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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obtained copies of historical documents or artefacts from other countries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
- 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
- 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>
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
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.