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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.

Austin Catholic Diocese Blesses BancTec Record Preservation Solution
PR Newswire (press release)
... the documents to a faraway location. As with the Diocese of Austin project, DocuData will produce a microfilm "hardcopy" as well as digital files. ...<http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/austin-catholic-diocese-blesses-banctec-record-preservation-solution-63666712.html>

Regulations, paperwork spark growth in e-discovery
Mass High Tech - Boston,MA,USA
With increased state and federal regulatory legislation such as the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, companies have been put on notice that electronic-document retention ...<http://www.masshightech.com/stories/2009/10/05/weekly8-Regulations-paperwork-spark-growth-in-e-discovery.html>

New Jefferson Davis library planned
WXVT
(AP) - A contract has been signed to build a new Jefferson Davis Presidential Library and Museum at Beauvoir, the Gulf Coast house that was the retirement ...<http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=11271149>

WW II Vet to Return 16th-Century Books to Germany
ARTINFO
Robert Thomas had contacted the National Archives for information about the books' provenance, the facility says, and an archivist there suggested he return ...<http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/32866/ww-ii-vet-to-return-16th-century-books-to-germany/>

<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/07/AR2009100701165.html>

Feds Investigate If Hilton Stole Documents From Rival Hotel Chain
The Business Insider
The complaint says the executives stole more than 100000 electronic documents "in the clearest imaginable case of corporate espionage," according to Peter ...<http://www.businessinsider.com/feds-investigate-hilton-and-an-exploration-of-corporate-criminal-liability-2009-10>

Suggestion for Pacific archive move due to sea level rise
Radio Australia
That's an idea an Australian archivist will be suggesting to a regional conference of archivists in Brisbane next week. Matthew Gordon-Clark says this may ...<http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200910/s2708131.htm>

Weston Historical Society's archive facility takes root
Weston Forum
Sharon Gilbert, the historical society's archivist, and Karin Giannitti, its collections manager, looked on with pride as construction workers carefully ...<http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=38410:weston-historical-societys-archive-facility-takes-root&catid=55:weston-local&Itemid=1270>

Would a few thousand bucks have prevented Boston's E-mailgate?
Blast
... e-mail Boston's backup script was a good solution for a disaster or system failure, but not necessarily the best solution for a public records request. ...<http://blastmagazine.com/the-magazine/technology/tech-news/computers/2009/10/would-a-few-thousand-bucks-have-prevented-bostons-e-mailgate/>

Critics: National Archives lax in records management enforcement
Nextgov
He noted that the new guidance, for the first time, stipulates when and how NARA will conduct inspections to monitor compliance. ... <http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091007_6354.php?oref=topstory>

Archivist keeps pulse on past in Lowcountry Digital Library
Charleston Post Courier
"As a history student, I had worked in archives before and appreciated their significance. But I knew nothing about preservation, cataloging or the nuts and ...<http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/oct/08/archivist-keeps-pulse-on-past-in-lowcountry/>

Auditor: Ontario wasted $1B on e-records
United Press International
TORONTO, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The Canadian province of Ontario wasted $1 billion over the past six years trying to create electronic patient health records, ...<http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/10/08/Auditor-Ontario-wasted-1B-on-e-records/UPI-38631255012600/>

Digital Record-Keeping: Quill and Ink Not Required
NewsFactor Network
While most other businesses scrapped their paper files decades ago, hospitals have lagged. Several of the health reform proposals being considered in ...<http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=02000000TQL4>

Hilton faces criminal corporate spying charges
Times Online
... over claims that they engaged in the “wholesale looting” of confidential documents in order to help it to launch a rival brand to Starwood's W Hotels. ...<http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/leisure/article6865209.ece>

Martha Coakley flip-flops, probes e-mails
Boston Herald
“This is an important first step in getting a true independent investigation into the whosesale destruction of public records and blatant disregard for the ...<http://news.bostonherald.com/news/politics/view.bg?articleid=1203101>

Historic royal charter restored
BBC News - UK
Experts at the National Archive of Scotland repaired and cleaned the historic parchment and reattached its official wax seal. The work has been completed ...<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8296400.stm>

Google Begins Fixing Usenet Archive
Wired News
Confining a search to a range of dates also fails silently, bulldozing the most obvious path to exploring an archive. “Want to find Marc Andreessen's ...<http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/10/usenet_fix/>

Boston posts 5000 Kineavy e-mails on Web
Boston Globe
The e-mails are at the heart of a burgeoning controversy over the city's handling of public records. The controversy led to Kineavy's decision earlier this ...<http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/10/boston_posts_50.html>

