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RAIN 20080828
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
Skaneateles town, village to preserve history with
grant funding
CNYLink from Eagle Newspapers - Syracuse,NY,USA
21 town clerk Janet Aaron was please to receive a letter noting they had been
awarded $7090 for records management. "I'm thrilled with this grant because we
...
<http://www.cnylink.com/cnynews/view_news.php?news_id=1219769380>
New record keeping standards announced
Scoop.co.nz (press release) - New Zealand
Archives Minister Judith Tizard announced two new recordkeeping standards
today, the Create and Maintain Recordkeeping Standard and the Electronic...<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0808/S00401.htm>
High cost to having a strong records law
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
Some record-keepers are charging $55 an hour to retrieve public documents from
private accounts, Harper says. The charge is boosted by adding the hourly pay
...
<http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080827/COLUMNIST/808270351/-1/newssitemap>
Files linking Obama to '60s radical a hot commodity
Chicago Tribune - United States
The UIC records show that Obama and Ayers attended board meetings, retreats
and at least one news conference together as the education program got
under way ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-obama-filesaug27,0,2234082.story>
Advising Your Client About Metadata
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Similarly, Internet documents contain many hidden "meta-tags" that
allow searching to locate responsive Web sites and "cookies" (text files)
that are often ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202424073607>
Records destruction at Portage High School will stop
for now ...
Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA
"We have placed recycling bins in all departments, and all confidential
documents are properly shredded or stored in a protected location as required
by law ...<http://www.post-trib.com/news/porter/1129002,ptgrecords.article>
Another week, another few million records lost
IT PRO - London,England,UK
Companies such as IBM and Seagate Recovery Services have plants that undertake
secure equipment destruction; some clients even go as far as transporting ...
<http://www.itpro.co.uk/605715/another-week-another-few-million-records-lost>
National Archives move scaled back
Station - Luxembourg
The Wort has reported that the proposed move of the National Archives to
Esch-Belval will be delayed due to budgetary reasons. The planned construction
of ...<http://station.lu/newsDetails.cfm?id=21587>
Historian Irving
heads back to court
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
Now living in Dorney, Windsor, Irving blames the legal team for the loss of his
possessions and historic archives, and is claiming damages of £300000. ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/mandrake/2621231/Historian-Irving-heads-back-to-court.html>
Revealed: The Internet's Biggest Security Hole
Wired News - USA
The method conceivably could be used for corporate espionage, nation-state
spying or even by intelligence agencies looking to mine internet data without
...<http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html>
Can the boss look at employee messages?
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... much harder for employers to investigate a wide range of illegal activities
by employees, including theft of trade secrets and any type of harassment.
...<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08240/907112-28.stm>
Win a photographic record of Hertfordshire thanks to
the Francis ...
Saffron Walden Reporter - Saffron Walden,Essex,UK
... imagine the Herculean task of sorting through eleven tons of glass negatives
as Frith and his staff had to do to locate a particular photograph! ...
<http://www.saffronwaldenreporter.co.uk/content/herts24/competitions/story.aspx?brand=Herts24&category=--Competitions&tBrand=HertsCambsOnline&tCategory=competitionsALL&itemid=WEED26%20Aug%202008%2013%3A35%3A14%3A250>
Departments implement revised privacy policy
University Daily Kansan - Lawrence,KS,USA
People were sent e-mails and told verbally, and we did have a shredding machine
that people were supposed to shred documents into," Prothe said.... <http://www.kansan.com/stories/2008/aug/27/shredders/?news>
Destruction of Evidence Turns Around RIAA Case
Uber-Review - USA
According to the RIAA, Howell deleted all of the files in his shared folder,
then reformatted his hard drive, used a file shredding program and destroyed
...<http://www.uberreview.com/2008/08/destruction-of-evidence-turns-around-riaa-case.htm>
Files linking Obama to '60s radical a hot commodity
Chicago Tribune - United
States
The release of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge documents turned the sterile
special collections room at the university's Daley library into a media
frenzy. ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-obama-filesaug27,0,6063772.story>
Secret files found dumped on tip
BBC News - UK
Sensitive legal documents relating to a major drugs prosecution in
Liverpool have been found on a tip in Lancashire.
The files, which were
meant to be ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7584185.stm>
John Hamilton Appointed National Archives
Congressional Affairs ...
MarketWatch - USA
WASHINGTON, Aug 27, 2008 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Archivist of
the United States Allen Weinstein announced today the appointment of John
...
<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/john-hamilton-appointed-national-archives/story.aspx?guid=%7B6A1EFF62-2F0B-4E5E-9010-5686303128DC%7D&dist=hppr>
Mayor's aide: I shredded file
Detroit Free Press - United
States
In the FOIA case, the newspapers are trying to find out, among other
things, whether the city or Beatty and Kilpatrick subscribed to SkyTel's
text message ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/NEWS06/808270337>
State targets better archives
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
Speaking at the inaugural Archival Training Program for the Film and
Television Unit (FTU) in Suva
yesterday, Major Neumi Leweni, the Deputy
Secretary for ...
