RAIN 20080720 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. History in the digital age: County archives online Bayshore Courier - Middletown,NJ,USA The Monmouth County Clerk's archives, ranging from name changes to debtors prison, are stored in the lower level of the county's library headquarters in ... <http://www.bayshorenews.com/publication/show/2336> Shafie: Wrong to demand return of artefacts Malaysia Star - Malaysia He said the National Archives Department had, in the past, bought or obtained copies of historical documents or artefacts from other countries or ... < http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2008/7/19/nation/21867483&sec=nation > Public officials must preserve e-mail records Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA The new law updates and clarifies the Right-to- Know Law in a number of respects, several dealing specifically with e-mail and other electronic records. ... < http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080719/OPINION/807190307/1028/OPINION02 > Survey Shows E-Discovery Best Practices Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA One respondent commented, "The company needs to spend more time counseling IT and other business clients on the proliferation of electronic records at the ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202423099886> St. Joseph time capsule finally found Daily Comet - Thibodaux,LA,USA So they summoned Leumas, the archivist for the Archdiocese of New Orleans, and archive staffer Dorenda Dupont to St. Joseph on Thursday to lend their ...<http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20080719/APN/807190506> A page of their book Bayshore Courier - Middletown,NJ,USA The facility has a special vacuum and ventilation system to delicately clean old documents, Archivist Gary Saretzky said. The preservation process includes ... <http://www.bayshorenews.com/publication/show/2337> Motorola sues iPhone sales executive over trade secrets CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA Motorola is suing a former executive now employed by Apple's iPhone sales division, charging him with the theft of trade secrets. Bloomberg found the suit, ...<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-9994887-94.html> Documents 'purged' Winnipeg Sun - Canada "They should be co-operating, not firing up the shredding machines just because the act is about to come into force." One e-mail from an employee in the ... <http://winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2008/07/19/6203236-sun.html> Documents 'purged' Winnipeg Sun - Canada "They should be co-operating, not firing up the shredding machines just because the act is about to come into force." One e-mail from an employee in the ... <http://winnipegsun.com/News/Canada/2008/07/19/6203236-sun.html> Motorola Sues Ex-Executive For Taking iPhone Job at Apple Wall Street Journal - USA The suit, which alleges breach of contract and threatened misappropriation of trade secrets, follows a sharp deterioration in Motorola's cellphone business ... <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121641687908266077.html?mod=googlenews_wsj> AD asks for a real Freedom of Information Act di-ve.com - Malta by Valerie Fenech - [log in to unmask] Alternattiva Demokratika said that Malta needs a really free Freedom of Information Act as the present bill being ... < http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsID=52969&newscategory=33 > Endpaper: Kafka's leftovers Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/> - United Kingdom The Tel Aviv newspaper Ha'aretz reported last week that the state archivist, citing the country's Archives Law - passed in 1955 to safeguard records of ... < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/07/19/boend119.xml > Page, Mo GOP spar over e-mails St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States ... lieutenant governor, "called on Acting Governor Peter Kinder to release backup e-mail records being held in violation of the state's open records law. ... < http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/political-fix/political-fix/2008/07/page-mo-gop-spar-over-e-mails/ > Dripping water pipes plague leaky archives building, threaten ... The Canadian Press - OTTAWA OTTAWA — Canada's national archives building is so prone to leaks that it sprang another one last month just as workers were cleaning up the mess from a ... <http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5j0m_pTzWaoPqzYP3OEG_dCEPcuOg> The Freedom Archives: An Interview with Claude Marks Dissident Voice - Santa Rosa,CA,USA by Hans Bennett / July 19th, 2008 Claude Marks is the director of The Freedom Archives, a San Francisco-based organization. Through the website and email ... < http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/07/the-freedom-archives-an-interview-with-claude-marks/ > Family videotape treasures at risk guardian.co.uk - UK The British Library Sound Archive advises that all stored tapes, audio, visual and computer, should be kept in the dark, away from heat sources and with no ... <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/jul/20/heritage.familyandrelationships> Concord library basement is full of literary past Boston Globe - United States But according to Louise Sandberg, the Lawrence Public Library's special collection archivist, the subjects usually had to stay still for a while so as not ... < http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/07/20/concord_library_basement_is_full_of_literary_past > Plastic Bins Can Help Save Precious Documents Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA Never store those items inside file folders in a metal file cabinet. Original documents should be stored flat, away from sunlight or fluorescent light. ... < http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jul/20/tr-plastic-bins-can-help-save-precious-documents/ > Tom Miller: State must upgrade system to protect more victims Huntington Herald Dispatch - Huntington,WV,USA Unfortunately, Fred Armstrong, the former state director of Archives and History, was not covered by civil service but was an "at-will" employee. < http://www.herald-dispatch.com/opinions/x1103454024/State-must-upgrade-system-to-protect-more-victims > Capitol scandal has e-mail trail Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA ... who co-chairs its records management and e-discovery practice. Second, e-mails typically can be retrieved long after the recipient hits delete. < http://www.mcall.com/news/local/all-a1_5bonusmail.6505190jul20,0,163337.story > Virulent 'tape mould' destroying family memories and museum archives Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/> - United Kingdom Among the recordings at risk from the 'tape mould' are museum collections, but experts fear curators may not be aware that their archive is rotting. < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2309400/Virulent-'tape-mould'-destroying-family-memories-and-museum-archives.html<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2309400/Virulent-%27tape-mould%27-destroying-family-memories-and-museum-archives.html> > 1200 archivists to meet in KL New Straits Times - Persekutuan,Malaysia The one-week event, hosted by the National Archives, will be held at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre. National Archives director-general Sidek Jamil said ... < http://www.nst.com.my/Current_News/NST/Monday/National/2298768/Article/index_html > InformationWeek Lessons Learned In San Francisco Hack Job An IT administrator with the city of San Francisco is alleged to have created a private administrative account on systems within the city's FiberWAN project. < http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=209100789&cid=RSSfeed_IWK_All > -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va