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RAIN 20090114 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Paper trail to the past BBC News - UK ... details being released earlier than the scheduled 2012 date, following a successful challenge under the Freedom of Information Act [see factbox above]. ... <http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7816516.stm> All the President's IMs: Are Federal Record-keeping Laws Out of ... FindLaw - Mountain View,CA,USA Thus, under a properly restored version of the PRA, most of Obama's email and text messages would have to be saved for the archives. Well, one might ask; ... <http://writ.news.findlaw.com/dorf/20090112.html> Digitisation project inaugurated Express Buzz - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India The Minister was inaugurating the digitisation project of archives carried out by the State Archives Department in Thiruvananthapuram on Monday. ... < http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Digitisation+project+inaugurated&artid=hYiOL%7C2lVFM=&SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&MainSectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&SEO=State+Government;+research+officers;+archives+libr&SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts > E-Discovery Ruling Gives Companies Another Data Worry Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA By Paul Shread As if the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) hadn't given companies enough to worry about, now a judge's ruling means that companies ... <http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/news/article.php/3795681> Being Right and Still Losing Law.com - San Francisco,CA,USA By Leonard Deutchman The paradigm that has emerged in e-discovery cases involving spoliation claims is that success regarding the spoliation claim will lead ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202427385568> A citizen's guide to Pennsylvania's open-records law Phoenixville News - Phoenixville,PA,USA Their applications and resumes should be public documents. Those are just some examples of what should be obtainable under the law. ... < http://www.phoenixvillenews.com/articles/2009/01/13/opinion/srv0000004482571.txt > Easley orders that e-mail be saved News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA Easley has defended the right of state employees to decide which e-mail messages are public documents and which messages are irrelevant, including spam ... <http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1364855.html> Hundreds of thousands log in to view digitalised 1911 census guardian.co.uk - UK The project is being run jointly with findmypast.com, and while registration and searching the archive will be free, viewers will have to "pay as you view" ... <http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jan/13/census-online-archives> State Archives department ends Saturday hours, reduces services Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA Due to mid-year budget reductions, the Alabama Department of Archives and History is reducing a variety of services, including being open on Saturdays. ... <http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20090113/NEWS/90113029> National Archives (US) Begins 75th Anniversary Year ResourceShelf - USA The National Archives announced today the year-long celebration of its 75th anniversary. Signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on June 19, ... < http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/01/13/national-archives-us-begins-75th-anniversary-year/ > Learning family history, through love-letters WWMT - Kalamazoo,MI,USA Turns out he's got one of the largest collections of letters from that era and they will now be part of the state archive. It's not Wallace Ewing's family ... <http://www.wwmt.com/articles/letters_1357849___article.html/haven_love.html > Police: Austell court clerk stole $121000 Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA Employees regularly produce two computer records of court fines and fees paid. One stays at the court, the other accompanies deposits to city hall.... < http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/cobb/stories/2009/01/12/austell_clerk_charged.html > Judge: Rambus destroyed documents related to patent lawsuit PC World Magazine - Australia Rambus officials say they will appeal a judge's ruling accusing them of destroying evidence in a DRAM patent case. Rambus plans to appeal a decision by a ... < http://www.pcworld.idg.com.au/article/272770/judge_rambus_destroyed_documents_related_patent_lawsuit > Court rules 'metadata' not public record East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA But Judge Patricia Norris said her colleagues were creating a major loophole in the state's public records law, one she said could allow government agencies ... <http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/134054> NJ governor's e-mail ruled private Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Arlington,VA,USA The court ordered the e-mail messages released, finding they were government records as defined by New Jersey's Open Public Records Act. Katz and the ... <http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=9892> Historians attack council over records care Plymouth Evening Herald - Plymouth,England,UK Dr Todd