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RAIN 20080228
Records and Archives In the News is a
compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
New York Times
February 26, 2008
Dot Earth: Buried Seed Vault Opens in Arctic
Andrew C. Revkin
The entrance to the underground Svalbard Global Seed
Vault juts from a hillside in the Norwegian Arctic. (Credit: John
McConnico/Associated Press) [UPDATED, 8:30 a.m.] After several years of
planning and digging, the world has its first secure, deep-frozen repository
for backup supplies of seeds from hundreds of thousands of plant varieties that
underpin agriculture. <http://tinyurl.com/2878kq>
New York Times
February 17, 2008
Art: Thai Antiquities, Resting Uneasily
By JORI FINKEL
A federal investigation has museums wondering if they
can keep the fruits of a serendipitous discovery four decades ago. <http://tinyurl.com/ypwsyg>
January 31, 2008
An Investigation Focuses on Antiquities Dealer
By EDWARD WYATT
Federal authorities say that an antiquities dealer in
California
participated in the illegal importation and sale of antiquities. <http://tinyurl.com/2elnjo>
January 25, 2008
Four California Museums Are Raided
By EDWARD WYATT
Federal agents raided the museums in Los
Angeles as part of a five-year investigation into the smuggling of
looted antiquities from Thailand,
Myanmar, China and
Native American sites. <http://tinyurl.com/27qj98>
January 26, 2008
Museum Workers Are Called Complicit
By EDWARD WYATT
Affidavits related to search warrants executed at
four Southern California museums on Thursday
say that staff members at two of the four museums worked closely with the main
targets of the investigation.<http://tinyurl.com/3yqt84>
February 4, 2008
Tax Scheme Is Blamed for Damage to Artifacts
By MATTHEW L. WALD
Recent raids on museums in Southern California have
stirred questions about why three federal agencies would devote four years to
investigating what seems to be low-level smuggling and penny-ante tax
fraud.<http://tinyurl.com/36mc2q>
Putting A Price On Privacy
North American Press Syndicate - New York,NY,USA
With the increased number of laws requiring document destruction,
businesses and even households need to develop a formal plan for the proper
disposal of ...<http://www.napsnet.com/articles/57555.html>
RNC won't retrieve missing e-mails, Waxman says
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
Messages by White House officials have been sought in inquiry of administration's
problems with data retention. WASHINGTON
– After promising to search its ...
<http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/nation/02/27/0227emails.html>
Politicos squabble over 'missing' White House
e-mails
CNET News.com - San
Francisco,CA,USA
It also replaced the automated records storage system devised by the Clinton
administration with a system that one of its own experts described as ...
<http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9879344-7.html?tag=nefd.lede>
Whitehouse "lost" email scandal gains
traction
Inquirer - Harrow,England,UK
Bush's administration also apparently decided to get rid of the automated records
storage system set up by the Clintons, replacing it with a system...<http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/26/whitehouse-lost-email-scandal>
Data dumped in public doorway
Reading Evening Post - Reading,England,UK
Last month the Post reported how a box containing hundreds of confidential bank
records from Prudential was found abandoned by Junction 11 of the M4....<http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/2022/2022626/data_dumped_in_public_doorway>
Crippling Open Government
Washington Post - United
States
PRACTICALLY every state in the nation has a law that eases access to public
records and documents, a godsend for researchers, public advocacy groups and
...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022602826.html>
Peabody schools' emails will now be publicly
archived
The Daily Item of Lynn - Boston,MA,USA
As of March 3, 2008, all e-mail sent to and from addresses on the Peabody
Public Schools server will be archived for public records in accordance with
the ...<http://www.thedailyitemoflynn.com/articles/2008/02/27/news/news22.txt>
The German Legacy: Foreign Office Documents Confirm
Armenian Genocide
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
... Archives can be compared in terms of substantiveness, authenticity an
overall value to that associated with the holdings of the German state
archives. ...
