RAIN 060626
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Major recycling move
Times Picayune - New Orleans,LA,USA
... 8, 2005, when Mike Harris, director of the Medina County (Ohio)
District
Library, contacted the Louisiana State Library to see if a bookmobile
that was about ...
<http://www.nola.com/entertainment/t-p/index.ssf?/base/living-6/115129970
049140.xml&coll=1>
Google Gets An F
Forbes - USA
Good enough to find private records for hundreds of North Carolina
public
school ... when the company complied with a local court order to delete
all information ...
<http://www.forbes.com/technology/2006/06/26/search-school-privacy_cx_rr_
0626google.html>
At risk of exposure
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
In the push for electronic medical records, concern is growing about how
well privacy can be safeguarded. PATIENTS of the land, unite! ...
<http://www.latimes.com/features/health/la-he-privacy26jun26,1,7949646.co
lumn?coll=la-headlines-health>
Historian: Washington County in desperate need of archives
Kingsport Times News - Kingsport,TN,USA
... the archives, while retaining its noncourt-related offices, such as
the register of deeds, trustee, assessor ... We have primarily loose
court
documents with some ...
<http://www.timesnews.net/community_article.php?id=253>
Council member: Sensitive info available on county Web site
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... his office is required by law to keep public records like deeds,
mortgages
and ... initiated, the decision was made to not display images of
documents
that almost ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/275386_records26ww.html>
Accounts show history unfolding
Detroit Free Press - United States
... Washington's letter is part of a new exhibit, "Eyewitness: American
Originals from the National Archives," designed to portray history in
the words of the ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060626/FEATURES01/6062
60321/1026>
Bank archives offer peek into noted clients' lives
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... whether to donate, display or store what it has inherited, but it is
sensitive to the history involved, said John Tydings, director of the
archives project. ...
<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/business/14901916.htm>
Web site with death records gets 1 million hits
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... of Missouri death certificates that went online April 6 had more
than
1 million visitors within five weeks, officials with the Missouri State
Archives said. ...
<http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/state/14905531.htm>
Paperless office - ages-old myth or valuable way forward?
Silicon.com - UK
... of a building that housed paper files and cost ... companies are
happy
just to keep electronic records.". ... expense comes from staff printing
out documents at their ...
<http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/governance/0,3800011701,3
9159888,00.htm>
Missing documents obscure Canada's environmental history
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
... sold in Canada between 1060 and 1985, and that it contained 2,4-D
and
2,4,5-T: "Unfortunately, the PMRA has no physical records (data
submission)
of the files. ...
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=753f6f90-efdd-4ff
3-9c48-05e4b91a662e&k=47220>
Aussie hi-tech police lose 3500 banking records
Inquirer - Harrow,Middlesex,UK
... police were in the middle of an investigation when the classified
documents
were lost ... had their name, post code and banking details recorded in
files stored on ...
<http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32642>
UK terror files lost in street
PlanetSave.com - Portland,ME,USA
... police said on Monday they had reviewed procedures for handling
sensitive
intelligence after an officer's bag containing equipment and documents
was lost in a ...
<http://planetsave.com/ps_mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id
=7411&Itemid=69>
TROUBLING QUESTION: County may elect to change
Las Vegas Review-Journal - Las Veagas,NV,USA
... recorder and transfer duties to the Clark County clerk. ... Studies
at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, cited other concerns about
electing
a recorder. ...
<http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jun-26-Mon-2006/news/8123955
.html>
Digital files raise security concerns
Boston Globe - United States
... is becoming a problem, they say, as communities in Massachusetts and
around the country experiment with ways to share electronic records
between
providers. ...
<http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2006/06/26/digital_fi
les_raise_security_concerns>
Electronic records help speed social workers’ response to ...
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
Social workers at Dudley Metropolitan Borough Council are responding
more
quickly to emergencies after introducing electronic social care records
for all new ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/06/27/216644/Electronic+reco
rds+help+speed+social+workers%E2%80%99+response+to.htm>
Head of CIO issues decision on electronic transactions
Bahrain News Agency - Bahrain
... have to abide by such as the use of trustworthy information systems
and Unicodes for storing, sending and receiving compressed electronic
records and abiding ...
<http://english.bna.bh/?ID=46710>
Standards group issues guidance for e-doc systems
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
... include Andrew Taylor, assistant director for Records and
Information
Management Services at the Georgia Archives; John Breeden, agency
records
manager for the ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article95046-06-27-06-Web>
New York Times, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 8:53 PM PDT
How Atlanta Was Able to Retain Dr. King's Papers
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/us/27king.html
Mayor Shirley Franklin secured a loan allowing a nonprofit organization
to avoid an auction and buy papers belonging to the Rev. Dr. Martin
Luther King
Jr.
The Idaho Statesman, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 1:17 AM PDT
Moving can be a challenge when your files go back to 1864
<<http://www.idahostatesman.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060626/NEWS0
1/606260313&SearchID=73249273506145>>
Vast collections of paper records are stashed in vaults and corners all
over the Capitol building — collections that must be packed up and
moved
before the $114 million renovation and expansion begins.
<http://shrinkster.com/gb6>
WLUC TV 6, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 2:41 AM PDT
NMU Receives Large Donation
http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=5039408&nav=menu134_2_7
A former Ishpeming resident who left the Upper Peninsula when he was 10
and went on to be a leading atomic scientist, gave something back to
the U.P.
TechWeb via Yahoo! News, Mon, 26 Jun 2006 2:41 PM PDT
In Focus: Document Automation Requires More Than Scanning
http://news.yahoo.com/s/cmp/20060627/tc_cmp/189601655
Document imaging offers one way to bring paper documents up to Internet
speeds.
Computer Weekly, Tue, 27 Jun 2006 4:04 AM PDT
Belgium government drives adoption of open source Open Document Format
http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RS/Articles/2006/06/27/216634/Belgium
+government+drives+adoption+of+open+source+Open+Document.htm
The Belgium government has decided to adopt the open source Open
Document Format (ODF) across its operations.
RedNova, Tue, 27 Jun 2006 6:09 AM PDT
Protecting Client Data
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/551269/protecting_client_data/ind
ex.html?source=r_technology
By McCarthy, Ed Think you're too small to be noticed? Think again. If
your clients have inquired recently about how you protect their
confidential
data, their concern is understandable. A Department of Justice survey
estimates that 3.6 million U.S.
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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