RAIN 070314
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Archive Overload
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
Wayne Onkst of Erlanger, Ky., inherited a $10 million problem when he
took over as the Kentucky state librarian in November. ...
<http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070313/NEWS01/703
130383>
Irish archive shows that music documents history
OnMilwaukee.com - Milwaukee,USA
By Becky Roozen. Brew City goes above and beyond green beer on St.
Paddy's Day in celebrating its Irish heritage. In addition to the
annual Irish Fest and a
...<http://onmilwaukee.com/music/articles/irishsheetmusic.html?6119>
Many government Web sites fail to serve the public
Infoworld - Netherlands
A report issued Monday by the National Security Archive Knight Open
Government survey, found widespread failure among federal agencies to
follow the ...
<http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E188825729C0
081E858>
Kiwi software at front line of email defence
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
Entrepreneur Rod Drury scored big with his Aftermail product, which he
sold last year to US company Quest Software and now lives on as Quest
Archive Manager ...
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=74&objectid=10428601>
Missoula couple overcharged for medical records
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
MISSOULA — A man’s effort to audit his wife’s medical records for
possible billing mistakes has led a medical records company to lower
its copying costs to ...
<http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070313/NEW
S03/70313006>
Government guards papers from public eye
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
The archives program comes less than one year after the records
administration came under fire for allowing public documents to be
reclassified as secret ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1155AP_Sunshine_Week_Removing_Rec
ords.html>
Lawmakers deal with public access to information, privacy
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
Legislation testing the balance between a citizen's right to public
documents and the right to keep certain information about that citizen
private is at the ...
<http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/03/14/1
4open.html>
Report: Blame sloppy companies, not hackers, for data breaches
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
Electronic records in the United States are streaming out of companies
at a rate of 6 million a month this year, up roughly 200000 a month
from last year, ...<http://www.networkworld.com/community/?q=node/12412>
Hackers Get Bum Rap For Corporate America's Digital Delinquency
Science Daily (press release) - USA
By his reckoning, electronic records in the United States are bleeding
at the rate of 6 million a month in 2007, up some 200000 a month from
last year.
...<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070313114354.htm>
How a County Attorney's Office Is Streamlining E-Discovery
C.C. Holland
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
While the revised Federal Rules of Civil Procedure pertaining to
electronic discovery that hit the books in December may have caused
headaches for many in the legal profession, some discovered unexpected
benefits. Case in point: the Nassau County Attorney's Office in New
York, which implemented new technology to meet the updated requirements
and found that it made e-discovery more efficient than expected.
<http://www.law.com/jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1173703111561>
Historic files in jeopardy
13abc.com - Toledo,OH,USA
It's what may be in the basement: records that were never recorded
anywhere else. Lloyd Brothers builds monuments and tombstones and kept
records that,...
<http://abclocal.go.com/wtvg/story?section=local&id=5117788>
PSU offers space for city history
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
The looming space crunch might, however, present a chance to bring the
city archives downtown and turn them into a truly public resource. ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/1173758132
100560.xml&coll=7>
Iron Mountain offers email and storage
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
As Iron Mountain attempts a move from tape archiving to digital managed
services, it has joined a multitude of other companies hitching their
wagons to the ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/03/13/222376/iron-mountain-o
ffers-email-and-storage.htm>
Meyers urges Senate to take different records approach
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
The Texas House bill that exempts social security numbers from
"confidential" status may soon be taken up by the Texas Senate. ...
<http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2007/03/13/news/news04.txt>
City to embrace its past
Topics.com - Noblesville,IN,USA
The war memorabilia collector will lead the newly formed Lawrence
Historical Society and work to uncover the city's untapped historical
resources. ...<http://www.topics.com/articles/8/086394-9198-088.html>
Those who preserved history played a key role.
Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... other situations, the truth that pointed us toward these lofty
hopes lay in historical documents, itemized in prosaic letters, deeds
and account books.
...<http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/editorial/16892002.htm>
Cost of information
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
It’s time for state lawmakers to catch up with technology and revise a
state law that sets the fees county recorders must charge for deeds,
mortgages and
...<http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/16892852.htm>
Film-based photographs need tender, loving care
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
The boxes, like some of the self-sticking albums that were on the
market years ago, were not archival, said Mark Hammer of Merrill Photo
in Charleston. ...
