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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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Belleville News-Democrat, Sun, 01 Apr 2007 1:14 AM PDT
Sleuthing librarians
<<http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/17010106.htm?source
=rss&channel=belleville_local>>
Move over, Jessica Fletcher. Librarians at Madison County Historical
Museum and Archival Library in Edwardsville do just as much sleuthing
as the amateur detective in "Murder, She Wrote."
Grains of truth: Wheat Board among agencies bracing for info requests
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Under the access law, Canadians who pay $5 can ask for government files
ranging from audits and expense records to briefing papers and
correspondence.
...<http://www.canada.com/topics/news/agriculture/story.html?id=aed676b8-
a3bb-424d-9e35-39fa34c2df82&k=48822>
Maine's history and artifacts should not be relegated to second ...
Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA
Again, by way of illustration, many records and documents stored at the
State Library, Museum, and Archives hold vital information. ...
<http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/columns/3762468.html>
Who's guarding your data in the cybervault?
USA Today - USA
It also exited the highly profitable business of selling Social
Security numbers, birth dates and driver's license numbers to private
detectives, ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/infotheft/2007-04-01-
choicepoint_N.htm>
Fourth Amendment.com
Failure to timely assert attorney-client privilege after a search
warrant may constitute waiver
<<http://fourthamendment.com/blog/index.php?blog=1&title=failure_to_timel
y_assert_attorney_client&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1>>
New York Times
ARTS / ARTS SPECIAL | March 28, 2007
One Picture, 1,000 Tags
By PAMELA LiCALZI O’CONNELL
Museums are encouraging the public to annotate their online collections
by supplying descriptive tags, creating a new shared vocabulary.
<<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28social.html?ex=117
6177600&en=dba94eda237aff30&ei=5070&emc=eta1>>
Daily Telegraph, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 1:08 PM PDT
Paper-chase around Britain
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/03/24/nosplit/etwallpaper124.xml
Snippets of mass-produced wallpaper evoke memories more effectively
than perhaps any other museum exhibit, says Sophie Campbell.
The Globe Gazette, Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:10 PM PDT
North Iowa's Signature Collection
http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2007/04/01/local/doc460efd544c818230286979.txt
For a link to a slideshow of autographs from the MacNider collection at
the Mason City Public Library, please click here.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:46 PM PDT
College yearbooks are so old-school
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/855A5D478A1A3C93862572B100126BC6?OpenDocument
In a glass-walled room of the St. Louis University library where pens
are not allowed to be used, assistant university archivist Randy
McGuire flips through one of the few surviving copies of the first
issue of the student
yearbook, The Archive.
York Daily Record, Mon, 02 Apr 2007 3:23 AM PDT
Records give way to hidden history
http://www.ydr.com/redlion/ci_5575407
Official: Pennsylvania State Archives has thousands of records
revealing pieces of York County history. Apr 2, 2007 ? David Hively has
had success in researching his family tree.
Mother Jones
The Emails the White House Doesn't Want You to See
The U.S Attorney firings provide more evidence of the Bush
administration avoiding its own email system (and accountability,
posterity, prosecution).
<<
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/03/white_house_emails.html>>
'Persistent' Bakken has nurtured a strong foundation for good
Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA
... Jackie, to become an archivist at Cornell University. From there he
entered the private sector, becoming administrator of archives for
Anheuser-Busch ...
<http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070402/NEWS01/7
04020321/1002>
Executive Q&A: IBM's Paul Brown
Computer Business Review - UK
Availability protects against accidental or intentional removal of
data, the electronic equivalent of illegally shredding documents. ...
<http://www.cbronline.com/article_cbr.asp?guid=4E73245A-DC2C-4FAF-B909-49
A5135E81C6>
Steps you can take to protect your privacy on the Web
Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA
There are also commercial programs like Evidence Neutralizer
(www.evidenceneutralizer.com) that will do this for you, electronically
shredding little ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070402/COL11/704020309
/1011/BUSINESS
Rights of Passage
Bank Technology News - USA
... shredding and expiration capabilities to meet regulatory compliance
and corporate business rules on document retention. Files and e-mails
that otherwise
.<http://www.banktechnews.com/article.html?id=20070327W63NML9J>
Texas AG sues RadioShack
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Schmidt added that the store in Portland is part of a shredding program
the company has in place for the secure disposal and destruction of
sensitive
<http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2007/04/02/daily9.html?jst=b_l
n_hl>
Canada: The Duties Of Departing Employees: Are They On The Move?
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
Clearly, an employee has duties to a present employer not to divulge
trade secrets or to work against the interests of his or her employer
but the duty is ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=47174&searchresults=1>
Another Pants Check
Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA
He later admitted to stuffing his clothes with classified documents and
leaving the building with them. He also admitted he destroyed a
document that was ...
<http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&statu
s=article&id=260406272896592>
Uncle Sam's Secrets
GovExec.com - Wahington,DC,USA
In 2000, the FBI provided 1284 unaltered documents in response to FOIA
requests. In 2006, only 56 such documents were released.
...<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0407/040207ol.htm>
Iron Mountain storage and archiving for email - good combination
IT Directors - USA
Iron Mountain Incorporated recently introduced its Active Archiving
Service for Email, a comprehensive solution for managing email storage,
retention, ...
<http://www.it-director.com/business/content.php?cid=9392>
Google becomes the first to limit retention of full search data
IBLS INTERNET LAW (subscription) - Irvine,CA,USA
The company also wants to abide to data retention requirements. In
Europe, these requirements limit retention to periods of not less than
six months and not ...
<http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1
716>
Eat It, New Yorker! Harper's Puts 157-Year Archive Online
mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA
The archive, available free to the magazine's subscribers, includes a
quarter-million scanned pages available as PDFs from the magazine,
starting with ...
<http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/eat_it_new_yorker_harper
s_puts_157year_archive_online_56168.asp>
Big increase in users of new archive study centre
Blyth Wansbeck Today - Whitley Bay,England,UK
HISTORY hunters have kept staff busy after the opening of a 21st
century archives centre in Northumberland. Archives experts from
Northumberland County ...
<http://www.blyth-wansbecktoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1115&Ar
ticleID=2219230>
Redaction of Social Security numbers not mandatory
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Arlington,VA,USA
A new Texas law clarifies that government officials are not liable for
the release of Social Security numbers in public documents. ...
<http://www.rcfp.org/news/2007/0402-foi-redact.html>
County clerks not responsible for the release of social security ...
KCEN-TV - Eddy,TX,USA
State lawmakers ruled county clerks aren't responsible for the release
of social security numbers on public documents. ...
<http://www.kcentv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=1&nid=12571>
Texas Gov. signs law that exempts clerks from privacy laws
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Perry's approval put an end -- at least temporarily -- to a controversy
involving the distribution of public documents containing personal
data, ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=government&articleId=9015318&taxonomyId=13&intsrc=kc_top>
Historical society's vault houses Ridgefield's past
Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA
Gary Singer, president of Ridgefield Historical Society, and Kay Ables,
town historian, review some of the archives in the vault at the
historical society’s
...<http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1041436>
American Indian deeds on new Web site
Gloucester Daily Times - Gloucester,MA,USA
Consequently, when the Registry of Deeds began updating its documents
about five years ago, they were startled to find a succession of
long-forgotten deeds, ...
<http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_092093904>
Librarian gets 11 months' jail for book theft
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
... New Zealand-Pacific librarian, was able to remove the books out of
a secure part of the library and then delete them from the library's
records. <http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4014940a12855.html>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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