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RAIN 20080210
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
Detroit mayor approved secret deal
to hide racy texts
WOOD-TV - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
"The possibility that personal documents _ whether financial records,
health records or other information _ might become public would have a
chilling effect ...
<http://www.woodtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7843530>
Cape Coral, Fla.,
Automates Records Management
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
In 2005, Cape Coral, Fla.,
saw about 8000 single-family home permits issued
in the city - one of the largest in southwest Florida with a population of
about ...
<http://www.govtech.com/gt/260256?topic=117674>
Identity Theft on the Hilltop
Washington Post - United
States
This story is one that has been repeated dozens of times over the past few
years with little variation: A laptop is taken from the Department of
Veterans ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/07/AR2008020702790.html>
Museum Regaining Footing
Centralia Chronicle - Centralia,WA,USA
A state archivist came to the museum to help with the recovery efforts,
coaching volunteers on saving albums of photographs. ...
<http://www.chronline.com/story.php?subaction=showfull&id=1202550638&archive=&start_from=&ucat=1>
Plans for National Nuclear Archive
The Press Association -
A National Nuclear Archive which could hold up to 30 million digital, paper
and photographic records is to be established. ...
<http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gHnLhBhx6f_vaxw2LJ624u6AwNsQ>
Nuclear power's history compiled
BBC News - UK
A National Nuclear Archive is to be created in Caithness in the Highlands at a cost of £20m. The Nuclear Decommissioning
Authority (NDA) said it would ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7235749.stm>
Work starts on conserving photos
BBC News - UK
Each one is being placed in an acid-free envelope and stored in a purpose-made
archive box. The library service has said it is the "finest and largest
...<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/7236633.stm>
Jefferson County
historians put treasures on new Web site
Peninsula Daily - Port Angeles,WA,USA
That effort has 29000 records, about a third of the historical society's
holdings, indexed in a combined library-museum-archive database. ...
<http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/article/20080209/NEWS/802090303>
American Home to Give Up Documents
Forbes - NY,USA
American Home isn't sure who owns the loans recorded in the hard-copy files
it is storing, according to documents filed Tuesday in the US Bankruptcy
Court ...
<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/02/08/ap4634917.html>
Response to records request must be 'prompt,' court
says
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
By Howard Fischer PHOENIX -- Government can't make people wait for weeks or
months for public records, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday. ...
<http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/223774>
EBay to Buy Back Stolen Historical Items
The Associated Press -
In January, state Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's investigation found that
about 200 documents had been stolen from the archives and sold in the past two
...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i71n6E1VXI_Y3vba_dvQ9jwL9QbQD8UMUMP80>
eBay to buy back stolen historical items
Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA
The online auction copmpany is agreeing to buy back and return to New
York's archives, a state official said Saturday, Feb.
9. By MICHAEL GORMLEY
Associated ...
<http://www.bnd.com/243/story/251988.html>
Former ECU professor puts student information online
Greenville Daily Reflector - Greenville,NC,USA
By Kathryn Kennedy Personal information for hundreds of East Carolina
University students, including
Social Security numbers, was accessible
online after a ...
<http://www.reflector.com/local/content/news/stories/2008/02/09/ECUstudentfiles.html?imw=Y>
Old records get a little TLC before moving day
Leelanau Enterprise - Leland,MI,USA
"The State Archives determines which documents must be microfilmed or
scanned." Tax rolls, for example, are considered permanent records, but
paper copies ...
<http://www.leelanaunews.com/blog/2008/02/10/old-records-get-a-little-tlc-before-moving-day/>
City impedes access to records
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
Mayor Frank Melton on Thursday said he planned to deny a public records
request from The Clarion-Ledger because he simply did not want to release
the ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080210/NEWS/802100378/1001>
Analysis: Attitude, laws facilitate keeping records
closed
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
Elected officials hold long meetings behind closed doors, public records
are locked away and officials use the state's exemption-riddled public
records and ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080210/NEWS/802100377/1001>
Local historian donates land for archives
Cookeville Herald Citizen - Cookeville,TN,USA
Jones said a $2 fee set up by the state legislature that's now in place at
the Putnam County Clerk's office was designed to maintain public records
and to ...
<http://www.herald-citizen.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=00373354-19B9-E2E2-67E649DBB83B343D>
Daily life in 19th century Ozarks enters digital age
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
... and planning phase of the project, which is funded by a federal Library
Services and Technology Act grant administered by the Missouri State
Library. ...
<http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080210/COLUMNISTS08/802100365/1005/ENTERTAINMENT>
State archivist seeks new digs for Vermont's
historical documents
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
By PETER HIRSCHFELD Vermont Press Bureau MONTPELIER -- State Archivist
Gregory Stanford stores 230 years of Vermont history in a 19th century Montpelier
...
