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RAIN 20080728
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
National Archives Constantly Searching
For Best Practice In ...
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
She said the National Archives was responsible for ensuring that all
electronic records and data were stored and preserved in the best possible
way. ...
<http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=348660>
Memorabilia of late US civil rights hero
Rosa Park on sale
AFP -
WASHINGTON (AFP) — The personal archive of belongings of the late
African-American civil rights hero Rosa Parks has been put on sale by
Guernsey's, ...
<http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gPDvqG6sv3GeosE6m7yOn7qy68rQ>
Rosa Parks collection to be auctioned
United Press International - USA
Not just the woman on the bus, not just the seamstress, but everything,"
said Carolyn Salter, Guernsey's senior
archivist.
<http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/26/Rosa_Parks_collection_to_be_auctioned/UPI-20811217108011/>
In an era of information theft, this
company chomps and stores
LubbockOnline.com - Lubbock,TX,USA
Miller, at one time, was directly involved in honing the rules that
established guidelines for document destruction as a founding member of the
National ...
<http://lubbockonline.com/stories/072708/bus_310189114.shtml>
Firefighter files vanish as FBI looks
into claims
Boston Globe - United States
Fire department personnel spent weeks photocopying the documents at several
locations in the headquarters building after receiving the subpoenas. ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2008/07/27/firefighter_files_vanish_as_fbi_looks_into_claims>
Are There Any Smart E-mail Retention
Policies?
Slashdot - USA
I work for a large organization which is about to begin destroying all
e-mail older than 180 days. Normally, I would just duck the house-cleaning
by ...
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/07/26/2219246>
In New Oxford, 'sleuths' preserve
history by forming society
The Evening Sun - Hanover,PA,USA
Deeds to properties in New Oxford are shown. (Evening Sun Photo by James
Robinson) Purchase reprints of Evening Sun Photos at EveningSunPhotos.Com....
<http://www.eveningsun.com/ci_10013555>
Goodyear to donate photograph collection
to UA
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
By summer's end, the university expects to begin moving these 83000
photographs to the downtown Polsky Building, which offers proper archival
controls, ...
<http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/25954999.html>
Better access to building records
News.gov.hk
- Hong Kong
To enhance the service, the department started a pilot project in 2001,
digitising building records and forming a small-scale building records
management ...
<http://www.news.gov.hk/en/category/infrastructureandlogistics/080722/features/html/080722en06001.htm>
Online records feeding worries about
privacy
Arkansas Online - Little Rock,AR,USA
O'Brien will put the documents back online after runningthem through a
software program that will redact, or edit out, Social Security numbers.
...
<http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2008/jul/27/online-records-feeding-worries-about-priv-20080727/?subscriber/national>
Move toward online access to files
sparks concerns
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Posting documents online is raising vigorous debate about whether the often
sensitive information in court files, including such things as personal birth
...
<http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=14981334-bdc9-438b-8d5f-629fc4f37f01>
A 'toxic' National Gallery
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
National Gallery documents filed in court indicated Mr. Franklin had a system
of "triple deletion" resulting in the disappearance of deleted files
normally ...
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=c059f3cb-a332-4b57-8ffd-9617aa8b5c3f>
SF computer tech had turned life around
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
After years of study and hard work, they say, he landed a job building a
network that handled San Francisco's
payroll documents, law enforcement
records and ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/07/26/MND011UVRJ.DTL>
Op-Ed Contributor Freedom From Mildew
New York Times - United
States
The National Archives and Records Administration runs the library and
museum. It is a modest place compared with more recent presidential
libraries, ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/28/opinion/28taylor.html>
Rockefeller Archive Gets Its
Independence
New York Sun - United States
By EB SOLOMONT, Staff Reporter of the Sun | July 28, 2008 The Rockefeller
Archive Center — which houses 80 million pages of documents, 750000
photographs, ...
<http://www.nysun.com/health-fitness/rockefeller-archive-gets-its-independence/82712/>
Archiving made uneasy by lack of
metadata
Search Storage - USA
File archiving products are becoming widely available, but the burden of
finding and choosing the files to archive may largely fall to storage
admins. ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/articles/25833-Archiving-made-uneasy-by-lack-of-metadata>
NASA Launches New Interactive Image
Collections
Examiner.com - USA
In 2007, NASA entered into a Space Act agreement with the Internet Archive
to create this incredible image library. The project, which is not funded
by tax ...
<http://www.examiner.com/x-504-Space-News-Examiner~y2008m7d26-NASA-Launches-New-Interactive-Image-Collections>
Archivist seeks WWII vets from Mason, Ga.
Kalamazoo Gazette - MLive.com - Kalamazoo,MI,USA
Archivist Mike Rowland is seeking military personnel and civilians -- or
their families -- who were stationed at Cochran Field in Mason, Ga.,
...
