RAIN 070626
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
When Public Records Are Too Public
Wall Street Journal - USA
Property deeds, marriage and divorce records, court files,
motor-vehicle information and tax documents are increasingly being
digitized, and contain a
...<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB118244819329943657-EcHS9eBxDr4
BMp_DrDmKoqdSNcE_20070724.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top>
Open Records Are an Established Tradition,
Wall Street Journal - USA
Open records are a longstanding American tradition; so too is a
hold-your-nose acceptance that commercial entities will try to make a
profit by exploiting
...<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118244819329943657.html?mod=googlenew
s_wsj>
Houston Pride Festival gives peek at history
By SARAH VIREN
Just past the hot-pink columns marking the entrance to Saturday's
Houston Pride Festival, beyond the stand for a woman painting portraits
on river rocks and through the throngs of young couples in rainbow
necklaces sat what has come to be known as "The History Tent."
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/headline/metro/4915069.html>
E-Discovery Program Helps Prep for Litigation
ExtremeNano - New York,NY,USA
Requests for electronic records for legal or audit purposes is forcing
many organizations to search current and historic electronic files,
...<http://www.extremenano.com/article/EDiscovery+Program+Helps+Prep+for+
Litigation/210302_1.aspx>
Open records training needed for front-line workers, survey shows
News Journal - Longview,TX,USA
Responses to an open records request sometimes varied greatly even
within the same government entity. At Trinity Valley Community College
in Athens, ...
<http://www.news-journal.com/news/content/news/stories/06242007_foi_surve
y.html>
Agency e-mail records need help
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
"Agency staff members sitting at their terminals need to be trained in
records management," Brewer said. "For those e-mails that fit the
definition of a ...<http://www.fcw.com/article103086-06-25-07-Print>
Iron Mountain Augments Records Management with Accutrac
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
The deal will provide a strong boost to Iron Mountain's records
management capabilities, with Accurtac's XE software providing a
central system for ...<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8563>
Privacy Spat Could Shut German Gmail
BusinessWeek - USA
The law is Germany's interpretation of EU data-retention rules. If
passed later this year by German parliament -- by no means a sure bet
-- it would require ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/globalbiz/content/jun2007/gb20070625_311323.
htm?chan=globalbiz_europe+index+page_top+stories>
Mher Mkrtchian's archive returned to Armenia
Yerkir - Yerevan,Armenia
In 1994 the Terterians left for Argentina and Nune took Mher
Mkrtchian's archive and memoirs with her. Irina Terterian was nine
years old at that time. ...
<http://www.yerkir.am/eng/index.php?sub=newspaper_arm&exp=culture&month=0
6&year=2007&number=22&id=8262>
GWU library to house Gay Men's Chorus of DC archives
Washington Blade - Washington,DC,USA
The archives include Board of Directors' minutes and official
documentation, financial and tax statements, publications, performance
and promotional
...<http://www.washblade.com/thelatest/thelatest.cfm?blog_id=13189>
Pile historian's plate high with more than Rochester archives
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle - Rochester,NY,USA
... the city's 2007-08 budget to create an advisory committee to be
chaired by the retiring New York State Archives chief of governmental
records services. ...
<http://www.democratandchronicle.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070625/
OPINION02/706250311/1039/OPINION>
Review of government records completed
Sioux City Journal - Sioux City,IA,USA
The review involved thousands of state, school district, municipal and
county records to determine which ones are open to the public,
confidential or ...
<http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/articles/2007/06/25/news/south_dakota/ee
fbe6a6440dd8d486257305000e004a.txt>
Bush Library Architect Selection Begins
Architectural Record - USA
by David Dillon It's getting to be legacy time for President George W.
Bush and, among other things, that means building a presidential
library--which,
...<http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/070625bush.asp
>
Personal computerized data stolen from 2nd state employee
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
The Social Security numbers and other nonpublic information of 439
people was on the work laptop stolen May 30 from the home of an auditor
for the Ohio
...<http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17417860.htm>
Why Rove's political e-mails matter
Detroit Free Press - United States
This is in addition to their official White House e-mail accounts.
Here's why it matters. If Rove & Co. are spending a majority of their
time engaging in ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070626/OPINION01/70626
0330/1069>
Museum workers find 'writing on the wall'
Cayman Net News - grand cayman,Cayman Islands
We will be working along with conservators, the National Archive, and
others to ensure the environmental conditions are right to protect this
find.
...<http://www.caymannetnews.com/cgi-script/csArticles/articles/000159/01
5997.htm>
Thompson Demands Wal-Mart Records
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
Let's open up the files and let an external set of eyes look at it,"
Mr. Atwood said. The Illinois state fund has total assets of $12.6
billion. ... <http://www.nysun.com/article/57349>
Ingmar Bergman's archives given world heritage status
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
'It is with great joy and pride that The Ingmar Bergman Foundation has
received the news that Bergman's archives have been included in the
Memory of the ...
<http://movies.monstersandcritics.com/features/article_1322770.php/Ingmar
_Bergmans_archives_given_world_heritage_status>
Commission discusses file storage, scanning
Leavenworth Times - Leavenworth,KS,USA
Commissioner Clyde Graeber voiced his concern about files that are not
public record. A court representative said the court can seal documents
and allow
...<http://www.leavenworthtimes.com/articles/2007/06/26/news/news06.txt>
Key trial evidence goes missing
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Even the inadvertent loss or destruction of evidence may be punished by
the courts because it can deprive the other side of a chance to prove
its case. ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-haul26jun26,1,75967
76.story?coll=la-headlines-nation&track=crosspromo>
Libraries Struggle to Preserve the Past
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
"County records may not mean that much to somebody in Washington, DC,
buteverybody's interested in their genealogy," she said. "Those kinds
of records are ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/06/26/entertainmen
t/e132622D24.DTL>
Lincoln Library Acquires Significant Collection Of Lincoln Artifacts
Antiques and Arts Weekly - Newtown,CT,USA
:The Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has acquired the
Taper collection of more than 1500 artifacts, manuscripts and artworks
that span
...<http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/TradeTalk/2007-06-26__08-59-36
.html>
Iron Mountain Acquires Accutrac Software, Inc.
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... Inc. Accutrac(R) Software supports compliance with flexible and
scaleable records management systems and RIM professional services to
help organizations ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0
6-25-2007/0004614515&EDATE=>
Germany's Armed Forces accidentally deletes data
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
When the data was then put onto the new device, the officials found
that "some of the tape cassettes in the data storage robot were no
longer readable. ...<http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/91736>
Iron Mountain buys Accutrac for records management
Search Storage – USA
Iron Mountain is far from alone among storage companies responding to
the need for better records management in light of e-discovery and data
compliance
...<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci
1262327,00.html>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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