<http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/NEWS03/801120324/1004/NEWS03>
WD Farr papers donated to Colorado
State archive
Greeley Tribune - Greeley,CO,USA
The archive preserves primary resources that document the history of water resource
development throughout Colorado
and the West. ...<http://www.greeleytrib.com/article/20080209/NEWS/991132544>
Seeing the light
Baltimore Sun - United States
By Liz F. Kay | Sun Reporter February 10, 2008 WEST ORANGE, NJ - At the Edison
National Historic Site, archivist Leonard DeGraaf oversees a vast collection
...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/ideas/bal-id.edison10feb10,0,2870025.story>
The Paperless Web Worker
WebWorkerDaily - San Francisco,CA,USA
My own daily workflow now includes running incoming paper mail through the
ScanSnap and then through a shredder. Recycle the shreds and you can at
least cut ...
<http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/02/10/paperless-web-worker/>
College Archives Project Launched
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
His materials are just part of what the college's archive center will hold,
said Rob Tate, FSC's vice president for advancement. ...
<http://www.theledger.com/article/20080210/NEWS/802100439/1004/News>
Lincoln museum builds upon success as 200th birthday
nears
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
By Mike Riopell SPRINGFIELD -- Among the more well-known fare at
Springfield's Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is a small
nook filled with ...
<http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2008/02/10/freetime/doc47ad4f43bd70d756100798.txt>
NL government ignores basic computer security
ChronicleHerald.ca - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada
In the case of the public health records, 1420 medical files went into the
"cloud." On the computer with the workers' compensation files it was
determined ...
<http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotian/1037293.html>
Opinion: 10 tips for setting retention policies
InterGovWorld.com - Toronto,ON,Canada
5) Remember the regulations: There are thousands of city, state and federal
rules which require retention of electronic records -- from Occupational
Safety ...
<http://www.intergovworld.com/article/f4d30f0a0a01040801160fa6721e9aa2/pg1.htm>
Historical society's 13-star flag can be worth
millions
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
It's not that the New London County Historical Society didn't
appreciate the antique 13-star American flag -- made of faded white and
red silk ribbons ...
<http://www.telegram.com/article/20080210/NEWS/802100474/1052>
New York Times
By LILY KOPPEL
"THE ABOLAFIA FILES," as Oscar Abolafia describes his celebrity photographs, are kept in file cabinets in a narrow, dim hallway in his small prewar apartment on West 98th Street.
Open any drawer and you will be transported by the images: the arrival of the Beatles in the United States, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison at '60s nightclubs like the Cheetah and Electric Circus, Janis Joplin's first show at Fillmore East. "They love me, they love me," Mr. Abolafia recalled Joplin telling him that evening.
New York Times
CHRIS UHLIK'S children can be found in their home computer lab almost every morning. Nicole is writing a story about her two lizards. Tony is playing an interactive spelling game, while Andy is learning multiplication tables. Even 5-year-old Joceline is clicking away at a storybook game.
Mr. Uhlik, an engineering director at Google, and his family live a practically paper-free life. The children are home-schooled on computers. Other sources of household paper — lists, letters, calendars — have become entirely digital.
New York Times
SPORTS / BASEBALL | February 10, 2008
Cheering Section: Mets Lore Lands in New Jersey Basement
By VINCENT M. MALLOZZI
Charlie Sobel received a rather unusual bar mitzvah
gift in 1971: 14 drawings that had once decorated the set of "Kiner's Korner,"
a long-running postgame interview show hosted by Ralph Kiner.
Richmond Times Dispatch
Ex-professor's gift puts U.Va. on the map
Rare, historic maps show N. America from 1500 to 1700
<http://www.inrich.com/cva/ric/search.apx.-content-articles-RTD-2008-02-10-0263.html>
New York Times
METROPOLITAN DESK
OUR TOWNS; Footprints Of Holocaust In a Battle For Lost Art
By PETER APPLEBOME
Something wonderful happened to Martha Nierenberg in
October 2000 when a trial court in Hungary said something very
obvious. A fortune in artwork had been stolen from her family at the time of
the German invasion of Hungary
in 1944, which also ushered in one of the most horrific chapters of the
Holocaust. Much of the art was hanging in plain view in the countrys two most
prominent museums. It should be given back to her, the court said. The ruling
was the second in her favor, and it seemed definitive.
<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9903E2D8143AF930A25752C0A96E9C8B63&sec=&spon=>
Roanoke Times
<http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/148982>