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

Scrapbooks open up past
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Scrapbooks are key components of several Atlanta library collections,
including some from Alice Walker that are part of Emory University's vast
archive of ...
<http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2008/11/03/scrapbook.html>

Cal's digital book project preserves volumes
San Francisco Business Times - San Francisco,CA,USA
Though the cost of digital storage is plummeting, Leonard said, tools have
to be built to allow searching and access to the growing pool of bits. ...
<http://sanfrancisco.bizjournals.com/sanfrancisco/stories/2008/11/03/story10.html?b=1225688400%5E1725508>

Records management: BEWARE, PREPARE
KMWorld Magazine - Medford,NJ,USA
Queen adds that simple technology tools can aid in the records management
task. IBM Lotus Notes, Microsoft Outlook and similar document management
tools can ...
<http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/Records-management-BEWARE,-PREPARE-51367.aspx>

The Doctrine of Spoliation: What Happens When Important Evidence ...
NewYorkInjuryNews - New York City,New York,USA
In addition, the restaurants admitted to the actual destruction of delivery
records. The absence of the hour and delivery records made the workers'
burden ...
<http://www.newyorkinjurynews.com/2008/11/03/doctrine-of-spoliation-nyc-injury-lawyer_20081103280.html>

Teachers See History Anew With Original Records at the National ...
MarketWatch - USA
They were this year's participants in the National Archives' highly
acclaimed Primarily Teaching Institute, which provides in-depth training on
using ...
<http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/Teachers-See-History-Anew-With/story.aspx?guid=%7BB16B491F-9EE5-4E54-83EF-F68873F4641C%7D>

Neil Armstrong Donating Papers to Purdue
FOXNews - USA
... invaluable for researchers, said Sammie Morris, assistant professor of
library science and head of Purdue Libraries' Archives and Special
Collections. ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,446146,00.html>

Milligan archive up for auction
BBC News - UK
Books, letters and drawings owned by the late Spike Milligan are to be sold
off next month at an auction in London. Items up for grabs include 40
original ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7706172.stm>

University of Kent launches newspaper cartoon archive
Press Gazette - UK
The cartoons.ac.uk website, part of the university's British Cartoon
Archive, is due to be unveiled on Wednesday and claims to be the largest
political ...
<http://www.pressgazette.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=42351&c=1>

Fame isn't a reason to search Ohio data
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
By Randy Ludlow Loretta Adams was surprised to learn that sudden fame
subjects Ohioans to computer records searches at the Ohio Department of Job
and Family ...
<http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2008/11/03/joe03.ART_ART_11-03-08_B3_A5BPD0A.html?sid=101>

'MOORE GROCERIES'
Vicksburg Post - Vicksburg,MS,USA
"Because of the quality of the glass negatives, we were able to scan them
onto a computer and produce some amazing photos for the cookbook," said
Martha ...
<http://www.vicksburgpost.com/articles/2008/11/03/news/doc490f316c961ce660971899.txt>

IBM Expands Ways to Get a Grip on Data
InternetNews.com - USA
Shoring up e-discovery efforts and gaining efficiency around records
management in light of increasing compliance mandates that require
enterprises to ...
<http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3782466/IBM+Expands+Ways+to+Get+a+Grip+on+Data.htm>

Cutting-Edge Tools to Help Streamline EDD
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... see also Gregory G. Wrobel, et. al., "Counsel Beware: Preventing
Spoliation of Electronic Evidence in Antitrust Litigation," 20-SUM
Antitrust 79, ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202425748583>

Lost document more sensitive than Baird indicated, expert says
CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
At the time, Baird brushed off the lost document saying, "it's neither
classified nor secret, and it'll be something that could be available under
access to ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2008/11/03/lost-documents.html>

Work and Pensions Secretary James Purnell leaves red box secrets ...
Mirror.co.uk - London,UK
By Kelly Jenkins and Vincent Moss, Political Editor 1/11/2008 CABINET
Minister James Purnell has sparked a security row after losing confidential
documents ...
<http://www.mirror.co.uk/latest-news/news/2008/11/01/work-and-pensions-secretary-james-purnell-leaves-red-box-secrets-on-train-115875-20861414/>

DPS invalidates all of accused scientist's breath tests
Houston Chronicle - United States
DPS has changed its procedures to compare more of the supervisors' computer
records with hard-copy printouts from the Intoxilyzer, he said. ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6091416.html>

Elder papers donated to UCA Archives
UCA Today - Conway,AR,USA
The UCA Archives tomorrow will host a reception for the family of Jim Elder
to formally announce the donation Elder's papers to the UCA Archives. ...
<http://www.uca.edu/news/index.php?itemid=2119>

The Pitfalls and Vulnerabilities of Electronic Voting
eWeek - New York, NY
... available to them a powerful countermeasure software attacks:
post-election automatic routine audits that compare paper records to
electronic records. ...
<http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Security/The-Pitfalls-and-Vulnerabilities-of-Electronic-Voting/>

Govt seeks to improve archive management
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
An expert government committee on Tuesday recommended Prime Minster Taro
Aso improve management of official archives by transforming the National
Archives ...
<http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20081105TDY03106.htm>

Picture perfect: Richard Demarco archive goes online
Scotsman - United Kingdom
A team of five from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art, part of Dundee
University, has spent three years creating an online archive of 10000
images from ...
<http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Picture-perfect-Richard-Demarco-archive.4656093.jp>

Village where Dr Whitworths have been the GPs since 1839 (with ...
Daily Mail - UK
The photos he found were on hundreds of glass negatives alongside pieces of
medical apparatus including stethoscopes and forceps. ...
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1081849/Village-Dr-Whitworths-GPs-1839-generations-serving-practice.html>