 |
 |
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
- 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/>