RAIN 070412
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Online 1911 Census to have 18 million images
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
The Archives said in a statement that "from 2009 there will be a phased
release of the information in the 1911 census starting with the major
conurbations". ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/04/11/ncensus1
1.xml>
Stanford Archives Contain Incredibly Rare Ultima Game, Whatever
Wired News - USA
Remember Henry Lowood, the Stanford professor who's building an
archival "canon" of video games? Somebody needs to go in there and
explain to him what he's
...<http://blog.wired.com/games/2007/04/stanford_archiv.html>
Discover your hero Digger
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
The National Archives of Australia has posted the records of 376000 men
and women – a total of 12.3 million pages – on its website. The site is
live now. ...
<http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21538404-5006009,00.
html>
NARA shops for data-recovery services
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) wants to make
sure its information is safe in the event of a disaster.
...<http://www.fcw.com/article98198-04-10-07-Web>
HISTORY JOURNAL
Beaumont Journal - Beaumont,TX,USA
Norvell wanted only the very best scholar for this project, and found
him in University of Texas archivist, WE Dunn. Archivist Dunn, who kept
in close
...<http://www.beaumontjournal.com/news/2007/0411/Columns/010.html>
Horse research donated to Kentucky Horse Park
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
An archivist has been hired by the museum to investigate and create an
inventory of the material, and to prepare it for use by visiting
scholars and the ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070410/NEWS0
1/70410013>
How the TJX breach may change security awareness
SC Magazine US - USA
It’s easy to point to the VA’s lost laptop, the stolen credit card
numbers at DSW or the ChoicePoint hacking incidents. The incidents were
hailed at the ...
<http://scmagazine.com/us/news/article/649543/how-tjx-breach-may-change-s
ecurity-awareness/>
Wall Street Journal
Congress Follows Email Trail
White House Faces Queries Over Use Of Private Accounts
<http://tinyurl.com/yvp9ku>
A Jefferson Brainchild That Didn't Thrive
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
Mark Greek, a DC public library photo archivist, with parchment that
Thomas Jefferson signed in 1805. (By John Kelly -- The Washington Post)
...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR200704
1001525.html>
Criminal Records
Entrepreneur - USA
While large companies typically have document retention policies
spelling out what to keep and for how long, small ones are more likely
to have an ad-hoc ...
<http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2003/may/61114.html>
MI5 shredded returned collusion probe files: now they want more
Belfast Telegraph - Belfast,UK
The two agencies - which ran informers in the IRA and loyalist groups –
are demanding the return of more documents, sources said. ...
<http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/article2439686.ece
>
Antero Pietila: Decay threatens important Baltimore history archives
Examiner.com - USA
The local institutions housing this material must digitize the
documents as soon as possible before the files and audio tapes
disintegrate. ...
<http://www.examiner.com/a-667319~Antero_Pietila__Decay_threatens_importa
nt_Baltimore_history_archives.html>
Leg up for geneaologists
ABC Regional Online - Australia
The database contains the service files of the 376000 men and women
that served during the war, that's over 12 million individual
documents. ... <http://www.abc.net.au/victoria/stories/s1894478.htm>
Bush Aides' Use Of Gop E-mail Probed
Guardian Unlimited - UK
No matter the domain name, it said it would provide documents to the
Senate and House Judiciary committees as long as they are not internal
communications,
...<http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,,-6550273,00.html>
Aussie WW1 records online
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
But amateur historians could be in for a shock – alongside records
showing glorious feats in wartime, the files also include documents
showing disciplinary ...
<http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,21540196-5006009,00.
html>
Congressional investigators probe why White House aides used GOP ...
USA Today - USA
Stanzel said some e-mails have been lost because the White House lacked
clear policies on complying with Presidential Records Act requirements.
...
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-04-11-white-house-email-pro
be_N.htm>
SLA Selects Cadence Group to Present at 2007 Annual Conference
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 11, 2007 -- Cadence Group®, an information
and records management services firm based in Atlanta, is pleased to
announce that it
...<http://www.prweb.com/releases/2007/4/prweb515690.htm>
AIIM Survey Says Document Management Booming
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
April 12, 2007: According to a new UK survey, the number of companies
implementing document and records management systems has doubled in two
years. ...<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8272>
US Government Agencies Facing Records Management Rules Need ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Government agencies have been faced with the difficult challenge of
ensuring enterprise-wide consistency in records management as a result
of the Federal ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0
4-11-2007/0004563386&EDATE=>
No forgetting: online archive shines light on Anzacs
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Light relief … John Howard examines a photo wall at the National
Archives in Canberra yesterday, after opening an online archive of
World War I records. ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/no-forgetting-online-archive-shines-
light-on-anzacs/2007/04/11/1175971183227.html>
The Offer, Part Six
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
... by touting the involvement of Peter Pierce, former CEO of Pierce
Leahy, a records storage giant that had merged with Iron Mountain
(NYSE:IRM) in 2000. ...
