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RAIN 20090610 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. More budget desperation Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA And archivists have set aside several potentially high-value items for a live auction, including notes signed by Confederate Lt. Gen. ... < http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090609/OPINION/906090319/1027/OPINION01 > Hawaii State Archives holds Lincoln document but no one sure how ... Los Angeles Times - CA,USA But how did an innocuous Civil War-era memo bearing Abraham Lincoln's signature end up in the state archives of Hawaii, which was still a kingdom at the ... < http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-us-hawaii-lincoln-document,1,1675551.story > History Under Lock and Key The Moscow Times - Russia But under Vladimir Putin's presidency, a new law was passed in 2004 that imposed far greater restrictions on access to state archives. ... <http://www.moscowtimes.ru/article/1016/42/378332.htm> Audit Finds Sloppy Record Keeping in Small Village KSPR - Springfield,MO,USA By Brad Belote A citizen-requested audit of the village of Collins reveals lack of oversight of spending and bookkeeping. The audit shows Collins paid more ...<http://www.kspr.com/news/local/47216427.html> Handling documents basic skill for government staff The Canadian Press - OTTAWA For one, classified documents should be kept in a ministerial briefcase that can only be opened with a combination or key when they are taken out of an ... < http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iDZARyuDlU9VWcWe1-Ud2SsIS22A > When government information goes astray CBC.ca - Toronto,Ontario,Canada In the United Kingdom, the government has a long and embarrassing record of laptops and confidential documents turning up in full public view on the train ...< http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/06/08/f-wayward-government-secrets.html> Picking Up the Pieces After Downsizing: Avoid Orphaned Data TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA ... when they are used to transmit business plans, company financials, product roadmaps and other confidential documents outside of the corporate network. ..< http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Picking-Up-the-Pieces-After-Downsizing-Avoid-Orphaned-Data-67278.html > IRS Issues New FAQs For Governance Portion Of Form 990 Mondaq News Alerts (Registration) - London,UK ... whistleblowers and document retention, and FAQs relating to whether information from organizations related to the filing organization is required to be ... <http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=80968> Companies Act's final flourish Information World Review - London,UK Other provisions, such as changes in the paper document retention area, invoke mixed reaction from the information community. For example, Adam Joseph, ... < http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/features/2243788/digital-deliverance > Lincoln paper mystery deepens Honolulu Advertiser - Honolulu,HI,USA By Gordon YK Pang Experts at the Lincoln presidential library confirmed yesterday that an important document tied to President Lincoln's Emancipation ... < http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20090609/NEWS01/906090351/Lincoln+paper+mystery+deepens > Hawaii: A Lincoln Document, and a Mystery New York Times - United States A project of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Illinois has confirmed its authenticity. It orders the secretary of state to affix the ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/us/09brfs-ALINCOLNDOCU_BRF.html?ref=us> MTSU archivist helps preserve minister's legacy The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA Martin Fisher, Manager of Recorded Music Collections at mtsu's Center for Popular Music, will be among those making presentations on the legacy of Rev. ... < http://www.tennessean.com/article/D4/20090608/NEWS01/90608020/MTSU+archivist+helps+preserve+minister+s+legacy > Public archives: fewer, bigger, better Information World Review - London,UK Government may be carrying out an exercise in consulting the public over the future of archives but it seems to have a pretty clear idea of the direction it ... < http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/features/2243789/fewer-bigger-better > Smithsonian Exhibiting Bobcat Archives KFYR-TV - Bismarck,ND,USA After a few visits from experts, the Smithsonian agreed the company had some worthy records to include in its archives. The museum collected about 60 cubic ... <http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=30953> CIO moots cloud computing for health records storage FutureGov Magazine - Singapore,Singapore By Crystal Low | 9 June 2009 Cloud computing could be a solution for the electronic storage and exchange of trillions of patient health records, ... < http://www.futuregov.net/articles/2009/jun/09/cio-moots-cloud-computing-health-records-storage/ > First Dutch government records in the Hudson Valley online in English Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA “The secretary's papers, they document all of the legal agreements and contracts from that period including the earliest deeds of Ulster County,... <http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/2009/June09/09/Dutch_rcds-09Jun09.html> University Archivist Maggie Kimball to ride off into the sunset ... Stanford University News - Stanford,CA,USA Then in 1989, Nilan took a leave of absence to establish an archive at what was then the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, and Kimball was named acting ...