<http://www.dailymail.com/story/Life/+/2007031318/Film-based-photographs-
need-tender-loving-care/>
AP via Yahoo! News, Tue, 13 Mar 2007 4:38 PM PDT
Government guards papers from public eye
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_go_ot/sunshine_week_removing_records_2
More than 1 million pages of historical government documents ? a stack
taller than the U.S. Capitol ? have been removed from public view since
the September 2001 terror attacks, according to records obtained by The
Associated Press. Some of the papers are more than a century old.
Brown Daily Herald, Wed, 14 Mar 2007 0:27 AM PDT
Hillary Clinton's 'secret' paper: an undergrad thesis enters the race
for '08
http://www.browndailyherald.com/news/2007/03/14/Feature/Hillary.Clintons.secret.Paper.An.Undergrad.Thesis.Enters.The.Race.For.08-2775160.shtml
If you plan to run for president, be careful what you research. Some
political operatives are digging for blemishes in presidential
candidate Sen. Hillary Clinton's past are suggesting that the junior
Democratic senator from New York's 1969 undergraduate thesis about
leftist community organizer Saul Alinsky could shed light on her
current political outlook.
Breaches of personal data: blaming the myth and punishing the victim
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
By John Timmer | Published: March 14, 2007 - 06:10AM CT. A study that
will appear in the Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication later
this year analyzes ...
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070314-breaches-of-data-blaming-t
he-myth.html>
Morgan e-mail hearing Friday
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
In the same ruling he denied George's request to access public records
because he had no evidence that showed which computer records would be
exempt from ...
<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070314/email.shtml>
PRINCETON: University offers archive of public lectures as podcasts
Bridgewater Courier News - Bridgewater,NJ,USA
Princeton has converted nearly 800 digital files of public events and
lectures to make them easily available for free downloads from a new
podcasts Web site ...
<http://www.c-n.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070314/FRONT01/70314027>
Oxnard activist inducted into UCLA archive
Ventura County Star (subscription) - Ventura county,CA,USA
By Cheri Carlson, [log in to unmask] Standing in a hallway
on the UCLA campus, two old friends hugged and talked a little
politics. ...
<http://www.venturacountystar.com/vcs/ox/article/0,1375,VCS_238_5414764,0
0.html>
Princeton offers extensive archive of public lectures as podcasts
Princeton University - Princeton,NJ,USA
by Cass Cliatt • Posted March 14, 2007; 09:00 am. Princeton has
converted nearly 800 digital files of public events and lectures to
make them easily ...
<http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S17/37/29O81/index.xml?sectio
n=topstories>
Methodists approve leasing SMU land for Bush library
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
DALLAS — A Methodist council on Wednesday gave approval for Southern
Methodist University to lease land for George W. Bush's presidential
library. ...<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4630820.html>
TechLaw: Intel Slips Up on the Delete Button
WRAL.com - Raleigh,NC,USA
In the age of electronic documentation and digital storage of
documentation, the prohibition on document destruction has become
somewhat more difficult. ...
<http://www.wral.com/business/local_tech_wire/opinion/story/1234085/>
Forget hackers; companies responsible for most data breaches ...
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
March 14, 2007 (Computerworld) -- In the five minutes it might take to
read this article, about 672 electronic records containing confidential
information ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyId=14&articleId=9013142&intsrc=hm_topic>
Security Breaches: A Question of 'When'
Dr. Dobb's Journal - San Mateo,CA,USA
It revealed that electronic records in the US are being compromised at
the rate of 6 million a month in 2007, up some 200000 a month from
2006.
...<http://www.ddj.com/blog/portal/archives/2007/03/security_breach.html>
Court tables records redaction software again
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
Precinct 3 Commissioner Andy Meyers, a critic of the way Wilson has
handled the electronic records, said the county should seek proposals
from various ...
<http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2007/03/14/news/news01.txt>
Fire burns down old Comelec building, May 14 polls records
GMA news.tv - Quezon City,Metro Manila,Philippines
But Comelec chairman Benjamin Abalos Sr. was quick to downplay
speculations that the fire destroyed documents related to the elections
just eight weeks away ...
