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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Archive seeks to record history of Hispanic ads
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
Pioneers in Hispanic advertising, marketing and broadcasting will
launch the AHAA Archive of Hispanic Marketing to preserve the
industry's past. ...
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070318/BUS
INESS/703180368/1003/BUSINESS>
Online archive will help Quebec roots hunters
Victoria Times Colonist - Victoria,BC,Canada
A deal between family history website Ancestry.ca and the Universite de
Montreal will see a giant archive of French-Canadian family histories
indexed and ...
<http://www.canada.com/victoriatimescolonist/news/life/story.html?id=3054
6f4c-eedd-4338-b5a0-9b0c5a5ed97b&k=77363>
INTERN CHARGED WITH STEALING ITEMS FROM NATIONAL ARCHIVES IN ...
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
As an intern for the National Archives, McTague was responsible for
arranging and organizing documents in a specific section of the
archives in preparation
...<http://media-newswire.com/release_1045873.html>
Clinton Library Stonewalling Document Requests
NewsMax.com - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
"This is a tremendously complex and convoluted process,” the library’s
supervising archivist, Melissa Walker, told Newsday.
<http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/3/19/142747.shtml?s=ic>
Opportunity Enterprises shreds business documents
Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA
... broadcast at a scheduled shredding time. The goal is to eradicate
data from payroll information, personnel files, medical records,
financial statements,
...<http://www.post-trib.com/news/300528,oeshred.article>
Norfolk clerk wants computerized, not paper, documents
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
Land records back to the 1700s, records from criminal and civil cases,
gun permits, and countless other pieces of paper sit in files that
Schaefer has to ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/virginia/dp-va--paperlesscourthou03
19mar19,0,5799718.story?coll=dp-headlines-virginia>
Brown's mayoral files missing: Oakland aides took some; legal ...
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
Some public records of new state Attorney General Jerry Brown's eight
years as Oakland mayor are missing and others were apparently
improperly destroyed,
...<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/16933393.htm>
Files missing from Brown's Oakland mayoral terms: report
Legal News Line - Washington,DC,USA
One aide, Gil Duran, says he was given permission by a city
public-records officer to purge some files. The other aide, David
Grenell, told the Mercury News ...
<http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/192129-files-missing-from-browns-oakla
nd-mayoral-terms-report>
As Hillary campaign gears up, researchers and journalists finding ...
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... records," said Jeff Gerth, a former New York Times reporter who
requested a wide range of the first lady's files for an unauthorized
Clinton biography ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/ny-ushill195136182mar19,0
,4527868.story?coll=ny-nationalnews-print>
Beware the pitfallsof e-documents
Charleston Post Courier (subscription) - Charleston,SC,USA
Additional fact: A document retention policy, or DRP, is the procedure
that dictates how a company retains, manages, stores and files
information, ...
<http://www.charleston.net/assets/webPages/departmental/news/Stories.aspx
?section=businessreview&tableId=135050&pubDate=3/19/2007>
Tuna canner casts wide net for email recovery
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
"Every year we'd perform a disaster recovery test by getting all our
tapes from Iron Mountain and restore the system from tape," says Sunita
Gossai,...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=networking_and_internet&articleId=9013599&taxonomyId=16&ints
rc=kc_feat>
Bill Declaring Social Security Numbers Not Confidential Awaits ...
FortBendNow - Richmond,TX,USA
A bill changing the Texas Public Information Act and declaring that
Social Security numbers not be considered confidential has passed the
Texas Senate and ...
<http://www.fortbendnow.com/news/2699/texas-bill-declaring-social-securit
y-numbers-not-confidential-awaits-govs-signature>
Photocopiers are a risk for ID Theft
Zone-H - Tallinn,Estonia
... confidential tax forms containing Social Security numbers, employer
identification numbers and other sensitive information in places
outside the home, ...<http://www.zone-h.org/content/view/14651/31/>
"I'll take a stolen ID and a small fry." That'll be $14
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
Symantec said that this information often includes government-issued ID
numbers (including social security numbers), bank information with
passwords, ...
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070319-ill-take-a-stolen-id-and-a
-small-fry-thatll-be-14.html>
Security Threats Require Insurers To Adopt New Processes
Insurance Networking News - New York,NY,USA
These servers are often used by hackers and criminal organizations to
sell stolen information, including social security numbers, credit
cards, ...
