RAIN 20080308

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

Councilman skeptical that officer told city of document destruction
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
By Margaret Moffett Banks GREENSBORO - Councilman Mike Barber said
Thursday he's "very skeptical" of claims Officer Julius Fulmore reported
the alleged ...
<http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080306/NRSTAFF/703930392>

FRCP looking like a PITW (Pain in the Wallet
Search Storage - USA
It was really hard trying to come up w/ a compelling title to this post,
I'm not sure how we get all mired in TLA's but this FRCP is going to be
a PITA, ...
<http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/03/06/frcp-looking-like-a-pitw-pain-in-the-wallet/>

LG Secrets Make a Chinese Manufacturer Very Happy
G4 TV - Los Angeles,CA,USA
This is big time international corporate espionage type stuff. In my
neighborhood you get killed over some strap like this. Could get really
interesting.
<http://www.g4tv.com/thefeed/blog/post/683409/LG_Secrets_Make_a_Chinese_Manufacturer_Very_Happy.html>

Archivists block release of Clinton papers
USA Today - USA
The 300 pages of internal White House documents on pardon requests were
blocked under the Presidential Records Act of 1978, which allows presidents
to ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2008-03-06-clinton-library-foia_N.htm>

Blunt hires attorneys, demands $540000 to turn over email records
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
"We don't believe that we are required to pay the same government for
public records or documents that should be part of the public domain to
begin with,'' ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/98C1CF168EED0DFA862574050017D8C0?OpenDocument>

Q&A: A look at the Klan-Nazi files allegation
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
Q. Did someone within the Greensboro Police Department order the documents
destroyed? A. No one has said. City Attorney Linda Miles cited a law that
states ...
<http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080307/NRSTAFF/533240835>

Privacy shield crucial for online health records
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
There is no magic "delete" button with electronic medical records.
Safeguards have to be built in from the very beginning. Georgians have
every right to ...
<http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/stories/2008/03/07/privacyed_0307.html>

How To Disappear Online
Forbes - NY,USA
A subtly placed link on the bottom right corner of the "Account Settings"
page will permanently delete all information stored on your page. ...
<http://www.forbes.com/home/technology/2008/03/06/disappear-online-facebook-tech-personal-cx_ag_0307disappear.html>

Deadwood's city researchers link pioneer family with artifact from ...
Deadwood Magazine - SD, USA
A copy of the Maude Baggaley Stilwill's memoir also was presented to the
City Archives. In addition to helping establish a timeline when the
Baggaley local ...
<http://www.deadwoodmagazine.com/article.php?read_id=189>

Smaller E-Discovery Costs for Small Biz
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The next step is to develop, implement and adhere to a regular document
retention plan that sets out a schedule for the routine destruction of
unneeded ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1204804009815>

Records managers see value of enterprise architecture
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Edwin McCeney, Interior's departmental records manager, said his agency
applied the Software Engineering Institute's Capability Maturity Model
(CMM) to ...
<http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151870-1.html>

Picture of Helen Keller as a child revealed after 120 years
Independent - London,England,UK
Nevertheless, scholars and advocates for the deaf-blind will consider the
image one of the most important additions to the Keller archive for a
generation. ...
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/picture-of-helen-keller-as-a-child-revealed-after-120-years-792781.html>

White House CIO even less credible
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
However, when Theresa Payton, who took over the CIO post in 2006 after the
e-mail archiving fiasco was discovered, testified last week to Congress
about the ...
<http://blogs.computerworld.com/white_house_cio_even_less_credible>

Archive for Welsh language pop
BBC News - UK
An archive of Welsh language pop is being created at Bangor University to
preserve its history and development. Co-ordinator Craig Owen Jones said it
needed ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/7283222.stm>

McVeigh archive temporarily closed
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
By Ralph KM Haurwitz | Friday, March 7, 2008, 04:13 PM Public access to the
Timothy McVeigh archive at the University of Texas' Center for American
History ...
<http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-gen/blogs/austin/highereducation/entries/2008/03/07/mcveigh_archive_temporarily_cl.html>

Some Clinton Pardon Papers Still Sealed
The Associated Press -
LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- The Clinton Presidential Library withheld more than a
thousand pages about clemency the former president granted during his last
days in ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZHciT3f08nKCE7n3YcKxEqMc9MwD8V8S4KO0>

Preserve and be damned
Guardian - UK
The 13th Presidential Library (PL) - that of the 43rd President, George W
Bush - was the target of fierce competition between seven colleges when it
was put ...
<http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/columnist/story/0,,2262869,00.html>

