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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
SMU's Deal With Bush
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
Presidential libraries -- which are managed by the US National Archives and
Records Administration -- have generally been considered a plum for a university
...
<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/02/25/smu>
'Stupid Elgar' letter on tour
Liverpool Echo - UK
It took a full-time archivist and 30 volunteers two years to assemble. The project
was inspired by the commitment of amateur archivist and Phil concertgoer ...
<http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2008/02/25/stupid-elgar-letter-on-tour-100252-20520545/>
Historical sleuths unearth vital documents
Northwich Guardian - Northwich,England,UK
Now county archivist Jonathan Pepler is the proud custodian of an irreplaceable
collection of archives dating from the 1760s. The collection has already ...
<http://www.thisischeshire.co.uk/display.var.2069904.0.historical_sleuths_unearth_vital_documents.php>
Pentagon says China agrees to open records relating
to missing ...
The Canadian Press -
WASHINGTON - The Pentagon says China has agreed to a long-standing request for
access to sensitive military records US officials believe might resolve the ...
<http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsNsW_gkDgwpuXXewPID3nR7fazA>
Web opens up previously untouched musical archive
LSU The Reveille - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
Growing up in the digital age, it's easier to discover archives of great music
from 10 or 20 years ago. With the Internet and portable MP3 players, ...<http://www.lsureveille.com/news/2008/02/25/Entertainment/Web-Opens.Up.Previously.Untouched.Musical.Archive-3231522.shtml>
Former Employee Pleads Guilty to Federal Judge for
Unauthorized ...
Earthtimes - London,UK
Over a period of approximately six months, Pipolo systematically directed his
contact to take a variety of confidential documents from a restricted network
...<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/former-employee-pleads-guilty-to-federal-judge-for-unauthorized-access,289790.shtml>
What Exactly Will Go Into the Bush Presidential
Library?
Yahoo! News - USA
The Nation -- When George W. Bush's presidential library opens in Dallas at Southern
Methodist University (officials announced the site on Friday), ...<http://news.yahoo.com/s/thenation/20080225/cm_thenation/917290092>
Row over Bush's 'censored' library
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The institute will be run by the George W Bush Presidential Library Foundation.
It will have its own board and at least one seat will be allocated to the ...<http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/worldwide/story/0,,2259857,00.html>
Inside story of 167 years of Philharmonic music
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,UK
Archivists recently completed a two-year trawl of the Phil's vaults to catalogue
167 years of documents including thousands of letters. The archive is being ...
<http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/02/25/inside-story-of-167-years-of-philharmonic-music-64375-20519202/>
Wall Street Journal
Liechtenstein at Fore Of Fallout From Probe Of Former LGT Worker
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120389617431389345-email.html>
Chinese Scientist Indicted for Corporate Espionage
in Texas
Canada Free Press - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The indictment returned by a federal grand jury in Houston on Wednesday, February
20, 2008, charges Zeng with two counts of theft of trade secrets and one ...<http://canadafreepress.com/index.php/article/2046>
GCN
Computer scientists and computer writers seem to worry a lot about the security vulnerabilities of electronic voting systems, particularly direct recording electronic (DRE) equipment. But some recent research indicates that security is not the biggest issue on the minds of voters.
<http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/45870-1.html>
Gun permits should remain public record
Orangeburg Times Democrat - Orangeburg,SC,USA
There was no such thing as right-to-carry concealed weapons permits when
FOIA was passed three decades ago. Yet with records of the licensing
process in the ...
<http://www.timesanddemocrat.com/articles/2008/02/26/opinion/12971384.txt>
Kilpatrick's memo set policy: Electronic messages
are public
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
The five-page public records directive, enacted in 1998 under Mayor Dennis
Archer and re-authorized by Kilpatrick, cautioned that any communication
"is not ...
<http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080226/METRO/802260360>
FRCP Amendments Demonstrate Requirement for Email
Archiving with ...
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Since the FRCP changes, the discovery of email for litigation has
become a
critical component of legal inquiries. In the past, organizations had to
rely on ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3688&Itemid=44>
Records Begin With Record-Keeping
Washington Post - United
States
We need a legislative solution that allows outside groups and the National
Archives to address record-keeping problems while a president is still in
office. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/25/AR2008022502466.html>
Council's financial records 'amongst the worst ever
seen'
24dash - Hereford,UK
The poor record keeping led to a grave being sold twice and an exhumation.
The Town Council has taken effective steps to put things right but the
District ...
<http://www.24dash.com/news/Local_Government/2008-02-25-Councils-financial-records-amongst-the-worst-ever-seen>
Company helps lower risk of losing sensitive data
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United
States
Fuller, EPC's president, describes it as a "bigger version of the paper
shredder." Organizations that benefit most from such shredding are health
care ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/business/stories.nsf/0/3E00F453839FCA1A862573FB00123142?OpenDocument>
Plymouth official urges tighter
security for documents
Laconia Citizen - Laconia,NH,USA
The files are public records and Murphy said that it is important to have
the most accurate records possible. Murphy said that there may be no
wrongdoing at ...
<http://www.citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080226/GJNEWS02/605554693/-1/CITNEWS>
Pentagon says China agrees to limited opening of
records related ...
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
Instead, Chinese archivists with security clearances acceptable to the
People's Liberation Army will do the document searches and turn over
relevant records ...