Computer-gate is about the mayor, not his aide
Boston Globe
Under state law, municipal e-mails are public records. Kineavy knew it, but deleted them anyway. Now, Kineavy, who is routinely described as a ...<http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/editorial_opinion/oped/articles/2009/10/08/computer_gate_is_about_the_mayor_not_his_aide/>

How a Las Vegas casino was infected by malware
ITWorld Canada
This document is sponsored by IBM Corp. E-Discovery and Electronic Document Retention in Canada - This paper is a guide to understanding the role of the IT ...
<http://www.itworldcanada.com/news/how-a-las-vegas-casino-was-infected-by-malware/138932>

Flooding, mold afflict Halle
Eastern Echo
According to Rosina Tammany, the university's archivist, the problems in the archives have existed ever since the library was built. ...<http://www.easternecho.com/index.php/article/2009/10/flooding_mold_afflict_halle>

WWII GI returns German books 64 years later
Los Angeles Times
The National Archives was delighted to facilitate the return. Senior archivist Greg Bradsher, whom Thomas had contacted last spring, researched the books ...<http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-books-return9-2009oct09,0,542903.story>

HSBC supports documentation of 500 years of medical practice in Gozo
Malta Independent Online
In the picture, Revd Dr Joseph Bezzina, Assistant National Archivist, is seen explaining to Paul Curmi, HSBC's Area Director for Gozo, the importance of the ...<http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=95318>

Hospital Hires 'Scribes' To Help Docs With E-Records
InformationWeek
The University of Virginia has hired "scribes" with laptop computers to follow doctors around as they treat patients, updating electronic medical records as ...<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/10/hospital_hires.html>

E-Discovery Issues With Digital Voicemail
Law.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Given the unquestionable discoverability of voice messages and the penalties for spoliation, regardless of which voicemail arrangement is used, ...<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202434402099&EDiscovery_Issues_With_Digital_Voicemail>

Iron Mountain Opens Special Storage Facilities to Help Federal Records Keepers ...
Reuters
... records for more than 50 years, experience we`ve leaned on to understand the CFR requirements and to offer our customers a compliant data storage ...<http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS121835+22-Sep-2009+BW20090922>

Royal charter document is restored for Perth 800
Press and Journal - Aberdeen,Aberdeenshire,UK
The restoration work was carried out free by the National Archive of Scotland in Edinburgh. The charter's official wax seal has been reattached and the ...<http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1432250>

Masonic Lodge donates historical records to Whitby archives
Newsdurhamregion.com
The Masonic Lodge documents are available for public viewing during business hours in the archives section of the Whitby Public Library's central branch at ...<http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/news/article/137416>

New records system could end the paper chase
Lake Region Monitor
Since 1997, he said the county has spent more than $1 million is records management software and used only about 60 percent of it. ...<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=20377587&BRD=2150&PAG=461&dept_id=403301&rfi=6>

Dallas police sort 2000 abuse files stored in family violence detective's garage
Dallas Morning News
There seems to have been little rhyme or reason to Detective Mickey East's record-keeping system, prompting concerns from police officials, family violence ...<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/101009dnmetcasequestions.415ae02.html>

Ruth Video Is Under Further Review
New York Times
A newly discovered home film acquired by Major League Baseball Productions shows Ruth playing the outfield, a first for the vast moving-image archive. ...<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/11/sports/baseball/11babe.html>

Addressing Compliance Requirements for Privacy, Data Retention, and e-Discovery
TechRepublic
Overview: Protecting individual and financial data, retaining data, andmeeting e-discovery requirements are common compliance requirements across ...
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A Ruthian Mystery
New York Times
Major League Baseball Productions, the sport's official archivist, has about 150000 hours of footage dating back more than a century. ... <http://bats.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/08/a-ruthian-mystery/?em>

Businesses limit online use
The Tennessean
... the Internet because they're worried about security breaches, loss of trade secrets and diminished productivity, according to recent national surveys. ...<http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091011/BUSINESS01/910110339/1003/NEWS01/Businesses+limit+online+use>

New LBJ Library director a longtime student of presidential history
Austin American-Statesman
... an archive containing more than 40 million pages of records and, in a sense, the intellectual legacy of the life and times of the 36th president. ...<http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/2009/10/11/1011updegrove.html>

Dallas County courts moving to all-electronic filing
Dallas Morning News
Dallas County District Clerk Gary Fitzsimmons' office is moving to a paperless system for its court records. The district clerk's office is converting files ...<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/crime/stories/DN-paperless_11met.ART0.Central.Edition1.4c23aaf.html>

