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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Companies Scramble to Archive E-mail
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
July 23, 2007 (Computerworld) -- Regulatory and legal issues are
forcing IT managers to create costly e-mail storage and archival
systems as electronic...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=compliance&articleId=298885&taxonomyId=152&intsrc=kc_top>
PRESERVATION: Albion receives grant to transfer paper documents to ...
Journal-Register - Medina,NY,USA
The town received a previous grant from the Records Management
Improvement
Fund in 2000 worth $12658, which was used to organize the vault,
Basinait
said. ...
<http://www.journal-register.com/local/local_story_204002341.html>
Gehry Seeks Multimillions for Archive
Gothamist - NY,USA
Gehry's archive includes 30000 square feet of models, a slide library, a
digital archive and 5000-plus drawings, what someone called a "beast.
...
<http://gothamist.com/2007/07/23/gehry_seeks_mul.php>
Building an Accelerated Archive
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By Gary Orenstein Storing and serving rapidly growing reservoirs of
digital
content presents significant challenges, not only in terms of storing
the
data, ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2365&Itemi
d=44>
Of Permanent Value: Archiving The Web
Search Engine Land - Redding,CT,USA
Many people know about The Internet Archive, based at the Presidio in
San
Francisco and home to The Wayback Machine. But many people aren't aware
of
...
<http://searchengineland.com/070723-144639.php>
Wartime messages, memories resurrected
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
Shortly after the war, the Indiana Historical Bureau requested the
letters
to add to the Indiana State Library collections. But Dorsey declined,
saying he ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070723/NEWS0
2/707230420>
When Asked, Ask to Stop Data Retention
ABC News - USA
AP By ANICK JESDANUN AP Internet Writer Ask.com became the first major
search engine to promise users it won't store data on their queries, ...
<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3398459>
ARTS / ART & DESIGN | July 23, 2007
For Architects, Personal Archives as Gold Mines
By ROBIN POGREBIN
A small but influential number of celebrity architects are considering
selling their archives as they continue to work.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/23/arts/design/23arch.html?ex=1185854400&
en=581fc75903ae700a&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
Developers of Free Archival Software Enlist a Foundation's Help
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
By ANDREA L. FOSTER A foundering project to promote free digital
archives
of scholarship is getting new life, as a nonprofit foundation will pump
in
more ...
<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i47/47a02702.htm>
Note found in Cheshire may be historical find
New Haven Register (subscription) - New Haven,CT,USA
Ron Gagliardi, the town historian and a member of the Cheshire
Historical
Society's board of directors, said the five-line note bearing Sherman's
signature ...
<http://www.nhregister.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18616304&BRD=1281&PAG=461
&dept_id=517514&rfi=6>
Social Security numbers exposed on state Web site
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
Burton said the office began in 2005 to remove Social Security numbers
from
newly filed public documents, such as corporation filings, trademarks or
federal ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8QG6VOO0.html
>
Texas Not Hiding Data Under Its Hat
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
But, he added, residents whose Social Security numbers are posted in
documents on SOSDirect need to contact the secretary of state in order
to
have them ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=networking_and_internet&articleId=299233&taxonomyId=16>
EDITORIALS>>Huck's computers
Arkansas Leader - Jacksonville,AR,USA
It would be presumptuous indeed for the attorney general - or the former
governor - to suggest that the destruction of records of public acts and
equipment ...
<http://www.arkansasleader.com/2007/07/editorialshucks-computers.html>
Genealogist tries to preserve county records
Dateline Alabama - Birmingham,AL,USA
And that's why she became quite livid when she found out the records
were
falling apart and slated for destruction. Hunnicutt, 41, found the
records
while ...
<http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20070723/NEWS/707230321/1007/datel
ine&cachetime=3&template=dateline>
State libraries must work to thwart thieves
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
Security is generally good at major institutions such as Dartmouth, the
University of New Hampshire and the state archives. Elsewhere, who
knows?
...
<http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070723/REPOSI
TORY/707230302>
Holocaust center gets Kasztner archives
Houston Chronicle - United States
In a ceremony on Sunday, Yad Vashem, Israel's official Holocaust
memorial
and research center, received Rudolf (Israel) Kazstner's private
archives,
...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/world/4989856.html>
Federal Judge Clears Law Firm Accused of Hacking Opponents' Web ...
