RAIN 20080714
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
Time to preserve digital memories
Chicago Daily Herald - Chicago,IL,USA
The Illinois State Library in Springfield also has staff working on saving
digital images, documents and publications produced by different state
offices ...
<http://www.dailyherald.com/story/?id=217149>
White House Suffers Setback in Effort to Keep
Visitors Secret
New York Times - United
States
... because orf the possibility that the Secret Service might prevail under
exemptions spelled out in the federal Freedom of Information Act. In any
event, ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/washington/11cnd-visitors.html?hp>
Court tosses White House appeal on visitor logs
The Associated Press -
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal appeals court on Friday set back the White
House's efforts to keep the names of its visitors secret. The Washington
court threw ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5huwECNWFJHbvOgIgWHReW7Dfq9BwD91RO5K80>
Austria pulls Aphrodite statue
given by Hitler
Reuters UK - UK
Research in Linz's
city archives determined that the claim was correct and
the statue was immediately removed and put in storage, a city statement
said. ...
<http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1118864920080711>
The Freedom Archives: An Interview with Claude Marks
Bay Area Indymedia - San Francisco,CA,USA
by Hans Bennett Claude Marks is the director of The Freedom Archives, a San
Francisco-based organization. Through the website and email list-serves,
...
<http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/07/12/18515695.php>
State Security archives kept in Interior Ministry to
be turned ...
Focus News - Sofia,Bulgaria
Interior Minister Mihail Mikov and committee representatives agreed on the
handing over of the archives at the end of June.
<http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n146049>
Could our heritage end up in Merseyside?
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
Today, sources told the Evening News that if the attraction closes all of
the memorabilia could go to Unilever's historical archive, which is 255
miles away ...
<http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED12%20Jul%202008%2011%3A18%3A43%3A180>
Stolen First Folio Edition of Shakespeare Will
Return to Durham
Art Daily - USA
... the internationally acclaimed Sudan
archive, and other important
archive collections, including the Earl Grey papers and the Durham Diocesan
Archive.
<http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25134>
War of words continues while legal battles pauses
Missourinet.com - Jefferson City,MO,USA
Holste claims that memo is simply one given to new employees to outline
overall document retention policies. "They clearly either don't
understand,
...
<http://www.missourinet.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=21D5B201-F64E-D554-83A79C47FF0BF4F2>
E-mail public documents get erased, disappear
Chicago Tribune - United
States
These and other cases raise concerns that millions of public records in the
form of e-mails may be disappearing before anyone outside government can
read ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/ats-ap_technology10jul14,0,1704228.story>
Understanding Data and Information Systems for
Recordkeeping
Information World Review - London,UK
The job of institutional recordkeepers is to keep track of the
organisation's information resources, helping users get hold of key
information quickly, ...
<http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/features/2221561/cut-digital-clutter>
Harris calls for open records safeguards
Legal News Line - Washington,DC,USA
The Columbia Democrat said if elected he would, among other things, bar
state officials from having private email accounts and would establish a
legal ...
<http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/214123-harris-calls-for-open-records-safeguards>
Of Mice and Librarians
New Yorker - United States
EB White had been shipping his papers off to his alma mater, Cornell; he
asked the archivists in Ithaca
to search, to no avail. ...
<http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2008/07/of-mice-and-lib.html>
Can we have our pants back please Maam? Puzzle of
the missing ...
Daily Mail - UK
The Queen was apparently been amused by the unusual request and asked her
archivists to investigate what has happened to the unique nightwear. ...
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1034769/Can-pants-Maam-Puzzle-missing-royal-pyjamas.html>
Australian town writes to Queen asking for its
pyjamas back
Telegraph.co.uk
- United Kingdom
Much to their disappointment, archivists responded saying they had failed
to find any sign of them. A letter of reply suggested that Edward VIII may
have ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/2300311/Australian-town-writes-to-Queen-asking-for-its-pyjamas-back.html>
Durham Committee mainstay donates papers
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
State archivists will copy the collection electronically and on microfilm,
and make the material available to researchers.
<http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1141194.html>
E-mail public documents get erased, disappear
NPR - USA
"We're not saying states are trying to do something bad," said Kevin
Joerling, a certified records manager with the Association of Records
Managers and ...
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92509324>
State Offices Not Saving Email Records
Switched - New York,NY,USA
by Will Safer, posted Jul 14th 2008 at 1:08PM We already know the White
House has trouble archiving and organizing its e-mail record. ...
<http://www.switched.com/2008/07/14/state-offices-not-saving-email-records/>
Getting the Digital Ball Rolling
FederalNewsRadio.com - USA
Mainly because of the diversity of the files the Archives will be
inputting. They'll range from "very, very large files such as a decennial
census, ...
<http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=410&sid=1440145>
Former controller says he altered Livent records
Windsor Star - Ontario, Canada
... Raymond Cheong, he doctored the company's accounting software so as to
delete expense records "with the goal of making it look like they never
existed. ...
<http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/business/story.html?id=654326>
Coloradan's stolen data winds up on Google
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
In this case, however, Google removed the cached pages, but it took the
company two tries to delete them. Such incidents of data theft have become
so common ...
<http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jul/13/coloradans-stolen-data-winds-up-on-google/>
Stemming flow of literary heritage across the pond
guardian.co.uk
- UK
His archive has travelled in the other direction, across the Atlantic to
America.
For a six-figure sum (in pounds, not dollars), the University of
Texas has ...
<http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2290892,00.html>
Times Picayune
A box buried in a church cornerstone almost 140 years ago is finally found, but the small treasures it held are lost to the years
<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-11/121575363863930.xml&coll=1>
Newport News Times
Museum Registrar writes
history, in archives
<http://www.newportnewstimes.com/articles/2008/07/14/news/news18.txt>