RAIN 20090428 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. The age of e-discovery Lawyers face daunting challenges in sifting ... Lawyers Weekly - Toronto,Ontario,Canada ... in the US in the first 10 months of last year, more than half addressed court-ordered sanctions, data production and preservation and spoliation issues. ... < http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&volume=28&number=48&article=4 > Job agencies banned from transferring paper records The Australian - Sydney,Australia The Government said the electronic copy of client records would suffice. The transition process document for new providers says: "Job Services Australia ... <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25396844-5013871,00.html > Birthday champagne as Edwin Morgan, 89, opens own archive Times Online - UK The Edwin Morgan Archive was collected by the poet's friend Hamish Whyte, and embraces all of his published works, from his first translation, ... <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6182379.ece> Govt acquires Benini's fashion photography archive ABC Online - Australia The Federal Government has announced the acquisition of the archive of the late fashion photographer Bruno Benini. In Sydney today, Heritage and Arts ... <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/27/2553929.htm?section=justin> Wash. county to pay blogger $225K for withholding records First Amendment Center - Nashville,TN,USA By AP SEATTLE — King County has agreed to pay conservative blogger Stefan Sharkansky $225000 to settle a public-records lawsuit he brought over the county's ... <http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=21527> Greece Police Chief Accused of Shredding Documents 13WHAM-TV - Rochester,NY,USA An employee who heard the commotion, recognized the sound of the shredder, and called State Police. Sources say bags of shredded documents were left behind ... < http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Greece-Police-Chief-Accused-of-Shredding-Documents/Khvr29m-j0GS71sgjkE-Xw.cspx > IT admin faces five years for network extortion VNUNet.com - UK ... the firewall security and carry out data destruction and virus outbreak," Savtyrev wrote in an e-mail to the company, according to the complaint. ... <http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2241243/admin-faces-five-years-network> The Federal Government said on Monday in Abuja that efforts were being made to capture the data of all civil servants and pensioners electronically before the end of the year. Amal Pepple, Head of the Service of the Federation (HOSF), made this known at the inauguration of the National Record Centre (NRC) in Karu, Abuja. << http://www.businessdayonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=2548:fg-to-store-data-of-civil-servants-pensioners-electronically&catid=85:national&Itemid=340 >> Students help museum clean aging Roy negatives Peterborough Examiner - Peterborough,Ontario,Canada Mary Charles, archivist at the museum, said the photographs have all been cataloged and put on an online database. But the envelopes containing the pictures ... <http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1542903> History in the Licking County Courthouse The Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA ... records stored in the attic of the Licking County Courthouse, new county archivist Katy Klettlinger knew she would stumble upon some interesting finds. ... <http://www.newarkadvocate.com/article/20090428/NEWS01/904280311> DeNiro film collection debuts at UT's Ransom Center Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA Filling more than 300 archival boxes, the paper portion of the collection includes De Niro's heavily-annotated scripts and correspondence, ... <http://www.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2009/04/27/daily4.html> City: State forced Web archive removal Corvallis Gazette Times - Corvallis,OR,USA “For the first time, such public documents giving this information have been withdrawn and are no longer accessible from the Web site. ... < http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2009/04/28/news/community/6aaa04_urbanrenewal042809.txt > Centrelink records found in dump ABC Online - Australia [File image]. (ABC News) Residents of a remote Northern Territory community say their welfare quarantining records were found blowing around the community's ... <http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/04/28/2555183.htm?section=australia > eDiscovery Legal Minefield Migraines ZDNet Blogs - USA In fact, many lawyers would like nothing more than to work with the rest of the business to streamline document retention tactics. ... <http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=526> Data Masking Hides Data in Plain Sight Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA This way, if data is stolen, it is useless for identity theft or corporate espionage. American Student Assistance evaluated a number of masking technologies ... < http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=175990&f_src=byteandswitch_gnews > Walker Reflects on Life, as Archives Open The Emory Wheel - USA By Tiffany Han Posted: 04/27/2009 Alice Walker visited campus on Thursday and Friday to tour the exhibition of her archives. Robbed of her energy by the ... <http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=27083> Archive Team Is Busy Saving Geocities Slashdot - USA jamie found this note from Jason Scott, who organizes the Archive Team. They are busy downloading as much of Geocities as they can before it vanishes from ... <http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/27/2252227> Historical Jackson letter back home Capital News 9 - Albany,NY,USA An important piece of US presidential history is back home in the archives of the New York State Library thanks to Attorney General Andrew Cuomo's office ... < http://capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/138291/historical-jackson-letter-back-home/Default.aspx > Archive exhibition shows 'history' of The Color Purple guardian.co.uk - UK Alice Walker looks at a display of her archives at Emory University. Photograph: John Amis/AP The brightly coloured quilt Alice Walker made at her mother's ...< http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/28/exhibition-color-purple-walker> Former Motorola Executive Denies Destroying Evidence Wall Street Journal - USA By SARA SILVER Motorola Inc.'s former chief financial officer denied in a Tuesday court filing that he destroyed evidence from his company computer after he ... <http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124095826503765629.html> Firm wins fight for real estate data The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA The court unanimously agreed that the documents, requested by a business that wants to sell electronic access to this information, are public records under ... < http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1240891523162850.xml&coll=1 > -- 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