<http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=99073>
Defendant in key RIAA decision destroyed evidence
ZDNet - USA
"Defendant's intentional spoliation of computer evidence significantly
prejudices Plaintiffs because it puts the most relevant evidence of their
claim ...
<http://government.zdnet.com/?p=3965>
Data scandal - Dozens of confidential documents are
found dumped ...
Comet 24 - Welwyn Garden City,England,UK
ALMOST a dozen carrier bags containing people's personal details have been
found dumped in Stevenage. The bags which
contained utility bills, ...
<http://www.thecomet.net/content/comet/news/story.aspx?brand=CMTOnline&category=News&tBrand=HertsCambsOnline&tCategory=newslatestCMT&itemid=WEED28%20Aug%202008%2011%3A51%3A28%3A833>
Winning eBay bid included records on 1 million bank
customers
The Tech Herald - Indianapolis,IN,USA
The problem is that this is an employee of a data storage company, so you
have to wonder how they missed that day in class when you learn to destroy
hard ...
<http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200835/1876/Winning-eBay-bid-included-records-on-1-million-bank-customers>
What US
Federal Agencies Need To Know About Records Management
ECM Connection (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
... Page 7) Like corporations, government agencies must manage records from
creation to disposition (either destruction or transfer to a permanent
holding ...
<http://www.ecmconnection.com/article.mvc/US-Federal-Agencies-Records-Management-0002>
Digital DNA
IT-Director.com - USA
For example, by placing controls on who can access what information and
what they can do with it so that records cannot be altered by an
unauthorised person ...
<http://www.it-director.com/business/compliance/content.php?cid=10694>
Veteran producer Opal Nations' archivist work
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
As he works tirelessly dubbing music from brittle 78-rpm gospel and blues
records onto compact disc in the Oakland home he shares with his
Norwegian-born ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/27/DDKH12IO3M.DTL>
Library gets Mary Durack papers
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... Sydney Opera House to letters dating back to the 1850s -- are among the
papers donated by her family yesterday to the Western Australian
State
Library. ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24253206-16947,00.html>
AIGA Expands Online Archives to Include Items Since
1924
TAXI Design Network - New York,NY,USA
The AIGA Design Archives, the largest searchable online archive of curated
communication design selections in existence, now represents selections
from AIGA ...
<http://www.designtaxi.com/news.jsp?id=20651&monthview=0&month=8&year=2008>
Archive service to be moved in weeks
expressandstar.com - Wolverhampton,England,UK
The movement of Wolverhampton's entire archive
service to a former hotel
will finally start in a matter of weeks. All maps, books, photographs and
census ...
<http://www.expressandstar.com/2008/08/28/archive-service-to-be-moved-in-weeks/>
Users fail to archive emails
Techworld.com - London,UK
By Leo King, ComputerworldUK PC users are failing to archive emails because
they are often too busy or too unsure of their IT skills. ...
<http://www.techworld.com/applications/news/index.cfm?newsID=103616&pagtype=samechan>
RIAA defendant sanctioned for destroying evidence
BetaNews - USA
By Ed Oswald, BetaNews Defendant Jeffrey Howell was scolded by an Arizona
court earlier this week in a move that could potentially give the recording
...
<http://www.betanews.com/article/RIAA_defendant_sanctioned_for_destroying_evidence/1219865273>
State Cannot Force Removal of SSNs From Privacy
Advocate's Site
Slashdot - USA
jvatcw brings us a story about Betty Ostergren, who operates a website
dedicated to pointing out the social security numbers visible in public
records. ...
<http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/08/08/28/1536249.shtml>
Judge rules privacy advocate can post Social
Security numbers
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
... 'No,' at least for Betty "BJ" Ostergren, a privacy advocate who
operates a Web site that posts Social Security numbers obtained from public
records. ...
<http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=privacy&articleId=9113642&taxonomyId=84&intsrc=kc_top>
Kilpatrick's aide: I shredded SkyTel file
Detroit Free Press - United
States
A short time later, Kilpatrick's current office manager, Bobbie Tyler,
admitted shredding a copy of the city's contract with SkyTel, which once
provided ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080827/NEWS06/808270337/&imw=Y>
Dead Sea Scrolls to go online
Web User - London,UK
This week, archivists in Germany
finished digitising over six million documents on the Nazis' slave labour
program during the Second World War. ...<http://www.webuser.co.uk/news/266426.html>
Kafka Papers Snarled in Cat Litter, Bidding War,
Israeli Pride
Bloomberg - USA
Her daughters Ruth and Hava Hoffe, now in their 70s, are resisting requests
from German and Israeli archivists to relinquish whatever remains of the
legacy, ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a0lHRY7RkuFg&refer=muse>