RAIN 070508
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Steppenwolf's archivist
Signandsight.com - Berlin,Germany
Roman Bucheli visits Volker Michels at his Hermann Hesse archive, the 
"most functional" documentation centre on one of Germany's best selling 
authors...<http://www.signandsight.com/features/1332.html>

Feds fail to archive ethnic poll results
Canoe.ca - Canada
By CP. OTTAWA -- While the Conservatives lead an investigation into 
polling commissioned by previous governments, the prime minister's own 
department failed ...
<http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/National/2007/05/07/4159871-sun.html>

Government Computer News, Mon, 07 May 2007 9:04 AM PDT
Begins testing automated management system
http://www.gcn.com/print/26_10/44208-1.html
The Government Printing Office is ready to test the ambitious Future 
digital System, a content management system designed to handle the many 
documents GPO publishes and posts for the rest of government.

Is Sun failing with StorageTek?
Techworld.com - London,UK
EMC had stolen its information lifecycle management (ILM) message and 
was marketing itself as the ILM company more effectively than 
StorageTek. ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3353&pagty
pe=all>

Blame for record-breaking credit card data theft laid at the feet ...
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
After both the CardSystems data theft and another 2005 incident 
involving data services company ChoicePoint, politicians began making 
noise about enacting ...
<http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070506-blame-for-record-breaking-
credit-card-data-theft-laid-at-the-feet-of-wep.html>

Republican-Herald
County to buy storage facility
<http://www.republicanherald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18304485&BRD=2626&P
AG=461&dept_id=532624&rfi=6>

San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
The constitution -- carefully written out by a scribe in English and 
Spanish -- is stored in a vault in the State Archive in Sacramento (to 
view an image, ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2007/0
5/07/EDGGTP3CT41.DTL>

Drug Patent Piracy
Wall Street Journal - USA
That is what intellectual property rights -- patents, trademarks, 
copyrights, trade secrets -- protect. Unfortunately, public debates on 
IP rights are ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117848783971893782.html?mod=googlenews_w
sj>

Discovering e-discovery: How information security pros should prepare
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
This line of thought takes into account the fact that data is 
reproducible; there are always at least two copies of an email (sender 
and receiver), ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid14_gci1253827,00.ht
ml>

Data classification is first step in successful data protection
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
Data retention policy is based on the industry in which the enterprise 
operates, its associated regulations and legal requirements. Related to 
retention is ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid14_gci1252535,00.ht
ml>

US tax agency wants data on users from internet firms
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
"Such data retention proposals would force the creation of massive, 
privately maintained databases of personally identifiable data that 
government ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/CBA0309D33A1C904CC2572D40072223
2>

The sooner the govt does away with paper titles, the better
East African - Nairobi,Kenya
The above situation is becoming increasingly common in and around 
Kampala, where it is said that hundreds of land title deeds are forged 
every week. ...
<http://www.nationmedia.com/eastafrican/current/Opinion/opinion07050711.h
tm>

Circuit Rider Archivist Consultation Grants Awarded to 52 Georgia ...
Duluth Weekly - Duluth,GA,USA
ATLANTA —Secretary of State Karen Handel today announced that the 
Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board (GHRAB) has awarded Circuit 
Rider Archivist ...
<http://www.theweekly.com/news/2007/May/07/Consultation_Grants.html>

Cutting Files Down to Size
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... estimates it has amassed 1250 terabytes of corporate office data 
such as emails, word-processing documents, spreadsheets, photos and 
video files. ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117858327214895176.html?mod=googlenews_w
sj>

Rep. Kirk fights to open Holocaust archives in Germany
Jewish United Fund - Chicago,IL,USA
The files have been used since the 1950s to help determine the fate of 
people who disappeared during the Third Reich and, later, to validate 
claims for 
...<http://www.juf.org/news_public_affairs/article.asp?key=8003>

TSA suffers data loss; lawmakers watch closely
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
In the most recently reported data breach last month, the Agriculture 
Department became aware it had inadvertently made public the Social 
Security numbers ... <http://www.fcw.com/article102653-05-07-07-Web>