<http://blog.mlive.com/kzgazette_community_extra/2008/07/archivist_seeks_wwii_vets_from.html>
Making room: Hurst
moves paperless data out of city
Fort Worth Business Press - Fort Worth,TX,USA
Harwell and Hurst turned to the Harding Group, an Arlington-based information technology
company that offers data retention, retrieval and other technology ...
<http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=8077>
E-access to court files 'inevitable,'
lawyer says
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
Posting documents online is raising vigorous debate about whether the often
sensitive information in court files, including such things as personal birth
...
<http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/story.html?id=ff8aaeaa-5255-4f73-95ec-ccba1f7c6af1>
Data Preservation for Legal Actions
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
When confronted with this type of an action, IT must cease automated email
deletions, backup tape rotation, tape recycling, and defragmenting and ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4850&Itemid=44>
Volunteers work to preserve history of Delray Beach
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
The group has launched a campaign to expand archive space and add an
exhibition site at the historic Hunt House. The Hunt House was built in
1907; ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/local/sfl-flphistory0728pnjul28,0,4345069.story>
Infamous Auschwitz Tattoo Began as an
IBM Number
The Cutting Edge - Washington,DC,USA
Archivists only found the Büro because it was listed in the IG Werk
Auschwitz phone book on page 50. The phone extension was 4496. ...
<http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=663&pageid=22&pagename=Investigation>
How to Keep Corporate Secrets Secret
eWeek - New York, NY
By H. Abelson, K. Ledeen, H. Lewis One of the problems of corporate data
breaches is the catastrophic risk to corporations when trade secrets, ...
<http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Knowledge-Center/How-to-Keep-Corporate-Secrets-Secret/>
NASA Image Archive Now Available Online
Wired News - USA
A vast collection of NASA archival images, video and audio collections were
made available to the public this past week. NASA Images is a five-year ...
<http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2008/07/nasa-image-arch.html>
Chess club files suit for Polgar's
e-mails
LubbockOnline.com - Lubbock,TX,USA
By Marlena Hartz | Avalanche-Journal A national chess club filed a court
request in Lubbock to obtain computer records and testimony from the
founders of ...
<http://lubbockonline.com/stories/072808/loc_310582593.shtml>
How Do You Deal With Sensitive Data?
Slashdot - USA
But what about employees who do legitimate selects from these databases and
then load CSV files and other text files onto their laptops and PDAs? ...
<http://ask.slashdot.org/askslashdot/08/07/28/2149240.shtml>
Man pleads to snooping in tax records
United Press International - USA
... in celebrities' tax records. He allegedly began snooping in the files
in 2003. A Treasury Department inspector became suspicious during a routine
check. ...
<http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2008/07/28/Man_pleads_to_snooping_in_tax_records/UPI-62491217290237/>
Unpublished McKinley biography will be
restored, preserved
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
The Wm. McKinley Presidential Library & Museum has obtained a grant from
the Henry and Louise Timken Foundation for the scanning of ET Heald's
unpublished ...
<http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=422671&Category=8&subCategoryID=>
USI archiving memories of historical
photographs
Henderson Gleaner - Henderson,KY,USA
Soon, however, those images and other items will begin to become available
through an online project of the Indiana State Library. ...
<http://www.courierpress.com/news/2008/jul/28/usi-archiving-memories-of-historical-photographs/>
About 150 Artists In State Created 5029
WPA Works, But Whereabouts ...
Hartford Courant - United States
Jones, state archivist at the Connecticut State Library, is conducting a
two-year inventory of art created in Connecticut
through the Depression-era Works ...
<http://www.courant.com/hc-wpaartworks-sl,0,1661192.storylink>
The Systematic Destruction of Voting
Rights in America (Part 1)
Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ,USA
In New Jersey's Union
County, paper records of
the number of voters in the recent primary election did not match the results
produced by Sequoia Voting ...
<http://www.naturalnews.com/023706.html>
New records manager appointed
Massey News - New Zealand
The University has appointed a records manager to lead the development and
implementation of a records management programme. ...
<http://www.massey.ac.nz/massey/about-us/news/article.cfm?mnarticle=new-records-manager-appointed-29-07-2008>
Redesigned Form 990 Focuses Attention On
Governance And Operations ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subscription) - London,UK
Document Retention and Destruction. A tax-exempt organization is required
by the IRS to keep books and records that are relevant to its tax-exempt
status ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=63950>
Prepared for e-discovery: What to know
about content monitoring ...
TechRepublic - Louisville,KY,USA
Storage limitations and the absence of a document retention process that
users see as a reason to store documents and other information on local
disk, CDs, ...
<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/tech-manager/?p=568>