RAIN 061204
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Records manager keeping watch
Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA
... "People sometimes look at me as an archivist," Wilson said. ... put 
the
documents on microfilm and send the originals to the state Division of
Archives and History ...
<http://www.heraldsun.com/durham/4-795760.cfm>

Shredded paper causing recycling difficulties
letsrecycle.com - UK
... Additionally, he said, shredded confidential documents, which 
generally
find their way into mills handling office waste and card, tend to have 
lots
of printer ...
<http://www.letsrecycle.com/materials/paper/news.jsp?story=6318>

Businesses ignore data theft threat posed by own employees
Workplace Law Network (subscription) - Cambridge,UK
... With 60% of workers admitting to theft of confidential documents,
customer databases, business contacts and sales leads Prefix suggests 
that
poor processes ...
<http://www.workplacelaw.net/display.php?resource_id=8020>

Wells Fargo implements image-recording solution
ATM marketplace.com (press release) - Louisville,KY,USA
COSTA MESA, Calif. — Wells Fargo Services has deployed the initial phase
of FileNet’s Records Manager and Imagine Solutions’ Physical Document
Manager. ...
<http://atmmarketplace.com/article.php?id=8143>

Films emerge from Y. vault
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... "I'm very excited about this," said James D'Arc, curator of BYU's
motion picture archive. "As an archivist, I love to see these 
collections
acquired and ...
<http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650212206,00.html>

New e-mail rule limits 'delete' key at firms
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
... sued will now have to preserve electronic data with the same care 
and
diligence they would use in preserving documents. In other words, no
shredding of paper ...
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061204/BUS
INESS/612040334/1003/BUSINESS>

If there could be a case, then don't delete that e-mail
WZZM - Grand Rapids,MI,USA
... In other words, no shredding of paper - and no deleting e-mails - 
when
... say their companies have no corporate policy covering electronic
records management, and ...
<http://www.wzzm13.com/news/local/grmetro_article.aspx?storyid=66000>

Estimating costs for public record requests
Ottumwa Courier - IA, U.S.A.
... 22.3.) Time to respond to any public records request is very limited
and the estimate must be provided to the requester right away. ...
<http://www.ottumwacourier.com/opinion/local_story_338132826.html?keyword
=topstory>

Ftc Requires Companies To Destroy Consumer Records
Best Syndication - Pinon Hills,CA,USA
... supposed to wipe all their hard drives every day or is deleting the
records enough? Wiping the drives is incredibly burdensome while 
deleting
files is useless. ...
<http://www.bestsyndication.com/?q=120406_ftc-requires-businesses-to-dest
roy-certain-consumer-data.htm>

Hungary makes new effort to identify Holocaust files in official ...
International Herald Tribune - France
... of the collections, including the national archives and Budapest's
municipal files, had been ... be measured in results, in terms of the
Holocaust records that get ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/04/europe/EU_GEN_Hungary_US_Holoc
aust_Files.php>

More data laws come into force
Techworld.com - London,UK
By Chris Mellor, Techworld. New electronic data retention laws for US
companies, and those with US subsidiaries, have come into force. ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=7486&pagtype=all>


Book of Aberdeen's food history to be launched
Aberdeen City - UK
... The finished book, which is fully illustrated with photographs taken
 from the City's Archives and family albums, will be officially launched 
at
a special ...
<http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/acci/web/site/CouncilNews/pr/pr_booklaunc
h_041206.asp>

City Confidential: Theresa Lanier
Nashville City Paper - Nashville,TN,USA
... Lanier, however, scoured city archives for more than six years until
she happened upon a document that linked a 13-year-old slave named 
Mahala
— who Lanier ...
<http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=12&screen=news&ne
ws_id=53513>
Inside History: Gun Vault at Historical Society of ND
KXMA - Dickinson,ND,USA
... A secret combination unlocks centuries of history. Mark Halvorson is
Curator of Collections for the State Historical Society of North Dakota.
 <http://www.kxma.com/getARticle.asp?ArticleId=73165>

She's a pioneer of UM's Web
Ann Arbor News - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
... York manages the center's Web site - www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs - 
which
contains nearly 70,000 external links to public documents and other
government ...
<http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-20/116524724217133
0.xml&coll=2>

Jewish Group May Sue for Seized Writings
Washington Post - United States
... When the Nazis invaded Poland, Schneersohn fled to the United 
States,
leaving behind the archives and manuscripts, which were seized and 
taken to
Germany. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/04/AR200612
0401017.html>

Intelligence archives chief found dead on job in Bulgaria
journalismus - nachrichten von heute - Bern,Germany
Sofia News Agency - The chief of the "Archives and Secret Files" 
division
in the National Intelligence Service was found dead in his office, but 
the
news on ...
<http://oraclesyndicate.twoday.net/stories/3019750/>

BSU to unveil local organized labor archives
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
... On Tuesday, Ball State University will unveil its new Muncie Labor
Archives during a special 7:30 pm presentation in Bracken Library, Room
225. ...
<http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061204/NEWS01/6
12040318/1002>

Web sites must be saved for future, archivist says
Lehigh University The Brown and White - Bethlehem,PA,USA
By Martina Russial. With the average life of a Web page just one hundred
days, many online resources are being lost, said Michelle ...
<http://www.bw.lehigh.edu/story.asp?ID=20257>

Angler hooks bag full of criminal files
Radio Polonia - Poland
The bag contained near on 50 files with documents dating between 1999 
and
2002, from regional tax, border guard and law enforcement services. ...
<http://www.polskieradio.pl/polonia/article.asp?tId=45509&j=2>

System ends paper’s clutter
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... Efficiency also improved as employees could access files and phone
records right away rather than spend time looking for a file. ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/business/16164459.htm>

The Star, Sun, 03 Dec 2006 9:12 PM PST
What’s behind those burnt records?
http://www.stluciastar.com/NewsHome/tabid/179/newsid890/333/Default.aspx
What’s behind those burnt records? There’s something that doesn’t sound 
quite right about burning government documents. But to hear Dr Kenny 
Anthony, during his appearance on Rick Wayne’s TALK Thursday night it 
was nothing unusual.

Prague Daily Monitor, Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:05 PM PST
Documents on 1968 invasion still hidden in Russian archives
<<http://www.praguemonitor.com/ctk/?story_id=w47062i20061204;story=Docume
nts-on-1968-invasion-still-hidden-in-Russian-archives>>
Prague, Dec 1 (CTK) - Russian archives still hide documents on the 
Warsaw Pact troops invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968 and Czech 
historians have no list of such classified documents and do not know 
their content either, Russian and Czech scientists who attend the 
international conference on the history ofCzech-Russian and 
Czechoslovak-Soviet relations said today.




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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