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RAIN 070208 - 41 Tapes Lost, Deeds damaged, Archivist Retires, Preserving Old records

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RAIN 070208
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Fighting to protect copyright 'orphans'
By Daniel Terdiman
Internet Archive's Brewster Kahle is attempting to gain public domain 
status for out-of-print books despite court setbacks.
<http://news.com.com/Fighting+to+protect+copyright+orphans/2008-1025_3-61
54860.html?tag=sas.email>

Chronicle of Higher Education
"How Do You Cite Wikipedia on a History Paper? At Middlebury College, 
You Don't. A Professor Explains Why"
<http://chronicle.com/temp/email2.php?id=zKkqb3ybKnVywQ8z5j3rhhznfzTG2zQs
>

Tennessean, Wed, 07 Feb 2007 0:08 AM PST
Nashville man lays legal claim to artwork Hitler wanted
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/NEWS03/702070449
His uncle, an art dealer, died in Auschwitz after Nazis confiscated, 
sold his collection

Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Tue, 06 Feb 2007 10:21 PM PST
Splendor of state for the asking
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/302703_publicart07.html?source=rss
The age of digital imaging is revolutionizing the way archivists and 
curators  around the world are managing their collections. Now 
Washington is catching up with the trend.

Fairview Observer, Wed, 07 Feb 2007 1:41 AM PST
Nashville man lays legal claim to artwork Hitler wanted
http://www.fairviewobserver.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/NEWS03/702070449
More than six decades after the arrest, torture and murder of Walter 
Westfeld, the art dealer's prized works — millions of dollars worth of 
treasures scattered in museums and in private hands around the world — 
are being sought in a Nashville court.

The Fayetteville Observer, Tue, 06 Feb 2007 9:06 PM PST
Where are the other 13 copies now?
http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=253985
The state of North Carolina isn’t the only state to go without its 
original copy of the Bill of Rights. Still missing-in-action are the 
original copies that President George Washington transmitted to Georgia 
and New York on Oct. 2, 1789. Their location?
St. Thomas Times-Journal, Tue, 06 Feb 2007 7:27 AM PST
Firing said due to evolution County aims to hire curator to take museum 
in ‘aggressive direction’
http://www.stthomastimesjournal.com/News/285428.html
Elgin’s manager of cultural services on Monday defended the firing of 
Elgin County Museum’s curator, saying the job had evolved beyond the 
scope of the post for which Ninette Gyorody was hired on a one-year 
contract.
<http://cgi.bowesonline.com/pedro.php?id=5&x=story&xid=285429>

Giving immortality Library patrons get a genealogy lesson
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT,USA
But the hobby's true joys will require genealogists to step away from 
their computers and visit places such as New York City's archives in 
lower Manhattan. ...
<http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-a1genealogyfeb07,0,57748.
story?coll=green-news-local-headlines>

Digitizing 80 million documents to help unearth atrocities
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Villagrán says his agency uses a Kodak scanner to digitize documents 
and a Minolta scanner to digitize bound records. Workers often have to 
clean the...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=business_intelligence&articleId=9010718&taxonomyId=9&intsrc=
kc_top>

Ed Esau to share work indexing Natchez history
Natchez Democrat - Natchez,MS,USA
Esau will speak at 9 am Friday, telling about the work he has done on 
court dockets, chattel mortgages, land deeds, circuit court minutes and 
“all kinds of 
...<http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/articles/2007/02/07/news/news374.txt>

Progress by the clerk
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
Documents such as mortgages and deeds are available only for the 
clerk's official records department. People still must visit court 
offices to see or obtain ...
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/opinion/content/opinion/epaper/2007/02/07/m
16a_slclerk_edit_0207.html

Archives get a high-tech home
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By Bob Strauss, Film Writer. The UCLA Film & Television Archive makes 
its long-awaited move to the new, state-of-the-art Billy Wilder Theater 
at the Hammer ...
<http://www.dailynews.com/entertainment/ci_5169484>

