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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.

How the Irish came to Wales
News Wales - Knighton,UK
Swansea University Archives has secured vital funding to ensure that
important clues in tracing the history of Irish migration, settlement and
integration ...
<http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=15083>



University of Sydney takes records management to the Web
iT News - Australia
Online search functionality was added shortly after, but it wasn't until
2007 when users were able to access 98 percent of records management
functions ...
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http://www.itnews.com.au/News/84510,university-of-sydney-takes-records-management-to-the-web.aspx
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Understanding the mystique of archives
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
"There's a strong forensic element when working with archival materials
both in terms of processing them and when scholars make use of them,"
Curator Cathy ...
<http://www.news8austin.com/content/headlines/?ArID=219489&SecID=2>



Bordentown Historical Society alleges $90K embezzlement
Register News - Princeton,NJ,USA
By Stephanie Prokop, Staff Writer BORDENTOWN CITY — The Bordentown
Historical Society is suing its former president, alleging he embezzled
nearly $90000. ...
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http://www.packetonline.com/articles/2008/09/11/the_register_news/news/doc48c828f71e842638539117.txt
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'U Can't Touch This' Litigation Hold
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
(See "Minimize Legal Holds' Spoliation Risks.") While we all recognize the
stressful demands placed on the IT department to manage a huge volume of...<
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202424425523>



House Adopts Overclassification Reduction Act
Secrecy News - Washington,DC,USA
The bill would require the National Archivist to develop regulations to help
combat overclassification. The bill would mandate increased accountability
for ...<http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2008/09/house_adopts.html>



Military Archives
Bloomberg - USA
... Russian and German scholars plan to investigate the transport lists in
Soviet military archives for details of what art was sent where and when to
try ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=anWdULPhvgxE&refer=muse
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Seychelles national archives launch family tree project
African Press Agency - Dakar,Senegal
APA - Victoria (Seychelles) The Seychelles National Archives (SNA) in
collaboration with the department of Community Development is launching a
two-year ...
<http://www.apanews.net/apa.php?page=show_article_eng&id_article=74984>



Debunking Google's log anonymization propaganda
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
First, remember that Google will not delete or anonymize user cookies from
the logs when it slightly smudges IP addresses after 9-months. ...
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13739_3-10038963-46.html>



Archive of author of The Cruel Sea will prove a magnet for ...
Liverpool Daily Post - Liverpool,England,UK
SUPPORT for the Daily Post cam-paign to bring the archive of The Cruel Sea
author Nicholas Monsarrat to Liverpool has come from a most important
source ...
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http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2008/09/11/archive-of-author-of-the-cruel-sea-will-prove-a-magnet-for-liverpool-scholars-64375-21793435/
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Gregory Lynn Woodhouse: thefts, deleting financial records
Courtnews.co.nz <http://courtnews.co.nz/> - Christchurch,Canterbury,New
Zealand
He also admitted destroying computer records belonging to the company. He
had pleaded guilty to all charges. Defence counsel Gerald Lascelles said
that a ...
<http://courtnews.co.nz/story.php?id=1279>



Seven Years Later: Remembering The Victims of 9/11
Hartford Courant - United States
They do it one on one with the families, acting as much as social workers
as archivists. The staff has so far completed about 500 profiles and done
work on ...
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http://www.courant.com/news/local/hc-nineeleven0911.artsep11,0,1982385.story
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Document Management A Document Management Case Study: Procter and ...
Baseline - New York,NY,USA
... meet regulatory compliance requirements and save money. The challenge
for Proctor & Gamble was to create a document and records management system
that ...
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http://www.baselinemag.com/c/a/Document-Management/A-Document-Management-Case-Study-Proctor-Gamble/
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An Enterprise Content ...
InternetNews.com - USA
"We believe records management should be a service that works with other
applications that don't necessarily have to manage the records themselves,"
Open ...
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http://www.internetnews.com/software/article.php/3770801/An+Enterprise+Content+Breakthrough.htm
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Rattler: A mascot that developed over years
Famuan - Tallahassee,FL,USA
All of this information is being recorded by Elizabeth Dawson, archivist
and curator at the Meek-Eaton Black Archives Center and Museum, in a book
she is ...
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http://www.thefamuanonline.com/news/2008/09/12/Lifestyles/Rattler.A.Mascot.That.Developed.Over.Years-3428140.shtml
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Copyright bill blasted as "enormous gift" to Big Content
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
It also raised privacy concerns about the legislation's civil forfeiture
language, noting that the seizure of servers or other large digital storage
devices ...
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080911-copyright-bill-blasted-as-enormous-gift-to-big-content.html
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An Enterprise Content Management Breakthrough?
InternetNews.com - USA
"We believe records management should be a service that works with other
applications that don't necessarily have to manage the records themselves,"
Open ...
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http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3770801/An+Enterprise+Content+Management+Breakthrough.htm
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State puts centuries-old maps online
Asheville Citizen-Times - NC,USA
A collaboration among the North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources
State Archives and its Outer Banks History Center with UNC-Chapel Hill, ...
<http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200880911028>



Remembering 9/11 Online
The Inquisitr - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
For archival footage that even 7 years later is beyond imagination, the
Internet Archive has an extensive catalog of footage from 9/11 and the
days...
<http://www.inquisitr.com/3056/remembering-911-online/>



Ex-Intel worker accused in theft
Boston Globe - United States
... an Intel employee learned about 8Pani's job with AMD and ordered a
check of the computer system to see if Pani had accessed confidential
documents. ...
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http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2008/09/12/ex_intel_worker_accused_in_theft
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James Madison Scholar from U.Va. to Appear on 'History Detectives ...
University of Virginia - Charlottesville,VA,USA
The Monroe letter concerned an American commercial ship lost in 1805, a
"spoliation case," Hackett said. "Spoliation" referred to warring parties
seizing ...<http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=6419>

 Couple arrested in book case
Fremont News Messenger - Fremont,OH,USA
FREMONT -- Two more have been arrested in connection with the theft of rare
books from the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library. ...
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http://www.thenews-messenger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080912/NEWS01/809120305
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Former Intel worker charged in theft of top secret files
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
The FBI has charged an engineer with stealing trade secrets from Intel, his
former employer, after taking a position with rival chip maker Advanced
Micro ...
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10040251-83.html>



Footage of McCain's release from Vietnamese prison found in ...
Chicago Tribune - United States
A former reporter from Swedish broadcaster SVT, 71-year-old Erik Eriksson,
told The Associated Press he found the video in the network's archives
while ...
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-mccain-vietnam-video,0,7957929.story
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Former Intel engineer charged with stealing trade secrets
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
"At this point, there has been no evidence that AMD knew that Pani had
downloaded Intel's files, had encouraged Pani to do so or that it received
those ...
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9114592
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