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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
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Papers provide unique look at Colonial past
Providence Journal
The items include typical documents, including letters, estate deeds, diaries,
books, ledgers, maps, journals, cargo lists, newspaper articles and bank
...< http://bit.ly/bCaMhT>
Data Thefts Cost Firms $2 Million Each a Year,
Symantec Says
BusinessWeek
22 (Bloomberg) -- The theft of trade secrets and customer information cost
companies an average of $2 million each last year, according to research
...< http://bit.ly/b76EhU>
Homecoming of a lost album: 'My dear family'
Gary Post Tribune
I then connected her with Steve McShane, the archivist and curator for the
Calumet Regional Archives at Indiana University Northwest. ... http://bit.ly/9bFRp4
Franklin County clerk: High temperature
threatens rare records
Plattsburgh Press Republican
And until a computer-software program is written that controls the steam heat
to the records-management section of her department, County Clerk Wanda ...<
http://bit.ly/ae2m4e>
Pa. school district is asked
not to wipe computers
The Gouverneur Times
... of wiping clean the hard drive or otherwise engaging in the spoliation of
evidence," family lawyer Mark S. Haltzman wrote in the emergency petition.
...< http://bit.ly/babBNl>
Iron Mountain
buys Mimosa Systems for $112 mln
Reuters
Iron Mountain
provides records management, data protection and recovery, and paper shredding
services. Until now, Iron Mountain Digital, the technology arm ...< http://bit.ly/cXYLGZ>
Mormons digitizing Manila's
records
Manila Standard Today
City Registrar Josefa
Ocampo said the digitizing was based on records kept in city hall that survived
destruction during World War II including typhoon ...< http://bit.ly/aWGAxQ>
NARA Addresses Cloud Record Keeping
InformationWeek
The National Archive and Records Administration advises federal agencies on the
challenges of data retention and records transfer in cloud computing. ...< http://bit.ly/acsBbm>
Moving Beyond “A Declassification System That Does
Not Work”
Secrecy News (blog)
“Between 1997 and 2007 the Federal Government acknowledges spending $1.343
billion on declassification,” reported Michael J. Kurtz, Assistant Archivist at
...< http://bit.ly/bGGfvs>
Gray: The city that was. And never was.
Houston
Chronicle
Strom got his master's degree in history, and for nine years worked as the
architectural archivist at the Houston Public Library's Houston Metropolitan
...< http://bit.ly/bcCV9s>
Government Seeks to Intervene in Corporate Espionage
Case
Main Justice
... in a civil suit involving allegations of corporate espionage, and to put a
halt to discovery proceedings for six months, according to HotelNewsNow.com.
...< http://bit.ly/bI73ih>
Medical Paper Trail Takes Electronic Turn
New York Times
Dr. Litvin, now an internist at the Medical University of South Carolina who
teaches doctors how to improve care using electronic records, pointed out that
...< http://nyti.ms/9Gha9U>
Huffington Post Investigative Fund
Volatile Industry Prompts Calls for Oversight of Firms’ Financial Strength http://bit.ly/d6jacn
Iron Mountain Acquires Data Archiver Mimosa Systems
eWeek
The $112 million deal provides Iron
Mountain with an
established archive that can integrate email, SharePoint data, and regular
files. ...< http://bit.ly/cDQM1G>
FTC sounds alarm: data leaking onto P2P networks
USA
Today
The basic problem has to do with well-meaning employees taking company files
home and loading them on their personal PCs to work on. ...< http://bit.ly/aq1M7L>
Fax over IP Essential for Total Document Management
TMCnet
Most importantly, they can be backed up on the server and every user can open
the file. One example of a company moving document transfer into the next
...< http://bit.ly/cfsROT>
Gaiety's show goes on in city's library
Irish Independent
Mr Sutton added: "We are delighted at becoming part of the documented
theatre history of Dublin
and hope that the archive will prove to be of interest to ...< http://bit.ly/cO26kh>
County deals with paper records management
Evening Sun (subscription)
... said Chenango County Clerk Mary Weidman, with the assistance of a
newly-formed records management committee and, quite possibly, a consulting
firm. ...< http://bit.ly/aNw9mt>
Open Records Challenged by Social Networking
The Jacksonville Observer
... for government records watchers because they operate outside the
traditional information chain upon which open records law has historically
focused. ...< http://bit.ly/cVQbLk>
Thrown out records probed
London Free Press
The bulk of the documents included criminal record checks, transcripts, ...
