Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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YANKTON Museum honors historian
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
... Hedren believes the collections of Hanson's documents, which are
housed
at Dakota ... t wield a sword, yet deserved recognition for his
'countless
deeds of bravery ...
<http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060104/NEWS/6010
40319/1001>
COPPER Country, UP history replete with mine disasters
Daily Mining Gazette - Houghton,MI,USA
... According to Erik Nordberg, archivist at Michigan Tech University,
information at the archives reveals among the more tragic accidents
occurred
on Sept. ...
<http://www.mininggazette.com/news/story/014202006_new03-n0104.asp>
1833 lawsuit gets Mormons' notice
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... "This is a ?Who's Who' of the founders of Independence," said Becky
Carlson, an archivist who helped recover the documents. ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/13543134.htm>
CITY puts records online
Mobile Register - Mobile,AL,USA
... stacks of records, the city has gone paperless in all of its
documents
that relate to City Council meetings. Laptop computers have replaced the
files council ...
<http://www.al.com/news/mobileregister/baldwin.ssf?/base/news/11363698563
00270.xml&coll=3>
A peek into a dark past
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
... Government officials estimated the files contained more than a ...
of explanations for keeping the records under wraps ... last week, he
said the documents "could only ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/caribbean/sfl-hbrazfiles04jan04,0
,2503339.story?coll=sfla-news-caribbean>
SERVICE delivery as performance leverage in 2006
Nigeria Daily Independent - Ikeja,Lagos,Nigeria
... Rodents feast on documents in these files and information ... would
for long remain a challenge to the maintenance of foolproof records of
transactions that are ...
< http://www.independentng.com/insurance/injan040601.htm>
LACK of Interest Hampers Archives Center's Work
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Also besides the grant scooped from LTI, he has as well told this
paper
that management scooped a grant from the British Library Archival Center
in London to ...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200601040455.html>
BBC opens news archives to surfers
VNUNet.com - Haarlem,Netherlands
The BBC has opened its news archives to users in the UK for the first
time
in its 75 year history. Nearly 80 items are being offered ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2147986/bbc-opens-news-archives>
STATE laws target identity theft
World Peace Herald - Washington,DC,USA
... High-profile breaches also were found at Bank of America Corp., shoe
retailer DSW Inc. ... data may have been compromised after backup
computer
tapes went missing ...
<http://www.wpherald.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060104-111419-3747r>
STANDARDS on the way for encrypting data on tape, disk
ARNnet - Australia
... has been made more urgent since high-profile companies such as
Ameritrade
and Bank of America earlier this year lost unencrypted tapes containing
customer data ...
<http://www.arnnet.com.au/index.php/id;818886939;fp;8;fpid;0>
12-YEAR gap in Department records
Irish Health - Ireland
... Government departments are legally obliged to examine and submit to
the Archives previously confidential documents, many of which can
usually
be made public ...
<http://www.irishhealth.com/?level=4&id=8747>
HIN Client Technology Enhances Security
TechLINKS (press release) - Atlanta,GA,USA
... that you deleted that old email or attachment to avoid producing
incriminating
correspondence, you could be in violation of the document-retention
clause
of SOX ...
<http://www.techlinks.net/CommunityPublishing/tabid/92/articleType/Articl
eView/articleId/3503/Thin-Client-Technology-Enhances-Security.aspx>
POLAND declassifies Warsaw Pact secret files
Xinhua - China
... conference. A total of 1,445 Warsaw Pact files were found in
Poland's
archives, including documents, maps and military plans. "More ...
<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/04/content_4006762.htm>
Wired
File This Under Data Overload
As a young historian visiting the National Archives more than four
decades ago, Allen Weinstein met an employee named Mr. Taylor who
seemed to know the whereabouts of every document - from the Declaration
of Independence to the latest Bureau of Mines report - in the entire
block-long neoclassical complex. Mr. Taylor was still working there
last February when Weinstein was sworn in as the ninth archivist of the
United States.
<http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.01/posts.html?pg=2>
WARREN County Genealogical Society still growing
Monmouth Daily Review Atlas - Monmouth,IL,USA
... Stacy Cordery, Monmouth College history department chairwoman and
archivist,
stated, "The historical archive at Monmouth College is a repository for
documents ...
<http://www.reviewatlas.com/articles/2006/01/04/news/local/news1.txt>
WANTED: Methods for moving mountains of content
ComputerWorld - USA
... with a book-long list of modules ranging from workflow and business
process automation to Web content publishing to records management,
compliance
and ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/softwaretopics/software/story/0,10801,10745
3,00.html>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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