RAIN 20100421 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. http://www.twitter.com/RAINbyte Mementoes at Arlington graves form archival record The Associated Press They took photos of the dog tags and placed them in an archival bag, part of a new trial effort to preserve graveside mementoes at Section 60 — Arlington's ...< http://bit.ly/c4GKRW> Trashed document not Palin pact, college says San Francisco Chronicle Yee is sponsoring a bill to require private university foundations to comply with the state Public Records Act. Yee argues that the public university and ...< http://bit.ly/ay4PzF> NSA Official Faces Prison for Leaking to Newspaper Wired News Drake also researched stories for the journalist, sending e-mail to other NSA employees asking questions, and accessing classified documents to obtain ...< http://bit.ly/aGbsEF> Brown investigates destruction of Palin documents San Francisco Bay Guardian ... and its foundation following yesterday's revelations that officials may have destroyed documents related to an upcoming speech by Sarah Palin. ... < http://bit.ly/bDxZLi> Library of Congress Archives Twitter History, Google Searches It Reuters The Twitter archive of all public tweets, starting from its inception in March 2006, will join such august collections such as letters from the Civil War ...< http://bit.ly/9wrmGN > Eastman House gets Merchant Ivory collection Variety Last month Technicolor announced it would donate its corporate archive to the museum. Caroline Frick Page, curator for motion pictures at the Eastman house, ...< http://bit.ly/9xQEe6 > Researchers Find Bugs in Archive File Formats PC World Most antivirus vendors have patched their applications in order to detect the tampered archive file formats, such as ".rar," and ".zip," said Tomislav ...< http://bit.ly/cy65dg > Illustrated London News archive goes online The Guardian Photograph: Illustrated London News Historical Archive/Gale A unique visual archive of 19th century Victorian Britain, including illustrations and ...< http://bit.ly/9vuy5i > British Library archive throws light on Hughes-Plath romance The Guardian The British Library acquired Hughes's archive in 2008 and will open it to researchers in May. The collection includes all of Hughes's poetic drafts and ...< http://bit.ly/9WIebn > Former NSA Official Is Indicted in Leak Case New York Times The official, Thomas A. Drake, 52, was also accused of obstructing justice by shredding documents, deleting computer records and lying to investigators who ...< http://nyti.ms/a4K6Nn > Why a security crackdown on our personal data is needed Irish Times Meanwhile, the Government has been pushing forward with a new data retention Bill, currently being debated in the houses of the Oireachtas. ...< http://bit.ly/cunVDt > Archives bring history of St Kitts-Nevis to life Caribbean Net News The St Kitts and Nevis Information Service spoke with Archivist Victoria Borg-O'Flaherty about the upcoming event. She explained that together, Archivists ...< http://bit.ly/dzt7kQ > Destruction of Interrogation Videotapes Raised Concerns at CIA Wall Street Journal Then-White House counsel Harriet Miers was also "livid," one internal email said. "What's in those emails is basically correct," Mr. Rizzo said in an ...< http://bit.ly/9HBjmA > Just what is a Chinese commercial secret remains a secret The Age ... corporate-secrets side of the case, because it had been heard in secret. ... of state-owned corporations is that the corporate espionage charges against ...< http://bit.ly/92vkYK > NEH Grant Designates Kaplan Boxing Collection a National Treasure BC Hot News "This two-year grant will allow us to process and preserve this invaluable collection that spans two centuries of boxing history," says Archivist Anthony ...< http://bit.ly/9Z3nRC > 19th-Century Industrial Spy Reading Little India ... the world's largest multinational corporation steals trade secrets that enable ... But the target of the theft is neither a new-generation computer chip ...< http://bit.ly/cgU2gh > Peake Archive Takes British Library To New Heights Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) The Mervyn Peake Archive includes a complete set of his drawings for Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures In Wonderland and Through The Looking Glass. ...< http://bit.ly/9VmRcB > 'Snapshots of the Past' officially launched BVI News Online Chief Records Management Officer Mrs. Verna Penn-Moll presents a copy of 'Snap Shots of the Past' a publication of rare Virgin Islands photos and artwork, ...