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RAIN 20080424 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Archival revival Scenta.co.uk <http://scenta.co.uk/> - London,England,UK The researchers from the Baskin School of Engineering at UCSC designed a reliable archival system that uses little energy using off-the-shelf components. ... <http://www.scenta.co.uk/scenta/news/cit/1720250/archival-revival.htm> Gotlieb's data collection has expiration date Daily Free Press (subscription) - Boston,MA,USA The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center may digitally store and preserve priceless documents, but that does not guarantee century-old letters or ... < http://www.dailyfreepress.com/news/2008/04/22/News/Gotliebs.Data.Collection.Has.Expiration.Date-3340853.shtml > Probation For Sergeant Who Misused Databases Washington Post - United States Assistant US Attorney Jeanine Linehan said that the target and his family were already dressed and destroying evidence at 6 am when agents arrived to make ... < http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/22/AR2008042201994.html?hpid=sec-metro > Heritage Defends Suit Over Auction of Custer Town and Archive Bloomberg - USA The owner, Christopher Kortlander, didn't deliver the Custer archive in time to prepare for last month's auction, said Steve Ivy, Dallas-based Heritage's ... <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aNl4ZZ98vqAU&refer=muse > MANIC - massive archive of networked idle computers Blocks & Files - London,UK University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC) researchers have designed Pergamum, a hundred year archive system using Ethernet-linked redundant and powered ... <http://blocksandfiles.com/article/4879> Welsh home for PJG's archive? British Journal of Photography - London,England,UK Nick Galvin, archive director of Magnum London, tells BJP that the agency would 'comply with Philip's final wishes. But nothing has been resolved yet'. ... <http://www.bjp-online.com/public/showPage.html?page=790378> Penan picture archive online Survival International (press release) - London,UK A collection of hundreds of photographs of the Penan tribe of Sarawak is being made available online for the first time. The pictures were taken by Bruno ... <http://www.survival-international.org/news/3253> E-mail management a mighty struggle for US agencies NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA Still, it may come as little surprise that government agencies are a little shoddy when it comes to email record keeping since even the White House has an ... <http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/27181> Q&A: Daniel B. Wallace ChristianityToday.com - Carol Stream,IL,USA Working long hours in 100-degree heat, the crew discovered there was far more in the National Archive than any Western scholar realized — and more than they ... <http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2008/aprilweb-only/117-32.0.html> Films: Preserving 'Everyday People' History Miller-McCune.com - Santa Barbara,CA,USA Rick Prelinger, the owner and historian/archivist of Prelinger Archives, offers another contributing angle. "History is everybody's interest now," he said. ... <http://www.miller-mccune.com/article/316> Laura Bush sees SMU presidential library as base for education ... Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA ... her efforts touting education and literacy through her husband's presidential library and public policy center being built at SMU, her alma mater. ... < http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/042408dnmetlaurabush.917021bb.html > Three hard drives holding sensitive data missing Buffalo News - NY, United States Collins determined the department needed a leader, she wrote, especially with the discovery that "computer records as well as inventory went missing," and ... <http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/329775.html> New Year's card sent by Anne Frank found, museum says - Yahoo! News http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080423/ap_on_re_eu/anne_frank_card Diary of Father of Macedonian Nation Reveals His Bulgarian Identity Sofia News Agency - Bulgaria The issue of Misirkov's diary is a joint project of the State Archive of the Republic of Macedonia, and Bulgaria's State Archives Agency. ... <http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=92522> Kathleen Williams Appointed Executive Director of NHPRC Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA Archivist of the United States (and NHPRC Chairman) Allen Weinstein today announced the appointment Kathleen M. Williams as Executive Director of the... <http://media-newswire.com/release_1064545.html> Donation of stock aids historical effort The Republican - MassLive.com - Springfield,MA,USA About a year ago, the information that Mason found on the Web site led him to Stone House Museum archivist Doris Dickinson, with whom he began to correspond ... < http://www.masslive.com/metroeastplus/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-3/120885264442310.xml&coll=1 > WVU made 'flawed' decision Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA Days later, officials reversed themselves, citing a record-keeping error. The Post-Gazette found WVU added six classes, worth 16 credits, to Ms. Bresch's ... <http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08115/876164-298.stm> Not All Federal Agencies Meeting E-Mail Management Challenges ... Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA Each of the four agencies generally followed a print and file process to preserve e-mail records in paper-based record-keeping systems, but for about half ... <http://www.govtech.com/gt/299175?topic=117688> Death, taxes and building an IT infrastructure that can handle ... CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA Implement a legal hold on only the right data: The moment litigation starts, a company has the obligation to preserve ESI to prevent data spoliation. ... < http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4055&Itemid=44 > Storage partnerships aim to streamline e-discovery process Search Storage - USA Babineau said that though the end of last year storage administrators showed only dim awareness of the new Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), ... < http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid5_gci1310959,00.html > Grateful Dead archives going to UC Santa Cruz San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA She said business files on the band's concerts contain "the contracts and tickets and box office receipts and the guest lists and itineraries. ... < http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/23/DDML109ACN.DTL&tsp=1 > 'Significant security hole' found in Wisconsin database Forbes - NY,USA "What I saw was enough for me to believe that I could go deeper, that I could delete records for whole states." Four hundred other volunteers across the ... <http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2008/04/24/ap4929553.html> -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va