<http://www.pr-inside.com/the-german-legacy-foreign-office-documents-r458892.htm>
City unaware of Klan-Nazi files missing
Greensboro News Record - Greensboro,NC,USA
Nelson Johnson said the files were destroyed in 2004 or 2005. Boswell said
the city had received a request for documents related to the shootings in
either ...<http://www.news-record.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080227/NRSTAFF/44972827>
Miss Moneypenny scours files for spooks'
correspondence on Diana ...
Times Online - UK
You have to know the difference between a card and a file, a pink memo, a
white minute and a formal document. A real-life Miss Moneypenny, known only
as ...<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3441672.ece>
Securing, Digitizing Medical Records Remain
Priorities in
Healthcare IT
Security and electronic health records top the priorities in IT
for the healthcare industry according to a new study.
http://ct.enews.baselinemag.com/rd/cts?d=189-723-1-15-244000-74461-0-0-0-1
NY laptop theft breaches no data protection rules
Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,Ireland
"Importantly, the key for these codes was not on the stolen laptop or on
the disks given to the NYBC for the performance of its functions," the
Commission ...<<http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single10391>
CNET
Identity
theft study reveals HSBC, BofA, Wamu top targets
<http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9880300-7.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=NewsBlog>
CNET
Expert Details White House E-Mail Risks
The Associated Press -
When President Bush leaves office, presidential records and federal records
at the White House will be turned over to the National Archives. ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hKKWSY_43nHexg55YcW2X9YXNayAD8V2AKHG0>
White House official details email hole
ZDNet Blogs - USA
... smacks of willful violation of laws requiring presidential email archiving,
IT incompetence and a strong whiff of intentional destruction of evidence.
...<http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3676>
Congress to Bush: You've Lost Mail
Washington Post - United
States
By Dan Froomkin The Bush White House has made a mockery of the Presidential
Records Act and its requirement that official White House records -- including
...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2008/02/27/BL2008022702079.html?hpid=opinionsbox1>
Did Prosecutor Get All White House Mail?
Washington Post - United States
(AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Manuel Balce Ceneta - AP) Archivist of the
United States Allen Weinstein, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington,
Tuesday, ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/27/AR2008022700322.html>
Secret Service official defends search for documents
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
Paramore said it took him 7 to 8 hours over 3 1/2 days to check each
document in the office. In addition, he spent about 2 1/2 hours checking
his own files ...
<http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/secrecy/entries/2008/02/26/secret_service_official_defend.html>
Nearly 9000 stolen FTP server admin credentials
offered with an ...
Dark Reading - New York,NY,USA
Storing sensitive trade secrets, client records, client lists, etc. on the
same box?" Abrams says. The "service" works like this: A buyer
can purchase
an ...<http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=147123&WT.svl=news2_1>
Hoover acquires Baath Party
records
Stanford Daily - Palo Alto,CA,USA
... has publicly argued that the records of the Baath Party are inalienable
public property and should be returned to Iraq's national archive without
delay. ...
<http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2008/2/27/hooverAcquiresBaathPartyRecords>
Pursuing lost, local black history
Diamondback Online - College Park,MD,USA
So far, Berlin plans to investigate old
censuses from the 1850s, slave
schedules, land records, national archives, the state archives and the
Maryland ...
<http://www.diamondbackonline.com/news/2008/02/28/News/Pursuing.Lost.Local.Black.History-3240570.shtml>
Renaissance of capture a top content management trend
ITWeb - Gauteng,South Africa
Records management, content management, document management, business
process management, and/or e-mail management? Most likely all of the above....
<http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/techforum/2008/0802280803.asp?O=FPIC>
Wall
Street Journal
While vintage clothing is a hobby for many fashionistas, it's a job for Pamela Golbin, curator in chief of the Musée de la Mode et du Textile. She has selected thousands of items, including old Chanel gowns, Dior suits and Balenciaga coats, to be preserved in Paris's fashion museum.
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120416444790798611-lMyQjAxMDI4MDI0ODEyNjg0Wj.html>
Wall Street Journal
Untouched by Nazi Hands, but Still . . .