"We have a shredder at the school and we have a shredding company that we
work ...< http://bit.ly/9DsdPi>
Mellon Grant ushers in the digital era for the
library
The Denisonian
"[This] is not something we are buying from a big company, we are doing
this ourselves," added Heather Lyle, archivist, special collections
librarian, ...< http://bit.ly/cXDdid>
Govt won't axe National Archives offices
Sydney Morning Herald
The federal government has guaranteed National Archives offices will stay open
in every state and territory. Special Minister of State Joe Ludwig on Tuesday
...< http://bit.ly/dAxJDc> http://bit.ly/avbSQ1
Historians outline shifting methods of recording,
interpreting past
Harvard University Gazette
Archives have their place in historiography, but so has the material world
around us, said Stilgoe, which sometimes escapes even professional historians.
...< http://bit.ly/aNEhPe>
Lithuanian KGB Archives Opened to Scholars
RantRave | Published Opinion.
Unfortunately, during the late 1980's some of the most sensitive material in
the Lithuanian KGB archives was destroyed. Fortunately, much material does
...< http://bit.ly/aaQAfK>
SUPPORT: Where Has All The Paper Gone?
Strategy Page
But the electronic records also allow better types of care. The speed with
which electronic records can be obtained and transmitted makes it easier to use
...< http://bit.ly/dsMh8g>
Rushdie visits Atlanta's
Emory University
for opening of his literary archive
The Canadian Press
ATLANTA — Novelist Salman Rushdie is at Emory University
this week for the official opening of his literary archive. Rushdie, who is in
the middle of a ...< http://bit.ly/a260fK>
Competing With Google: Catch Us If You Can
followthemedia.com
(subscription)
A digital scanning robot at the Bavarian State Library's Munich Digitization
Center is sucking up more
than a thousand pages per hour, reported Der Spiegel ...< http://bit.ly/d8bsuI>
Software helps computer to leave no tracks
Columbia Daily Tribune
Also included is a virtual file shredder, for those times when a mere delete
won't do. This shredder blasts your trash to a billion bits, using file ...<
http://bit.ly/aNXFHO>
'Pension Committee' Clarifies E-Discovery
Requirements
Law.com
That is when the party must suspend its routine document retention/destruction
policy and put in place a written "litigation hold" to
"ensure" preservation ...< http://bit.ly/b1juoV>
Council Members' Text Messages Not Subject to Public
Disclosure
PubliCola (blog)
In an email response to a public records request for Seattle City Council
Member Tim Burgess' text messages—an experiment I decided to do after receiving
...< http://bit.ly/dptApt>
New Report from OCLC Research: '”Capture and
Release”: Digital ...
ResourceShelf
While some librarians and archivists have resisted digital cameras, ... In
addition, digital cameras can help librarians and archivists achieve their
...< http://bit.ly/9yhzu9>
Harbor Area museums could lose curators in city of LA budget cuts
Daily Breeze
The archivist at the Los Angeles
Maritime Museum
in San Pedro. The volunteer coordinator at Cabrillo Marine Aquarium in San
Pedro. ...< http://bit.ly/9Ww8vm>
Small Business: Miami conference offers glimpse of new online
tools
MiamiHerald.com
Microsoft developers debuted a Web tool called The Archivist to the 20
attendees who stayed behind during a lunch break. Businesses who want to keep a
...< http://bit.ly/bd66WF>
Document Management Roll-up: Can't Let Go of the
Paper, Has SharePoint Met Its ...
