20 items that
missing from the Dallas Historical Society. The society said the items may
have been ...
<http://www.nbc5i.com/news/14746071/detail.html>

Nearly Two Dozen Artifacts Missing from Dallas Historical Society (2º)
InfoBolsa - Spain
Sometimes called the Santa Anna Cross, consisting of an eagle holding
cross, with six red enamel radiants, reads on the back "Al Valor Acreditado
en Texas" ...
<http://www.infobolsa.es/v2002/Noticias/noticias_titulares2.asp?Fuente=IBNW&FechaNot=20071201&Clasif=C&Numnot=103532>

Police told to delete old records
Gulf Times - Doha,Qatar
LONDON: The data watchdog yesterday said it had ordered four police forces
to delete the records of a number of old criminal convictions because they
were ...
<http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=182090&version=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20>

Houston Press
Priscilla Slade and the TSU Three
Spurred on by a fellow student's death, Oliver Brown, William Hudson
and Justin Jordan ran a gauntlet on their way to bring down a
president
<http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-11-29/news/priscilla-slade-and-the-tsu-three/>

Dallas group missing invaluable pieces of history
Dallas: Pieces apparently disappeared while TV show was filming
12:00 AM CST on Saturday, December 1, 2007
By HOLLY YAN / The Dallas Morning News
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-historictheft_01met.ART.West.Edition1.36ebc07.html>

Ex-Mexican president's spurs stolen from Dallas Historical Society
WFAA - Dallas,TX,USA
"They were repacked in a box about the size of a record storage box, were
put back in a staff work area and then were discovered missing when one of
our ...
<http://www.wfaa.com/sharedcontent/dws/wfaa/latestnews/stories/wfaa071201_lj_hawes.5b0b9320.html>

Germans Take Pride in the Wurst
Washington Post - United States
Digging in the Weimar city archives, Erzmann unearthed a yellowed,
handwritten parchment from 1432 that laid down the law regarding the
production of ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/01/AR2007120101513.html>

20th Century Fox's iconic images
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
For Building 99 is on the 20th Century Fox studio lot in LA, and Vault 8
contains the studio's vast photographic archive, of which Easterla is
director. ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/arts/2007/12/02/sv-foxarchive-102.xml>

Solicitor General orders removal of website archive stories
Radio New Zealand - Wellington,New Zealand
The Solicitor General's order relates to two stories on The New Zealand
Herald's website archive from 2005 and 2006, which it says constitute
contempt of ...
<http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/latest/200712031144/solicitor_general_orders_removal_of_website_archive_stories>

Middle School Archive Project challenged students to plan future
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
Three years ago, to fight our 45 percent + Dallas dropout rate, we started
a 10-year time capsule and class reunion plan called the Middle School
Archive ...
<http://www.pal-item.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071202/NEWS0302/712020330>

Fired WV Archivist Gets Award
WSAZ-TV - Huntington,WV,USA
Members of the West Virginia Historical Society honored Fred Armstrong with
the Virgil A. Lewis award. Armstrong was the WV archivist director before
...
<http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/12036491.html>

Companies warned of limits on data protection capability
Finance Week - Bristol,UK
The loss of claimant records by HMRC has drawn attention to unauthorised
copying and removal of confidential data from central stores, without
proper ...
<http://www.financeweek.co.uk/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=5763&d=11&h=24&f=254>



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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va