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

Investor ensures Magna Carta copy will stay in Washington
AXcess News - Georgetown,KY,USA
The document is technically only on loan to the National Archives, so
Rubenstein could ask to take it out, a move he said he would not consider.
Archivist ...
<http://www.axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/14176>

Historians get raw deal in East End archives
East London Advertiser - London,England,UK
Irreplaceable historical records in some areas run the risk of not
surviving for future generations, the National Archive warns. Tower Hamlets
in the survey ...
<http://www.eastlondonadvertiser.co.uk/content/towerhamlets/advertiser/news/story.aspx?brand=ELAOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newsela&itemid=WeED04%20Mar%202008%2018%3A34%3A21%3A300>

Indigenous agency stands firm over document handover
ABC Online - Australia
... me and say do not hand over these files." The Department says it will
appoint an independent legal adviser to assist with the transfer of client
records.
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/03/05/2180982.htm>

Leaving No Stone Unturned In Data Collection
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel - Mountainside,NJ,USA
With respect to e-mail backup, companies often enforce retention policies
as part of the records management policies by enforcing rules that require
e-mail ...
<http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artType=view&artMonth=March&artYear=2008&EntryNo=7998>

Qualcomm's Hard-Learned Lessons
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... a partner at Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner, and chair of the Sedona
Conference working group on best practices for document retention and
production. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1204631586917>

Maine To Pursue Return Of Declaration Of Independence Copy
WMTW - Auburn,ME,USA
Maine Archivist David Cheever said a judge in Fairfax County, Va., ruled
last month in favor of Richard L. Adams Jr., who lives in the Fairfax area....
<http://www.wmtw.com/news/15497879/detail.html>

History of Cal student fashions on display
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
William Benemann, an archivist by trade, is not accustomed to putting
clothes on mannequins. On Tuesday morning, however, he was fussing with a
set of ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/05/BAJJVDGE0.DTL>

Apple Day set for Thursday
Pittsburg Morning Sun - Pittsburg,KS,USA
Pittsburg State University Archivist Randy Roberts can understand where
some of the institution's historic tales could have been tweaked as they
were passed ...
<http://www.morningsun.net/stories/030508/loc_253853541.shtml>

Email Is Changing the Way We Communicate and Historians Are Worried
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
... opportunities for valuable insight and understanding as to the who, what, why and how of our lives, says Peter Gottlieb, State Archivist of Wisconsin. ...
<http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tom-alderman/email-is-changing-the-way_b_90050.html>

Rare document linked to Tiffin, Worthington on display in Columbus
Chillicothe Gazette - Chillicothe,OH,USA
... Ohio's first governor, and Thomas Worthington, the state's sixth governor, was recently purchased from eBay by State Archivist Jelain Chubb.
<http://www.chillicothegazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/UPDATES01/80305010/1002/>

Press Association makes archive available to all
British Journal of Photography - London,England,UK
The Press Association has opened up its photo archives to the public, allowing them to search for and buy prints. Currently, only photos from the 10-million ...
<http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=725289>

Professor files lawsuit against IRS for not responding to records ...
SU The Daily Orange (subscription) - Syracuse,NY,USA
... Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC). But starting this year, the IRS stopped sending Long audits, which prompted her to file a lawsuit on Feb....
<http://www.dailyorange.com/home/news/2008/03/05/News/Professor.Files.Lawsuit.Against.Irs.For.Not.Responding.To.Records.Request-3251678.shtml>

Search at the foundation of the enterprise
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
By John Alber Businesses are being ov--erwhelmed with electronic records.
Enterprise search offers a promising way to deal with the growth of
electronically ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=software&articleId=9066800&taxonomyId=18&intsrc=kc_feat>

Bush Library for Southern Methodist University

By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com | Friday, March 07, 2008

Leftist faculty and clergy have waged a long, sometimes nasty battle to keep Southern Methodist (SMU) University in Dallas from hosting the Bush Library. They have insisted that the library will tie SMU to the Bush Administration's supposedly sinister policies of preemptive war, "torture," uncontrolled Global Warming, and puritanical repression. But SMU's board of trustees has finally voted unanimously in favor of the library.

