RAIN 061117
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

City dodges lawsuit, thanks to grant
Lindsay This Week - Peterborough,Ontario,Canada
.. Elwood Jones, archivist with Trent Valley Archives, says the records
were stored on a bottom shelf in the basement. Enough water ...
<http://www.mykawartha.com/article/5448>

Holocaust archives unsealed
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
.. Sabine Stein, archivist at the Buchenwald concentration camp, says 
the
archive's refusal to share its files has caused heartbreak to countless
survivors and ...
<http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/subscriber/world/story/3778590p-4370242
c.html>

Film Archive to Use Grant to Boost Awareness
Daily Californian - Berkeley,CA,USA
.. The documents archived online in CineFiles that are open to the 
public
.. from production companies, manuscripts and film festival programs,
among other files. ...
<http://dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=22327>

Veteran city clerk giving up post to settle down in Ark.
Las Cruces Sun-News - Las Cruces,NM,USA
.. The Internet and the advent of electronic transmissions of agendas 
and
notices, and accessing public documents and records online, has
significantly changed ...
<http://www.lcsun-news.com/news/ci_4675624>

Agency tries to find how confidential papers ended up on street
ABC7Chicago.com - IL, USA
- A Fort Wayne agency that works to prevent child abuse is trying to 
find
out how more than 100 pages of confidential documents ended up scattered
across two ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4762082>

Agency tries to find how confidential papers ended up on street
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
.. An agency that works to prevent child abuse was trying to find out 
how
more than 100 pages of confidential documents ended up scattered across 
two
city blocks. ...
<http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/16010453.htm>

Fascinating history of county’s militia
Cumberland News - Carlisle,Cumbria,UK
The National Archives at Kew contain a vast amount of information about 
the
militia in Cumberland and Westmorland in a collection of papers in their
class E182 ...
<http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/opinion/viewarticle.aspx?id=435916>

Another massive new online service from The National Archives goes ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
.. registration cards of more than 1,000 foreign nationals who came to 
the
London area between 1914 and 1991 have now gone online thanks to The
National Archives. ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=ar
ticle&sid=6801>

Opening of archive likely to spur new generation of Holocaust ...
Combined Jewish Philantropies - Boston,MA,USA
.. of ITS' critics is Sabine Stein, archivist at the Buchenwald
concentration camp 150 miles (240 kilometers) from Bad Arolsen. She says
the archive's refusal to ...
<http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=200776>

The Kentucky Kernel, Wed, 15 Nov 2006 11:02 PM PST
Woodsongs archives coming to UK library
The Smithsonian Institute in Washington nearly took one of Kentucky's 
great historical collections out of the state. Earlier this year, 
Woodsongs host Michael Johnathon was in talks with curators at the 
Smithsonian Museum to have it house the Woodsongs archive collection.
<http://www.kykernel.com/media/storage/paper305/news/2006/11/16/Features/
Woodsongs.Archives.Coming.To.Uk.Library-2463716.shtml?norewrite2006111912
19&sourcedomain=www.kykernel.com>

The Daily Texan, Fri, 17 Nov 2006 4:15 AM PST
Library makes LBJ recordings public
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2006/11/17/University/Library.Makes.
Lbj.Recordings.Public-2466868.shtml
The Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum will release more than 50 
hours of presidential telephone conversation tapes to the public today, 
covering portions of the former president Johnson's elected term of 
office.
<http://www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storage/paper410/news/2006/11/17/U
niversity/Library.Makes.Lbj.Recordings.Public-2466868.shtml?norewrite2006
11191221&sourcedomain=www.dailytexanonline.com>


Ann Arbor News, Fri, 17 Nov 2006 7:53 AM PST
Collecting, cataloging Volunteers explore, assemble Carnegie library's 
past
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1163778643148170.
xml&coll=2
As the Howell Carnegie District Library has its 100 anniversary, the 
celebration and the library owe a big debt of gratitude to a quiet 
group of volunteers who are largely unknown to the public.