Running for IP Cover
eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA
Protecting PII(personally identifiable information) such as credit card 
numbers and Social Security numbers is not actually the top priority 
with most ...<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2126683,00.asp>

Texas AG sues pawn shop chain for dumping customers' records
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
... that the company has strong privacy policies such as a "paperless" 
document system, written document retention policies and regular store 
audits. ...<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4786031.html>

Author finds possible Lincoln letter in Ky. state archives
Fort Wayne News Sentinel - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
The court files include records involving Thomas Lincoln, the 
president's great uncle, and several probate cases involving Mary Todd 
Lincoln's family, 
...<http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/news/local/17196146.htm>

New law means agencies must get file systems in order
Cayman Net News - grand cayman,Cayman Islands
It also calls for the National Archivist to issue record-keeping 
standards and to inspect files and the manner in which they are stored. 
...<http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000143/01
4380.htm>

Department of Homeland Security personal data on 100000 staff goes ...
ComputerworldUK - UK
The data included names, Social Security numbers, dates of birth, 
payroll information, bank account numbers, and routing information for 
direct deposit of 
...<http://www.computerworlduk.com/management/government-law/public-secto
r/news/index.cfm?newsid=2918>

Grave robbery: Stop identity theft of the dead
MSNBC - USA
These thieves look through obituaries for names and addresses and then 
buy their Social Security numbers on the internet. In part three of a 
special TODAY ...<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18495531/>

Hackers hit university’s staff records
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
A recent attack on the University of Missouri system computer database 
allowed overseas intruders to retrieve 22396 names and Social Security 
numbers of 
...<http://www.columbiatribune.com/2007/May/20070508News010.asp>

State Data with Social Security Numbers Misplaced for 2 Weeks
KCBD-TV - Lubbock,TX,USA
Nine million state records containing Social Security numbers and other 
sensitive data used to verify Medicaid claims went missing for more 
than two weeks. 
...<http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=6486997&nav=3w6y>

History is in the telling by ordinary folk
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Just before Dorothy Sheridan, the MO archivist, revived the project, I 
rummaged among the files and cardboard boxes after an elderly friend 
tipped me off 
...<http://society.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2074915,00.html>

Gittings-Lahusen archives to be housed at NY Public Library
The Advocate - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The collection will remain at the Humanities and Social Sciences 
Library's Manuscripts and Archives Division on Fifth Avenue and 42nd 
Street in Manhattan. 
...<http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid45125.asp>

Archive Will Document Life In NI Prisons
University of Ulster Online - Coleraine,UK
Cahal McLaughlin, a Senior Lecturer in Media Studies, wants to create 
an archive of memories, stories and experiences of those who inhabited 
and worked in ...<http://news.ulster.ac.uk/releases/2007/3177.html>

East London launches theatre archive
Stage - London,London,UK
Hackney Empire, Theatre Royal Stratford East and Wilton’s Music Hall 
are teaming up with the University of East London to create a digital 
archive....
<http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/16760/east-london-launches-
theatre-archive>

University of Pennsylvania archive offers poetry for download
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Recordings of the poets' works are available to the public through 
downloads on PennSound, an online audio archive developed by professors 
at the University ...
<http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/95-05082007-1343174.html>

Utah State to archive Latino oral histories
KIFI - Idaho Falls,ID,USA
LOGAN, Utah Utah State University will archive the stories of Latino 
residents as part of a program collecting oral histories from northern 
Utah residents. 
...<http://www.localnews8.com/Global/story.asp?S=6485940>

Brits set for email archive
BCS - Swindon,UK
The British Library and technology giant Microsoft have joined forces 
in an effort to create the first ever email archive for the UK. ... 
<http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conWebDoc.11489>


Myth of the universal library
San Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco,CA,USA
The problem, as film archivist Rick Prelinger pointed out, is that the 
Gaumont Pathé project, like many of its kind, has had to pick and 
choose which films ...
<http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=3594&catid=4&volume_id=254&issue_
id=294&volume_num=41&issue_num=32>




Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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