RAIN 20071212

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

Historian tracks Paugussett trail
Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
Modern history was not a problem, because surviving tribal members,
newspapers and public documents provided ample details of the past 100 or
more years, ...
<http://www.connpost.com/ci_7673001?source=most_emailed>

Historians' appetites whetted by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.'s ...
International Herald Tribune - France
Other Schlesinger papers are at the Kennedy presidential library in Boston.
Bruce Schulman, a history professor at Boston University, believes the
documents ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/12/10/america/Schlesinger-Papers.php>

CIA tape destruction offers cautionary tale for cios
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The e-discovery rules require US companies to keep electronic records when
they're faced with a civil lawsuit or the likelihood of a lawsuit. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9052120 >

Acting Director of Culture and History Named in WV
WSAZ-TV - Huntington,WV,USA
(AP) - The former assistant to fired Archives and History Director Fred
Armstrong has been named to serve as his acting replacement. ...
<http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/11068736.html>

Govs' E-mail Purges Raise Hackles
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
"It's not an easy thing to manage," said Tim Nolan, a program specialist
with the state archives. John Washburn, an activist who doesn't even live
in Texas, ...
<http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/25991/>

Precursor of the Constitution Goes on Display in Queens
New York Times - United States
Marie Culver, a preservation expert from the New York State Archives in
Albany who accompanied the Remonstrance during its journey to Queens, ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/05/nyregion/05remonstrance.html?em&ex=1197003600&en=a7918aa320b61d3c&ei=5087%0A >

A quick look at town birth certificate
Boston Globe - United States
Most of the documents in the state archives never leave Boston; someone from the archives had to chaperone the parchment during its one-day stay in...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2007/12/06/a_quick_look_at_town_birth_certificate>

State posts 'treasure map' to publicize archives
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
Nevada State Archives Manager Jeff Kintop holds on Oct. 12 a 1964 "true
copy" of the original telegraph message sent by President Abraham Lincoln
to Nevada ...
<http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071111/NEWS/711110364/1321>

Saving emails could cost Mo. more than $1 million
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
But the state's document retention policies allow some records to be disposed of sooner than others, depending on their nature. ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/B32F90216D2E7D31862573AE0012E16A?OpenDocument >

Beyond the Firewall
Wall Street Journal - USA
So far this year, more than 270 organizations have lost sensitive information like customer credit-card or employee Social Security numbers -- and those are ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119717602597518492.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>

The Untold Insider Threat: Office Workers Confess to Everyday ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
... who have access to sensitive data such as customer information, Social Security numbers, credit card data, company financials and intellectual property. ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NEM04410122007-1.htm>

New State Law Puts Pressure On Employers To Protect Privacy
Worcester Business Journal - Worcester,MA,USA
Moschos said it is also important not to include social security numbers on employee badges or timecards. He said companies should use caution when sharing ...
<http://wbjournal.com/j/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2937&Itemid=139>

Ask.com allows users to erase search queries
Reuters - USA
Earlier this year, Ask said it had changed its data retention policy to separate a person's search history from their identifying Internet information after ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/companyNewsAndPR/idUSN1045612420071211>

Ask.com to erase your searches
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
The other major search engines revised their data retention policies this year and now store information for shorter times. Ari Schwartz, deputy director of ...
<http://www.suntimes.com/technology/690126,ask121007.article>

County to get safeguards on computers
Times Daily (subscription) - Florence,AL,USA
It would also allow all computer records to be stored in a secure environment outside the commission office in the event that the building was ever ...
<http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20071211/NEWS/712110330/-1/COMMUNITIES>

British Library acquires Pinter archive for £1.1m
Independent - London,England,UK
By Arifa Akbar, Arts Reporter Harold Pinter's archive of papers, comprising more than 150 boxes of manuscripts, scrapbooks, letters, photographs, ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3244698.ece>

UT acquires archive of novelist O'Brien, known for Vietnam novels
Houston Chronicle - United States
2007 AP AUSTIN -- A research center at the University of Texas has acquired the literary archive of novelist Tim O'Brien, a winner of the National Book Award ...<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5367629.html>

Does RAM Discovery Make Good Law?
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The requesting party later claimed spoliation because the images involuntarily saved in cache files were later lost. The court disagreed, noting that the ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1197367483863>

Archives photos go digital
Newsdurhamregion.com - Durham,Ontario,Canada
By Melissa Mancini A donation of $80000 from an anonymous donor will help
the archives make digital files of the Town's historical photos so they can
be ...
<http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/whitby/article/90735>

'Surprised' Western Digital to revisit multimedia file-sharing limits
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The software is designed to allow WD customers to access their WD hard
drives remotely in order use digital files such as photos, videos and text
documents ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9052339&taxonomyId=149&intsrc=kc_top >

Iron Mountain buys Royersford building from Wetherill
San Antonio Business Journal - San Antonio,TX,USA
Data storage company Iron Mountain Inc. bought a 225000-square-foot
building for $12.3 million in Royersford, Pa., and plans to eventually use
the entire ...
<http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/philadelphia/stories/2007/12/10/daily12.html>

Medical records disappear between New Brunswick, BC
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
VICTORIA -- Questions are being raised about how private medical
information is transported after four unencrypted magnetic tapes containing
data on 140 ...
<http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/story.html?id=161368>

Library buys Harold Pinter archive for £1m
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Sir Harold Pinter has sold his archive - more than 150 boxes of
manuscripts, scrapbooks and emails - to the British Library for £1.1
million. ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/12/12/nart312.xml>

Transportation Security's Handling of Sensitive Security Information
The Common Voice - Greenville,SC,USA
Within the same 12-month period, 30 percent of requests were initiated by
the public under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). ...
<http://www.commonvoice.com/article.asp?colid=7970>

Learning EDD From the Mistakes of Others
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Zubulake and Coleman involved spoliation-of-evidence sanctions for failure
to preserve relevant e-mails when the parties knew that claims were or
would be ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1197496448619>

China Focus: US archives reveal war massacre of 500000 Chinese by ...
Xinhua - China
Two telegrams from the US National Archives and Records Administration
added evidence to support claims of a "Pan-Nanjing Massacre" that included
the ...
<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/12/content_7236237.htm>

Farsons Foundation brings WWII to the National Archives
Malta Independent Online - Malta
It's not every day that a collection of World War II photographs and 8mm
film footage is donated to the National Archives of Malta but this week
marks such ...
<http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=61908>

Lewisville warehouse is new site for Bush records
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
The six-year, $12.7 million contract, overseen by the National Archives and
Records Administration, will turn Lewisville's 1725 Lakepointe Drive into
the ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/121307dnmetbushwarehouse.228bcc3.html >

Free The Flushing Remonstrance!
Western Queens Gazette - Queens,NY,USA
State archive officials said special steps must be taken to prevent the
document from damage by light. Oats said the Queens Museum offers the
necessary safe ...
<http://www.qgazette.com/news/2007/1212/features/011.html>