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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Germany signs Nazi files accord
BBC News - UK
... "Once the last country ratifies (the new agreement), then the
archives
will be opened," chief archivist Udo Jost told Associated Press news
agency.
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5216470.stm>
Using traceback to find Mr. Wrong
itWorldCanada.com - Canada
First they sent a chatty message to Jack in accounting, posing as a
coworker,
asking Jack to e-mail confidential documents to a Hotmail account. ...
<http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/9b1681f4-5970-479e-b2b9-5299bb
c4bd12.html>
Westpoint: 4000 Carey files deleted
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
... until it can be determined if the deleted documents are relevant to
his questioning. "There was no sinister motive connected to the deletion
of files on this ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,19925450%2
55E643,00.html>
Spring Cleaning for the Database
SAP INFO - Mannheim,Germany
... requirements, the company must ensure that it can reproduce a paper
copy of the documents in some way, for example by storing printed
invoices
as PDF files. ...
<http://www.sap.info/public/INT/int/index/Category-28803c61b2496f2c9-int/
0/articlesVersions-1507344c4ce62086f1>
Part One: Trashing your privacy
WTHR - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... They're supposed to be shredding it, get ... He said the case offers
a valuable lesson about how dangerous pharmacy records can be if they
end up in the wrong hands ...
<http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=5196536&nav=9Tai>
Autonomy brings order online to 1,000 years of history
Business Weekly - UK
... The management of electronic records is recognised as one of the
vital
underpinning elements in the Government’s modernisation programme, as
the majority of ...
<http://www.businessweekly.co.uk/news/view_article.asp?article_id=10740>
Preserving the Evidentiary Strength of eR&D Data—Part II
Bio-IT World - Framingham,MA,USA
... The growing use of electronic records and electronic lab notebooks
by R&D organizations provides the potential for tremendous rewards in
the form of improved ...
<http://www.bio-itworld.com/newsitems/2006/july/07-26-06-eln-part-2>
National archives open up to simpler searches
VNUNet.com - UK
The National Archive has overhauled its online search technology to make
records more accessible to the general public. The system ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2161134/national-archives-open-simp
ler>
The Winchester Star
Winchester Star - Winchester,VA,USA
... “It’s not like a museum, but a lot of these records are very
interesting,”
Hooton said of files that contain information ranging from gangster Al
Capone ...
<http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/060726/Area_fbi.asp>
Edmonton MDs lose financial records in laptop theft
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... of angry doctors and their families are demanding answers from a
financial-services
company after a laptop containing thousands of personal files was stolen
<http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=7f91f48e-82c6-4
bc5-8848-72c50cd9be9b&k=46106>
Pennsylvania Law Weekly
Justices Let Stand Two
Big Luzerne Verdicts
By Shannon P. Duffy
Of the Law Weekly
The state Supreme Court has refused to review the two largest verdicts
ever handed up by Luzerne County juries. The verdicts are now worth
more than $65 million with delay damages and post-judgment interest.
The high court's decision upholds an August 2005 decision by the
Superior Court that rejected the appeals of a sprinkler system
manufacturer which was held partially liable for a 1997 warehouse fire
that destroyed millions of stored documents.
<http://www.palawweekly.com/plw/printarticle.aspx?ID=20318>
ILM Goes Looney Tunes
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
Their material has been incorporated into an ongoing information
lifecycle
management (ILM) project at Warner Bros Entertainment. ...
<http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/features/article.php/36
22721>
Why employers are cracking down on e-mail
ZDNet - USA
... back to bite employers, especially regarding destroyed e-mails that
should have been saved--a company could be charged with destroying
evidence
relating to ...
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6098745.html>
Computer Holding Personal Data Found
Washington Post - United States
... Motorola just unveiled several new handsets. ... compromised
government
data on individuals, from a stolen Veterans Affairs laptop containing
information ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/26/AR200607
2601232.html>
Historical society cuts staff, plans restructuring
Baltimore Sun - United States
The Maryland Historical Society, the state's oldest cultural
institution,
this week announced sweeping staff cuts and a broad restructuring of
departments,
and ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/lifestyle/bal-to.layoff26jul26,0,21
97514.story?coll=bal-artslife-today>
Morris found guilty of altering public documents
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... After mulling over the evidence for several days, a judge convicted
former Greene County Administrator Julius Lee Morris of altering public
documents while he ...
<http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%
2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149189593432&path=!news>
Opening of Archive Slower Than Expected
Forward - New York,NY,USA
... the Jews about whom the tracing center has records. ... were ordered
to collect all the files stashed away ... Union transferred copies of
its Nazi documents, by which ...
<http://www.forward.com/articles/8192>
Archives experts meeting in Nairobi
Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
... The five-day Eastern and Southern Africa Regional Branch of the
International
Council of Archives meeting, which started on Monday, has emphasised the
use of ...
<http://www.eastandard.net/hm_news/news.php?articleid=1143955921>
Website Makes Missouri Genealogy Easier
KAIT - Jonesboro,AR,USA
... The Missouri State Archives created an online index of more than two
million Missouri Certificates from 1910 to 1955, making it easier for
people in Region 8 ...
<http://www.kait8.com/Global/story.asp?S=5200598&nav=0jsh>
HISTORY: Kay Ables slated to be new Ridgefield town historian
Ridgefield Press - CT, USA
... After bringing some order to the boxes and boxes of old glass
negatives
that had been donated by The Ridgefield Press, the “Hartmann Committee”
set about ...
<http://www.acorn-online.com/news/publish/article_8221.shtml>
AP via Yahoo! News, Wed, 26 Jul 2006 4:54 PM PDT
Researchers to view millions of Nazi files
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060726/ap_on_re_eu/germany_nazi_files_5
Millions of Nazi files detailing the suffering and deaths of inmates at
labor and concentration camps during the Holocaust will be opened to
researchers under an agreement signed Wednesday by Germany and seven
other countries.
San Francisco Chronicle, Wed, 26 Jul 2006 4:01 AM PDT
Marion Cook Holmes -- Peninsula museum archivist
http://feeds.sfgate.com/~r/sfgate/rss/feeds/bayarea/~3/http://www.sfgate.
com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff=/c/a/2006/07/26/BAGCTK5HCG1.DTL&feed=rss.baya
rea
Marion Cook Holmes, the longtime San Mateo County History Museum
archivist who helped thousands of students, researchers and historians
dive into the extensive records she organized -- and did it with a
smile on her face – died Saturday of lung cancer. She...
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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