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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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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
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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
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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
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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. ...
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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
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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,
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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 ...<
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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
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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. ...<
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 ...<
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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.
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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
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.
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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.
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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,
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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
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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 ...<
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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. ...<
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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
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