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RAIN 20100221a
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
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Stanford Document Shredders Acquitted by Trial Judge
BusinessWeek
Defense lawyers argued that the office was “paperless” and that shredding was
routine. The documents sought by the SEC were stored on the office's computers
...< http://bit.ly/9ImMlI>
County e-mails raise concerns
Myrtle Beach Sun News
The council may have violated the state's Freedom of Information Act by having
several conversations about county business via e-mail that, according to the
...< http://bit.ly/9uMMBW>
Gone fishing: Secret hunt for a sunken Soviet sub
The Associated Press
The account surfaced Friday at the hands of private researchers from the
National Security Archive who used the Freedom of Information Act to achieve
the ...< http://bit.ly/9O18iz>
Glamorgan archive uncovers Victorian Valentines
BBC News
The archive is opening its new home to the public in the spring. Archivist
Heather Mountjoy said the cards were all hand-made and in a very different
style ...< http://bit.ly/al5WB8>
Sorry, we can't find the document
Ghana
News
What we should know is that records management is a profession; and just like
any other profession, one needs to be trained to be able to perform well. ...<
http://bit.ly/bw3akc>
County records survived 1932 Boulder courthouse fire
Daily Camera
Although parts of the interior of the then-50-year-old brick building were
damaged beyond repair, Boulder County's official documents--including
records and ...< http://bit.ly/bo16Wq>
Judge acquits both ex-Allen Stanford workers in
document shredding case
Palm Beach Post
... he deliberately tried to thwart the government's fraud case against Stanford
last year by ordering the shredding of thousands of company records. ...< http://bit.ly/bdxR8M>
'Snapshots' portrays details Oshkosh's landscapes,
history
Oshkosh Northwestern
“I am terrible remembering people's names,” the museum's archivist said, “but I
can recognize people's faces and scenes very well. ... < http://bit.ly/brNnVF>
Vatican to publish WWII Secret Archives
CathNews
The Holy See is planning to publish over 9000 pages of several documents from
the Vatican Secret Archives in relation to World War II, free of charge on the
...< http://bit.ly/8ZGGp6>
Cornish mines archive film discovered
BBC News
Archive film dating from the 1920s has been discovered, which shows the
day-to-day life of workers in Cornwall.
As well as developing mining technology, ...< http://bit.ly/bIoCdD
US admits salvaging sunken Soviet submarine
Telegraph.co.uk
... and journalists have concluded that the most sensitive Soviet equipment was
never recovered The CIA article – obtained by the National Security Archive,
...< http://bit.ly/9ZRG3P>
Digital depot hopes to archive world culture in 3D
Earthtimes (press release)
As part of the archive, it will be possible to enjoy them, either on a computer
screen, or in a museum or depot. "If enough partners join up, there could
be ...< http://bit.ly/bN5NKw>
IT revolution an achilles heel for Swiss bank
secrecy
AFP
In 1996, a private security guard became a whistleblower by recovering
documents from the shredding room of UBS bank in Zurich to reveal details on hidden
...< http://bit.ly/djI4gL>
Vatican WW2 secret archives to go online
Independent Catholic News
The Pave the Way Foundation, an organization dedicated to bridging gaps between
religions, has begun making digital files of about 9000 pages of documents,
...< http://bit.ly/950Idc>
Letters a glimpse into Bess Truman's life
Kansas.com
... by releasing or describing documents detailing her personal life. On
Friday, archivists opened about 2400 pages from the White House Chief Usher
Files, ...< http://bit.ly/b0A0AO>
Saarinen gems stored in Yale archive
Yale Daily News
In 2007, she became a permanent archivist, under the title of architectural
records archivist, working to compile a comprehensive inventory of the Saarinen
...< http://bit.ly/bpBSN1>
Montana Secretary of State Linda McCulloch Discusses
Records Management, E-Voting
Government Technology
What are your policies for records management in Montana? Records management is one of those
things most people don't think of very often and don't think is ...< http://bit.ly/9JSpJB>
Organised crime may have caused Cologne
archive collapse
The Local
Suspicion that organised crime may have been behind the deadly collapse of Cologne's city archive
grew on Monday as more falsified building protocols ...< http://bit.ly/bhA8oc>
'Find Me A Photo of Jesus' And Other Impossible Requests
NPR (blog)
That's just what short film director Laurie Hill did with a selection of
utterly impossible requests received by Getty-Hulton archivist Matthew Butson.
...< http://bit.ly/9a1o7v>
A treasure trove of film from the BBC archives goes
online
Independent
By Ian Burrell I'm in the depths of the vast BBC archive, a collection of 12
million artefacts including 600000 hours of television content and 350000 hours
...< http://bit.ly/9xAWm1>
Ulysses S. Grant letters found in museum archives
Suburban Life Publications
By Harriett Gustason As museum director for the Stephenson County Historical
Society in Freeport,
one of Finch's duties is keeping track of all the ...< http://bit.ly/aOJ479>
Arri finds focus with film archives
Variety
The company, which is working with Russia's state film archive on a
project to restore footage of the novelist Leo Tolstoy for a documentary
tribute timed ...< http://bit.ly/cYyL3P>
Millions of St. Landry legal documents now online
Houma Courier
The job of the clerk's office, which involves collecting, maintaining and
accessing all the parish's public records, is extremely labor intensive.