Ethiopia: Records, Archives Improper Handling Said Negatively ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
The lack of attention to the proper handling of records has negatively 
been affecting the country's development endeavours, the National 
Archives and ...<http://allafrica.com/stories/200702070609.html>

Dutchess Clerk seeks grant to digitize land records
Mid-Hudson News - Newburgh,NY,USA
Poughkeepsie – Dutchess County Clerk Bradford Kendall has submitted a 
grant application for $75000 to the New York State Archives Department, 
...<http://www.midhudsonnews.com/News/DC_landrec_digit-07Feb07.html>

Paper jams ease online
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
"We're supportive of the clerk's desire to digitize county records. In 
fact, it's our belief that record digitization should be used 
throughout the county," ...
<http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070207/METRO01/70207
0364/1006>

Broken water pipe soaks voting screens
The Tribune-Democrat - Johnstown,PA,USA
Several years ago, it was converted into the county’s records storage 
center. Election Systems and Software has advised the county that it 
has a supply of ...
<http://www.tribune-democrat.com/local/local_story_037233403.html>

UBC Library Digitizes Rare Darwin Letters, Now Available Online ...
University of British Columbia - Vancouver,BC,Canada
University Archives has digitized 52 letters to and from Darwin 
(1809-1882), the pioneering evolutionary biologist and originator of 
the concept of natural ...
<http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/media/releases/2007/mr-07-012.html>

Florist's story tells volumes about life
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Archivist Beth Golding drove from Tallahassee to see Kuhn's collection, 
taking much of it away to be stored in a climate-controlled 
environment, .
<http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/020707/met_7831690.shtml>

Library and institute will do more good than harm
smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA
Recently, national attention has come upon SMU over the placement of 
the George W. Bush Presidential Library. As elected representatives of 
the student body ...
<http://www.smudailycampus.com/home/news/2007/02/07/Opinion/Library.And.I
nstitute.Will.Do.More.Good.Than.Harm-2702488.shtml>

University Park residents debate land sale to SMU
smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA
... on Tuesday for a regular meeting and special public hearing on a 
small strip of parkland that could be part of the George W. Bush 
Presidential Library. ...
<http://www.smudailycampus.com/news/2007/02/07/News/University.Park.Resid
ents.Debate.Land.Sale.To.Smu-2702618.shtml>

Shredding companies recycle confidential documents
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Rob Amen. The mountain of confetti-sized shredded paper is enough to 
make Times Square envious on New Year's Eve. It also shows how much the 
on-site ...
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/tribpm/s_492150.html
>

Yes, minister, it's time for the data debate
Guardian Unlimited - UK
One is that the merger was in practice a takeover by the National 
Archives, suggesting a lowering of priorities. Second was that the name 
"archives" is 
...<http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,2007590,00.html>

RSA Conference: Experts say companies need data theft response plans
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
The panel was moderated by Richard Baich, the former ChoicePoint CISO 
who found himself in the eye of a media maelstrom two years ago after 
the company ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1
242664,00.html>

Loudon commissioners defer action on records plan
Knoxville News Sentinel (subscription) - Knoxville,TN,USA
Rather than debate the cost of copying records, Franke said the goal 
should be to make all public records available on the Internet. ...
<http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/local_news/article/0,1406,KNS_347_5332895,00
.html>

Treated like a thief' over access to papers
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
WHEN the records manager at Macquarie University, Lachlan Morgan, 
arrived at Building E11A at 7.35am on September 19 last year, he found 
removalists loading ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/treated-like-a-thief-over-access-to-
papers/2007/02/07/1170524164294.html>

Bar Harbor Times, Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:38 AM PST
Town works to preserve old records
http://www.mainecoastnow.com/articles/2007/02/07/bar_harbor_times/local_news/doc45c9e1dc03038319643309.txt
BAR HARBOR — Part of Bar Harbor’s history is fading away, and the 
town is starting to take steps to ensure that it isn’t lost forever.