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Although the archived pages were supposed to be shielded from public
view,
the protections failed and lawyers at Harding Earley Follmer & Frailey
in
Valley ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1185181604443>
Calumet Regional Archives and three IUN professors preserve NWI ...
Gary Post Tribune - Gary,IN,USA
They met in the Calumet Regional Archives, deep in a cave at the top of
a
man-made, concrete mountain known as the Indiana University Northwest
library. ...
<http://www.post-trib.com/news/vertrees/479938,vertrees.article>
Baylor told to talk on library
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
By DEREK KRAVITZ / The Dallas Morning News Baylor University must
respond
to questions about potential plans for the George W. Bush Presidential
Library, ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/07240
7dnmetbushlibrary.2d8f6a5.html>
Barnwell law office loses records in fire
WRDW-TV - Augusta,GA,USA
... knew these files and they knew these people. So we'll just have to
work
through that," Rice said. So, what happens if all of the records are
destroyed? ...
<http://www.wrdw.com/news/headlines/8669662.html>
Log management in the age of compliance
Techworld.com - London,UK
While many criticise FISMA for being all documentation and no action,
the
law simply emphasises the need for each US federal agency to develop,
document and ...
<http://www.techworld.com/networking/features/index.cfm?featureID=3549&pa
gtype=all>
The Future of Information Retrieval
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
By Nathan Statz July 24th, 2007: Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation
at
the National Archives and Records Administration in the United States
has
called ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8648>
Personal e-mail on public computers not always public
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Arlington,VA,USA
It went on to adopt a content-driven analysis to determine whether
e-mail
messages on public computers count as public records and sent the case
back
to the ...
<http://www.rcfp.org/news/2007/0723-foi-person.html>
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Survey: One fourth of firms have fired e-mail violators
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07205/803842-28.stm>
Wall St Journal
Instant Messaging Invades the Office
Companies Say It Spurs Broader Collaboration -- And Scares Some Bosses
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118523443717075546-email.html>
Grant safeguards Easton records
Connecticut Post - Bridgeport,CT,USA
The old documents, including original land deeds from the early Colonial
period, have been digitally replicated and are accessible by pushing a
button on a ...
<http://www.connpost.com/localnews/ci_6447433>
Clerk is honored for records work
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... the staff at the clerk's office has microfilmed about 2 million
pages
of civil documents from 1790 to 1982; uploaded 3.5 million pages of
deeds
and ...
<http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=608545&category=SARAT
OGA&BCCode=&newsdate=7/24/2007>
Grave moment honours man who collected history of a nation
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Mitchell bequeathed his collection of 40000 books, manuscripts, maps and
pictures and £70000 to the State Library of NSW in 1907, but only if the
government ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/grave-moment-honours-man-who-collect
ed-history-of-a-nation/2007/07/24/1185043117261.html>
Moving Away From Social Security Numbers
Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA
In late March, a University of California at San Francisco server that
stored the names, contact information and Social Security numbers of
about
3000 ...
<http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/07/24/idnumbers>
Archives released of Jew honored, vilified for negotiating with Nazis
USA Today - USA
By Aron Heller, AP Writer JERUSALEM -- Relatives of one of the most
contentious Jewish figures from the Holocaust era are hoping that
archives
they turned ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-07-22-hungarian-holocaust_N.htm>
Baseball Hall of Fame on deck for archive format change?
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
"But there is a game of roulette as you see these [data storage] formats
cycling through. You wonder 'when do I jump on this merry go round
that's
always ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=hardware&articleId=9027849&taxonomyId=149&intsrc=kc_top>
Area data under wraps
News-Herald.com - Willoughby,OH,USA
A flash drive essentially is a small, lightweight, removable data
storage
device that can be plugged in for use on most computers. ...
<http://www.news-herald.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18614256&BRD=1698&PAG=46
1&dept_id=21849&rfi=6>
Auditors can't find VA computer gear
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... said the report raises fresh questions about the security of the
agency's information, including sensitive medical records and Social
Security numbers. ...
<http://www.newsobserver.com/1573/story/648040.html>
Mid Beds. Council roles out Electronic Document & Records Management
PublicTechnology.net - UK
Mid Bedfordshire District Council has completed the installation of the
Open Text Livelink ECM Electronic Document and Records Management
(EDRMS)
solution ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=ar
ticle&sid=10470
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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