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RAIN 20090612
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
What's In New Hunterdon County Archive Building?
Hunterdon County Democrat - Pittstown,NJ,USA
On Sunday the Hunterdon County Historical Society will unveil a new
state-of-the-art archive building, making it one of the only private
historical ...
<http://www.nj.com/hunterdon-county-democrat/index.ssf/2009/06/whats_in_new_hunterdon_county.html>
Cabinet papers to be exempt from Freedom of
Information
Telegraph.co.uk
- United Kingdom
Some Cabinet papers and information on the Royal Family are to be excluded
from the Freedom of Information Act under new rules unveiled by Gordon
Brown. ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/5498155/Cabinet-papers-to-be-exempt-from-Freedom-of-Information.html>
Government papers to be made public after 20 years
Daily Mail - UK
... they would be subject to a 20-year exemption under the Freedom of
Information Act. Government sources said the decision had been taken to
'strike the ...
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1192204/Government-papers-public-20-years.html>
South Florida court clerks cuts may affect the
administration of ...
Examiner.com - USA
Deputy clerks transport files from storage to the courtrooms for hearings,
make notations in court files, process documents such as plea forms,
judgments, ...
<http://www.examiner.com/x-12930-Broward-County-Law-and-Politics-Examiner~y2009m6d10-South-Florida-court-clerks-cuts-may-affect-the-administration-of-justice>
First ombudsman for FOIA named at National Archives
GovExec.com - Washington,DC,USA
She will direct the Archives' new Office of Government Information
Services, acting Archivist Adrienne Thomas announced on Wednesday. ...
<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0609/061109cdam1.htm>
TEXAS: Downtown Austin set to house future Episcopal
archives
Episcopal News Service - New York,NY,USA
By Pat McCaughan, June 11, 2009 [Episcopal News Service] The future home of
the Episcopal Church archives -- an "irreplaceable" collection that
includes ...
<http://www.episcopalchurch.org/81803_109731_ENG_HTM.htm>
How Facebook and Twitter Are Changing Data Privacy
Rules
Computerworld - Oslo,Oslo,Norway
... should trigger all sorts of alarms for CIOs who must protect trade
secrets, .... it had to reveal that it had sold such data to an
identity-theft ring. ...
<http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=D14C9B49-1A64-6A71-CEBB8DE087527FB6>
President launches mapped archive of Cork placenames
Irish Times - Dublin,Ireland
THE PRESIDENT has paid tribute to a Cork toponymist and his team of
researchers on their achievement of compiling the first mapped archive of
placenames for ...
<http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0611/1224248613042.html>
Are officials' meeting notes public records?
Orlando Sentinel - Orlando,FL,USA
DELTONA - Notes taken by an elected official during a public meeting may
not be public records -- even if they concerned issues debated during the
meeting, ...
<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/volusia/orl-deltona-public-records-061109,0,4064623.story>
Gay city employees fight to block release of their
identities
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
In response, an unspecified number of employees have sued the city
asserting that state public-records law demand their identities be
withheld. ...<http://www.seattlepi.com/local/407090_pdr10.html>
Do you have info on Old Tom's jacket?
Ayrshire Post - Ayr,Scotland,UK
Archivists at Prestwick St Nicholas Golf Club would love to know the exact
colour and pattern of the jacket he is wearing in this picture. ...
<http://www.ayrshirepost.net/ayrshire-news/local-news-ayrshire/prestwick/2009/06/12/do-you-have-info-on-old-tom-s-jacket-102545-23830492/>
Notoriety's Missing Links
Washington Post - United States
... precisely because some contain hateful invective, by both archival
tools like the Wayback Machine, and by amateur online archivists, and were
circulated ...<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/11/AR2009061104031.html>
Church History Library is unveiled downtown
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
Today, Olsen said, church archivists are much better at discovering bogus
documents "than we used to be." The library limits access to
documents it
deems ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/faith/ci_12573143>
History of Travancore set to be rewritten
Express Buzz - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
The State Archives Department has already begun a massive exercise to first
transliterate, then translate and finally make available these manuscripts
...<http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=History+of+Travancore+set+to+be+rewritten&artid=wdNnOAfE3oM=&SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&MainSectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&SEO=Travancore+Central+Prison&SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts>
Addressing compliance requirements in cloud
computing contracts
SearchCIO.com - USA
The Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that US lawyers must follow in
civil cases require the disclosure of electronically stored information at
an ...<http://searchcio.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid182_gci1359026,00.html>
Yonkers cited for poor record keeping in federal
loan program
Lower Hudson Journal news - West Harrison,NY,USA
Planning and Development Commissioner Lou Kirven called the city's loan
program a success despite the poor record-keeping, which he said the city
will ...
<http://lohud.com/article/20090612/NEWS02/906120345/-1/SPORTS>