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

International archivists swoop down on Malta
Malta Independent Online
A considerable number of leading world archivists are coming to Malta to discuss the theme “Imagining the 21st Century Archivist: New Strategies for ...<http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=97266>

Saving ur e-mail for ur kids, lol, :-)
The Patriot Ledger
She said the digital age is posing difficult challenges not just for archivists, but for families looking to preserve their history. ... <http://www.patriotledger.com/archive/x1659501535/Saving-ur-e-mail-for-ur-kids-lol>

Library hosts Cougar Football history
The Daily Evergreen
University Archivist Mark O'English said his favorite part about the exhibit is the story of Toodles the Bear. “During one of the team's trips to Oregon ...<http://www.dailyevergreen.com/story/30144>

Water Line Burst Damages State Periodicals
WFPL
But State Archivist Barbara Teague says only two or three documents are a total loss. “One was from 2001. And we lost a couple from 2005 that were done on ...<http://www.wfpl.org/2009/11/16/water-line-burst-damages-state-periodicals/>

Red Cross sells pieces of history to cut deficit
Philadelphia Inquirer
Some have been sent to the National Archives under a long-standing partnership, the most historically significant art and objects will be kept at the ...<http://www.philly.com/philly/wires/ap/entertainment/other/20091116_ap_redcrosssellspiecesofhistorytocutdeficit.html>

NDAs: Worth the Effort?
Information Law Group (blog)
It's easy to understand why an employer would want to ensure that employees are cautioned to keep trade secrets secret, for example. ... <http://www.infolawgroup.com/2009/11/information-law/statues-and-regulations/state/trade-secrets-acts/ndas-worth-the-effort/>

Managing Information Effectively in Today's Public Sector
eGov monitor - London,UK
The strategy must consider the entire information life cycle, from acquisition to storage to cleansing, integration and analysis to delivering timely and ...<http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/30893>

Collection of FDR papers soon to become public
The Associated Press
Archivists haven't been able to take a complete inventory. Tully started working for Roosevelt during his campaign for New York governor in 1928. ...<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ivU2y7sOoBL7-jjAUSNANslokWKAD9C0T2UG0>

Red Cross sells pieces of history to cut deficit
The Associated Press
Some have been sent to the National Archives under a long-standing partnership, the most historically significant art and objects will be kept at the ...<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jTiem5KIV168sh0e6lmf1aNGX8cQD9C0RIQO1>

Two Roads Diverge in E-Discovery Costs
Corporate Counsel
These concerns have recently led the Supreme Court to raise the pleading standards applicable in non-fraud actions under FRCP 8, in the now-famous Twombly ...<http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/PubArticleCC.jsp?id=1202435521647&hubType=Top%20Story&Two_Roads_Diverge_in_EDiscovery_Costs>

Feds question OSHA record-keeping
Los Angeles Times Blogs (blog)
The GAO, the investigative agency of Congress, conducted its year-long investigation of OSHA's record-keeping after reports last year of poor working ...<http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dcnow/2009/11/feds-question-osha-recordkeeping.html>

Corcoran Group Sanctioned for Failure to Preserve E-Mail for Discovery
The National Law Journal - USA
Justice Ramos concluded that the defendants' engaged in spoliation by selectively deleting e-mails and failing to implement a "litigation hold. ...<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202435534305&Corcoran_Group_Sanctioned_for_Failure_to_Preserve_EMail_for_Discovery>

Managing Electronic Messaging And E-Discovery For Healthcare Providers
Healthcare Technology Online - Horsham,PA,USA
Healthcare providers are also working to comply with regulatory requirements for document retention and maintenance, as well as new federal rules for ...<http://www.healthcaretechnologyonline.com/article.mvc/Managing-Electronic-Messaging-And-E-Discovery-0002>

Bodleian Library books giant storage site
Logistics Manager - London,England,UK
The storage system needed to meet the guidelines set out by the National Archive Standards, which specify how books and manuscripts should be stored. ...<http://www.logisticsmanager.com/Articles/12727/Bodleian+Library+books+giant+storage+site.html>

Threat to state home for national archives
Adelaidenow - Australia
"National Archive records include documentation on arrivals, residencies and naturalisations, internment and immigration. "The Federal Government's saving ...<http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26364882-2682,00.html>