BI focus for Open Text's integration of Hummingbird
Computer Business Review - UK
.. Hummingbird also developed its own compliance and governance called
Hummingbird Enterprise RM that provides standards-complaint records
management capabilities ...
<http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=E6E48CDA-FF99-4C86-97DC-1
54BDA7A8ECD>

Crimes (Document Destruction) Act 2005 Passed By Victorian ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
Further to our recent seminars conducted on this topic, the Crimes
(Document Destruction) Act 2005 ("the Act") was passed by the Victorian
Parliament on 4 ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_44338>

Secure Portable Data Storage
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
.. of a thumb, and have become common as personal and portable data
storage media throughout ... in the last year have involved sensitive
personnel records being lost ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20061117005435&newsLang=en>

Protect Your Data - Top 10 List of Recommendations
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
.. the business, regulatory compliance and corporate governance rules
drive other requirements which mandate businesses to define stringent 
data
retention policies ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1579&Itemi
d=44>

Cyber sleuths by guest columnist Jimmy Lee Shreeve
Police News - San Francisco,CA,USA
.. files, and securely destroy e-mail." Programs like this do have
legitimate uses. Sensitive data, such as passwords, bank details, tax 
and
health records, even ...
<http://www.policeone.com/writers/columnists/RaymondFoster1/articles/1181
02/>


How to protect your privacy online
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
.. which IP addresses it sends pages to, and your ISP will keep records
about which ... to find out the IP address of the computer receiving the
naughty files, and hey ...
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3864389a11275,00.html>

Tackling Document Retention & Compliance
CMSWire - San Francisco,CA,USA
Document management specialist, NextPage, recently commissioned an IDG
Research study to assess document retention effectiveness and risks.
Finding? ...
<http://www.cmswire.com/cms/enterprise-cms/tackling-document-retention-co
mpliance-000858.php>

Controller Completes Audit of Historical Society Director's Travel ...
KBCI - Boise,ID,USA
Idaho State Controller Keith Johnson's investigation into the spending
habits of former Idaho State Historical Society Director Steve Guerber 
is
coming to a ...
<http://www2.kbcitv.com/x79901.xml>

Audit: State kept Historical Society director on payroll for 7 ...
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
.. HELENA — The former director of the Montana Historical Society
remained on the state payroll nearly eight months after he resigned and 
was
paid about $75,000 ...
<http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061117/NEW
S01/61117015/1002>

Coming back to life: Hadassah photo collection
Ynetnews - Israel
.. The collection in his possession includes many glass negatives 
taken at
the beginning of the century, which show sanatoriums and the 
organization's
medical ...
<http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3329393,00.html>

New museum will house ultimate
The Australian - Sydney,Australia
.. And the enthusiasm of Glenys Williams, Marylebone's archivist and
deputy curator and David Studham, Melbourne Cricket Club librarian and
historian was ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,20775944%2
55E5001505,00.html>

BBC News, Thu, 16 Nov 2006 6:33 PM PST
Toasting beer's links with sport
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/6155780.stm


The Shorthorn, Thu, 16 Nov 2006 11:37 PM PST
November 17, 2006
http://www.theshorthorn.com/new/archives/2006/fall/111706/n08.asp
Almost 500 years of cartography are on display in Special Collections.

myKawartha.com, Fri, 17 Nov 2006 3:52 AM PST
City dodges lawsuit, thanks to grant
<<http://www.mykawartha.com/article/5448>>
The City of Peterborough has sidestepped a $25,000 civil lawsuit filed 
by Trent Valley Archives in relation to historic documents damaged in 
the 2004 flood.

TechNewsWorld.com, Tue, 14 Nov 2006 5:10 AM PST
E-Discovery Amendments: Save Your Old Voice Mail
<<http://www.technewsworld.com/rsstory/54222.html>>
Save those voice mails. That's the legal takeaway regarding new 
e-discovery amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure that 
will become law on December 1, 2006. The amendments make significant 
changes to the rules of discovery with regard to electronically stored 
information.

Computer Weekly, Thu, 16 Nov 2006 6:41 AM PST
Access is key to effective archiving
<<http://www.computerweekly.com/Feeds/RS/Articles/2006/11/16/219936/Acces
s+is+key+to+effective+archiving.htm>>
The amount of information that is held throughout the company network 
has been growing ever since computers were introduced to the workplace.

International Herald Tribune, Fri, 17 Nov 2006 12:48 PM PST
More than 60 years on, details of the Holocaust keep unfolding
<<http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/17/news/germany.php>>
The most complete records of Nazi persecutions in existence are soon to 
become public.




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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