RAIN 20071210
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
Oak Ridge Speared in Phishing Attack Against
National Labs
eWeek - New York, NY
The attackers may have gotten access to names and other personal
information, however, including Social Security numbers and dates of birth....
<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2230086,00.asp>
Archive stores history's voices
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
deshazer is the director of the Pacifica Radio Archives. Master tapes
dating back to 1949 are being copied onto cd's and other media to preserve
them from ...
<http://www.dailynews.com/sports/ci_7673098>
Inmate challenges Virginia law barring access to
records
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
State Solicitor General William Thro said the law was enacted to prevent
inmates from using FOIA requests simply to "harass and otherwise
annoy"
government ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--cotap-prisonrecor1206dec06,0,153192.story
>
Sampling Footnotes column Ferrer collection adds
valuable data ...
The Mississippi Press - gulflive.com
- Pascagoula,MS,USA
That event brought back memories for former county archivist Betty Rodgers
of Fort's Lake, prompting her to comment on
progress in the forties. ...
<http://www.gulflive.com/living/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/news/1197067506294360.xml>
DC Mayor rescinds citywide 6-month e-mail deletion
policy
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
... that the DC Government e-mail system was built to offer communication
services and emergency government functions "not to provide document
retention. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9046260&intsrc=news_ts_head
>
mcshredder runs hot
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
He denied suggestions he was removing evidence that indicated the shredder
had been in use. Mr mccormack said he was destroying personal documents
that ...
<http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,22887384-5014114,00.html>
State sues to recover copy of Declaration of Independence
Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA
Some time later, former State Archivist Jim Henderson tracked the document
to Virginia,
but didn't know the name of the owner. Under Maine law, all
public ...
<http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/4543000.html>
The Getty Gets Serious About Video
New York Times - United States
Many of the videos in the Long Beach
archives, he added, were most likely
"done on a lark." Today, however, the Getty is treating that archive,
...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/arts/design/09kino.html?ref=design>
E-discovery is no friend to tape
Techworld.com - London,UK
and also of other random-access archive stores, meaning Blu-ray-based ones
(JVC jukeboxes) and Plasmon's Archive Appliance. It's just another nibble
away at ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=3&entryid=718>
New reasons for archiving data
Techworld.com - London,UK
In the archive you need random access, write-once-read-many (WORM) and
offline media. These are the three things you need for an archive and
compliance ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3862&pagtype=samechan>
Hi-Tech Archive Won't Ditch Old School Ways
Bru Direct - Brunei
Darussalam
By Anna Abu Bakar Bandar Seri Begawan - The National Archive may be going
digital, but for those not quite ready to go hi-tech, they can still
opt to
use ...
<http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/Dec07/111207/nite30.htm>
Corporate covertness
Chicago Tribune - United
States
But he is involved in corporate espionage. Rather than calling himself a
spy, however, Neubauer's job title is competitive intelligence analyst. ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-mon_spies1210dec10,0,357582.story>
Dallas Historical Society artifacts recovered
Missing items turn up in hotel lost-and-found
12:43 AM CST on Saturday, December 8, 2007
By DAVID FLICK / The Dallas Morning News
A happy ending has rarely left so many people angry
or embarrassed.
Sure, 21 missing artifacts, which the Dallas Historical Society feared had been
stolen, were safely returned this week.
But it turns out they weren't swiped.
They'd been sitting unclaimed for three weeks in the lost-and-found of a Dallas hotel.
Potatoes celebrated
Daily Mining Gazette - Houghton,MI,USA
She started looking into potatoes as a historical subject because an
exhibit Michigan Technological University Archivist Erik Nordberg created
was available ...
<http://www.mininggazette.com/stories/articles.asp?articleID=9749>
Book explores rich history of Cumbernauld
Glasgow Evening Times - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
He said: "The ideas were based on information discovered during my
employment as an archivist for North Lanarkshire Council from 2001 until
2003 "It covers ...
<http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/display.var.1892171.0.book_explores_rich_history_of_cumbernauld.php
>
Coke denies claims it bottled familiar Santa image
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
Recently, the BBC phoned Coca-Cola archivist Phil Mooney and put him on the
radio to address the issue. "I've heard more questions about it in the
last
five ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2007/dec/10/coke-denies-claims-it-bottled-familiar-santa/
>
Slave narrative uncovered in Greenwich documents
brutality and ...
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT,USA
The staff at the Historical Society went to great lengths to authenticate
the document, including hiring researcher Christine mckay, an archivist at
the New ...
<http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-a1slavestorysundaydec09,0,1489368.story?coll=green-news-local-headlines
>
Brown safari films could be academic treasures
Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA
The consortium hired an archivist to inventory the canisters and select 20
percent at random for the first phase of the project, said Brenda mcphail,...
<http://www.bnd.com/336/story/199200.html>
Former mayor, university leader's memorabilia going
to future ...
Press-Enterprise - Riverside,CA,USA
"A couple of months ago, Sally, Jack's widow, and his children gave us all
these things," said Nathan Gonzales, associate archivist at the AK Smiley
Library ...
<http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_D_bcummings09.30cf2f3.html>
A Tug of War Over a Declaration of Independence
New York Times - United States
David Cheever, Maine's archivist, said research suggested that a pastor
received the document first, turning it over to the town after reading it
to his ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/11/us/11declaration.html>