<http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/june10/kimball-061009.html> CD launched to preserve Essex dialect from the threat of the ... Daily Mail - UK Now the Essex Record Office has unearthed recordings of the county's dialects and accents from the twentieth century from its sound and video archive. ...< http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1191899/CD-launched-preserve-Essex-dialect-threat-Cockney-accent.html > Archivists launch campaign to save Essex accent Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/> - United Kingdom Archivists have launched a campaign to save the Essex accent claiming it has been put under threat by London Cockneys moving into the county. ... < http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5487543/Archivists-launch-campaign-to-save-Essex-accent.html > Photos chronicle lives of Skidmore family Northumberland Today - Cobourg,Ontario,Canada Cobourg archivist Ciara Ward was definitely impressed with the quantity of family portraits, "A lot of portraits... more or less everyone from birth on. ...<http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1606017> Crown Records Management wins health and safety awards Get Bracknell - Bracknell,Berkshire,UK Crown Records Management Ltd is celebrating after winning two prestigious accolades for its commitment to health and safety. The document management company ...< http://www.getbracknell.co.uk/business/s/2052218_crown_records_management_wins_health_and_safety_awards > Information managers transform into knowledge operations managers McGuire Air Force Base - McGuire Air Force Base,New Jersey,USA Their core competencies were to provide information management support (publishing, Air Force Portal, records management and CSA) to units and base ...<http://www.mcguire.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123153279> Rare 1857 reports on Bengal uprisings Times of India - India The state archives is about to publish the details. "Indeed, the sepoy mutiny had a much broader span. While a lot is known about the sepoy uprisings of UP, ...< http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Kolkata-/Rare-1857-reports-on-Bengal-uprisings/articleshow/4637780.cms > Calif. Hands Down Maximum $250000 Penalty for Employee Snooping ... Atlantic Information Services, Inc. - Washington,DC,USA "Because of our attention to confidentiality and privacy, and because of the security of record-keeping provided through electronic records, ... <http://www.aishealth.com/Bnow/hbd061009.html> Ransoming data: The new weapon of choice for cyber criminals? Christian Science Monitor - USA ... ransom in exchange for user files. “In my possession right now,” that hacker wrote, “are 8257378 patient records and a total of 35548087 prescriptions. ...< http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/06/09/ransoming-data-the-new-weapon-of-choice-for-cyber-criminals/ > UK to cut official document release to 20 years Reuters - USA "As serious historians looking to the future our concern was for the quality of the record left behind. We work often on Foreign Office files and we want ... <http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5595JS20090610> T-Mobile confirms company records taken USA Today - USA ... and has ready access to "everything, their databases, confidential documents, scripts and programs from their servers, financial documents up to 2009. ...< http://blogs.usatoday.com/technologylive/2009/06/tmobile-confirms-hack-of-customer-records.html > Archives names expert as new FOIA ombudsman Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Arlington,VA,USA The National Archives announced Wednesday it has filled the newly created position of FOIA ombudsman for the federal government, a role open government ...<http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=10828> Ingest for deep archives Broadcast Engineering - Overland Park,KS,USA Devlin explained how there are two aspects to archive management. “One is determining whether or not you can find the thing in the archive. ... <http://broadcastengineering.com/news/ingest-deep-archives-0610/> Stolen T-Mobile Data Not Hacked, Says Company New York Times - United States The post also included a list of apparent file names to as proof of the breach. T-Mobile's initial response was “… we've identified the document from which ...< http://gadgetwise.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/stolen-t-mobile-data-not-hacked-says-company/ > Chicago Conservation Center Restores Iowa's Flood Damaged Artifacts KCRG - Cedar Rapids,IA,USA Historic photographs from the Veteran's Memorial Museum also suffered the wrath of the water. "The most important thing about these pieces being here is ...<http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/47606382.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