By ARABELLA J. YIP AND RONALD D. SPENCER
February 28, 2008; Page D6
A thief cannot pass good
title. (No
matter how many subsequent owners buy in good faith.) Relying on this
well-settled principle of Anglo-American law, courts have invariably ordered
the return of Nazi-looted art to the heirs of former Jewish owners. But what if
the painting were never stolen, confiscated or looted by the Nazis? What if,
instead, the Jewish owner sold his painting to protect it from impending
seizure by the Nazis or to generate income for his family because the Nazis had
stripped him of his livelihood? Is this a "forced sale" amounting to
theft?
<http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120416063008298329-lMyQjAxMDI4MDI0ODEyNjgwWj.html>
Wall Street Journal
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Century-old glass negatives give a glimpse into FM's
earlier days
Fort Madison Daily Democrat - Fort Madison,IA,USA
Williams' granddaughter, Gwen Brown, and her husband Lyle recently had
about 50 glass negatives from Williams' attic transferred to CD-ROM and the
couple ...
<http://www.dailydem.com/articles/2008/02/28/news/news2.txt>
Photographic Memories
State Journal - Charleston,WV,USA
When the business moved in 1961, Borelli discovered boxes of glass
negatives under a table in a dark room and made sure he checked them out
before letting ...
<http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=35394>
Revisiting the Other Half of Jacob Riis
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
... him to search an attic in the Riis family's Long Island home, where
415 glass negatives, 326 glass lantern slides and 192 paper prints were
found. ...
<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/02/28/revisiting-the-other-half-of-jacob-riis/>
UK Store Finds Secret Government Disk
The Associated Press -
In January, the Ministry of Defense acknowledged that a stolen laptop might
contain sensitive details on some 600000 prospective military recruits. ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hr8AWgYJ3Q5rypR699tCSgYHnFCgD8V3CPMO2>
Archivist at Cal State Northridge sets historical
record straight
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The head archivist at California State University, Northridge, is back in
his favorite haunt - the past. A couple of his "soldiers" - grad
students - are ...<http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8386708>
Tolstoy's audio "postcard" to American
people: 100-year-old riddle
RIA Novosti - Moscow,Russia
However, a historian and audio archivist Lev Shilov claims in his book
"The
Voices of Writers. Records of a Sound Archivist" that one recording has
survived ...<http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20080228/100226008.html>
Cameroon: Buea's Lone Archivist Gives Up Ghost
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Self-traineed archivist, Prince Mbain Henry Ankia who served at the South
West Provincial Archives for 40 years, has died. His corpse was buried in
his ...<http://allafrica.com/stories/200802280715.html>
Collier gets Lindsey archive
Flor-Ala (subscription) - Florence,AL,USA
The archive will be located in the Collier Library Archives on the second
floor. The archive will be a dedication to UNA graduate George Lindsey and his
...
<http://www.florala.net/home/news/2008/02/28/News/Collier.Gets.Lindsey.Archive-3238189.shtml>
Hoover Institution Houses Broadcast Archive of
William F. Buckley ...
Earthtimes - London,UK
(Business Wire) The broadcast archive of William F. Buckley Jr.'s television
show Firing Line is housed in the Hoover Institution Archives. ...
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/hoover-institution-houses-broadcast-archive-of-william-f-buckley-jrs,295559.shtml>
County to workers: No files in vehicles
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
Nearly all of the records were from users of the Mecklenburg County Aquatic
Center who used bank drafts to pay for their membership in the months of
January ...<http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/513417.html>
Civil Liberties Groups Come to Wikileak's Defense
RedOrbit - Dallas,TX,USA
A Swiss bank seeking legal action to shut down the Web site Wikileaks for
posting classified documents is experiencing a backlash of unintended
consequences ...
<http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/1274078/civil_liberties_groups_come_to_wikileaks_defense/>
New Details, Lessons in White House E-Mail Debacle
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet - Darien,CT,USA
"Something went very wrong with the White House's e-mail archival and
backup strategy and it shouldn't have happened." Often, IT admins and
other officials ...<http://www.enterprisenetworkingplanet.com/news/article.php/3731076>