< http://bit.ly/caHOqk > National archive system a mess: Govt official Jakarta Post "This is partly due to the fact that a number of institutions regard archival work as merely *documentation'," said Tasdik Kinanto, the secretary of the ...< http://bit.ly/9BPhnN > E-Discovery: How To Avoid Death By Backup InformationWeek RenewData takes precautions to avoid inadvertent data spoliation--that is, destroying or altering data so as to make it inadmissible in court. ... < http://bit.ly/auclMG > Rats, cats, mildew eat at Senegal's French West Africa archives AFP Because of their importance, the collection "was registered in the world history register (in 2000) and was classified as world heritage documents" by ...< http://bit.ly/aJEfmE > Woman collects the pages of slavery's imprint Atlanta Journal Constitution Bita Honarvar, [log in to unmask] Christine Mitchell displays an original copy of Frederick Douglass' “My Bondage and My Freedom” at the National Archives' ...< http://bit.ly/dpnn66 > Big Yellow carefully preserving its 100-year history Peoria Journal Star But it's her job as the archivist at Caterpillar Inc. to make sure it gets preserved from the time it reaches her in the company's new archives inside one ...< http://bit.ly/9Bmh5i > NH Bill Would Force Govs To Donate To Archive WBZ "They're not lost," said Brian Nelson Burford, state records manager. "That's why we worry about the governors' records. If they're not saved, they're lost. ...< http://bit.ly/ba6XaP > Maryland's fake open government Washington Post In Maryland, the Maryland State Archives could take on such a role. This checks-and-balances principle of separating public record creation from control ...< http://bit.ly/bUW6Bu > Archivist finds WMass links to Gold Rush MassLive.com By JOHN APPLETON The California gold rush that helped shape this nation took place 160 years ago, 2600 miles from the Pioneer Valley, but archivist Cliff ...< http://bit.ly/dfBxrC > Wills may have got lost, but now his spirit level is found The Age Ray Holmes with William Wills' spirit level, which he found and has donated to the State Library. Photo: Angela Wylie A SPIRIT level from the Burke and ...< http://bit.ly/dCL3hW > <http://bit.ly/9zhWr3> Kaplan Boxing Archive: From Contender To Champ Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) The rags to riches story behind Brooklyn College's Hank Kaplan Boxing Archive just got a little richer: on April 16, 2010 the collection's chief archivist, ...< http://bit.ly/bAFED5 > IT History Society Launches Searchable Database of Historical and Archival Sites TMCnet based provider already boasts 233 international information technology historical and archival collections including over 2.4 million documents saved up in ...< http://bit.ly/d754R1 > What Would Daniel Ellsberg Do With the Pentagon Papers Today? New York Times Two weeks ago, Wikileaks.org released a classified video showing a United States Apache helicopter killing 12 civilians in Baghdad. ... < http://nyti.ms/cw8GLi > Shredding their way to success Biddeford Journal Tribune The owners of Secure Records Management Systems, known as SecureRMS, call it a social enterprise. SecureRMS is a confidential information destruction ...< http://bit.ly/d9Abli > Employers Urged to Save Pay Documents Workforce Management By Judy Greenwald he Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009 has led many employers to re-examine their document retention policies so they'll be prepared if ...< http://bit.ly/bQc3Fl> National Archives Reports on Federal Agency Records Management Programs PR Newswire (press release) Commenting on the report, Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero said, "Today, the Federal Government does not consistently manage its records and ...< http://bit.ly/b7XRjP> Archives brings history of St. Kitts & Nevis to life SKNVibes.com The ceremony will take place Tuesday, April 20, at the National ICT Centre at 2:00 pm The St. Kitts and Nevis Information Service spoke with Archivist Mrs. ...< http://bit.ly/azxsnG> State Library Staffer Helps Bring Davy Crockett's Marriage License Home WDEF News 12 However valuable the document may be to collectors, Assistant State Archivist Wayne Moore said it remains pubic property under state law. ... http://bit.ly/dyshJO http://bit.ly/cb6cYU http://bit.ly/b7Jlnz Cumberland County pitches in to help municipalities organize their ... NJ.com Leslie Wright, Cumberland County Records Manager, said that after she was hired in 2005, she conducted a “needs assessment” of Cumberland County's ...< http://bit.ly/9HbZuD> Many agencies earn failing grade for e-recordkeeping FCW.com ... out their records management responsibilities, particularly regarding the exponential use and growth or electronic records,” NARA said in a statement. ...