<http://www.gmanews.tv/story/33799/Fire-burns-down-old-Comelec-building-M
ay-14-polls-records>
Google Changes Policy on Search Records
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... months was too long, and added that because of Google's dominant
position in the industry, it would likely set a de facto standard for
data retention. ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/technology/15googles.web.html?ref=tech
nology>
Google adding search privacy protections
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Google is changing its data retention practices to make it harder to
identify the specific computers used in searches. Google's servers log
information ...
<http://news.com.com/Google+adding+search+privacy+protections/2100-1038_3
-6167333.html>
Google to Adopt New Privacy Measures
Chicago Tribune - Chicago,IL,USA
"Data retention practices depend largely on the diverse nature of our
data as well as the practical considerations of storage costs and
processing system ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/sns-ap-google-privacy,0,4929223.s
tory?coll=chi-bizfront-hed>
FORTUNE Names Iron Mountain as one of America's Most Admired ...
SYS-CON Media - Montvale,NJ,USA
In the magazine's March 19th issue, available now at Fortune.com, Iron
Mountain is ranked 2nd in the Diversified Outsourcing Industry, moving
up one spot ...<http://www.sys-con.com/read/349066.htm>
NYT
Medical Data on Empire Blue Cross Members May Be Lost
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/business/14insure.html>
Major US medical services company loses 75 000 personal files
SC Magazine - Australia
Lost data included names, Social Security numbers, health plan ID
numbers and descriptions of medical services rendered since 2003,
according to the Times’ ...
<http://www.scmagazine.com.au/news/47656,major-us-medical-services-compan
y-loses-75-000-personal-files.aspx>
County clerk's office removes information from electronic ...
Inside Collin County Business - Plano,TX,USA
“Too many times, Social Security numbers are unnecessarily included on
documentation,” said Collin County clerk Stacey Kemp. ...
<http://www.insidetxbiz.com/adminnm/anmviewer.asp?a=1397&z=6>
JTA, Mon, 12 Mar 2007 2:57 PM PDT
Documents just found in Spain may shed light on Jewish mysticism
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/news/article/20030326Documentsjustfound.html
A historic Hebrew manuscript found recently in Girona, Spain. It was
truly a historic find when archivists examining yellowed volumes of
notarial records in the city of Girona in northeastern Spain discovered
that the covers were lined with precious historical documents.
Franklin County's choice of voting equipment could save huge dollars
Echo Pilot - Greencastle,PA,USA
... to scrap their electronic voting equipment because there is no way
to produce an archival quality copy of the votes from those touch
screen machines.
...<http://www.echo-pilot.com/news/2007/0314/community/017.html>
Bringing Jewish History To Life
Jewish Press - Brooklyn,NY,USA
“Unlike the vast majority of archival websites, ajcarchives.org
provides instant access to much of the archival material itself.
...<http://www.jewishpress.com/page.do/20987/Bringing_Jewish_History_To_L
ife.html>
Survival of the fittest: rare Darwin book finds new home
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
On Monday the State Library of NSW will unveil an immaculate first
edition copy that was originally owned by the Darwin family. The
library bought it for ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/survival-of-the-fittest-rare-darwin-
book-finds-new-home/2007/03/14/1173722560455.html>
BBC looks to IBM Marvel to analyze vast archives
Computer Business Review - UK
By Jason Stamper. The BBC and IBM Corp have signed a strategic alliance
that will see them working on several joint projects, the first being
the use of an ...
<http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=D2DAAEE9-7DBD-424C-A931-2
BDC0421D993>
Historical archives among the UK's best
Portsmouth News - Portsmouth,England,UK
The county record office has been designated an outstanding collection
of national and international importance by the Museum, Libraries and
Archives...
<http://www.portsmouthtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle.aspx?ArticleID=2120722&Sect
ionID=455>
Poland Braces for Outings of Ex-Spies
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
A Polish archivist searches through communist-era files that will be
used to judge up to 700000 Polish office holders once a new law takes
effect this week, ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/14/AR200703
1401438.html>
Just the Disney Facts, Ma'am
MousePlanet - Anaheim,CA,USA
In fact, even the Disney family who prefers to remain quiet and
discreet in these matters came out to publicly refute the book and
Disney Archivist Dave
...<http://www.mouseplanet.com/articles.php?art=ww070314ws>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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