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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. ...
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http://www.lawyersweekly.ca/index.php?section=article&volume=28&number=48&article=4
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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 ...
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http://www.13wham.com/news/local/story/Greece-Police-Chief-Accused-of-Shredding-Documents/Khvr29m-j0GS71sgjkE-Xw.cspx
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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
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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. ...
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http://www.gazettetimes.com/articles/2009/04/28/news/community/6aaa04_urbanrenewal042809.txt
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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 ...
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http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=175990&f_src=byteandswitch_gnews
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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 ...
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http://capitalnews9.com/content/headlines/138291/historical-jackson-letter-back-home/Default.aspx
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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 ...
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http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1240891523162850.xml&coll=1
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