Gray, one of the organisers, said: "Plymouth is known among archivists as the worst-appointed public records office in the country. ... < http://www.thisisplymouth.co.uk/news/Historians-attack-council-records-care/article-605454-detail/article.html > Library seeking grant to preserve historic photos Escanaba Daily Press - Escanaba,MI,USA A person could check out from the library an MP3 player showing historic photographs and playing narratives, as the person takes a self-guided tour downtown ... <http://www.dailypress.net/page/content.detail/id/509309.html?nav=5003> Photo from America finds its way home Keighley News - Keighley,UK Jan Perkins, archivist and webmaster of Keighley and District Local History Society, received the ... adding the history in their possession to our archive. ... < http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/4031274.Photo_from_America_finds_its_way_home/ > Long-awaited King Collection now online for public Daily Report - Atlanta,GA,USA Archivists have spent nearly two years cataloguing and digitizing the collection, and an online guide of the items was made public on Tuesday.... < http://www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/singleEdit.asp?individual_SQL=1%2F13%2F2009%4028839 > Ownership of Declaration copy disputed in Va. WVEC.com (subscription) - Norfolk,VA,USA "You can't presume she came into possession of this any way other than from her father," Maine state archivist David Cheever said in a telephone interview. ... <http://www.wvec.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D95MFPF81.html> Niagara County Clerk's Office Going Paperless WGRZ-TV - Buffalo,NY,USA You can still look up county records for free at the clerk's office. Jagow says the new electronic system will save paper, money, space, and time. ... <http://www.wgrz.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=63398&provider=gnews> Scaggs Appointed Director of Archives UK News - KY,USA Dean of Libraries Carol Pitts Diedrichs said, "Deirdre represents the type of experienced archivist UK Libraries needs to lead the transition from ... <http://news.uky.edu/news/display_article.php?category=2&artid=4276> GMail Users Can Now Send And Archive With One Click InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA The latest addition to the beta features found in Gmail Labs is a new tool that lets you send and archive email in one, tidy step. I don't archive email, ... < http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/01/gmail_users_can.html > Judge hits White House with preservation order The Associated Press The administration is in the process of transferring over 300 million e-mail messages to the National Archives, said White House spokesman Scott Stanzel, ... < http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hsG0My2Q3Eu9Sj2PSupnj4xeQXxAD95N3PJO0 > American History Museum Gets Rare Copy of Emancipation Proclamation Washington Post - United States Lincoln artifacts are coveted commodities right now as the country's museums, archives and historical places gear up for the 200th anniversary of Lincoln's ... < http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/14/AR2009011402048.html > Judge Orders Search of Administration Appointees' E-Mails Washington Post - United States Under the new system, any of the 3000 or so regular White House employees could access e-mail storage files, enabling them to delete messages after they had ... < http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/14/AR2009011401957.html > Wall Street crisis brings lax e-discovery law enforcement to light Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA Strong electronic records retention plans could quickly answer such questions. However, industry observers note, few of the records retention regulations ... < http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=disaster_recovery&articleId=9125962&taxonomyId=151&intsrc=kc_top > End of an Era at the Maine State Library MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA With numerous far-reaching accomplishments during his career at the State Library, Nichols provided Maine citizens with expanded and more effective access ... <http://mainebusiness.mainetoday.com/newsdirect/release.html?id=6565> Sealaska posts collections database online Juneau Empire - Juneau,AK,USA The institute functions like a special collections department, similar to the Historical Division at the Alaska State Library, where items are not in... <http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011409/loc_377249463.shtml> Arizona court rules 'hidden data' isn't public record ABC15.com (KNXV-TV) - Phoenix,AZ,USA The majority said Arizona's public records law doesn't define public records but that metadata doesn't satisfy a three-pronged test set by a 1952 Arizona ... < http://www.abc15.com/content/news/phoenixmetro/story/Arizona-court-rules-hidden-data-isn-t-public/_3ipLJeo5EWuEr4hWolxLQ.cspx > Second former State Department worker admits to snooping in ... Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA His illegal accessing of files in the State Department's Passport Information Electronic Records System (PIERS) took place over a period lasting more than ... < http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyId=13&articleId=9125961&intsrc=hm_topic > -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]