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RAIN 20090526 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. NHS 'loses' thousands of medical records Independent - London,England,UK It has reminded them of rules on encrypting private patient data and those on transferring files. Mick Gorrill, the assistant Information Commissioner in ... < http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/nhs-loses-thousands-of-medical-records-1690398.html > Blackmail fears over stolen RAF data files Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/> - United Kingdom Meanwhile it has emerged that the NHS has lost the personal medical records of thousands of people in a series of data security leaks. ... < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/defence/5380330/Blackmail-fears-over-stolen-RAF-data-files.html > Irving, state disagree on records retention Houston Chronicle - United States The state agency does not have any enforcement powers over the retention of documents but it is against state law to intentionally destroy public documents. ... <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6439674.html> Cloud backup and storage policies ITworld.com - Framingham,MA,USA Because of these regulations, you will typically have to have a long-term data retention policy. Can an online backup service meet such a long-term... <http://www.itworld.com/storage/68338/cloud-backup-and-storage-policies> How to understand deduplication ratios Search Storage - USA Data retention settings: the longer data is retained on disk, the greater the opportunity for the deduplication engine to find redundancy. ... < http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/articles/32325-How-to-understand-deduplication-ratios > ODU archivist starting a catalogue of integration The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA ODU archivist Sonia Yaco helped start a statewide organization to find documents, journals and memorabilia dealing with school desegregation from the 1940's ... < http://hamptonroads.com/2009/05/odu-archivist-starting-catalogue-integration > Jackson's stolen letter found Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA ... of the New York State Library's collection, which rarely de-acquisitions items. ... the New York State Library by former state archivist Daniel Lorello, ... <http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2009/may/26/jacksons-stolen-letter-found/> NHS patients given right to delete electronic record guardian.co.uk - UK The Department of Health had offered instead to "mask" or "suppress" unwanted files, making them difficult to access – a process that would nonetheless ... < http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/may/26/nhs-patient-medical-database-spine > Requests to see Stasi files unabated 20 years on AFP ... of intelligence files communist East Germany kept on its own citizens and many Westerners, told reporters that interest in the records had anything but ... < http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gmky7Kbm1rYZyJWR_Zk8V3nL4fcg > National Archives: What, Me Worry? ZDNet Blogs - USA Gewirtz makes a important point that because consumer data storage has now reached a level where it's easy to transfer huge volumes of data cheaply,... <http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=10158> Wilson to head presidential library News Virginian - Waynesboro,VA,USA By The News Virginian Staff Don Wilson, former Archivist of the United States and director of the George HW Bush Presidential Library Foundation,... < http://www.newsvirginian.com/wnv/news/local/article/wilson_to_head_presidential_library/40616/ > New Presidential Library chief in Staunton The Hook - Charlottesville,VA,USA by Dave McNair Say hello to Dr. Don Wilson, new director of the Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library and Museum in Staunton. In the Presidential library biz, ... < http://www.readthehook.com/blog/index.php/2009/05/26/new-presidential-library-chief-in-staunton/ > State budget woes keep old World of Coke empty Atlanta Journal Constitution - Atlanta,GA,USA It could also include collections from the state archive in Morrow in addition to traveling exhibits from around Georgia. Meantime, the state building ... < http://www.ajc.com/services/content/business/coke/stories/2009/05/26/coke_world_museum.html > Head of Stasi archive says countless files have yet to be read Deutsche Welle - Germany Marianne Birthler, the head of the agency that oversees the archives holding millions of files collected by the former East German secret police, ... <http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4282046,00.html> -- 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 For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]