<< http://tinyurl.com/2uw3mu>>

UI trying to wipe out social security numbers
Iowa City Press Citizen - Iowa City,IA,USA
By Brian Morelli University of Iowa officials are hunting down social
security numbers. They will track them, mark them and eliminate them, ...
<http://www.press-citizen.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080305/NEWS01/803050323/1079>

Mpls. judge wants JFK material in national archives, not Dallas ...
KXMC - Minot,ND,USA
But US District Judge John Tunheim (TOON'-hyme) of Minneapolis is urging Craig Watkins, Jr., to donate the material to the National Archive's Kennedy ...<http://www.kxmc.com/News/214608.asp>

Governor says destroy e-mail, former spokeswoman alleges
Go Blue Ridge - Boone,NC,USA
She later told media the governor's office instructed state agencies to
permanently delete e-mails to bypass public records laws. ...
<http://www.goblueridge.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2837&Itemid=28>

Find What You're Looking For?
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
With changes to the US Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) in December
2006, ESI received all the legal rights of those traditional boxes full of
paper ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/magazineFeature/0,296894,sid14_gci1303837,00.html>

Bringing down Public Enemy No. 1: IRS makes Al Capone's records public
Accountingweb.com - Indianapolis,IN,USA
It's been 77 years since Al Capone was prosecuted, and now the IRS is
releasing documents about the country's most celebrated tax evasion case.
<http://www.accountingweb.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=104748&d=883&h=884&f=882&dateformat=%25e-%25h-%25y>

Swiss bank in Wikileaks case abruptly abandons lawsuit
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Wikileaks' summary of the leaked documents centers on Rudolf Elmer, the
former chief operating officer of Bank Julius Baer in the Cayman Islands....
<http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9886855-38.html?tag=newsmap>

OLD BOURNEMOUTH STREETS AND LOST SUSSEX MILLS TO BE DIGITISED
24 Hour Museum - UK
The HLF grant will also enable the conservation of a unique collection of
Victorian glass negatives. The Day Collection is a photographic record ofthe ...
<http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART54946.html>

United States: Mining Buried Electronic Data: Increasing Criminal ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subscription) - London,UK
... to spoliation and could result, in the criminal context, in a
prosecutor's drawing inferences adverse to the client or, worse yet,
obstruction charges. ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=57926>

City eliminates museum curator position
Coral Gables Gazette - Coral Gables,FL,USA
29 that they had decided to eliminate her position in order to use the
funding to hire an archivist, she wrote in a mass city email sent out a
couple of ...
<http://cggazette.com/absolutenm/templates/?a=3619&z=1>

1888 Photo Depicts Helen Keller, Teacher
The Associated Press -
"It's really one of the best images I've seen in a long, long time," said
Helen Selsdon, an archivist at the American Foundation for the Blind, where
Keller ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jx5UkYp5N1mBlA4hm74zF_MZc9RwD8V7JFN80>

Rare Helen Keller - Anne Sullivan Photo Discovered
Salem-News.Com - OR,USA
NEHGS, a 160-year-old archive and research library, specializes in
genealogy and family history research. "When we talk about our individual
family ...
<http://www.salem-news.com/articles/march062008/helen_keller_photo_030608.php>

SCLC archive finds a home at Emory
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Its archive, contained in 1100 boxes, is the second-largest collection
placed with Emory's manuscript, archives and rare book library, surpassed
in size ...
<http://www.bizjournals.com/atlanta/stories/2008/03/03/daily37.html>

Library seeks to archive Cole memorials
Northern Star Online - DeKalb,IL,USA
By JAMES TSCHIRHART After three weeks of memorializing the victims of the
Feb. 14 shootings, a decision has been made for what is to be done with the...
<http://www.northernstar.info/article/2608/>

Data Empowerment Launches State-of-the Art Record & Information ...
TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA
... along with multi-million-dollar legal costs for defense of
non-compliance - the importance of effective records management that
encompasses both ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-data-empowerment-launches-state-of-the-art-record-/2008/03/06/3311725.htm>

The Judge Group's Expert in Records and Information Management ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The informative address offered a detailed understanding of the "steps to
compliance" by discussing the advantages of implementing a compliance
program, ...
<http://www.businesswire.com/news/google/20080306005109/en>

Walking The Data Minefield
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
"The first thing an organization needs to think about is creating a
records management policy," Dales says. "In most organizations, the
power to keep or ...
<http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3010/32p10/32p10.asp&guid=>