<http://www.insurancenetworking.com/protected/article.cfm?articleId=4605&
pb=ros>
The 20th Century Archives: No Access, No Freedom
World Politics Watch - USA
Then pertinent documents "miraculously" materialized in the English
government archives. Thank God that the British MI5 and MI6
occasionally share secret
...<http://worldpoliticswatch.com/article.aspx?id=639>
Plans for multi-million pound archives office move step nearer
The Argus.co.uk - Brighton,UK
Falmer has been named as the perfect site for a new multi-million pound
archives office. Historians have been looking for a new location for
the East Sussex ...
<http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/generalnews/display.var.1270168.0.plans_f
or_multimillion_pound_archives_office_move_step_nearer.php>
Most digital content not stable: archivists
CBC New Brunswick - New Brunswick,Canada
Those who maintain New Brunswick's provincial archives are concerned
that much of the digital content produced today is not going to make it
into the future ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2007/03/19/nb-digitalrecord
s.html>
Loss of Brown's records probed
Inside Bay Area - Oakland,CA,USA
The normal policy is to delete e-mails 90 days after an official leaves
city government, Glaze said. That directly conflicts with state law
requiring that
...<http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_5470052>
Archivists Divided Over Handling of Govt Financial Records
Secrecy News - Washington,DC,USA
What is at issue in this dispute is whether the proposed schedule for
destruction of financial records properly recognizes the enduring value
of some CFO ...
<http://www.fas.org/blog/secrecy/2007/03/archivists_divided_over_handli.h
tml>
Archivist aims to keep local history alive
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
History, especially her hometown's, has long fascinated the 76-year-old
archivist, but early on it seemed far more likely to be her hobby than
her job. ...
<http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070319/NEWS01/7
03190324/1002>
Civil War-era docs stolen, sold on eBay; Philly man charged
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The charges filed against McTague are available from the US Attorney's
Web site (download PDF). metatag data eBay, National Archive, Denning
McTague,
<http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxo
nomyName=standards_and_legal_issues&articleId=9013400&taxonomyId=146>
Land titles scam exposed
New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
“Files are haphazardly heaped on the floors, shelves are clogged due to
limited space, making retrieval of files difficult and inadequate.
...<http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/555036>
Party Files in Black and White, and Red All Over
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
The cache contains decades of party history including founding
documents, secret code words, stacks of personal letters, smuggled
directives from Moscow,
...<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/20/arts/20nyu.html?hp>
Rising Costs of E-Discovery Requirements Impacting Litigants
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
The "safe harbor" for routine document destruction in Rule 37 appears
to protect litigants from that threat -- but only until they knew or
should have known
...<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1174307784199&pos=ataglance>
Drydocking an era
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ,USA
To a certain set of seafaring record-keepers, the logs are a treasure
trove. Mark Kasperski, president of the Titanic and Steamship
Historical Society in ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-6/117428226280
640.xml&coll=1>
Scruggs' contempt hearing set for Wednesday
Legal News Line - Washington,DC,USA
"Instead of sharing their concerns with Renfroe, Moran and Rigsby
clandestinely copied approximately 15000 confidential documents off of
State Farm's ...
<http://www.legalnewsline.com/news/192155-scruggs-contempt-hearing-set-fo
r-wednesday>
My £500000 herd was condemned to death by red tape'
This is London - London,England,UK
... they continued to believe Mr Dobbin's paperwork was not in order
because the numbers were repeatedly flagged up on Defra's computer
records. ...
<http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/article-23389594-details/'My+%C2%A350
0,000+herd+was+condemned+to+death+by+red+tape'/article.do>
Internet Archive V. Shell: The Publicity Aftermath
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
After news of Suzanne Shell's countersuit against Internet Archive
surviving by the thread of one non-dismissed claim – the claim that
Internet Archive's ...
<http://www.webpronews.com/topnews/2007/03/19/internet-archive-v-shell-th
e-publicity-aftermath>
Disk archive kicks-off
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The Distributed Intelligent Versatile Archive middleware links digital
media storage, servers, editing systems and workflow applications. ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/technology/disk-archive-kicksoff/2007/03/1
9/1174152969121.html>
Keeping Secrets in a WikiBlogTubeSpace World
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
And loss of trade secrets is only one type of threat, according to
Diana McKenzie, chairwoman of the information technology group at law
firm Neal, ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=development&articleId=283269&taxonomyId=11&intsrc=kc_feat>
Wall St Journal
Why Miners Look For Buried Treasure In Belgian Museum
Legacy of King Leopold II, Its Maps and Rocks Direct Firms to Congo Hot
Spots
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117433989377841871-email.html?>
NIST to decide on standards for e-records
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is determining
whether to make standards developed by the E-Records Management
e-government project a ...<http://www.fcw.com/article97982-03-20-07-Web>
Iron Mountain launches active archiving for email
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Mar 20 -- Iron Mountain Inc. has introduced its Active Archiving
Service for email, which is a comprehensive solution for managing email
storage, ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1940&Itemi
d=39>
Texas Wrestles with Privacy, Public Records
Public CIO - Folsom,CA,USA
Last month, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott rendered an opinion that
government bodies are prohibited from disclosing Social Security
Numbers in ...
