RAIN 20080628 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Review E-Discovery to Reduce Spoliation Risks Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA Notably, intentional misconduct in withholding e-discovery is not required for a court to make a spoliation determination and sanction a party; instead, ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202422575605> Travis County history emerges from archives KXAN-TV - Austin,TX,USA AUSTIN, Texas (KXAN) -- Thanks to modern technology, the giants of our time will live on as long as we can imagine. (The following is a transcript from KXAN ... <http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=8556687&nav=0s3dR6Sc> Growing support to open IPN archives to the public Warsaw Business Journal - Poland A poll for Rzeczpospolita revealed that 60% of the public want the archives thrown open, while 35% are against. About 56% believe that an institute like the ... < http://www.wbj.pl/article-41698-growing-support-to-open-ipn-archives-to-the-public.html?typ=pam > Ex-CFO admits destroying damning documents Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada The executive who says she blew the whistle on accounting fraud at Livent admits she destroyed documents that could show that company co-founder Garth ... <http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/449504> Talk by volunteer archivist to reveal treasures from the HAHS vault Onalaska Life - Onalaska,WI,USA "We have such a variety packed into this little room," said Scholze, who works with two other archivists — Ruth Clarkin and Barbara Brown. ... <http://www.onalaskalife.com/articles/2008/06/26/news/06hahs.txt> Scholars make finds in Nazi archive The Associated Press - It was the first concentrated academic sweep of the long-private archive administered by the International Tracing Service since it opened its doors last ... <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iRhHirCrKN26EIZcgr8oNqj0dF_QD91I1U080> Online archive to save Welsh tales of life for posterity WalesOnline - United Kingdom NATIONAL treasures and family stories will be presented side-by-side in a vast new digital archive. The All Wales People's Collection launched yesterday is ... < http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/politics-news/2008/06/26/online-archive-to-save-welsh-tales-of-life-for-posterity-91466-21152216/ > Digital solutions can make paper and expenses disappear Tallahassee.com - Tallahassee,FL,USA At the Earl Bacon Agency, the challenge was the insurance firm's records storage. "In the insurance business you are handling a massive amount of paperwork ... < http://www.tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080626/BUSINESS02/806260361/1003/BUSINESS > MoD laptop thefts blamed on 'Facebook generation' VNUNet.com - UK ... and a data-retention policy that complies strictly with the Data Protection Act. Bill Jeffrey, permanent undersecretary at the MoD, said: "We deeply ... <http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2220203/report-slams-facebook-mod-laptop> Full E-mail Archiving Strategy Needed in K-12 Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA The Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) recently released a new white paper, titled School Districts, Data Retention and Federal eDiscovery Rules: The ... <http://www.govtech.com/gt/374371?topic=117688> Happel Stadium hides a sinister past Radio Netherlands - Netherlands Ms Berner didn't know where they came from: "I searched through the museum's archives, contacted the Buchenwald archivists and the connection between the ... <http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/europe/080627-happel> 3M Track and Trace Solutions Installs RFID Tracking System To ... WELT ONLINE - Germany The Army becomes the first branch of the US Armed Forces to deploy this RFID system from 3M for medical records management. Three other federal government ... <http://newsticker.welt.de/index.php?channel=fin&module=smarthouse&id=746665 > Fort Pierce Utilities Authority changes record-keeping policies TCPalm - West Palm Beach,FL,USA ... in utility records under certain circumstances, the Fort Pierce Utilities Authority has changed its record-keeping policies to ensure confidentiality. ... < http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/jun/27/fort-pierce-utilities-authority-changes-record-kee/ > Records kept in disused toilets The Canberra Times - Canberra,Australian Capital Territory,Australia BY NATASHA RUDRA A report has criticised the ACT Government's record-keeping, saying the territory's key records office is understaffed and accurate records ... < http://canberra.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/records-kept-in-disused-toilets/798813.aspx > Knox County: Missing public records found intact, sheriff says Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA By Randy Ludlow Knox County Sheriff David Barber says he has located public records that he previously said were destroyed when they were requested by The ... < http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/06/27/Barber_records.ART_ART_06-27-08_B3_M6AJJHS.html?sid=101 > Delkin launches 200-year archival Blu-ray discs Pocket-lint.co.uk <http://pocket-lint.co.uk/> - UK Delkin Devices is now shipping Archival Gold Blu-ray recordable media, the first archival BD-R disc guaranteed to preserve data safely for over 200 years. ... <http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.phtml/15724/16748/view.phtml> Open Secrets New York Times - United States He said that Mr. Sidell had used that computer without authorization and had sent trade secrets and confidential company information to his Yahoo e-mail ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/27/technology/27mail.html?ref=us> Are hotels keeping records on you? Times Online - UK HOTELS could be breaking data protection laws by storing personal information about guests on computer files - ranging from details about home life to ... < http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/travel/your_say/article4220495.ece > NARA launches electronic records archives FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA NARA said it plans to begin moving millions of computer files into ERA in July, which will eventually be available online. The system will be open to the ... <http://www.fcw.com/online/news/153000-1.html> National Archives Announces Successful Completion of Major ... Earthtimes (press release) - London,UK These historically-valuable electronic records range from databases about World War II soldiers to the State Department's central files on foreign affairs. ... < http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/national-archives-announces-successful-completion,450147.shtml > Stop destroying sensitive data, CSIS told Globe and Mail - Canada JUSTICE REPORTER -- Canada's spy agency has wrong-headedly pursued a policy of destroying recordings and documents in sensitive cases for the past 14 years, ... < http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080627.CSIS27/TPStory/National > Be a River, not a Dam...with Your E-Discovery Data CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA Today's marketing for document management, records management, preservation, and DIY evidence processing reek of these early storage system promises. ... < http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4676&Itemid=44 > VoIP Telephony: Keeping a Lid on Pandora's Box New York Law Journal - New York,NY,USA 25 The court found that the defendants had engaged in spoliation of evidence for failing to preserve recorded conversations. 26 Accordingly, the defendants ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?id=1202422620063> Sunshine For Today's E-mails The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA The differing interpretations belie the Sunshine Law's comprehensive definition of public records as "all documents, papers, letters, maps, books, tapes, ... < http://www.theledger.com/article/20080628/NEWS/806280357/1036&title=Sunshine_For_Today_s_E_mails > Stamford photographer gives century of work to community Abilene Reporter-News - Abilene,TX,USA Photographer Tommie Rector, 98, donated to the museum a career's worth of black-and-white pictures that he shot -- and some tintypes, glass negatives and ... <http://www.reporternews.com/news/2008/jun/28/picture-this/> -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va