RAIN 070104
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
UC BERKELEY
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... The university hopes to create an endowment of about $150,000 for
the
archive's care and handling. ... "We'll need to assign a trained
archivist,
or several, to ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/0
1/03/BAG4VNC2GG1.DTL&type=politics>
Public information belongs to the public
Roanoke Times - Roanoke,VA,USA
An FOIA audit finds that too many local governments keep the public in
the
dark. Virginians have a right to review government information. That's
the
law. ...
<http://www.roanoke.com/editorials%5Cwb/98460>
Results mixed for FOIA requests in state localities
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
NORFOLK — A man walked into the Prince Edward County sheriff's office
not
long ago and asked to see the county's crime log — a list of crimes
committed the ...
<http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061231/NEWS01/612
310339/1002>
Coca-Cola tries to block theft suspect's access to sensitive ...
International Herald Tribune - France
... sought Wednesday to block a defense lawyer's request for documents
in a
trade secrets theft case that relate to products the world's largest
beverage maker ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/03/business/NA_FIN_US_Coca_Cola_T
rade_Secrets.php>
City has only a year to relocate archives
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ontario, Canada
The head of an Ottawa organization that advocates for the city's
archives
warns that a new location needs to be found by the end of the year to
store
all the ...
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/city/story.html?id=aaef8b10-794
8-4079-9cb6-9ad98f342e27&k=77554>
When a Silicon Valley law firm dies, where do its records go?
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
"A law firm's clients don't expect that their sensitive files will be
made
available to third-parties in this way, so they should not be given the
burden of ...
<http://news.com.com/2061-10796_3-6146801.html>
New law notes value of records
Coshocton Tribune - Coshocton,OH,USA
Employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy for their personnel
files, for example. And there are some security matters that do not
need to
be public ...
<http://www.coshoctontribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070103/OPIN
ION01/701030342/1014/OPINION>
Case study: Using the web to scale a paper mountain
ZDNetIndia - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
Kaye's staff of seven manages Defra's current records and recent files.
Alongside this, they handle about 125 archive requests each day, placed
by
phone ...
<http://www.zdnetindia.com/news/software/stories/166504.html>
State way short on funds to computerize records
The Capital Times - Madison,WI,USA
The records cover people who were born or died between 1907 and 1993.
Birth
certificates of those born in 1947 or before are kept in paper files
now.
<http://www.madison.com/tct/news/index.php?ntid=113480&ntpid=9>
Concert vault refutes rock gods' claims
MP3.com - USA
By Jim Welte - MP3.com. Site's attorney calls lawsuit a "shakedown" and
says Wolfgang's Vault owns "all the rights necessary to conduct its
business.". ...
<http://www.mp3.com/news/stories/7837.html>
FOIA fire records search exhausting
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
In 1998, the state Supreme Court ruled that under the open records law,
"The requester's motive nowhere comes into play."
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RT
D_BasicArticle&%09s=1045855934842&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192457655&path=!new
s>
Rare screening for Glasgow archive
Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK
FILM enthusiasts will enjoy a rare opportunity to see Glasgow's changing
social landscape when a series of features are given a screening next
year.
<http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1849322006>
New federal rules affect e-mail storage
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
Walsh said that while he thinks the Supreme Court was “trying to solve a
problem with companies knowingly destroying evidence, it has created a
much-larger ...
<http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/suburban/5056461.html>
New Digital Archive Stores Medical Records Online
CBS 42 - Austin,TX,USA
A new program called myNDMA lets you store your medical records online
so
you can have access to the information whenever you need it, and
wherever
you go. ...
<http://keyetv.com/health/health_story_003154941.html>
Testing access to public records
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
BY LINDSAY KASTNER. In the Richmond area, requests for records were met
with both curt denial and prompt professionalism. When a Times-Dispatch
reporter ...
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD/MGArticle/RT
D_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192473353>
What records are public?
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
Routine fire inspections are public records in Virginia because the
Virginia Freedom of Information Act has no specific exemption for them.
...
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%
2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149192457389&path=!news&s=10458559348
42>
Irwin footage removed from public records
Shepparton News - Shepparton,Australia
Steve Irwin's wife Terri has been given footage of her husband's death
after Queensland authorities broke with protocol to ensure it did not
get
into the ...
<http://news.mcmedia.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=200701047589792>
Deletion is not enough
Techworld.com - London,UK
Delete a computer document and you delete an entry for it in the file
system's index. The document contents, the stored bits, remain on a hard
disk drive ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3081&pagty
pe=samechan>
French put UFO archives online
IT Week - London,UK
Jacques Arnould, project leader at CNES, said that the organisation will
put its whole archives online for world viewing by mid-February. ...
<http://www.itweek.co.uk/vnunet/news/2171725/french-put-ufo-archives-onli
ne>
Effort to salvage soggy archives succeeds
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
While some records sustained ink stains, there was no mold, which could
have caused serious damage, said Robert Neumann, archives and records
supervisor. ...
<http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070103/NEWS01/70
1030362>
US Presses for Quicker Opening of Nazi Archives
Deutsche Welle - Bonn,Germany
American lawmakers are concerned that further delays in granting access
to the Nazi files constitutes an injustice to elderly Holocaust
survivors. ...
<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2299073,00.html>
Harney is questioned on destruction of records
Irish Medical Times - Dublin,Ireland
Deputy Lynch also asked if there was a system in place to
electronically store records and avoid a similar destruction of files
in the future. ...
<http://www.imt.ie/displayarticle.asp?AID=12252&NS=1&CAT=18&SID=1>
Unshredded medical records turn up at recycling center
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA
In 2004, a former county employee took copies of mental health files
home and left them for curb-side pickup in east Stockton. The employee
was fired
after ...
<http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070104/A_NEWS/7010
40333>
Records center holds 'holy grail'
Meadville Tribune - Meadville,PA,USA
The records, files, documents and artifacts have come to the center
from a variety of sources. Carthage historian and former newspaper
editor Marvin
<http://www.meadvilletribune.com/opinion/cnhinscolumns_story_004122909.ht
ml?keyword=topstory>
Evening Standard, Thu, 04 Jan 2007 4:08 AM PST
Blooming miracle of rare plants collected during the Napoleonic wars
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23380449-details/Blooming%20mi
racle%20of%20rare%20plants%20collected%20during%20the%20Napoleonic%20wars
/article.do
It was the year that Britain was still embroiled in the Napoleonic
wars, the first public railway line in the world opened between
Wandsworth and Croydon and seven men were hanged, drawn and quartered
for plotting to assassinate George III.
Colorado Springs Gazette, Wed, 03 Jan 2007 11:48 PM PST
Archivist hopes to document modern Springs for the future
http://www.gazette.com/display.php?id=1328427
Leah Davis Witherow’s job is preserving the history of Colorado
Springs, and she needs your help. Witherow, archivist at the Colorado
Springs Pioneers Museum, wants this year to compile a detailed history
of every neighborhood in the city in words and photos.
South Bend Tribune, Thu, 04 Jan 2007 4:03 AM PST
Colorful history unearthed
http://www.southbendtribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070104/News0
4/701040302
After a year of researching who is buried in an unmarked grave at the
former Methodist Church in New Carlisle, the answer is still unknown.
However, the paper trail has uncovered a remarkable tale of the town's
founding father.
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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