< http://bit.ly/9AZVwA> Can TigerText protect your sensitive texts? GCN.com Unless, of course, government regulations prohibit that or an organization's recordkeepers have reason to believe the data is subject to legal discovery. ...< http://bit.ly/9xuONj> Fired Metro counsel files suit against agency Houston Chronicle The reason for Kelley's original records request is not known. Higgins, the suit says, grew concerned when Wilson assigned Kelley's open-records request, ...< http://bit.ly/cLOZjJ> Archives cites poor records management at most agencies Federal Times Archivist of the United States David Ferriero said in a statement that "this level of risk is of great concern to me, and the National Archives will take ...< http://bit.ly/cqQqP9> Google to disclose stats on government inquiries CNET ... at a time when Google is under fire left and right from government and private groups over its policies around privacy, censorship, and data retention. ...< http://bit.ly/djGwk6> E-mails of former house majority leader were deleted Salt Lake Tribune Moreover, state law and the Legislature's own document-retention policy leaves it solely up to the lawmaker to decide which e-mails should be kept and which ...< http://bit.ly/aEtbmK> Battle over open records NKU The Northerner Online Citing case law, the Kentucky Attorney General's opinion read: “The obvious fact that complying with an open records request will consume both time and ...< http://bit.ly/dBzPfd> Second-hand copiers can spill secrets CNET Nearly every digital copier built since 2002 contains a hard drive—like the ... and network printers complete with digital storage. By disco-legend-zeke ...< http://bit.ly/cPJaXg> Hosted document management is the wave of the future for the ... Fast Pitch Press Digital storage has turn out to be rather cheap as know-how has improved. It is now doable to store every paper that makes up each loan file in your entire ...< http://bit.ly/95YJy9> Tape Management for E-Discovery CTR Unknown data that was hidden on old backup tapes can now be migrated to records management platforms which are easily accessible by all who need access. ...< http://bit.ly/cWlC6H> Razing churches for a fort The Decatur Daily About 18 months ago, Morgan County Archivist John Allison received a call from a descendant of one of Rolfe's slaves. Rolfe, who by 1850 had a 1150-acre ...< http://bit.ly/btycfk> Arizona archives to get original OK Corral papers The Associated Press The original court transcripts from the 1881 Coroner's Inquest into the Gunfight at the OK Corral will be handed over to the Arizona State Archives on ...< http://bit.ly/9OsFJX> East German Stasi Spy Files Readied for Scanning, Study TIME "Once assembled, the digital pages need to be reviewed for plausibility before the Stasi record office can even start to reassemble files and folders from ...< http://bit.ly/cr6ZpA> $3M grant will digitize state prosecution's records Bristol Press “It relieves us of the burden of keeping all the files stored and we can search reports more quickly. We'll be able to save them electronically and it will ...< http://bit.ly/9xbJYM> CBS News Investigation into Photocopiers Raises Questions in Buffalo CBS News The copiers were loaded with confidential documents, from police reports to lists of wanted sex offenders. Buffalo City Byron Mayor Brown said he would ...< http://bit.ly/draLmp> Finally, a library for our first president Washington Post ... the first president's overdue library books, just as the estate's guardians were plotting a new presidential library in the Founding Father's name. ...< http://bit.ly/9ZEGte> Yahoo manager testifies in trial of Palin e-mail invader Anchorage Daily News Day two of the trial began with jurors hearing testimony from a Yahoo! records manager about e-mail accounts registered to "gov.palin" and "Rubico. ...< http://bit.ly/cXSYSI> Governor hides hundreds of documents, claiming 'executive privilege' Tacoma Weekly The state Public Records Act mandates that all public records held by government agencies are to be available to the public, unless the record is ...< http://bit.ly/cRXP5q> -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va http://twitter.com/RAINbyte Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers Contact the list owner for assistance at [log in to unmask] For information about joining, leaving and suspending mail (eg during a holiday) see the list website at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A0=archives-nra