To Shred or Not to Shred
PC World - USA
Dumpster diving for your company records is a favorite investigative 
technique, and it's often legal. Here are some tips on best shredding 
practices. ...<http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,128830/article.html>

Electronic Records Archive to debut in September
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Development of the Electronic Records Archive, a project that aims to 
collect and preserve government records in electronic format, could be 
supported by ...<http://www.fcw.com/article97592-02-06-07-Web>

Computer Point ends paper use era at Makerere
New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
“Students will access their academic records promptly, register without 
queuing and obtain academic transcripts without physical movement of 
files,” ...<http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/220/547633>

E-mail retention policies, Part 2
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
Examples include destruction of the track-changes records in 
word-processing and spreadsheet files known to be significant in a 
legal discovery process or ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/sec/2007/0205sec2.html>

Charlotte-area Businesses Fine for Illegally Dumping Files
abc11tv.com - Raleigh-Durham-Fayetteville,NC,USA
Movie Gallery received a 50-thousand dollar fine after the owner of a 
neighboring business in Gastonia found files in a trash bin that 
contained personal 
...<http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=central&id=5015972>

Goodbye to archivist who gave us a present of our past
Camden New Journal - London,UK
MALCOLM Holmes, the head of Camden’s history archives, retires this 
week after 40 years chronicling life in the borough. 
...<http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/020807/news020807_13.html>

Feds want mandatory paper ballot trail
The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA
Computer records are retained. If race results are contested, results 
are held at least one month after the results are resolved. ...
<http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070208/FON0101/7
0208130/1985>

Hopkins: Employee, patient computer records lost
Baltimore Examiner - Baltimore,MD,USA
BALTIMORE - Johns Hopkins University revealed Wednesday morning that 
personal information on about 135000 employees and patients has gone 
missing. ...
<http://www.examiner.com/a-553811~Hopkins__Employee__patient_computer_rec
ords_lost.html>

RSA 2007 | Hackers love those careless PC users
Seattle Times - Seattle,WA,USA
And many companies have left millions of computer records flapping in 
the wind through lost laptops and unsecured databases. Don't 
misrepresent the security ...
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003561921_secu
rity08.html>

Presidential Order 13233 and the purpose of Presidential Libraries
smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA
As historians at SMU we have no collective position about bringing the 
Bush Presidential Library, Museum and Institute to this campus. Some of 
us favor it; ...
<http://www.smudailycampus.com/home/news/2007/02/08/Opinion/Presidential.
Order.13233.And.The.Purpose.Of.Presidential.Libraries-2705710.shtml>


Surveying a Career
Scure Destruction Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
... courtesy of Jim Teske of O’Neil Software, a records center software 
provider, led Brodsky and his partners to enter the document 
destruction industry. ...
<http://www.sdbmagazine.com/articles/article.asp?MagID=4&ID=5673&IssueID=
243>

San Francisco Consulate Battles Data Leak Fiasco
San Leandro India West - San Leandro,CA,USA
Calling the dumping of documents "totally unacceptable," he assured 
that "immediate remedial measures had been taken," and pledged that "it 
will never recur ...
<http://www.indiawest.com/view.php?subaction=showfull&id=1170965689&archi
ve=&start_from=&ucat=1>

Johns Hopkins loses 135000 worker, patient records
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
2 disclosure by the University of Missouri about a January hack that 
involved files on nearly 4000 researchers. On Jan. 26, meanwhile, tapes 
containing ...
<http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxo
nomyName=security&articleId=9010919&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_top>

Severe Fire Damaged RAID System No Match for DriveSavers
Earthtimes.org - USA
"The hearing tests are graphic files, audiograms that are stored as a 
picture. Without those records, I would be starting over from scratch 
with every ...
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,57536.shtml>

Watauga Democrat, Thu, 08 Feb 2007 1:19 PM PST
New construction damages older deed records
http://www.wataugademocrat.com/2007/0205web/newconstructiondamagesdeeds.php
Those who complained about having to read “Moby Dick” in high school 
will get little sympathy from the Watauga County Register of Deeds 
office. Due to construction damage, thousands of pages will have to be 
recopied, checked, and certified as part of permanent land records.




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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