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

ARCHIVES TO HOME HISTORIC PRISON RECORDS FIND
Lincolnshire Echo - Lincoln,England,UK
A set of prison records more than 200 years old are to take pride of place
in Lincolnshire Archives. The books, found by Peter Davis while he was
clearing ...
<http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=156130&command=displayContent&sourceNode=242285&home=yes&more_nodeId1=156139&contentPK=20435729>

The Provincial Archives
Daily Gleaner - Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada
If that item is audio or visual, Denis Noel, sound and moving image
archivist with the Provincial Archives, is probably the one it goes to. ...
<http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/liveit/article/273379>

San Francisco disaster seen in rare photos
Yuma Sun - Yuma,AZ,USA
"The photographs I have are contact prints made from 8x10 glass negatives, taken during the aftermath of the 1906 disaster," Colwell said. ...<http://www.yumasun.com/news/disaster_41159___article.html/francisco_photos.html>

Federal Way man has won thousands in public records lawsuits
TheNewsTribune.com - Tacoma,WA,USA
The City of Des Moines denied Koenig's records request because he identified Jane Doe by her real name. The city said if it released the records, ...
<http://www.thenewstribune.com/331/story/340472.html>

Attic Salt for April 20, 2008
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
The collection is kept at the Louisiana State Archives, 3851 Essen Lane, where no art from the league's collection has gone strolling. ...<http://www.2theadvocate.com/features/17919679.html>

Torture victim's records lost at Guantánamo, admits camp general
Guardian - UK
"[In Guantánamo] the government had a system that automatically overwrote records," Remes told the Guardian. "That is a passive form of evidence destruction ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/apr/21/guantanamo.humanrights>

Talented Tiger lost
Mordialloc Chelsea Leader - Mordialloc,Victoria,Australia
TRACING the history of one of Mentone Football Club's fallen sons who died
aboard HMAS Sydney became a passion for archivist Mark Beasley. ...
<http://www.mordiallocchelsealeader.com.au/article/2008/04/21/33500_mcv_news.html>

Email Archiving: No Room for Excuses
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
On the other extreme, many organizations simply delete everything after a certain time period, such as 30 days or three months. ... <http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4032&Itemid=44>

Easley e-mail policy backed
News &amp; Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... been instructed to delete all e-mail sent or received from the governor's office in an effort to destroy records that could be requested by the public. ...<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1042749.html>

Computer Scientists Develop Solutions For Long-term Storage Of ...
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Tape libraries are widely used for data storage, but digital tape has many shortcomings as an archival medium. Miller's group has come up with a new ...<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080421133025.htm>

New manager on the job at York-Sunbury Museum
Daily Gleaner - Fredericton,New Brunswick,Canada
Ruth Murgatroyd took the managerial reins of the museum last month and
already she's engulfed in cataloguing thousands of artifacts and archival
materials. ...
<http://dailygleaner.canadaeast.com/cityregion/article/273477>

Two employees out of a job after discarding files incorrectly
WISH - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... that does the organization's shredding about adding more bins to the
office. Haenlein said what happened with these files has provided a real
lesson. ...
<http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=8204703&nav=menu35_3>

Discover New E-Worlds
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
In one case a party sought to make a spoliation claim against a Lebanese
party, but the tribunal concluded that there was no duty to preserve e-mail
under ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/ihc/PubArticleIHC.jsp?id=1208774508556>

Police feared clinic records were going to be destroyed
Las Vegas Review - Journal - Las Vegas,NV,USA
Al Salinas of the Metropolitan Police Department said today that law
enforcement seized the medical records from local endoscopy centers after
receiving an ...
<http://www.lvrj.com/breaking_news/17977454.html>

Ending the academic paper chase
Globe and Mail - Canada
Lynn Newman-Saunders, assistant dean of students, sits at her desk with 177
student files open - all of them on her computer. The only paper in sight
is her ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080422.SRGREENPAPERLESS22/TPStory/National>

A Vulnerable Asset
ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA
Graphic Files. Photos, videos, bulletins, programs, promotional posters, and audio files. Governmental Documents. Church meeting minutes, agendas, ...
<http://www.christianitytoday.com/dispatch.html?code=featured&url=/yc/2008/002/7.27.html>

Stopping use of Social Security numbers by state may not be easy
New Richmond News - New Richmond,WI,USA
It won't be as easy as it sounds to stop using people's Social Security
numbers as IDs for government benefits. Last week, Gov. ...
<http://www.newrichmond-news.com/articles/index.cfm?id=20888&section=Wisconsin%20News>

101 years of Facebooks at UMaine:
Maine Campus Online (subscription) - Orono,ME,USA
Fitzgerald said that the machine cost $150000 and was jointly purchased by
Fogler Library and the Maine State Library. Books to be scanned are placed
in a ...
<http://www.mainecampus.com/news/2008/04/21/News/101-Years.Of.Facebooks.At.Umaine-3338293.shtml>

Time's running out to preserve our treasures
Guardian - UK
"So what we're building here is an online community rather than just an
archive online." Any archivist also has to consider intellectual property
rights. ...
<http://education.guardian.co.uk/librariesunleashed/story/0,,2274851,00.html>

100 Years of Vancouver on Film
Northern Stars - Toronto,ON,Canada
"Colin is the CBC's film archivist in Vancouver and he was showing us some
films in their collection. One of them was the Harbeck film. ...
<http://www.northernstars.ca/News/0421022601_vancouver.html>

Oracle addresses archiving
Ovum - London,England,UK
Importantly Oracle has not made the mistake of thinking that archiving is
the same as Records Management, and there is an adapter for Oracle
Universal ...
<http://www.ovum.com/news/euronews.asp?id=6890>

Digital age dawns for aged x-rays
BBC News - UK
The images will be stored on a national archive and will be accessed using
a patient's unique CHI number. The authority said the change would enable
doctors ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/7360524.stm>

Historic tax records shed light on forgotten families
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,England,UK
With the destruction of almost all the 19th-century Ireland censuses during the Irish civil war, this collection is thought to be the only record of ...
<http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-life-features/capital-of-culture/2008/04/22/historic-tax-records-shed-light-on-forgotten-families-64375-20798020/>

More than 100000 pieces of St. Olaf history now online
St. Olaf College News &amp; Announcements - Northfield,MN,USA
... and a quick way to see what's available in the archives," says Jeff Sauve, associate college archivist in the Shaw-Olson Center for College History. ...<http://fusion.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=4319>

Boffins take the long view on digital storage
VNUNet.com - UK
Computer scientists have unveiled details of a project to develop
technology for the long-term storage of digital data. "The problem is how
to build a ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2214859/boffins-long-view-digital>

Right to Privacy Found in Users' ISP Records
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
"Particularly in the case of computers, unscrupulous individuals aware of a subpoena could delete or damage files on their home computer and thereby ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1208861020787>