...< http://bit.ly/cdHDGA>
Protecting trade secrets under Philippine law
Business Mirror
The concept of trade secrets has not been defined under Philippine statutory
law. The only definition of trade secrets is found in a 2007 Supreme Court
...< http://bit.ly/blEtBV>
Horry deletes e-mail trails
Myrtle Beach Sun News
In 1998, then-county administrator Linda Angus signed the county on to the
State Archives' recommendation for keeping correspondence, which requires
...< http://bit.ly/ce0x1F>
Somaliland establishes National Archives agency
SomalilandPress
HARGEISA (Somalilandpress) — The President of Somaliland,
Mr. Dahir Rayale Kahin has established a National Archive and Public Records
Office in a ...< http://bit.ly/d6orIl>
White House archive rules could save its Twitter
followers' messages
The Hill (blog)
... 02:11 PM ET Followers of the White House's Twitter accounts could someday
discover they are in fact part of the federal government's official archives.
...< http://bit.ly/aNRSEL>
Frank Lloyd Wright archive auctioned
San Jose Mercury News
AP LOS ANGELES—A large archive of Frank Lloyd Wright-related material has been
purchased at a Los Angeles
auction by the foundation created to preserve the ...< http://bit.ly/9vo7Gz>
ILFORD: Archive facing "closure by back
door", resident claims
Guardian Series
Miss Beeton also said promises to provide access to historic photographs were
meaningless as it is already available in local libraries. ... http://bit.ly/9CKfYN
Measure guards trade secrets
Beckley Register-Herald
CHARLESTON — Trade secrets can remain just that in a Senate bill requiring oil
and gas well operators to file reports with the Geological and Economic ...<
http://bit.ly/bjYZdH>
Full speed ahead: FINRA social media regs remove
“excuses for delay”
Web 2.0 Journal
However, Nemertes cautions the tidal wave of consultants, archivists,
communications specialists, compliance firms and social media strategists,
...< http://bit.ly/dva9cU>
Edinburgh's university collections
made available online
The Edinburgh Journal
... Heriot-Watt University Archivist. Ms Jones said: “Heriot-Watt University's
museum and archive collections are a treasure trove for researchers. ...< http://bit.ly/cD1ICl>
Criminal record checks flawed
Victoria Times Colonist
It's important to know, as we have seen, if an employee with access to
confidential files on individuals has a record of fraud or identity theft.
...< http://bit.ly/bZhiLl>
USB 'fingerprints' can help detect data theft
Oneindia
The two researchers can find out if files have been copied by consulting the
Windows registry, which records the make and model of every USB device plugged
...< http://bit.ly/aiIltl>
Government Bodies Must Help Preserve Valuable
Records
Bernama
According to Sidek, ANM will dispatch its officers and inquire on details like
when the file was processed, when the file was last sent to the archive,
...< http://bit.ly/9aGbPC>
Antique art tells American story
UT The Daily Texan
Hatch Show Print designer, manager and archivist Jim Sherraden spoke this
weekend about the history of the company to kick off the collection. ...< http://bit.ly/b8Hgm0>
Series from Vatican
secret archives on Pius XII going digital
Catholic News Agency
... VI ordered three Jesuits to study, to go into the papacy of Pius XII, into
those archives, and to pull out every significant document they could find.
...< http://bit.ly/9L8HUV>
White House Spokesman Warns Some Tweets to Him Will
Be Stored Forever
FOXNews
White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told reporters Wednesday that the President
Records Act, which requires administrations to archive information, ...< http://bit.ly/aHFs56>
Project to put history online
Columbia Daily Tribune
The funding comes from the Institute
of Museum and Library
Services, administered by the Missouri State Library. The society selected
works to put online ...< http://bit.ly/d82yaY>
How-To: Navigate and Understand Public Records
Seattle Bubble (blog)
Since it's been over a year since I covered the topic of researching public
records, I thought this would be a good time to review the process. ... http://bit.ly/b1dMby
How public should public records be?
Creative Loafing (blog)
... who studies digitized government information, said governments shouldn't
limit access to public records on the chance it could be used for ill intent.
...< http://bit.ly/bRP9rz>
Why bank data flown to US came to a SWIFT halt
ComputerWeekly.com
The data retention period would have been too long; in the words of one MEP
"one day [the data] may be available not to an Obama administration, < http://bit.ly/aYajZx>
Cloud security: Root of trust
ITWorld Canada
But if the SSL certificate is on the server's files ystem, ... Ont.-based
recycler of electronics is secure and green, shredding things to bits and
...< http://bit.ly/dmImU7>
Secret Muffin Recipe Prevents Executive From
Switching Jobs
Law.com
The case is an unusual one because it focused solely on the threatened
disclosure of trade secrets and did not involve any restrictive covenant.
