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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Heritage groups have their say
Cambridge Times - Cambridge,Ontario,Canada
Comments made by the City Archives board, heritage committee, Heritage
Cambridge and Ontario Heritage Trust spurred Monday's split vote on the
conservation ...
<http://www.cambridgetimes.ca/cam/news/news_832483.html>
West Windsor archivist brings talent to the table
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
As founder and owner of The Archival Image, Dunkel has undertaken
projects
for the Archives for Historical Documentation, Boston City Archives, ...
<http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070715/BUSINES
S/70713010/1024/NEWS04>
When Vultures Rule - - Four
American Chronicle - Beverly Hills,CA,USA
Thus far, the Second Circuit Court "lost" 30 pounds of the woman's
paperwork but miraculously found it after she mentioned a Rule of
Spoliation tort suit ...
<http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=3227
8>
Corzine pressured on e-mails
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
But in March, after the union and Corzine had reached a labor agreement,
Republican State Committee Chairman Tom Wilson filed a records request
for
any ...
<http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZ
nYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3MTY5MjAwJnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==>
Moving Images: Digitzation for Access
O'Reilly Radar - Sebastopol,CA,USA
Nonetheless, digitization for access is a major cultural and mission
shift
for many archives, and access to archival moving images has
traditionally
been ...
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/07/moving_images_d.html>
Bureaucratic tape entangles couples trying to tie the knot
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
That law required counties to collect Social Security numbers for both
spouses, for possible use collecting future child support. ...
<http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1304352.html>
The data theft time bomb
CRN Australia - Australia
Last month, a backup computer storage device with the names and Social
Security numbers of every employee in the state of Ohio--more than 64000
records--was ...
<http://www.crn.com.au/story.aspx?CIID=86289&src=site-marq>
More data on stolen tape
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
Names, Social Security numbers and check amounts for more than 770000
taxpayers who had not yet cashed their state personal-income tax and/or
...
<http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007
/07/12/moredata.ART_ART_07-12-07_A1_0678TD9.html>
Archives curator helps salvage memories from flood
Lawrence Journal World - Lawrence,KS,USA
... years on the Pottawatomie Creek," said Day, who lives in Lane and is
the curator of the Baker University Archives in addition to other
historical work. ...
<http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2007/jul/15/archives_curator_helps_salvage_
memories_flood/>
Archivist helps flood's victims
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
AP "It came up faster and higher than I've ever seen in 40 years on the
Pottawatomie Creek." LANE, Kan. | As the curator of Baker University's
archives, ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/191289.html>
E-discovery, e-gov's latest flavor
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Electronic records are now as much a part of a case as paper records. As
storage capacity grows and becomes cheaper, the ability of systems to
maintain and ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article103230-07-16-07-Print>
Building leak puts church archives at risk
Anglican Journal - Toronto,ON,Canada
Four boxes of archival records sustained "minimal water damage" when a
spill from the mechanical room, housed above General Synod's archives
vaults at 80 ...
<http://www.anglicanjournal.com/100/article/building-leak-puts-church-arc
hives-at-risk/>
New allegations rock Hamilton
Times Online - UK
He is quoted only as saying he received the papers via an "express
courier" mail service. Stepney is the subject of a criminal
investigation
in Italy and ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/formula_1/article2080625.ece>
Vendor spends average of US$20M per lawsuit, exec says
ITBusiness.ca - Canada
by Kathleen Lau It's not difficult establishing the benefit of proper
records management, when a company such Microsoft Corp. spends an
average
of US$20 ...
<http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/CDN/News.asp?id=43236&cid=8>
Genealogy program eases collection of family data
Macworld - San Francisco,CA,USA
By Jeffery Battersby Pros: Integration with iCal and iPhoto; finds and
merges duplicate records; autosaves changes to data; supports audio and
video files; ...
<http://www.macworld.com/2007/07/reviews/heredis102/index.php>
Discrepancies plague 13 million tax records
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
The department aims to transfer taxpayer files from its Computerisation
of
PAYE (Cop) system to the newer National Insurance Recording (Nirs) 2
technology, ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/07/16/225582/discrepancies-p
lague-13-million-tax-records.htm>
Archivist logs all the trees its clients save
Guernsey Press and Star - Vale,Guernsey,UK
by Tom Bradshaw DATA storage and destruction business Archivist has
devised
a means of letting clients know how many trees they are saving with
their
...
<http://www.thisisguernsey.com/code/showbusinessarticle.pl?ArticleID=1130
86>
Boeing has been stung by a security lapse before
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... from $5 billion to $15 billion, court documents said. In its case
summary, prosecutors said that the files were not encrypted or
password-protected and ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/323910_boeingrice17.html>
Computer security faults put Boeing at risk
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
And two recent theft cases -- one involving documents that Boeing said
could have cost the company $5 billion to $15 billion -- underscore that
the ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/323923_boeing17.html>
How to insure your IT
Silicon.com - UK
And then there are people improperly shredding information and putting
it
in a dumpster for it to be blown down the alley." Greisiger adds that
customers ...
<http://www.silicon.com/research/specialreports/riskmanagement/0,38000139
89,39167862,00.htm>
Missing documents spur debate on public records
Brockton Enterprise - MA, United States
Further, all public documents n any pertinent correspondences between
officials n must be filed and can only be destroyed with permission from
the state ...
<http://enterprise.southofboston.com/articles/2007/07/17/news/news/news20
.txt>
Look ahead to history
Richmond and Twickenham Times - UK
By Natalie Fahy Kew's National Archives have announced pioneering plans
to
team up with Microsoft and preserve electronic documents for
generations to
come. ...
<http://www.richmondandtwickenhamtimes.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1
544597.0.look_ahead_to_history.php>
American Heritage Center Achieves Online Catalog Milestone
University of Wyoming News - Laramie,WY,USA
... the granting arm of the National Archives and Records
Administration),
the AHC developed a new approach to cataloging that has eliminated its
backlog ...
<http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=16183>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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