RAIN 20080831
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
Archives Critical to Jamaica's History
Government of Jamaica, Jamaica Information Service - Jamaica
So they commissioned a historian, Edward Kamau Braithwaite, to do research
in the archive to see what he could learn about Nanny and what she did,"
Mr. ...
<http://www.jis.gov.jm/information/html/20080828T090000-0500_16476_JIS_ARCHIVES_CRITICAL_TO_JAMAICA_S_HISTORY.asp>
Consortium—Minus NARA—Archiving
Bush Administration Websites
InfoToday.com - USA
The bulk of the collecting will come from a sequence of crawls by the
Internet Archive. LC will contribute congressional content based on its
regular ...
<http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=50486>
Texas State
accepts artifacts from Blanco Star School
San Marcos Daily Record - San Marcos,TX,USA
The reason for all the smiles was that representatives from Texas State
University's Archives
Department were on hand to receive all available
artifacts ...
<http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/announcements/local_story_241113019.html>
Analog, not digital, may be best way to preserve
crucial data for ...
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
Bishop won't talk about other customers or who has made use of the
HD-Rosetta archival preservation technology. But the Rosetta Project's blog
post says an ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=162541&WT.svl=news2_1>
Leweni explains why archives are vital
Fiji Daily Post - Vatuwaqa,Fiji
The comment was made by Deputy Secretary for Information, Major Neumi
Leweni while speaking at the Inaugural Archival Training Programme for the
Film and ...
<http://fijidailypost.com/news.php?section=1&fijidailynews=18518>
Panel to seek relief to crush of court records
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
But now the state archives building in Frankfort
and courthouses across
Kentucky are
running out of space and overflowing with misdemeanor files
and traffic ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080828/NEWS01/80828020>
Managing electronic-discovery consultants and
vendors wisely
Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly - Boston,MA,USA
FRCP 26(f) requires that counsel meet and confer at the inception of the
litigation regarding sources of electronic information that are
"reasonably
...<http://www.masslawyersweekly.com/index.cfm/archive/view/id/444748>
When cloud computing fails
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
The same sort of issues apply to online data storage and other business applications:
if you can afford to have the information or app unavailable for ...
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/smbit/archives/2008/08/when_cloud_comp.html>
State halts records disposal
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
The destruction of the records was uncovered Wednesday when officials could not
provide a form reflecting the discipline recommended against a state trooper
...
<http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/08/29/records.ART_ART_08-29-08_B2_V4B5TVM.html?sid=101>
Leigh dusts off film archive
How Do - England,UK
The North West Film Archive have looked through their vaults at Manchester Met
to pick out some clips from Leigh's history. "The film show is a great
chance ...
<http://www.how-do.co.uk/north-west-media-news/north-west-broadcasting/leigh-dusts-off-film-archive-200808293359/>
Back to the future: historical society turns a
corner
Manchester Journal - Manchester center,VT,USA
Gray cardboard boxes line the walls, holding photographs, old 19th century glass
negatives, signs of long gone businesses and establishments, ... <http://www.manchesterjournal.com/ci_10334523>
Ohio gov: Don't destroy worker
discipline records
WTTE - Columbus,OH,USA
A department spokesman says the records had been considered notes rather than
public records and that it was a long-standing practice to destroy them. ...
<http://www.wtte28.com/template/inews_wire/wires.regional.oh/3c552987-www.wtte28.com.shtml>
Strickland orders halt to records destruction
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
The Dispatch discovered that the forms were being destroyed in possible violation
of state public records laws and the department's records-retention ...
<http://blog.dispatch.com/know/2008/08/strickland_orders_halt_to_reco.shtml>
Busy Week for E-Discovery
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
This software crawls enterprise repositories to index content, allowing IT and
legal teams to more easily search for relevant files and documents at the ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/08/busy_week_for_e.html>
Thomas Cook: 200 years of holiday memories brought
to life
Peterborough Today - Peterborough,England,UK
Paul Smith is the company's full-time archivist, and said that many big businesses
employed people to manage their archives. "I used to work for Barclays ...
<http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/features/Thomas-Cook-200-years-of.4439667.jp>
Moving data to the mountain
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
One might reasonably assume that this records-storage facility, owned by Boston-based
Iron Mountain Inc., is just miles of tape racks and filing cabinets. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=business_intelligence&articleId=87797&taxonomyId=9&intsrc=kc_feat>
Record Risks
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Despite renewed attention to e-records management, however, many organizations
still lack automated systems to efficiently process all e-records requested ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=business_intelligence&articleId=102035&taxonomyId=9&intsrc=kc_feat>
Digital memories can be fleeting
Globe and Mail - Canada
They merge, they fail, they change their minds and decide that there's not as
much money in digital storage as there is in eggbeaters. ... <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080829.wgtWebseven0829/BNStory/Technology/home>
Towns to post records on Web
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
The township has already created digital versions of more than 400 boxes of the
files, said Ari Messinger, the municipal operations and records manager. ...