...< http://bit.ly/auHJQe>
For Apple suppliers, loose lips can sink contracts
Reuters
Over the years, it has fired executives over leaks and sued bloggers to stop
trade secrets from being exposed. A tight-lipped ethos permeates working life,
...< http://bit.ly/9F8DBV>
Arizona State Archives and Department of Mines
Payson Roundup
I've become acquainted with some of the archivists and visiting was like
catching up with old friends. They are happy that the archives are now under
...< http://bit.ly/bAom8x>
NEW MORECAMBE AND WISE TAPES UNCOVERED
UK Express
Experts at the BBC have painstakingly transferred the 1950s routines from
scratchy acetate discs and reel-to-reel tapes on to digital storage for future
...< http://bit.ly/aHEBkt>
Early Saanich now online
Victoria Times Colonist
Caroline Duncan, archivist for Saanich, said it took three part-time staff members
... The BC Archives rejected them because they didn't have any captions ...<
http://bit.ly/cSemt2>
Scathing report details botched e-health plans
Vancouver Sun
The report marks the second time in a week that the auditorgeneral has been
highly critical of electronic record keeping in the health care sector. ... http://bit.ly/90l6MT
Updated records to save time, space
South County Independent
The town also approved a contract with ACS to digitize and store maps on file
within the land evidence records at a cost of $12002.50 upfront and a $125
...< http://bit.ly/cvntQA>
Cost to store county records to drop $12888 a year
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader
Thomas C. Thomas Co. lowers price to match offer obtained when county sought
other requests. http://bit.ly/bDCjHI
House staffer admits to destroying Bonusgate
evidence
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review
He said he destroyed documents off a thumb drive. Webb is testifying for the
state in the trial of ex-Democratic Whip Mike Veon, formerly of Beaver Falls,
...< http://bit.ly/c0mGvL>
Ledger Review: County Court Records Secrecy a Source
of Confusion
The Ledger
There also appeared to be records in 43 cases that were sealed but were already
exempt under law as confidential documents. To address the issue, ...< http://bit.ly/bHgPxm>
Are Archivists Today's Real Peacemakers?
ResourceShelf (blog)
But could the unassuming archivist, more likely to be found buried in a stack
of yellowing newspapers than at a global summit, be the true peacemaker of our
...< http://bit.ly/aVUpFw>
You've Got A Mole Giving Away Your Sensitive Data
StorefrontBacktalk
It's not because some hacker has compromised the corporate database or because
some corporate espionage team has gone dumpster diving after a corporate
...< http://bit.ly/9G9bPQ>
Borough archives cuts blasted as 'disgrace'
Ilford Recorder 24
THE controversy over the borough's archives continues after council bosses
refused to make further concessions on plans to slash access to tens of
thousands ...http://bit.ly/a9eGoZ
Text Messages Aren't Private in a Police
Investigation
WBAY
"You can actually pull back records once they are deleted, much like they
are with computers today. You can delete things and there are ways to retrieve
...< http://bit.ly/d4orLM>
ILFORD: Councillor defends planned cuts to archive
Guardian Series
Cllr Weinberg said: “We're confident we will be able to do what we wish to do
with the local studies archive and it will result in just one redundancy.
...< http://bit.ly/cMccqD>
ILFORD: Outrage as proposals for archive move one
step closer
Guardian Series
He also said the archive, based in Ilford Central Library, has never had an
archivist or conservator to look after documents and that without the
librarian, ...< http://bit.ly/c6eSDo>
A look at the region's history
Your Ottawa Region
In 1964, MacMillan persuaded the Ontario Archives manager to hire him as a
“roving archivist.” He describes himself as a paper pirate, searching through
old ...< http://bit.ly/dqFP8M>\
Exhibit showcases Saarinen
Yale Daily News
In the Saarinen archives, there are several letters written on graphite paper
with copies on regular sheets. Archivist Laura Tatum explained that this was
...< http://bit.ly/cpVrXZ>
Heritage Center would fill history void
The Olympian
As designed, it would house state archives, the state library and historical
displays that would serve as a starting point for the thousands of tourists and
...< http://bit.ly/bIEXoA>
Planning came late to the initiative for electronic
health records
Vancouver Sun
... using a series of fictional scenarios to illustrate the potential benefits
of a thorough system of electronic record-keeping in the health care sector.
...< http://bit.ly/d65UdT>
Does Discarding Unallocated Space Deserve Contempt?
Law.com
... destroying or in any way disposing of any Company-related documents, books
or records." The court reasoned that e-files that the defendant should
have ...http://bit.ly/9viXU9
Proving a secret that is no longer a secret to
preserve democracy
The Japan Times
KYODO PHOTO In a lawsuit seeking the disclosure of diplomatic papers, ... He
had solicited a Foreign Ministry secretary for classified documents on the
...< http://bit.ly/d6jG9x>