Private donors sue Cologne in wake of archive collapse
Deutsche Welle
The damage done in the archive collapse wasn't all done to public property. Hundreds of locals had entrusted their own archives to the city. ... <http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4902252,00.html>

Academics withdraw support for Holocaust center
The Associated Press
Its purpose, among other things, is to give researchers access to roughly 8000 files of the late Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal and to parts of a vast archive ...<http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hPoYGg43qGk6s88tcQM8O8G9IsQwD9C1GP3O0>

Former Information Commissioner claims that poor data cleansing and records ...
SC Magazine UK
Treacy said: “We advise a number of clients on their data retention programmes and you have to look at the types of data that they hold, why they need the ...<http://www.scmagazineuk.com/former-information-commissioner-claims-that-poor-data-cleansing-and-records-management-will-be-the-next-growth-area-for-data-protection/article/157882/>

Archivist to publish 225-page UCA history
Echo
Bryant is one of seven certified archivists in Arkansas. In addition to his jobs at UCA, Bryant is a justice on the quorum court, which includes being chair ...<http://www.ucaecho.net/stories/index.php?id=2024>

Exhibition tells story of State Archives' growth
My Sunshine Coast (press release)
"Later moves to Dutton Park and then Runcorn are captured, along with the significant contributions of successive State Archivists. ... <http://www.mysunshinecoast.com.au/articles/article-display/exhibition-tells-story-of-state-archives-growth,15542>

MoD report calls for better information management
ZDNet UK - UK
... the reduction in the 30-year rule for the transfer of records to the National Archive; and ensuring compliance with information policies and standards. ...<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/itmanagement/0,1000000308,39887556,00.htm>

National Archives project secures financing
St. Louis Business Journal
Financing has been secured for the $100 million National Archives and Records Administration military personnel records facility planned for north St. Louis ...<http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2009/11/16/daily28.html>

Family donates newspaper archives to heritage society
Katy Times
By Tracy Dang The Katy and Brookshire areas are now able to preserve almost six decades of history after a family donated an extensive archive of early...<http://www.katytimes.com/articles/2009/11/17/community/doc4b037d0e101ee155036744.txt>

FINRA Fines MetLife Securities and Affiliates $1.2 Million for Email ...
Earthtimes (press release)
But brokers were able to delete their emails from their assigned computers, thus rendering spot-checks unreliable. The firms also conducted annual branch ...<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/finra-fines-metlife-securities-and,1052821.shtml>

How to Implement a Cloud Storage Strategy
eWeek
Knowing which data to keep, what to delete, and what to retain to meet the necessary compliance and legal mandates for your business will help make your ...<http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Cloud-Computing/How-to-Implement-a-Cloud-Storage-Strategy/>

In wake of breach, ban on file-sharing software proposed in House
Washington Post
Other peer-to-peer security breaches in the last year have involved documents about the president's helicopter, financial information belonging to Supreme ...<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/17/AR2009111703841.html>

Former city manager's records not found
GoDanRiver.com - Danville,VA,USA
The Library of Virginia officials referred comment for this story to local records manager and City Clerk Annette Crane. Crane deferred comment to Whitfield ...<http://www2.godanriver.com/gdr/news/local/danville_news/article/former_city_managers_records_not_found/15689/>

Public areas of state archives reopen after water leak
Kentucky.com
FRANKFORT — The public service areas of the state Department for Libraries and Archives will reopen Thursday at 10 am after being closed since Nov. ...<http://www.kentucky.com/latest_news/story/1025542.html>

Group preserves B-26 memorabilia
Arizona Daily Star
It also funds an archive at the Pima Air and Space Museum on East Valencia Road. The archive, which shares a space with the museum's general archives, ...<http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/317946>

Young Entrepreneur Proves There's Nothing Square About Storage
Allmediascotland - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
“Our new record storage and management software produced by O'Neil Ltd allows clients to log in online at any time to view exactly what they have in storage ...<http://www.allmediascotland.com/media_releases/23606/Young-Entrepreneur-Proves-There%E2%80%99s-Nothing-Square-About-Storage>

High Tech Tries to Lift Veil on 18 ½ Tantalizing Minutes in Watergate
New York Times
The National Archives and Records Administration said Wednesday that it was convening a team of forensic document examiners to study two pages of ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/us/19haldeman.html>

