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RAIN 20090331 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Dixie College charter found Cookeville Herald Citizen - Cookeville,TN,USA Herald-Citizen Photo/Ty Kernea Dixie Murray shows the Dixie College charter she found in a 1919 Chancery Court file to Putnam County Archivist Glenn Jones ... < http://www.herald-citizen.com/index.cfm?event=news.view&id=4E4710EC-19B9-E2E2-67DD28C8E619A199 > Violence and secrets: Guatemala bares its soul Sunday Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK The files, some 80 million pages, include classified information relating to spies, informers, government officials, clandestine death squads and some 45000 ... < http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.2498500.0.0.php > New software allows access to Berks records Pottstown Mercury - Pottstown,PA,USA ... new computer software system that now provides online access to thousands of county records and documents previously available only on microfilm. ... < http://www.pottstownmercury.com/articles/2009/03/29/news/srv0000004989152.txt > 40000 ‘hidden’ photos to form basis of Fototeka Malta Independent Online - Malta At least 40000 old photos, mainly glass negatives, which were collecting dust in the many museums of Malta, are now being carefully dusted and examined, ... <http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=85503> Eisenhower's Final Personal Diaries Made Available KSAL - Salina,KS,USA The Library has over doubled its archival holdings from 12 million pages in 1966 to over 27 million pages in 2009. "As we mark the passing of President... <http://www.ksallink.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=8296&format=html> Stronghold Data goes underground to preserve records Joplin Globe - Joplin,MO,USA Stronghold Data recently was recognized by computer giant Intel for using its hardware systems to develop a data storage and recovery system for Barton ... <http://www.joplinglobe.com/dailybusiness/local_story_089135943.html> JOHN McGLINN California Chronicle - Los Angeles,CA,USA By Tom Vallance John McGlinn was a musical-theatre archivist and conductor who worked tirelessly over the past 20 years to restore vintage musicals so that ... <http://www.californiachronicle.com/articles/yb/128188986> MDC receives film archives documenting Miami's past MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA Miami Dade College got the Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives, which document Miami through reels of old newscasts. ... <http://www.miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/974394.html> Bush library may be one of last housed in a building Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA Those are some of the ideas being floated by federal archivists, who now are asking the public for suggestions to run the library system at less cost but ... < http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/state/stories/DN-archives_31met.ART.State.Edition1.4a4f4d0.html > State Archives Department hamstrung by government’s red tape Expressindia.com - New Delhi,India The rule exists in the State Archives Department, which falls under the Ministry of Sports, Youth and Cultural Activities, which prevents the purchase of ... < http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/state-archives-department-hamstrung-by-governments-red-tape/441008/ > Florida's Archival Photos Spur Web Discussion Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA The institution in February became one of the first state archives in the country to participate in this pilot project launched a year ago by the US Library ... < http://www2.tbo.com/content/2009/mar/31/floridas-archival-photos-spur-web-discussion/ > How To Reduce e-Discovery Costs In A Down Economy The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel - Mountainside,NJ,USA People were surprised that FRCP 37(e) has not been interpreted to allow backups to be overwritten. Additionally, in the Twombly case, the US Supreme Court ... < http://www.metrocorpcounsel.com/current.php?artType=view&artMonth=April&artYear=2009&EntryNo=9565 > Kaiser fires staffers who snooped into Suleman's files Los Angeles Times - CA,USA By Julie Cart Nearly two dozen hospital employees have been fired or disciplined for snooping into the medical records of octuplet mother Nadya Suleman, ... <http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-octomom31-2009mar31,0,6788120.story > Archiving Mormon composer Crawford Gates Mormon Times - Salt Lake City,UT,USA The disadvantages, from a technical archivist standpoint, are that materials keep coming in and require shifting contents in boxes and on shelves to make ... <http://www.mormontimes.com/arts_entertainment/music/?id=7004> Stanford's 50-year-old archive celebrates sound Stanford Report - USA BY CYNTHIA HAVEN Jerry McBride, Head Librarian of the Music Library and Archive of Recorded Sound, with some of the antique phonographs in the collection of ... < http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/april1/archive-recorded-sound-anniversary-040109.html > A PRESERVE OF HISTORY The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA Such memories are now among the treasures to be found at the Rutgers Oral History Archives -- a 15-year-project that has sought to capture stories of how ... < http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-13/123847303589840.xml&coll=1 > Police Swoop on Offices in Cologne Archive Collapse Probe Deutsche Welle - Germany One month after the collapse of Cologne's historic archive, German police have raided offices across Germany and seized documents relating to the ... <http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4142930,00.html> Insights on Disaster Response at FSU Panel with State Librarians ... Library Journal - New York,NY,USA State library agencies can serve as clearinghouses for information distributed to staff members and library boards. Libraries should establish retainer ... <http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6646914.html?desc=topstory> Lawyer Tracie Washington appeals court decision in New Orleans ... The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA Three weeks ago, Civil District Judge Lloyd Medley Jr. directed Washington to hand over e-mails she obtained via a public records request so his staff could ... < http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/lawyer_tracie_washington_appea.html > -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]