What's Hillary Hiding? Demand Full Disclosure of Clinton Tax ...
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
All efforts to access crucial White House papers from the Clinton
Presidential Library in Little Rock, meanwhile, have been blocked by Bill
Clinton himself ...
<http://www.opednews.com/maxwrite/diarypage.php?did=6464>

Secret Service Official says he didn't look for documents
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
Bryant said he did not ask her to look in any of the office's files,
offices, desks, cabinets, closets or the federal records center. ...
<http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/secrecy/entries/2008/03/07/secret_service_official_says_h.html>

No Files For You
Atlantic Online - USA
Archivists at the Clinton Library blocking access "of hundreds of pages of
White House papers on pardons that the former president approved, ...
<http://matthewyglesias.theatlantic.com/archives/2008/03/no_files_for_you.php>

DeVry Institute tightens access to student files
Calgary Herald - Calgary,Canada
Employees then kept copies of those scanned documents on file for future
applications. DeVry has worked closely with the privacy commissioner's
office and ...
<http://www.canada.com/calgaryherald/news/city/story.html?id=4ccdd067-b9ec-4cc4-88a7-d17e66e8cc87>

E-mail battles tally big price tag
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
... apparently in response to the story, the Missouri Republican Party
announced that it too was facing a big bill for an open-records request....
<http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fix/political-fix/2008/03/e-mail-battles-tally-big-price-tag/>

Magna Carta Returned to National Archives
Voice of America - USA
For 20 years the only copy of that historic document in the United States
was displayed at the National Archives alongside America's Charters of
Freedom: ...
<http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2008-03-07-voa35.cfm>

United States: Trade Secrets And Former Employees: Memorized ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subscription) - London,UK
In response to Mr. Martin's activity, Al Minor & Associates filed a
lawsuit, alleging that Mr. Martin had misappropriated company trade
secrets. ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=58062>

Find Sensitive Data About Peoples Public Records Online At ...
Los Angeles Chronicle - CA, USA
There may be many reasons why you want to search public records, you may be researching a book for example, or you might want to search for a long lost ...
<http://www.losangeleschronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=54203>

Lawmaker says U of I unresponsive to public records requests
Belleville News Democrat - IL, USA
AP A state legislator has accused the University of Illinois of trying to
hide public records behind a wall of technicalities and delays. State Rep....
<http://www.bnd.com/326/story/275324.html>

Investigators may sue Blunt to release e-mails
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Unless the governor's office begins cooperating, Pleban said, he will
probably file suit next week in Jefferson City. "If past practice (by the
governor's ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/news/local/story/522113.html>

Judge to consider if deleted e-mails are public record
Houston Chronicle - United States
Dolcefino received some e-mails from the Sheriff's Office but his station
contends they are not sure if they got all of them because the order to
delete ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/5602950.html>

The history of the photobooth
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
As he learned how to use a portrait camera and glass negatives, as well as the arts of developing and printing, he evolved the idea of creating a faster, ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/03/09/sv_photobooth.xml>

Blunt's staff defends charges for email records
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Matt Blunt's staff said Friday it is justified in charging a state investigative team $540000 for e-mail documents sought under open-records requests. ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/missouristatenews/story/F25B5F0DA11DF64386257406000F37E7?OpenDocument>

Clinton library withheld clemency materials
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - The Clinton Presidential Library withheld more than a thousand pages about clemency the former president granted during his last days in ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stories/DN-trailmix_08pol.ART.State.Edition2.46b1ecd.html>

Joe Lieberman: Bush library deserves all documents
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Disclosure of these contributors will help assure that an administration's decisions are not being tilted toward big-dollar presidential library donors. ...<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-lieberman_08edi.ART.State.Edition1.464abfe.html>

Land of Opportunity Offered Little at First
New York Times - United States
Records concerning the Paukers and other Holocaust refugees were found in
files from a resettlement agency. More Photos > By NINA BERNSTEIN They came
to New ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/09/nyregion/09jews.html?em&ex=1205125200&en=e510e214b224c5a3&ei=5087%0A>

Secrets of the dough
The Oregonian - OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... and Luis Morales alleging "misappropriation of trade secrets" --
stealing recipes protected by contract and in great demand by Latinos
across Portland. ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/1204876500135010.xml&coll=7>

Old Boise photos back from the grave
IdahoStatesman.com - ID,USA
BY TIM WOODWARD - [log in to unmask] The old negatives were gathering dust in the state archives for years, their cellulose cracking and stories ...
<http://www.idahostatesman.com/life/story/318433.html>