CMSWire
Something else from AIIM this week that might help companies see how effective
their records management software: take AIIM's quick, easy online assessment
...< http://bit.ly/czp2MJ>
Records reveal a Monroe County
lost to time
SuburbanJournals
... adjacent to the records room. In the room stacks of books sit alphabetized.
Inside the books sit probate documents, criminal files, papers from the ...<
http://bit.ly/cNZBNf>
Patient Confidentiality Can Walk Out The Door With
Laptops
NPR (blog)
By Nadja Popovich If there's one thing you don't want people snooping on, we'd
guess it's your medical records. But with more and more files going ...< http://bit.ly/b4uFzi>
Step 1 for Legal Holds: Trigger Events
Law.com
A finding of gross negligence at the onset of a spoliation analysis is a
surefire way to be sanctioned. The only question that follows is how much is
the ...< http://bit.ly/aS1YrL>
Document Management: What You Don't Know Will Hurt
You
Healthcare Technology Online
Equally important is the matter of document retention. Observes Morris,"
The time people and companies are the most interested in document management is
...< http://bit.ly/a3Home>
Web Information Has Lasting Value Over Time
Korea Times
You have to go to the national archive in the US,
which has kept a vast number of documents, filed by the US Embassy in Korea. Lee
O-ryoung, Korea's
first ...< http://bit.ly/cPQsCQ>
Salman Rushdie's life and work on display at Emory
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Emory's archive, which is sponsored by the Manuscript, Archives, and Rare Book
Library, helps shape for viewers the time Rushdie spent underground. ...< http://bit.ly/dCKKip>
The British Library has begun a project to create a
vast, online oral history ...
BBC News
For instance, said Dr Perks, in the current sound archives there are only two
recordings of Ernest Rutherford, none of computer pioneer Alan Turing, ...< http://bit.ly/asP95k>
National Archives (UK) Releases New Academic
Strategy
ResourceShelf (blog)
The strategy sets out The National Archives' intentions to improve the services
and support we provide to our scholarly users. ...< http://bit.ly/9lz9qK>
Data Thefts Cost Every Firm $2 Million Per Year:
Study
The Epoch Times
Such attacks on average cost companies $2 million per year on lost trade
secrets, customer lists, and other sensitive information—all the while with 42
...< http://bit.ly/cLNhVX>
Author: Librarian, cybrarian appreciation is
'Overdue'
USA Today
New York has
just proposed its fifth cut to state library spending in two years. Ohio libraries were
threatened with up to 50% cuts in aid last summer ...< http://bit.ly/auxhXg>
Last Great Silent Picture Show
Washburn Review
Hixon was also known to use an early “photoshop” technique in some of his
photographs by dissolving part of the images on his 11x14 glass negatives using
...< http://bit.ly/ci0xNd>
Metro launches probe into document shredding
Houston Chronicle
“It may be very innocent and very coincidental,” Wilson said of the shredding. The agency's
general policy, he said, is to retain important documents ...< http://bit.ly/cwSylo>
Tax forms, other papers found at Smyrna recycling
center
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Nat Hardwick, a partner in the firm, said the firm hires a shredding company to
dispose of old papers. “I'm shocked,” he said. ... http://bit.ly/aA8IdJ
Microsoft Kills Watchdog Website Due to Leaked
Documents
ReadWriteWeb (blog)
You don't just file a form... DMCA makes censorship easy." Cohn also noted
she feels the reason Microsoft actually wants the document removed from the Web
...< http://bit.ly/cV7xLu>
FTC P2P data leak alarm could give law-makers big
stick
San Francisco
Chronicle
... through P2P file-sharing software, share music, video, and documents. But
when P2P file-sharing software is not configured properly, files not intended
...< http://bit.ly/cHfLXH>
Files on Romanian revolution declassified
Southeast European Times
Besides the 7617 files being made available now, an additional 2684 were
declassified in mid-January. Over 1000 other documents still remain classified,
...< http://bit.ly/beY0rH>
Getting there from here
Anchorage Press
The AMIPA archive, which houses about 20000 pieces (some owned by private ...
