RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news 
stories from around the world.

HISTORIC Annie Brophy collection secured by City Council
Waterford News - Waterford,Ireland
... Councillor Seamus Ryan, will formally accept the Annie Brophy 
Photographic
Collection purchased by Waterford City Council for deposit in Waterford
City Archives ...
<http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j375>

SUPERVISORS seek to cut insurance costs
Dallas County News - Dallas,IA,USA
... In other business, the board discussed creating a possible 
commission
to handle the storage and purging issues pertaining to county records
and documents. ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid669778&BRD 36&PAGF1&dept_id#7073&rfi=6>

TRAINING for Sound and Video Archivists in Uzbekistan and ...
ONU (Communiqués de presse) - New York,NY,USA
... in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The Central State Archive for Film, Photo, 
Video
and Sound Recordings hosted the workshop. 29 participants ...
<http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID271&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION 1.html>

OPEN up military files, and legends come out
USA Today - USA
... Just how sensitive such files can be was made clear ... in The 
Boston
Globe on newly released Navy records of Sen ... campaign, but if he had,
the documents would have ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2005-06-09-archives_x.htm>

LINDBERGH, Patton records open to public
St. Louis Business Journal - St. Louis,MO,USA
... some of the newly opened files will be ... Also on exhibit will be
documents and artifacts recovered ... The National Archives' National
Personnel Records Center, at ...
<http://stlouis.bizjournals.com/stlouis/stories/2005/06/06/daily51.html?jst=b_ln_hl>


EX-WORKER puts clients' records in trash
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... hundreds of pages of financial records containing sensitive ... at
GMAC, they consisted of documents from Elite ... The discarded files 
contained
what appear to be ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-pidfraud10jun10,0,2249294.story?coll=sfla-news-palm>

REVENUE raiders hit wealthy
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... have been raided in their homes, and files and computer ... he 
expected
them to follow after investigators studied documents and computer 
records
seized in the ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/National/Revenue-raiders-hit-wealthy/2005/06/10/1118347597188.html>

DON'T give away your old sensitive data on floppy, ZIP, Jaz or ...
Free-Press-Release.com (press release) - USA
... think that merely formatting a drive is enough to actually delete 
data,
you ... Backup copies of your financial records or business plans, your
private files and e ...
<http://www.free-press-release.com/news/200506/1118388346.html>

BOYS' Latin, author three years apart Research shows founding i
Towson Jeffersonian - Towson,MD,USA
... He doesn't doubt that she couldn't find anything in the records 
before
1847 ... e-mailed the release to Gibson as a courtesy, he asked her to
delete the reference ...
<http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpID�1&NewsIDc8553&CategoryID�45&show=localnews&om=1>

WEB images chart industrial century
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
... Elaine Gray, a co-ordinator of the project, said much of the 
archivists'
time had been taken simply with trying to ascertain what or where the
various images ...
<http://www.theherald.co.uk/40976.shtml>

OFFICIALS react to new info, meeting laws
Kerrville Daily Times - Kerrville,TX,USA
Local officials say they don't have a problem with a new law requiring
them to complete a training course on open records and open meetings 
laws.
...
<http://web.dailytimes.com/story.lasso?wcd985>

HOW do new means of communication fit into FOIA?
Baxter Bulletin - Baxter,AR,USA
... the mailing. The Bulletin also was concerned about where a public 
official's
e-mail to fellow officials falls under the FOIA. No ...
<http://www.baxterbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050610/OPINION01/506100319/1014/NEWS01>

OLD logging photos shed light on lost time
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... Barden family. Littell and Ostman also traveled to the Pennsylvania
State Archives and found similar photographs from Clarke. In ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--loggingphotos0610jun10,0,5352329.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork>

MYSTERY time capsule returns to 100-year wait
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... custodian. Erin Whitesel-Jones heard about it at her job at the 
state
archives and came to see it placed in the ground Thursday morning. ...
<http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050610/NEWS/506100304>

