RAIN 20080128 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. A bad case of euphemism creep The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa In 2004 a Cabinet Office spokesman in the UK explained away the shredding of precious documents as "aggressive records management". ... <http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=692319> Judge: State Police Must Search For Records In Smoke-shop Case TheDay - New London,CT,USA By Ray Henry , AP Writer Providence, RI -- State police must search for additional computer files, e-mails and paper documents to make sure they have turned ... <http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=b09265e1-98d3-4af0-b069-bf43f27ca296> State comes up with additional money for Eddie Robinson Museum Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA State archivist Sailor Jackson, representing Dardenne, also attended. Among plans discussed was christening the banquet space, which will be designed to ... < http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080127/NEWS01/801270314/1060/NEWS01 > Uh, oh: Juvie records can haunt adults Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA Over three years, from 2005 through 2007, just 1388 people asked to have their records destroyed. But county records indicate most were successful,...<http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/222386> Prepare for research Liverpool Echo - UK There is a wealth of material housed in local history libraries and county records offices which provide a treasure chest of information. ... < http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/views/liverpool-columnists/echo-columnists/2008/01/26/prepare-for-research-100252-20396358/ > New security risk for the victims of MoD laptop theft This is London - London,England,UK The laptop containing the sensitive details was stolen from the car of a Royal Navy careers adviser in Birmingham. It had the names, addresses, ranks, bank, ... < http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23434308-details/New+security+risk+for+the+victims+of+MoD+laptop+theft/article.do > Stolen, an M&S laptop containing the pension details of 26000 staff Daily Mail - UK Marks & Spencer denied yesterday it had tried to cover up a reprimand over the theft of a laptop containing the pension details of 26000 staff. ... < http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=510606&in_page_id=1770 > Expert says digital preservation inevitable in 21st century Inquirer.net <http://inquirer.net/> - Philippines One of the key considerations in building a digital archive is format, Jansen stressed. "Format matters. Records must become available to future generations ... < http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/infotech/view/20080127-115141/Expert-says-digital-preservation-inevitable-in-21st-century > Gov. Perry's e-mail thorn comes in form of Wisconsin man Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA Rick Perry's office - because documents sought under state open-records laws must be retained. He just received the first batch - covering four days in ... < http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-perryemail_27tex.ART.State.Edition1.37b85e6.html > PROGRESS: UND center's pilot project delivers paperless route Grand Forks Herald (subscription) - Grand Forks,ND,USA The grant, from the Health Resources and Services Administration, provides $1.6 million to install the electronic medical records system at hospitals, ... < http://www.grandforksherald.com/articles/index.cfm?id=64885§ion=features > US Legal/Medical Records Transcribed Offshore Pose Risks to ... Compliance Home - West Des Moines,IA,USA (Jan 23, 2008)-- A growing amount of legal and medical record transcribing is being offshored to foreign countries, posing a new risk of identity theft and ...<http://compliancehome.com/news/HIPAA/12142.html> Hidden treasures at risk Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA By ABRAHAM MAHSHIE of the Tribune's staff When visitors conduct research or admire the treasures of the past on display at the State Historical Society of ...<http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Jan/20080127News003.asp> "And, did you miss me, textually?" Mobile Messaging - Boston,MA,USA ... national security legislation around issues of data retention means most of need to consider mobile messaging as less ephemeral than we thought. ...< http://www.mobilemessaging2.com/2008/01/27/378/> Investigation of Samsung reveals traces of evidence destruction The Hankyoreh - South Korea During the search, it reportedly found a massive amount of destroyed documents in shredding machines and evidence that electronic financial data had been ... <http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/266022.html> How law firms are coping in the era of e-discovery Daily Record (subscription) - Baltimore,MD,USA But McComas warns that this expenditure might be necessary to avoid the possibility of sanctions against the firm or a spoliation ruling if a piece of ... <http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=4147&type=UTTM> Archives receives O'Mahoney collection Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA By the Star-Tribune staff Sunday, January 27, 2008 The Rosenthal family has given a gift to the Wyoming State Archives which traces a little known part of ... < http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2008/01/27/news/community/3d584a806653f063872573dc0026837d.txt > Resort's past glories preserved on film Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,UK After wading through hours of donated footage, the North West Film Archive is preparing to show the best selection of films depicting life in around the ... < http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/01/28/resort-s-past-glories-preserved-on-film-64375-20401549/ > BBC Worldwide to relive the ages of pop Guardian Unlimited - UK BBC Worldwide is to focus on developing the corporation's huge archive of music programming from Top of the Pops to The Old Grey Whistle Test as part of a ... < http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/jan/28/bbc.television1?gusrc=rss&feed=media > Data Breach Affects 650k Customers of 230 Retailers Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA The spokesman said the tape was found to be missing from an Iron Mountain Inc. facility in October. "We were informed that one of the tapes could not be ... < http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage_security&articleId=311724&taxonomyId=153 > Media Rep: Unclear On Access To Electronic Records WJZ - Baltimore,MD,USA Eric Lieberman, vice president and counsel for The Washington Post, told a House subcommittee that electronic records have not been comprehensively reviewed ... <http://wjz.com/local/electronic.records.access.2.637440.html> Students' personal data stolen The Daily Collegian Online - University Park,PA,USA By Lauren Boyer A university laptop containing past students' archived information and Social Security numbers was stolen from a faculty member while ... < http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/2008/01/28/students_personal_data_stolen.aspx > State employee fired after security breach The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA MADISON -- A state contractor has fired an employee in connection with a breach of Social Security numbers in a statewide mailing earlier this month, ... < http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080125/FON0101/301250030/1985 > NY Worker Accused of Stealing Artifacts The Associated Press - Daniel Lorello, 54, an archives and records management specialist in the state Education Department since 1979, was arraigned Monday on charges of grand ... <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i71n6E1VXI_Y3vba_dvQ9jwL9QbQD8UF11L02> Archivist: I stole papers to pay bills By CLARE TRAPASSO, Associated Press Writer *Mon Jan 28, 6:16 PM ET* NEW YORK - A state archivist was charged Monday with stealing hundreds of artifacts — documents representing "the heritage of all Americans," according to the history buff who found some of them on eBay — to pay his household bills. <<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080128/ap_on_re_us/artifact_arrest_2>> File Trials *By Joel Bruckenstein* New technology and new demands for document security mean that even small firms must upgrade their processes. In 2001, document management within financial advisory firms was still in its infancy. When Dave Drucker and I began writing our first book, Virtual Office Tools for a High Margin Practice, only a small percentage of early adopter firms had already implemented a document management system at that time, but few firms stored all of their documents digitally. < http://www.financialadvisormagazine.com/issues.php?id_content=2&idArticle=1573 > InfoWorld Congress questions security of backup tape sales Filed under: Security<http://weblog.infoworld.com/zeroday/archives/security/index.html> Congresswoman Betty McCollum <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_McCollum>(D-Minn.) has reopened an interesting can of worms on Capitol Hill by sending a letter to the Government Accountability Office requesting an investigation into the potential security implications of a program under which federal agencies are reselling used magnetic data tapes to the public. <http://weblog.infoworld.com/zeroday/archives/2008/01/congress_questi.html> Online, Perpetual Document Storage at a Fixed Price InternetNews.com - USA As one storage analyst described, such storage options can prove very useful as part of an overall data retention approach. "I can see this being a good ... <http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3724341> 2008 Trends: Data Protection, Archiving and Disaster Recovery ... CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA Additionally, the responsibility of complying with new governmental and industry regulations for data retention, archiving and electronic discovery has ... < http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3500&Itemid=44 > -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA Richmond, Va