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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>