<http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070401/column-brodsky.html>
New Bush library garners SMU ire
UW Badger Herald - Madison,WI,USA
President Bush’s proposed presidential library complex at Southern
Methodist University was met with outcry this week from university
faculty members. ...
<http://badgerherald.com/news/2007/04/11/new_bush_library_gar.php>
State trying to buy private collection of Lincoln memorabilia
WLOS - Asheville,NC,USA
The collection by renowned Lincoln collector Louise Taper would be
displayed at the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in
Springfield. ...
<http://www.wlos.com/template/inews_wire/wires.national/27116449-www.wlos
.com.shtml>
Laura Ashley raids its archive for new collection
Independent - London,England,UK
A company spokeswoman, Liz Owen, said: "These are completely, 100 per
cent, taken from our archive. It fits in with the vintage look that is
so popular now ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2441992.ece>
The heist of the century
Independent - London,England,UK
The computer records indicated that the pair never bothered to venture
to the third-floor galleries where the prized Titian, the Raphaels, and
countless ...<http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2439766.ece>
World Bank Launches Probe Into Leak of Confidential Documents to ...
FOX News - USA
WASHINGTON — The World Bank has appointed a high-profile Washington law
firm to investigate the disclosure of confidential documents and
e-mails leaked to
...<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265200,00.html>
European businesses 'risk consequences' of unattended confidential ...
CartridgeMonkey.com - Bolton,Lancashire,UK
The survey found the UK to be the least printer-security aware, with 71
per cent of respondents either leaving or finding confidential
documents left in the ...
<http://www.cartridgemonkey.com/news/small-business/european-businesses-r
isk-consequences-of-unattended-confidential-data-18113975>
AMD doubts Intel can deliver important e-mails for a fair case
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA
According to Intel officials however, complicated corporate
restructuring lead to an oversight in data retention, and there was no
foul play involved. ...
<http://www.dailytech.com/Court+Orders+Intel+to+Cough+Up+Destroyed+Antitr
ust+Evidence/article6854c.htm>
Border law is more than 350 years old, and often ignored, but ...
Eagle Tribune - North Andover,MA,USA
But towns like Salem, which make an effort to perambulate according to
the law, are rare, according to Brian Nelson Burford, records manager
at the New ...
<http://www.eagletribune.com/nhnews/local_story_101093824?keyword=seconda
rystory>
National Archives selects ScotlandOnline for online census project
ComputerworldUK - UK
The National Archives has selected ScotlandOnline as its partner in a
project to put the 1911 census for England and Wales online. ...
<http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/online/e-business/news/index.c
fm?newsid=2532>
Local grad key to busting Archives thief
The Gloucester County Times - Woodbury,NJ,USA
... the sale of pilfered documents from the National Archives on eBay
earned his history degree more than three decades ago right here in
Gloucester County. ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/gloucester/local/index.ssf?/base/news-6/117627543
1254710.xml&coll=8>
Masterpiece that fell victim to Stalin finds US audience
Independent - London,England,UK
The story of the lost Boris Godunov and how the work made its way from
a long-closed Russian state archive to an Ivy League campus in America,
begins in the ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2441993.ece>
Wal-Mart late-night court order based on Ark. trade-secrets laws
Daily Report - Atlanta,GA,USA
(AP) — Arkansas legal rules intended to protect trade secrets from
imminent disclosure were the basis for a rare late-night court order
obtained by Wal-Mart ...
<http://www.dailyreportonline.com/Editorial/News/new_singleEdit.asp?indiv
idual_SQL=4%2F11%2F2007%4014581_Public_.htm>
Officials' e-mail may be missing, White House says
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Loss of the e-mail files would create a potential legal problem for the
Bush White House: compliance with the Presidential Records Act, which
was passed in ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-emails12apr12,0,480
0585.story?coll=la-home-headlines>
‘Discover Your Roots’ project kicks off
Hindustan Times - New Delhi,Delhi,India
“When the project was launched, the department collected data of around
10000 people from the UP State Archives who were sent to Mauritius,
Fiji and Surinam ...
<http://www.hindustantimes.com/Redir.aspx?ID=99e4d515-ebb6-4e58-9c04-18b7
db7680aa>
Bush Aides' Use of GOP E-Mail Probed
Town Hall - Washington,DC,USA
The White House has now shut off employees' ability to delete e-mails
on the separate accounts, and is briefing staffers on how to better
make ...