Dachau trials archives donated to Holocaust Memorial Center
Detroit Free Press
By KORIE WILKINS Dachau trials archives: Documents and photographs from German war-crimes tribunals after World War II were donated Wednesday to the ...<http://www.freep.com/article/20091119/NEWS05/911190416/1001/News/Dachau-trials-archives-donated-to-Holocaust-Memorial-Center>

Ex-Ford worker accused of stealing $32M in trade secrets
The Detroit News
Yu was indicted in October on theft of trade secrets, attempted theft of trade secrets and unauthorized access to a protected computer. ...<http://www.detnews.com/article/20091119/AUTO01/911190460/1409/METRO/Ex-Ford-worker-accused-of-stealing-$32M-in-trade-secrets>

BP donates to archive Stevens' papers
Alaska Dispatch
According to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner, oil major BP will donate $1 million to UAF in two installments so that the university's Rasmuson Library can ...<http://www.alaskadispatch.com/alaska-beat/164-november-18/2985-bp-donates-to-archive-stevens-papers>

JFK relics scattered across US still hold mystique
USA Today
Deeds from the Kennedy family establish rules for access. The suit cannot be seen until 2103; requests to view Kennedy's clothing and the autopsy report and ...<http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-11-19-JKF-relics_N.htm>

Preserving Records Of Our District's History
Voxy - Wellington,New Zealand
Anything relevant with enduring, evidential, administrative or historical value comes to me," said Council archivist Mahea Tupara. Archives staff have been ...<http://www.voxy.co.nz/national/preserving-records-our-district039s-history/5/30804>

What happens to a writer's notes in cyberspace?
Student Operated Press - Vero Beach,FL,USA
True, digital records can be kept on disks, but, like paper archives and microfilm, ... In each case the archivist, biographer and literary detective is ...<http://thesop.org/journalism/2009/11/19/what-happens-to-a-writers-notes-in-cyberspace>

The New World of Compliance
Redmondmag.com
Compliance is a complex undertaking, but with the right philosophy and tools it's well within your grasp. By Jon William Toigo Even before the Millennium ...<http://redmondmag.com/articles/2009/12/01/the-new-world-of-compliance.aspx>

A Beverly native is named US archivist
Beverly Citizen
The US Senate recently voted to confirm Beverly native David S. Ferriero as archivist of the United States at the National Archives and Records ... <http://www.wickedlocal.com/beverly/news/x381220672/A-Beverly-native-is-named-U-S-archivist>

No savings with hospital e-records, study finds
The Gazette (Montreal) - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
WASHINGTON – New electronic record systems installed in thousands of US hospitals have done little to rein in skyrocketing healthcare costs, ... <http://www.montrealgazette.com/savings+with+hospital+records+study+finds/2243330/story.html>

France finds lost spy report on Hitler
The Local - Hamburg,Germany
... in the country's national archives, daily Le Monde reported on Friday. ... referring to the nickname of the main national archive building in Paris. ...<http://www.thelocal.de/national/20091120-23407.html>

New Technology Takes Aim at Notorious Watergate Tape Gap
AllGov
Specialists at the National Archives believe they may be able to finally fill the “gap” left on a key Watergate tape made by President Richard Nixon's ...<http://www.allgov.com/ViewNews/New_Technology_Takes_Aim_at_Notorious_Watergate_Tape_Gap_91120>

National Archives to make broken web links a thing of the past
PublicTechnology.net
Broken links will soon be a thing of the past for UK Government websites, as The National Archives launches its Web Continuity project. ... <http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=21934>

Report: How risky is cloud computing?
CNET News
Further, some cloud providers may not fully and properly delete data even if a customer requests it. In its report, ENISA outlines measures companies can ...<http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10402398-92.html>

FEATURE-France knew Hitler was "not an idiot", note reveals
Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK
Part of a huge archive from the period when French troops occupied part of Germany ... the then mayor of Cologne who would become the architect of the West ...<http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LK654014.htm>

Why are cyberlockers suddenly such a problem, Lord Mandelson?
guardian.co.uk
He talks about "cyberlockers" – online digital storage – which he acknowledges have perfectly legal uses, but which he says are also used by people to share ...<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/20/copyright-digital-economy-cyberlockers-rights>

EDD Tale: Caught in the Middle
Law.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
But this discovery forced examiners to decide if they should simply report that the search was unproductive, or report suspicions of spoliation to the ...<http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202435729989&EDD_Tale_Caught_in_the_Middle>

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