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RAIN 20090206
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
Bank liable for €4.7m over loss of title deeds
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
The defendants counterclaimed for some €30 million losses allegedly
suffered arising from the bank's actions including its admitted loss of
title deeds of ...
<http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0205/1233787117097.html>
Historic Documents Have New Home
WSMV - Nashville,TN,USA
Records dating to 1786, including court cases, deeds, marriage, birth
certificates and wills will be stored in the new building. ...
<http://www.wsmv.com/community/18642059/detail.html>
ComputerWorld
To: Rick Levin, CC: Posterity
Yale Daily News - New Haven,CT,USA
The challenge for Yale's more than two dozen archivists now is to keep
the contents of ... In 2002, the University hired an electronic records
archivist, ...
<http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/27506>
Electronic redaction technology reduces document
review time and ...
Enterprise Management Quarterly - Chicago,Illinois,USA
The widespread impact of the amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure (FRCP) has heightened awareness of document review and production
in ways ...
<http://www.emqus.com/index.php?/emq/article/electronic_redaction_technology_reduces_document_review_time_and_costs_of_ediscovery_551>
After Records Analysis, Many at WVU Look to Future
State Journal - Charleston,WV,USA
"All along we knew there were problems with record keeping," Famouri
said.
"Now they told us the extent to which the problems exist and what are the
best ...
<http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=51395>
Files on Tom Craddick's computers deleted
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Files on one shared computer network drive were saved, but unless Craddick
specifically requested them, computer hard drives and electronic records...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/legislature/stories/020509dntexcraddickcomputer.4c1613f.html>
CRMC employee fired for unauthorized access to
patient files
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
There was no malicious intent, he said of the woman, who worked in the
medical records department. The files she accessed were those of
acquaintances and ...
<http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2009/February09/05/CRMC_breach-05Feb09.htm>
First Republican Speaker possibly deletes public
files
DigitalJournal.com - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Files on one shared computer network drive were saved, but unless Craddick
specifically requested them, computer hard drives and electronic records...
<http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/266625>
Directors of Iberoamerican Archives will Meet in Havana
Mathaba.Net - London,UK
The Cuban National Archive was founded in 1840 and it was the fifth of its
kind in Latin America. The first one was
founded in Argentina
in 1821. ...
<http://mathaba.net/news/?x=616959>
Lesbian Herstory Archives turns 35
EDGE Boston - Boston,MA,USA
by Winnie McCroy The Lesbian Herstory Archives marked the milestone with a
party at the LGBT Community Center in lower Manhattan on Jan. 31. ...
<http://www.edgeboston.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=&sc2=features&sc3=&id=85768>
Archives Dirty Little Secret
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Moving data off of primary storage and on to a disk based archive just
makes sense and saves dollars. That said there is one downside to
archiving; ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/02/archives_dirty.html>
Government Urges Creation of More Archives
Jakarta Globe - Jakarta,Indonesia
The government is pushing for the creation of more regional archives to
ensure that documents and records at the local level were not lost. ...
<http://www.thejakartaglobe.com/news/national/article/8805.html>
AP EXCLUSIVE: Records wiped from speaker's office
The Associated Press
Tom Craddick specifically requested them, computer hard drives and
electronic records associated with individual employees were deleted,
officials said. ...
<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hqcf4A8TpYZuHuv50XjhKMVLkGMQD96543J80>
Germany seeks to save resistance fighter's archive
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
Berlin's state library has launched an appeal to save the archives of
theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer, who was executed at a concentration camp in
1945 for ...
<http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE5145HF20090205>
Iron Mountain
to store unique documents
Stafford County
Sun - Stafford,VA,USA
Iron Mountain, a company making its way to Stafford, will lease the Gateway
Distribution Center
off of Warrenton Road
and will occupy more than 140000...
<http://www.staffordcountysun.com/scs/news/local/article/iron_mountain_to_store_unique_documents/29325/>
Legislators may shield their e-mail
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
The draft amendment to House Bill 1, which itself would subject the General
Assembly to the Freedom of Information Act, would close off access to some...
<http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20090206/NEWS02/902060375>
Soviet Archives and Dark Truths
FrontPage magazine.com - Los
Angeles,CA,USA
Dr. Velikanova was among the first scholars to work with declassified
Communist Party and secret police archives. Her research about everyday
Stalinism, ...
<http://frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/Read.aspx?GUID=113AF1DF-2AD2-4389-A235-DC8575286F99>
Agency defends file deletions in House speaker's
office
Houston Chronicle - United States
... to take any electronic records he wanted to keep after he lost his post
in an internal coup and returned to the House as a rank-and-file member....
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/6248958.html>
Search Warrants Executed To Recover County Records
WTAP-TV - Parkersburg,WV,USA
... prior to the deletion of the files from the computers. During the
execution of these search warrants, records and information concerning
violations of ...
<http://www.wtap.com/news/headlines/39200712.html>
Chris Lee leads effort to archive native Hawaiian
oral histories
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
The US Department of Education has granted nearly $192000 for the project,
described as "an innovative new archive." The Henry Kuualoha Giugni
Archives ...
<http://www.starbulletin.com/features/20090206_screen_time.html>
How I Declared E-Mail Bankruptcy, and Discovered the
Bliss of an ...
Xconomy - Cambridge,MA,USA
Specifically, he told the listener: "Delete it all. Then send a form
letter to everyone who wrote saying, 'My backlog was too big to manage....
<http://www.xconomy.com/national/2009/02/06/how-i-declared-e-mail-bankruptcy-and-discovered-the-bliss-of-an-empty-inbox/>
Tension between right to privacy and authorities'
desire for data
guardian.co.uk
- UK
Last year four police forces were found to be in breach of the Data
Protection Act by storing criminal records which the information tribunal
found were "no ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/feb/06/surveillance-privacy-dna-database2>
Global data theft hits $1 trillion
SmartCompany.com.au
- Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
And in the current economic climate the threat from 'inside' the
company poses the biggest threat to trade secrets," he says. ...
<http://www.smartcompany.com.au/Free-Articles/Trends/20090205-Global-data-theft-hits-1-trillion-.html>
Tech's April 16 archive to open Monday
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
By Staff Reports Virginia Tech will open to the public on Monday an archive
of documents related to the April 16, 2007, shootings. Tech senior
Seung-Hui Cho ...
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/local/article/VTVT06GAT_20090206-144615/200066/>
Fire captain's collection captures town history
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
He has 500 glass negatives, around 70 stereoscopic views, and at least 7000
postcards. "When I started, I'd buy one or two cards at local
stores," he said. ...
<http://www.telegram.com/article/20090205/FLASH/902050420/1005/NEWS06>
Lack of Collaboration Between IT & Legal Hinders
E-Discovery
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... to 73 percent of the surveyed IT managers, as well as records
management (47 percent of respondents) and data retention (50 percent of
respondents). ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=171714&f_src=byteandswitch_gnews>
WEB EXTRA: Stolen County documents recovered from
Grimes ...
Marietta Register Online - Marietta,OH,USA
According to Mincks, the investigation was prompted when Commissioners Cora
Marshall and Steven Webber took office and found no files or records from
the ...
<http://www.mariettaregister.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=821&Itemid=1>