RAIN 20080704
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
Students create archive for the future
Gazette & Herald - UK
By Gazette Reporter An archive for the future has been created by
Hardenhuish School in Chippenham to show future
generations what life was
like in 2008. ...
<http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/headlines/display.var.2375180.0.students_create_archive_for_the_future.php>
CoSN: It's time to archive your eMail
eSchool News - Bethesda,MD,USA
New white paper reveals why schools need to save eMail correspondence ...
and offers advice on how to do it By Meris Stansbury, Assistant Editor, ...
<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/top-news/news-by-subject/budget-news/?i=54391;_hbguid=f6fea951-bb71-4cf5-b6f5-ceea84d73fe1>
Joint venture works to archive C'field's
history
New Baltimore Voice Newspapers - New Baltimore,MI,USA
By Kimberly Scherer George Furton had a lifelong dream - that a partnership
would exist to help archive the history of Chesterfield Township.
...
<http://www.voicenews.com/stories/070208/loc_20080702012.shtml>
Telecommuting Presents an EDD Nightmare
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... reasonable steps to prevent all of its employees from doing wrongful
and foolish things, like destroying evidence, under the pressure of
litigation. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202422733068>
National Records Centers Introduces NRC
Global Digital Network
Scure Destruction Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
"While paper-based records storage will continue to be the dominant
storage medium for the foreseeable future, client access to that
information dictates ...
<http://www.sdbmagazine.com/news/news.asp?ID=8528>
WTF! US Court Declares You Have No
Privacy On YouTube
Search Engine Land - Redding,CT,USA
I've got an email out to Google asking when they'll comply or more
importantly, if they'll find a way to refuse. The company stood up to the
US Department ...
<http://searchengineland.com/080703-081813.php>
ISO Uses PDFs Too, Standardizes Format
DaniWeb - Herndon,VA,USA
... paper or electronic documents to PDF, interface or implementation of
rendering, document storage or conformance validation methods of files or
readers, ...
<http://www.daniweb.com/blogs/entry2729.html>
Historian to win Spirit of America Award
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
Randol Jackson's commitment to the history of the Lewis and Clark
expedition at the Red House and to the organization of the county archives
were among the ...
<http://www.semissourian.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080703/NEWS01/100173838/-1/news01>
YouTube: Trade secrets are safe but your
information isn't
guardian.co.uk
- UK
A judge has ordered YouTube to hand over information about every video
watched including logins and user IP addresses to Viacom, which is suing
the video ...
<http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/07/03/youtube_trade_secrets_are_safe_but_your_information_isnt.html>
Former HP VP charged with stealing IBM
trade secrets
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
... Hewlett-Packard Co. vice president was indicted by a federal grand jury
last week for allegedly stealing trade secrets from his former employer,
IBM. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9106280>
Immune to Critics, Secret-Spilling
Wikileaks Plans to Save ...
Wired News - USA
More controversially, the site has begun posting confidential documents
from the secretive and litigious Church
of Scientology, and from the Church
of Jesus ...
<http://www.wired.com/politics/onlinerights/news/2008/07/wikileaks>
US taxman on hunt
for Paul Hogan files
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
The IRS has also demanded the records of four companies related to Hogan,
court documents filed in Los Angeles
reveal. But Hogan is fighting the
move, ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,23966375-2702,00.html>
Whither ILM?
Search Storage - USA
The term Information Lifecycle Management conjures up thoughts of managed
data, orderly storage environments, documented processes, and responsible...
<http://storage.blogs.techtarget.com/2008/07/03/whither-ilm/>
Archives provide a portrait of the
colourful William Grafton
Bowen Island Undercurrent - Bowen Island,BC,Canada
By Lois Meyers-Carter - Bowen Island Undercurrent - July 03, 2008 Welcome
to Island Chronicles - stories of island history, people, activities and
events. ...
<http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/bowenislandundercurrent/community/22888599.html>
Passport record system open to abuse, IG
finds
McClatchy Washington Bureau - Washington,DC,USA
The database, known as the Passport Information Electronic Records System,
was installed in 1999. It includes records on 192 million passports held by
127 ...
<http://www.mcclatchydc.com/244/story/43128.html>
Donor gives 78-rpm records to Syracuse
Univ.
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Elias Savada says his father wanted the records _ valued at about $1
million _ donated to SU Library's Belfer Audio Laboratory and Archive. ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--recordcollection0703jul03,0,6727422.story>
Unesco help for tribal archive
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
Besides, authorities plan to make the archive akin to an information centre
to help researchers and school students — also hobbyists. ...
<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080704/jsp/nation/story_9468417.jsp>
Microfilm archive available at public
library
Colusa County Sun Herald - Colusa,CA,USA
Microfilming is really important because the print copies of the old papers
are easily damaged and the library would like to have all the archives
available ...
<http://www.colusa-sun-herald.com/news/public_1388___article.html/archive_available.html>
Bank files uncovered at 'health records'
dump site
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
However, both council and HSE executives have no idea how such confidential
medical records could have been disposed of at the site. ...
<http://www.independent.ie/national-news/bank-files-uncovered---at-health-records-dump-site-1427472.html>
Judge Orders Google To Turn Over All
YouTube User Data To Viacom
The Consumerist - New York,NY,USA
The judge also turned Google's own defense of its data retention policies
— that IP addresses of computers aren't personally revealing in and of
themselves, ...
<http://consumerist.com/tag/privacy/?i=5021983&t=judge-orders-google-to-turn-over-all-youtube-user-data-to-viacom>
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure,
E-mail Discovery and You
Virtualization Review - Irvine,CA,USA
This white paper discusses the key issues involved in proper data retention
and retrieval, and discusses Lucid8's DigiScope offering that can satisfy
these ...
<http://virtualizationreview.com/techlibrary/resources.aspx?id=407>
Viacom vs YouTube exposes Google's data
retention policy
ZDNet Blogs - USA
In the ongoing litigation between Viacom and YouTube (Google) over alleged
copyright infringement, a US
court has ruled that "Google must divulge
the ...
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=539>
No room at State Archives in Augusta
Brunswick Times Record - ME, United States
AUGUSTA — The State Archives are full with no room for any more
documents, and legislators and other state officials are being asked to
hold onto their ...
<http://www.timesrecord.com/website/main.nsf/news.nsf/0/D1A3B61A7E27DF9F8525747B00520D28?Opendocument>
THE TREASURE TROVE OF NEW JERSEY'S
GENESIS
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
Nearly 232 years later, in a vault within a vault within another vault at
the state archives in Trenton,
director Karl Niederer opened a long, narrow
metal ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-10/121514617643700.xml&coll=1>
There goes the gayborhood
Southern Voice - Atlanta,GA,USA
WHEN REUTER BEGAN his research, he found that despite the existence of
archival libraries, gathering the artifacts that make up gay neighborhood
history ...
<http://www.southernvoice.com/2008/7-4/arts/books/8827.cfm>
Celebrity Passport Records Popular
Washington Post - United
States
Otherwise, the files provide limited information; they do not contain
records of overseas travel or visa stamps from previous passports. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/03/AR2008070303799.html>
Loss of minutes haunts Gilford official
Foster's Daily Democrat - Dover,NH,USA
"If it was our job to hire, we would have asked questions about
[Shackett's
destruction of public records]," said Pilliod. While Commissioner
Christopher ...
<http://www.fosters.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080704/GJNEWS02/336203370>
Washington Times
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/jul/04/let-freedom-ka-ching/>