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080830/NEWS01/808300336/1006>
County's Historical Photos To Become More Accessible
Westchester.com - Westchester,NY,USA
With $30621 in grant funds from the NYS Archives' Local Government
Records Management Improvement Fund, these historical images, as well as
over 1000 others ...
<http://www.westchester.com/Westchester_News/Government/County's_Historical_Photos_To_Become_More_Accessible_2008083010231.html>
Councillor is determined to keep documents safe
Northwich Guardian - Northwich,Cheshire,UK
Cheshire's county archivist, Jonathan Pepler said: "Clr Flude's
concerns are truly helpful, her intervention certainly gives the archive
service more clout, ...
<http://www.northwichguardian.co.uk/news/3623178.Councillor_is_determined_to_keep_documents_safe/>
Wind-turbine maker fined for emissions, poor records
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Among other improvements, Gamesa will install $2 million in computers for
better record-keeping and a $945000 ventilation system to lessen air
pollution at ...
<http://www.philly.com/philly/business/20080830_Wind-turbine_maker_fined_for_emissions__poor_records.html>
Man Finds Thousands of Medical Records in Storage
Unit
KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
"That was a little bit too much information because I don't want anyone
getting in touch with my medical records, because I have had my identity
stolen ...
<http://www.lasvegasnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=8925605&nav=menu102_2>
UK Film Council launches hunt for rare film
Digital Arts Online - London,UK
The UK Film Council is appealing to the nation to join a treasure hunt for
rare film to improve the national archive, as part of its Strategy for UK
Screen ...
<http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/index.cfm?NewsID=11202>
E-Mail Discovery Best Practices
Advisor - San Diego,CA,USA
Capture all the tasks and document how each task addresses chain of
custody, spoliation, and security issues. Outline all the parties involved
in each task ...
<http://my.advisor.com/doc/18460>
Ciphering Out Security
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Backup tapes that were lost by the likes of Bank of America Corp.,
Citibank, Ameritrade Holding Corp. and Time Warner Inc. contained the
personal data of ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=business_intelligence&articleId=104675&taxonomyId=9&intsrc=kc_feat>
The DA's Office Goes Digital
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Of the 19500 cubic feet of case records storage space available to the
office, only 775 cubic feet remained. The reasons were many: an increase in
the ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=business_intelligence&articleId=64320&taxonomyId=9&intsrc=kc_feat>
The Independent
<http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/internet-maps-demolish-british-history-912333.html>
Is this the real Mr Toad?
Independent - London,England,UK
However, other correspondence from the archives shows the bank's doctors
disagreed that Grahame was under mental strain, and the calculation of his
pension ...
<http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/is-this-the-real-mr-toad-913944.html>
Paper jam blamed for data security blunder
Metro - London,UK
Social security numbers for 1200 people have been sent to the wrong
addresses - with officials blaming a paper jam at a printing plant. ...
<http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?Paper_jam_blamed_for_data_security_blunder&in_article_id=286231&in_page_id=64>
Bank of NY Mellon data breach now affects 12.5 mln
Reuters - USA
27, Bank of New York Mellon was transferring back-up tapes with data
including names, addresses, birth dates and Social Security numbers, when
it lost a box ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSWNAB863220080828>
Virginia open records laws hazy on
e-mails
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA
... Megan Rhyne said that according to a state Supreme Court ruling, e-mail
communications between council members is not a violation of open records
laws. ...
<http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/virginia_open_records_laws_hazy_on_e_mails/7901/>
Fate of Miller collection up in the air
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
Faith Bad Bear-Bartlett, an archivist at the Little Big Horn College, instantly
recognized four long-deceased members of the Crow Tribe, he said....
<http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080831/NEWS01/808310309>
Kentucky needs new way to archive
court records
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
But now the state archives building in Frankfort
and courthouses across Kentucky
are overflowing with files of misdemeanors and traffic cases that used to ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080831/NEWS01/808310517>
Questionable value of security questions
TheReporter.com - Vacaville,CA,USA
Externally, back-up tapes are routinely lost, and bank files with your name and
security information are put on laptops, which are lost or stolen. ...<http://www.thereporter.com/opinion/ci_10350567>
A museum for the man who designed Chandigarh
Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India
In the research section of the centre, there will be printed materials, publications,
posters, archival records and reference and digital library. ...
<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/ET_Cetera/A_museum_on_Chandigarh_designer/articleshow/3431125.cms>
Ky. court records overflowing
in storage
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
AP Kentucky's state archives and courthouses around the state are overflowing
with court records after the state's top court administrator called for ...<http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/508902.html>