<http://www.townhall.com/News/NewsArticle.aspx?contentGUID=cb473bdf-b49e-
49e5-9c7a-a6749b76026f>
KUAM
MARC completes mass digitization of historical documents
<http://www.kuam.com/news/21937.aspx>
Wall St Journal
White House Says Emails Were Erased
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117634576801367330-email.html>
Preservationists Take Aim in Court At Open Records Law
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
... attacks of September 11, 2001, federal and state agencies have also
more strictly limited which documents they will release under
open-records laws. ...<http://www.nysun.com/article/52328>
Truckload of Cairo records destroyed
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
... who is seeking election to the councilman-at-large seat, said
council members should have been notified of the proposed destruction
of records. ...<http://www.semissourian.com/story/1198069.html>
The fine art of data destruction
techworld.nl - Haarlem,Noord Holland,Netherlands
Fauquier Bank maintains a strict policy about protecting and
restricting access to its sensitive bank and customer records, says
Josh Brown, ...
<http://www.techworld.nl/idgns/2924/the-fine-art-of-data-destruction.html
>
Canada: Your Electronic Documents Are Producible In Litigation ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
All records that describe policies on document retention, back-up,
archiving and destruction should be preserved. The obligation to
implement a "litigation ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=47618&searchresults=1>
Survivors, legislators take on archives, insurance claims
New Jersey Jewish Standard - Teaneck,NJ,USA
Thus, two separate issues — the opening of the Bad Arolsen archives and
the quest to recover unpaid insurance claims — have been joined into a
single cause ...
<http://www.jstandard.com/articles/2536/1/Survivors,-legislators-take-on-
archives,-insurance-claims>
From 2 kilometres of shelving to ½ a petabyte: The National ...
eGov monitor - London,UK
The National Archives is delighted to announce that ScotlandOnline will
partner the UK government’s official archive in the forthcoming project
to put the ...<http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/10335>
Retired School Teacher Wants Archives Left in Town
CD98.9 - Simcoe,Canada
A retired school teacher is trying to get Norfolk County to keep
Waterford archives in the town. The county is leaning towards moving
the archives to the
...<http://www.cd989.com/modules/news/article.php?storyid=8300>
AZ bill keeps SS numbers off Internet
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
Online documents typically found on recorder sites include house deeds,
court proceedings, liens and death certificates. Many include Social
Security ...<http://www.azstarnet.com/metro/178045>
Architectural firm switches online data backup service providers
Search Storage - USA
... Time-Warner Cable Co. At the time, Ladd praised the service as an
alternative to weekly drives to an offsite vault for tapes and daily
wrestling with
...<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci
1251211,00.html>
Archiving old e-mail a compliance and legal issue
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... in the filing cabinet," says Jennifer Dolman, a partner at Osler
Hoskins & Harcourt in Toronto who advises companies on electronic
document retention. ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20070412.TWARCHIVE12/TP
Story/Business>
Washington Post
Countless White House E-Mails Deleted
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, April 12, 2007; 11:24 AM
Countless e-mails to and from many key White House staffers have been
deleted -- lost to history and placed out of reach of congressional
subpoenas -- due to a brazen violation of internal White House policy
that was allowed to continue for more than six years, the White House
acknowledged yesterday.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/04/12/BL200704120
0941.html?referrer=emailarticle>
Erewash gets electronic document & records management to improve ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
Erewash Borough Council is to reduce the cost and physical storage
space requirements of its paper documents and files with the
introduction of anEDRM ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=ar
ticle&sid=8644&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0>
Information Week
Security Breaches Cost $90 To $305 Per Lost Record
Forrester Research surveyed 28 companies that had some type of data
breach and found it difficult to calculate the expenses that resulted.
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1990002
22>
Washington Post, Wed, 11 Apr 2007 0:31 AM PDT
FBI Gets Six Years for FOIA Request
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR2007041001701.html
The oldest reported Freedom of Information Act request in the federal
government resides at the Justice Department and is 18 years old -- or,
as the National Security Archive, a research group that tracks these
things, likes to say, "old enough to enlist in the Army and go to Iraq."
Arts Journal, Sun, 08 Apr 2007 7:05 PM PDT
Hubbard Street's Accidental Archivists
http://www.artsjournal.com/artsjournal1/2007/04/hubbard_streets.shtml
"Hubbard Street Dance Chicago ensemble members Cheryl Mann and Tobin
Del Cuore are well-known on-stage partners. But they've also carried
their playful chemistry into unusual backstage roles as the modern
troupe's archivists.
International Recognition of Digitisation Standard
Scoop.co.nz - New Zealand
“Our new standard setting out how state sector and local government
organisations should comply with legislative requirements in the Public
Records Act 2005 ...<http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PO0704/S00161.htm>
Public records placed online
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
TUMWATER — More than 25000 public records — some dating to the 1800s —
now are online, city staff said Wednesday. “The city operations are now
much more ...<http://www.theolympian.com/112/story/80244.html>
Ex Social Security Worker Charged With ID Theft
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Jennifer Batiste, 45, allegedly took $20 bribes each time she accessed
a government database that lists Social Security numbers, mothers'
maiden names and
...<http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_102161642.html>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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