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/military/20080225-1248-us-china-mias.html>
'Sensitive' Documents Discovered In Co Tyrone
Outhouse
4ni.co.uk - UK
He said: "It is quite outrageous that documents or files of a confidential
nature should appear just like this. It is totally unacceptable. ...
<http://www.4ni.co.uk/northern_ireland_news.asp?id=72196>
Still No Upgrade for White House E-Mail
The Associated Press -
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The White House still has not finished work on a new
records management and e-mail archiving system, a project that began nearly
five ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKKWSY_43nHexg55YcW2X9YXNayAD8V1LNGO0>
Hillary Stonewalls; Washington Post Cheers
FrontPage magazine.com - Los
Angeles,CA,USA
By Tom Fitton In a recent editorial, The Washington Post fiercely defended
the National Archives' withholding of Hillary Clinton's White House
papers at ...
<http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=E7F9BC8F-4788-4BA9-8A82-14D078781FB6>
Politicos squabble over 'missing' White House
e-mails
CNET News.com - San
Francisco,CA,USA
According to the committee, the archive system is an "ad hoc" process
called "journaling," in which a White House staffer or contractor
manually
copies ...
<http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9879344-7.html>
Ignorant teacher inspired black archivist's life's
work
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
Kathy Matheson, AP (02-25) 04:00 PST Philadelphia -- As a child growing up
in the 1940s, Charles Blockson was once told by a white teacher that black
people ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/25/DD3HV8EPO.DTL>
City's musical history is a hit
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,UK
The archive also includes records detailing 'The Industrials' - an
annual series of concerts that the city's biggest employers booked out
for their workers. ...
<http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/capital-of-culture/2008/02/26/liverpool-s-musical-history-is-a-hit-64375-20523441/>
From polar bears to the Bomb: historic Getty picture
archive is ...
Independent - London,England,UK
By Stephen Foley in New York Getty Images, the world's largest picture
archive, has been sold to a private equity firm for $2.4bn (£1.2bn), ...
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/from-polar-bears-to-the-bomb-historic-getty-picture-archive-is-sold-for-24bn-787354.html>
Public Domain Books from Area University Libraries
Headed to ...
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
The Open Content Alliance, which is administered by the aforementioned
Internet Archive, is an alliance of over 80 institutions and libraries
which have ...
<http://www.wral.com/business/blogpost/2485377/>
Expert Details White House E-Mail Risks
The Associated Press -
Waxman produced a May 1, 2007 letter from the archivist of the United
States telling White House Counsel Fred Fielding that it is essential that
the White ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKKWSY_43nHexg55YcW2X9YXNayAD8V27J100>
Ministers say police destroyed documents
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
By Margaret Moffett Banks GREENSBORO -- Three local ministers say 50 boxes
of material related to the 1979 Klan-Nazi shootings were destroyed during
former ...
<http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080226/NRSTAFF/468962939>
DHS: US healthcare records are the target of foreign
hackers
CNET News.com - San
Francisco,CA,USA
The finalrules for security compliance cover specific areas of data storage,
such as who must be interviewed regarding compliance, and what aspects of the
...<http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9879608-57.html>
Police destroyed Klan records, ministers say
USA Today - USA
... Nelson Johnson plan to discuss the records at a news conference Tuesday.
They also said they will identify the officer who ordered the files destroyed.
...<http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2008-02-26-klan-records_N.htm>
Report: NARA doubted White House e-mail archives in
2004
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
He also said that the office became aware in October 2005 that some e-mail files
were not being properly managed, the .pst files were scattered across ...<http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151755-1.html>
Center opens for military personnel files
Watertown Daily Times - Watertown,WI,USA
JUNEAU - Personnel Records Center (NPRC) will open for the first time all of
the individual official military personnel files (OMPFs) of Army, ... <http://www.wdtimes.com/articles/2008/02/26/news/news7.txt>
More Answers in the Missing Email Caper
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
Last March, it was revealed that White House officials, including Karl Rove and
Andrew Card, had been using Blackberry's and email accounts issued by the ...<http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/02/7347_more_answers_in.html>
Ghana: Can Any Good Thing Come From Archives?
African Path - Minneapolis,MN,USA
In fact, electronic records created using ICTs contain business information in
digital format that must be preserved and made available to support policy ...<http://www.africanpath.com/p_blogEntry.cfm?blogEntryID=3654>
How To: Convert Office 2007 Documents on Any
Platform
Wired News - USA
Although the .deb files are specificly geared toward Ubuntu, they should work
with similar Debian-based Linux distros. Don't expect flawless conversions of
...<http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/02/how-to-convert.html>
Why documents in Jersey remain secret
Telegraph.co.uk - United
Kingdom
By Gordon Rayner The Freedom of Information Act gives journalists and
members of the public the right to demand access to public documents in
mainland ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/27/njersey127.xml>
Woman countersues the College Board
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
The lawsuit asks for "emergency relief" and seeks a restraining order
against the College Board to keep it from releasing College Prep's trade secrets.
...<http://www.star-telegram.com/metro_news/story/495385.html>
Freedmen's Bureau helps genealogists narrow their
quest
Scripps News - Washington,DC,USA
... removing the need for researchers to skip among state archives in search of
information, archivist-genealogy specialist Reginald Washington said after a
...<http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/31023>