Kevin Tripp, an archivist and former employee, is volunteering at AMIPA.
...< http://bit.ly/9x75g3>
How might the information act have changed path of
history?
Scotsman
By Christopher Mackie SCOTTISH public authorities have been working with the
Freedom of Information Act for five years and have disclosed details to members
...< http://bit.ly/axytQK>
Priceless: National Archives in the digital age
ABC Online
Many, like Anne Picot from the Australian Society of Archivists, view it as a
fundamental part of democracy and accountability for citizens to see what
...< http://bit.ly/bbByGJ>
City's history safe thanks to digital archiving
Straight.com
By Rhiannon Coppin Every day, Vancouver's
city archivist and director of records and ... have posed a particular
challenge for archivists like Mobbs. ...< http://bit.ly/9dSU9V>
New City Email System Still Dumps
Records After 45 Days
PubliCola
... onto a new system for retaining email records, called Mimosa. ...meeting
minutes and policy discussions, says city records manager Jennifer Winkler. ...http://bit.ly/aaMx1N
IBM Helps British Library Preserve Information on
the Web for Generations to Come
PR Newswire (press release)
IBM's new analytics technology is helping the British Library speed up the
archival process before Web data is lost forever. The Web is rapidly changing
...< http://bit.ly/cqp7cN>
County records on harrassment complaints a mess,
report finds
HeraldNet
By Noah Haglund and Scott North EVERETT — Snohomish County's
management of workplace harassment complaints has been so jumbled that reports
don't exist for ...< http://bit.ly/9pF8Wt>
Preserving of records deserves support
Belleville
Intelligencer
Ledgers, ephemera, ballots, posters, municipal and county records are also on
hand. An 1836 minute book for Belleville's
police board shares space with ...< http://bit.ly/d5hh9O>
Opinion: 'Spoliation of Evidence' in Accident
Litigation
Transport Topics Online
By Chad Levanetz For any trucking company that becomes the target of a personal
injury action, “spoliation of evidence” may become a hidden danger that a
...< http://bit.ly/bRCa0C>
Recent State
FOIA Ruling
Prompts Legislation
State Journal
Nicely said the Supreme Court decision threatens the WVPA's position of open records, and he hopes the bill is passed
to secure open records. ... http://bit.ly/9grutN
Lawsuit Alleges METRO Destroyed Documents
MyFox Houston
HOUSTON - FOX
26 News has learned the general counsel at METRO was fired allegedly after she
blew the whistle on the transportation company. ...< http://bit.ly/cSj9xM>
11 News investigation: Metro destroyed documents possibly
...
KHOU
Wednesday afternoon, Kelly's attorney, Michael West, said they had gotten
information that some of those documents were being destroyed. ...< http://bit.ly/cMLOHi>
Metro's Shredding Like It's Trying Out For Megadeth
Houston Press (blog)
The records requested under the Texas Public Information Act are a concoction
of emails, travel records and anything under the sun that Frank Wilson ...< http://bit.ly/a0omRe>
A digital time capsule at the library
BBC News (blog)
A lot of the web simply disappears into the ether, but this and other archives
are doing a valuable job of preserving some traces of our digital lives in a
...< http://bit.ly/ahUmei>
Archives Bans Photography In Rotunda
NPR. <http://bit.ly/dojTDe>
Gavel to Gavel: Stealing lists, criminal issue?
Journal Record (subscription)
This statute criminalizes the theft of trade secrets, categorizing such conduct
as larceny under 21 OS § 1704. Traditionally, trades secrets have been ...< http://bit.ly/cxFaIQ>
Voice data security risks on the rise, say experts
SearchSecurity.com
... personally identifiable information (PII), intellectual property and trade
secrets are at higher risk of theft from people using GSM hacking software,
...< http://bit.ly/bWmFMw>
IBM Aids British Library With Web Archive
InformationWeek
By Thomas Claburn The British Library on Thursday plans to announce its
official UK Web Archive, a project that uses an IBM analytics technology
prototype ...< http://bit.ly/ci9K5e>
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