RAIN 20090430 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Dartmouth Library establishes new digital sound archive The Dartmouth - Hanover,NH,USA By Olivia Sacks, The Dartmouth Staff The Dartmouth Library launched its first digital sound archive on April 13 with the digitization of former professor ... <http://thedartmouth.com/2009/04/29/arts/archive/> Society archive set to go public East Anglian Daily Times - Ipswich,England,UK IPSWICH Building Society has presented is extensive collection of archive material to the Suffolk Record Office. The society, whose history began with the ... < http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/business/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=Business&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED28%20Apr%202009%2015%3A08%3A39%3A743 > Web 0.2 archivists save Geocities from deletion Register - London,England,UK A group of web preservationists called the Archive Team is trying to save most of Geocities for the ages before Yahoo! erases the beloved old-school... <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/28/geocities_preservation/> Database archiving and purging Merinews - New Delhi,India MANY IT managers and decision-makers are resorting to Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) solutions and different database-archiving solutions. ... <http://www.merinews.com/catFull.jsp?articleID=15767184> Mountain of private information found in abandoned warehouse WWL - New Orleans,LA,USA Smith said the school district had no idea the building was unlocked, or that it was still home to confidential documents. "I'd say that's a lot of bull," ... <http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl042809cbidentitythreat.11ee2d511.html > Secret welfare files found at tip Northern Territory - Australia CENTRELINK is investigating allegations confidential documents on welfare recipients were found at a Territory rubbish tip. The documents, including the ... <http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2009/04/30/48275_ntnews.html> Lawyers want to stop tannery record destruction Forbes - NY,USA According to court records, Judge R. Brent Elliott issued the order Wednesday in a lawsuit against National Beef Leathers and Prime Tanning Corp., ...<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/04/29/ap6356388.html> Judge orders tannery not to destroy documents Kansas City Star - MO,USA By KAREN DILLON A Clinton County judge issued a temporary restraining order Wednesday to stop destruction of records by a tannery that has been sued for ...<http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1169900.html> DOJ probes Google book search settlement Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA Critics of the settlement include the Internet Archive and Consumer Watchdog, according to the published reports. The authors and publishers had filed a ...< http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=knowledge_center&articleId=9132323&taxonomyId=1&intsrc=kc_top > Digital project preserves images from county's past The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA "This has pretty much been a joint partnership with Rutherford County Archives, the MTSU Public History Program and us," said Gloria Christy, ...< http://www.tennessean.com/article/D4/20090430/NEWS01/904300316> Parchment is a window to the 16th century Kirkintilloch Today - Kirkintilloch,Scotland,UK Council archivist Janice Miller said: "We are researching the coat of arms and may have to go to the national archives to identify it. ...< http://www.kirkintilloch-herald.co.uk/news/Parchment-is-a-window-to.5217873.jp > UT professor helps recover stolen Andrew Jackson letter WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA That letter also was published in a "Papers of Andrew Jackson" volume, and Coens realized that letter, at one time, was held by the state archives.... <http://www.wbir.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=86180&catid=2> Saved games: Preserving the new TV TMC Net - Norwalk,CT,USA Kirschenbaum also sees the project as research into the very nature of archival work. With so many different types of games to archive, it quickly became ... < http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-saved-games-preserving-new-tv-/2009/04/29/4156248.htm > Five Ways To Survive a Data Breach Investigation Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA People who fear lawsuits or have something to hide tamper with evidence [Fitzgerald calls it "spoliation"] in ways that may seem clever -- overwriting files ... < http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=storage&articleId=9131552&taxonomyId=19&intsrc=kc_feat > Motorola accuses ex-CFO of destroying case evidence Reuters - USA Motorola asked the Cook Country Circuit Court in Illinois to sanction its former CFO for "willful spoliation of relevant, material evidence" for the case in ... < http://uk.reuters.com/article/rbssTechMediaTelecomNews/idUKN1545428320090415 > Student digitizes local archivist's collection of Bronzeville ... University of Chicago Chronicle - USA By Deva Woodly Eric Usner believes that the best scholarship requires praxis—the development of theoretical knowledge and skills through reflection upon ... <http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/090430/bronzeville.shtml> Confederate Constitution emerges from Ga. archive Picayune Item - Picayune,MS,USA The document, bought by the university's library 70 years ago, is always brought out from the archive as many around the South observe Confederate Memorial ... <http://www.picayuneitem.com/statenews/local_story_118192905.html> Restorers at the reading hall of the Coptic Museum archive ... Al-Ahram Weekly - Cairo,Egypt The Coptic Museum archives, considered to be the world's most important Coptic library and containing more than 5000 manuscripts and books, are being given ... <http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/945/heritage.htm> -- 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