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RAIN 20090416
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
Productivity: Yes, we can [go paperless]!
CanadianBusiness.com - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
An ever-increasing number of files, reports and invoices meant client
services ... carted off by a shredding company, and the photocopier has
disappeared. ...
<http://www.canadianbusiness.com/entrepreneur/managing/article.jsp?content=20090501_30017_30017>
Motorola accuses former CFO of destroying evidence
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
... who is suing the company for retaliatory discharge, of destroying
evidence from his work-issued laptop. The Schaumburg-based technology
company filed a ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-motorola-whistleblower-lawsuit-april15,0,5665282.story>
Special Collections: Library has more than 300 feet
of materials
Virginia Tech Collegiate Times Online Edition - Blacksburg,VA,USA
Aaron Purcell, director of Special Collections, said he has been working
with other archivists to learn how to preserve the April 16 items. ...
<http://www.collegiatetimes.com/stories/13560>
Is Your Company Ready for e-Discovery?: What FRCP
Can Mean for ...
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
With the passing of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), it’sa
new era in which organizations are challenged with how to face the
increasing ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/top-stories/6947-is-your-company-ready-for-e-discovery-what-frcp-can-mean-for-your-business-and-how-to-prepare>
The Content and Storage Balancing Act
FierceContentManagement - Washington,DC,USA
That's not going to fly in today's court system, especially after the 2006
changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) (which I wrote about
in ...
<http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/content-and-storage-balancing-act/2009-04-15
Goshen College
librarians help make peace archives available online
Goshen College News - USA
"I think this is the first digitization project of this nature and scope
– peace-related archival documents pertaining to Brethren, Mennonites and
Quakers," ...
<http://www.goshen.edu/news/pressarchive/04-15-09-peace-archive269.html>
Syracuse China owner donates china and paper archive
to Onondaga ...
The Post-Standard - Syracuse.com - Syracuse,NY,USA
Details have been worked out for Libbey Inc., owner of Syracuse China
Corp., to donate its entire archive of china and paper to the historical
association, ...
<http://www.syracuse.com/case/index.ssf?/base/news-1/123987232198370.xml&coll=1>
Powerful portfolio of Nazi archives coming to UB
University at Buffalo Reporter - Buffalo,NY,USA
... individual horrors that attended it, most people have no idea of the
extent of the weirdly obsessive record-keeping practices of the Nazis
bureaucracy, ...
<http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2009_04_15/ehrlich_exhibit>
JPS weighs creating $150 million electronic records
system
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... district does away with handwritten records and combines its paper
files and various computer systems under one electronic medical record
system. ...
<http://www.star-telegram.com/corrections/story/1320076.html>
Police serve warrant to remove Salford records
Montgomery Newspapers - Fort
Washington,PA,USA
By Brendan Purves The Salford missing files and misappropriated funding
investigation has been stirred up once again by a sealed warrant for the
township’s ...
<http://www.montgomerynews.com/articles/2009/04/15/souderton_independent/news/doc49e637417201e398212609.txt>
Nobel laureate's papers found in rubble of German
archives
Monsters and Critics.com - USA
Bettina Schmidt-Czaia, the city archivist, said the Boell papers were found
in a crushed carton and were 'fairly unharmed.' The collapse of the
building, ...
<http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1471256.php/Nobel_laureates_papers_found_in_rubble_of_German_archives_>
Archives chronicle crawfish, culture
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
A digital archive of photographs, stories, home movies, newspaper articles
and other memorabilia is under development. The project is a partnership
between ...
<http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/suburban/43080842.html>
Verizon: Organized Crime Caused Spike in Data
Breaches
PC World - USA
A new study from Verizon Business claims that organized crime is
responsible for a large increase in the number of breached corporate
electronic records, ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/163199/verizon_organized_crime_caused_spike_in_data_breaches.html>
FoI Bill: Stakeholder still differ on passage
The Guardian - Nigeria - Lagos,Nigeria
... to delete the provision of Section 2(2) in draft FoI Bill that "An
applicant need not demonstrate any specific interest in the information or
record ...
<http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/policy_politics/article01/indexn2_html?pdate=160409&ptitle=FoI%20Bill:%20Stakeholder%20still%20differ%20on%20passage>
Free Music Archive launches
CNET News - San Francisco,CA,USA
... or random MP3s delivered via Seeqpod or some other search engine--I'm
talking about the Free Music Archive, which launched in beta over the
weekend. ...
<http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10220659-27.html>
Florida Memory Project
WFLX Fox 29 - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
The Florida State Library and Archives needs your help identifying nearly
3500 images for the Florida Memory Project. Of the one million images owned
by the ...
<http://www.wflxfox29.com/Global/story.asp?S=10181060&nav=menu98_2>
Archiving vendors Iron
Mountain, Tarmin sharpen e-discovery
focus
Search Storage - USA
... message data retention for financial institutions; and the Stratify
Legal Discovery early case assessment, document review and production
service. ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid5_gci1353962,00.html>