<http://www.public-cio.com/newsStory.php?id=2007.03.20-104505>
Legislature's action on public documents doesn't go far enough ...
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
Isett's House Bill 59 specifies that Social Security numbers and
similar information is private. Isett favors county clerks removing
public documents with ...
<http://www.statesman.com/news/content/region/legislature/stories/03/21/2
1clerks.html>
Treasure from Brockton's past found in closet
Brockton Enterprise - Brockton,MA,USA
Brockton Historical Society curator Derek Canavan was stunned when he
discovered the stamp plate from the steam boiler that exploded at the
RB Grover ...
<http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2007/03/20/news/news/news05
.txt>
43 Rare Audubons Flock To New-York Historical Society
Antiques and Arts Weekly - Newtown,CT,USA
:Visitors to the New-York Historical Society will be able to see how
legendary artist and naturalist John James Audubon reworked a bird's
portrait — honing ...
<http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/TradeTalk/2007-03-20__09-21-27.ht
ml>
Communist Party USA Donates Its Archives to NYU
1010 Wins - New York,NY,USA
The archives will be kept at the university's Tamiment Library, which
describes itself as a global center for "scholarly research on labor
and the Left.'' ...
<http://1010wins.com/content_page.php?contentType=4&contentId=380042>
East Oregon Symphony Loses Archives and Music Library in Fire
PlaybillArts - New York,NY,USA
The East Oregon Symphony lost its archives and music library when the
building housing its office in Pendleton was destroyed in a fire on
March 15, ...<http://www.playbillarts.com/news/article/6185.html>
Those articles of incorporation: An Inconvenient Truth
smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA
According to President R. Gerald Turner, in order for SMU to secure the
George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum, the university must
also accept a ...
<http://www.smudailycampus.com/home/news/2007/03/20/Opinion/Those.Article
s.Of.Incorporation.An.Inconvenient.Truth-2781895.shtml>
Indiana Archivist to Receive MXI's Jasmine Robinson Award
Wabash College - Crawfordsville,IN,USA
Wilma Moore has been the Senior Archivist in African American History
at the Indiana Historical Society since 1986, processing collections,
doing reference
<http://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=4517>
Ala. judge considers criminal contempt in Katrina records case
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer - Columbus,GA,USA
While the three returned some documents, Stanley said, they have yet
tocomply with a court order mandating the return of all the files,
which could be key
<http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/mld/ledgerenquirer/news/local/16941247.ht
m>
Judge right, wrong in e-mail controversy
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
Judge Haddock was wrong when he said that public access to public
computer records could make county government inefficient.
...<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/opinion/editorials/070320a.s
html>
Ancestors website seen as vital tool
Waikato Times - Waikato,New Zealand
BT refers to the United Kingdom Board of Trade, while 27 refers to the
shelf number at The National Archives where the documents were stored.
<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/waikatotimes/4000545a6579.html>
FTC Says It's Gonna Cost Ya
Forbes - NY,USA
That was when it announced a whopping penalty of $10 million and
restitution of $5 million against ChoicePoint (nyse: CPS - news -
people ) ...
<http://www.forbes.com/opinions/2007/03/19/ftc-privacy-fines-oped-cx_res_
0320privacy.html>
Records missing from Jerry Brown's 8-year mayoral stint
Orange County Register - Costa Mesa,CA,USA
One of them, Gil Duran, said he consulted Michelle Abney, the public
records coordinator in the city attorney's office, before doing so. ...
<http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/state/article_1625118.php>
New York Times
History Lessens
By DAVID KAHN
Great Neck, N.Y.
EVERYBODY knows how to use a library. You look up the card catalogue in
the computer, type in the subject, find the Dewey Decimal System
number, walk to the shelf and get the book.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/opinion/19kahn.html?ex=1175054400&en=e
423903e3403242e&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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