President Warren Harding's lover Carrie Phillips spied for Kaiser
Times Online
“An archivist at Harding's local Ohio Historical Society, fearing these documents might disappear, made a 900-page bootleg copy and I found the microfiche,” ...<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article6869487.ece>

Oops! Leaky Roof Threatens State's Most Treasured Historical Documents
FOXNews
Only 12 states have smaller staff than Indiana, which has eight archivists. Washington state has a $10 million budget. Washington archivist Jerry Handfield, ...<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,563980,00.html>

Acushnet looks to improve records storage
South Coast Today
... storage of municipal records, some of which are more than seven years old and can be discarded, according to the secretary of state's archives division. ...<http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091012/NEWS/910120330>

Washington: First in War, Peace -- and Accounting
Washington Post
That archival quandary lured 25 scholars, some of them "forensic accountants," to Mount Vernon this past weekend for a workshop to strategize about how to ...<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/11/AR2009101101933.html?hpid=topnews>

Mad Men and Conrad Hilton's connection to Houston
Houston Chronicle
Professor Mark Young is a historian, archivist and director of the Massad Family Library Research Center and Hospitality Industry Archives at the University ...<http://blogs.chron.com/tubular/archives/2009/10/mad_men_and_con.html>

Documentary Photographer Turns His Lens on City Parks
New York Times
As part of the project, Hewlett-Packard financed the HP Photographic Archive of New York City Parks, a digital archive of nearly 3000 photographs that will ...<http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/12/documentary-photographer-turns-his-lens-on-citye-parks/?hp>

New tape Jackson's El Dorado
NEWS.com.au
Instead, serendipity guided Sony's archivists to a box where a tape labelled This Is It had remained seemingly undisturbed for almost two decades. ...<http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26199163-5007146,00.html>

Preserving Italian heritage
Lower Hudson Journal news
With the help of librarians, archivists and historians, he made his case and uncovered other influences of the early immigrants and generations to follow. ...<http://www.lohud.com/article/20091013/COLUMNIST/910130331/-1/SPORTS/Preserving-Italian-heritage>

Bidding war begins for Nelson Mandela's astonishing archive
guardian.co.uk
"Anyone who has explored the world of archives will know that it is a treasure house, one that is full of surprises, crossing paths, dead ends, ...<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/14/bidding-war-nelson-mandela>

Nelson Mandela archive will remind people of what he fought for
guardian.co.uk
The Mandela archive soon to be published promises a wealth of new material about the great man. There will be extracts from his prison diaries, ... <http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/14/nelsonmandela-southafrica>

First Arizona LGBT Archive Launches in Tucson
Public News Service
The life experiences of Arizona's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities will be kept in a new digital archive at the University of Arizona. ...<http://www.publicnewsservice.org/index.php?/content/article/10888-1>

Cincinnati records to digitize in UC library
The News Record
By Robert Weil | The News Record Cincinnati's birth and death records located in the University of Cincinnat's Archives and Rare Books Library expects a ...<http://www.newsrecord.org/sections/news/cincinnati-records-to-digitize-in-uc-library-1.1996032>

The Story Behind Walter Cronkite's Destroyed FBI File
Gawker
That was news to us, since the bureau's Records Management Division told us back when we first got news of the file's destruction that it was the only thing ...<http://gawker.com/5380916/the-story-behind-walter-cronkites-destroyed-fbi-file>

Push to post public records online hitting snags
Lancaster Newspapers
Meantime, the prothonotary's office, which records and files civil court documents, is working toward posting federal and state tax liens on the Web ...<http://articles.lancasteronline.com/local/4/243418>

Big Blue Sports Archive preserving Kentucky's storied history
WYMT
The endowment for the Big Blue Sports Archive has been more than 30 years in the making. This initiative is to preserve Kentucky's storied history in ...<http://www.wkyt.com/news/headlines/64159732.html>

Paraguay unveils archives from dictatorship
The Associated Press
ASUNCION, Paraguay — Human rights activists gained access Wednesday to a dictatorship-era military archive that appears to contain long-held secrets about ...<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jnuOpPy3eMNTVBxizaFEX5N5VFVAD9BB2LC80>

AMD, Intel Wage Evidence War Before Antitrust Trial
PC Magazine
PST files. Later, the brief claims, AMD admitted to a "secret" data restoration project, and produced 200000 relevant documents after the close of discovery ...<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2354231,00.asp>

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