PIONEERING Coats Aviator Gets Historical Marker
Dunn Daily Record - Dunn,NC,USA
... On May 23, Mr. Stewart appeared for the third time before a select
committee of 10 college professors at the state archives who rule on 
requests
for new ...
<http://www.dunndailyrecord.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleIDg744>

LOST Kuwait loot a UN regret
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
More than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, a UN report said
it's regrettable that Iraq hasn't found and returned the looted Kuwaiti
national archives ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Lost-Kuwait-loot-a-UN-regret/2005/06/10/1118347572508.html>

TOSSED files made PSL Dumpster potential gold mine for ID thieves
Stuart News - Stuart,FL,USA
... The discarded files contained what appeared to be mortgage 
documents,
which reveal information including names, addresses, dates of birth and
Social Security ...
<http://www.tcpalm.com/tcp/local_news/article/0,2545,TCP_16736_3844093,00.html>


STATE To Investigate Personal Info Found On Street
WBAL Channel.com - Baltimore,MD,USA
... "Our building is undergoing renovations. As part of that process, we
are disposing of numerous unnecessary, non-confidential documents. ...
<http://www.thewbalchannel.com/news/4591323/detail.html>

PHOTOGRAPHY center at UA regaining its focus, stature
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... library, part of the University of Arizona library department, with
archives that include ... Archivist Amy Rule, who has been at the center
since 1981, has only ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/ent/arts/articles/0612center0612.html>

NATION'S top conservators help county history museum in northern ...
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
... on historic documents brought to the museum from the tribal archives
of the ... White Earth Tribal Archivist Andy Favorite says the volunteer
conservators were a ...
<http://news.minnesota.publicradio.org/features/2005/06/10_robertsont_conservation/>

TERMINATED Broker Tosses Files In Trash
WPBF Channel.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
... But then, her personal records were found in a Dumpster ... and 
GMAC,
but police say after the agent got fired, he threw out armloads of files
without shredding them ...
<http://www.wpbfnews.com/news/4595907/detail.html>

CORRECTED: Two computers stolen with Motorola staff data
Reuters - USA
... Inc. also lost tapes holding information on 600,000 current and 
former
Time Warner workers." instead of "Time Warner Inc. lost equipment ...
<http://www.reuters.com/audi/newsArticle.jhtml?type=technologyNews&storyID‡60723>

DATA Slips Call for Safer Storage
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
... fact that highly sensitive data is still being shipped by courier on
unencrypted tapes, as in the CitiFinancial case and in a loss of Time
Warner employee data ...
<http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id2001FOF9GC>


BBC News, Fri, 10 Jun 2005 2:03 AM PDT
Roald Dahl museum opening
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/beds/bucks/herts/4079704.stm
A centre dedicated to the life and works of Roald Dahl opens its doors
to the
public.

Redlands Daily Facts, Fri, 10 Jun 2005 4:59 PM PDT
A collection for history and music Persistent sleuths track down photos 
of Bowl Associates presidents for an item to 
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/Stories/0,1413,209~22484~2914204,00.html
REDLANDS Redlands loves its historians, but two new sleuths in Our Town 
have made a decided contribution to our history of community volunteer 
leadership.

San Diego Union-Tribune, Fri, 10 Jun 2005 7:03 PM PDT
Federal subpoena issued for S.D. payroll records in pension probe 
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/metro/20050610-1637-payrollsubpoena.html
SAN DIEGO - A federal grand jury investigating San Diego's finances 
issued a subpoena for five years of payroll records for certain current 
and former high-level city employees, it was learned Friday.

Denver Post, Fri, 10 Jun 2005 2:45 AM PDT
Jeffco investigates missing files
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_2793616?rss
Jefferson County investigators this week began an informal inquiry into
confidential files that have been reported missing from the county
attorney's office, officials said Thursday. The files, which were 
stored in
multiple boxes, were noticed missing last month and include several 
current and past
lawsuits involving the county.

WPBF TheWPBFChannel.com via Yahoo! News, Fri, 10 Jun 2005 3:50 PM PDT
Terminated Broker Tosses Files In Dumpster 
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/wpbf/20050610/lo_wpbf/2768188
These days, we know to be careful when throwing out documents 
containing personal information.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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