RAIN 070814
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Summer job opportunity or health hazard?
Staten Island Advance - SILive.com - Staten Island,NY,USA
... moving and setting up a historical museum; disposal of outdated
files
and records; shredding of outdated material; downsizing of medical
library.
...<http://blog.silive.com/advanceupdate/2007/08/summer_job_opportunity_o
r_heal.html>
Wall St Journal
Making Paperless Trails at Lloyd's
Under Richard Ward, the London Insurance
Market Goes Electronic, Gets Less Quaint
By IAN MCDONALD
August 13, 2007; Page B1
LONDON -- When Richard Ward joined London's storied Lloyd's insurance
market as chief executive a little over a year ago, he had a tough time
understanding his new colleagues' jargon-heavy patter.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB118696052762295422-email.html>
Spiegel Online
New Find Evokes Horrors of the Berlin Wall
By David Crossland
East Germany's ex-leaders always denied they had ordered soldiers to
shoot people trying to flee across the Berlin Wall, even though
hundreds were killed. Now the discovery of a written order to open fire
on men, women and children has reawakened fading memories of the
regime's brutality.
<http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,499626,00.html>
Washington Post
Deleting the Pileup
The District tackles the problem of accumulated e-mail messages on
government computers.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/11/AR200708
1101054.html?referrer=emailarticle>
Here it is: Looking Back - the book
Northampton Chronicle & Echo - Northampton,Northamptonshire,UK
We have collated feedback from our popular series of old photographs
scanned from our archive of around 30000 glass negatives and put some
nearly 200 of
...<http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news?articleid=3106625>
Are You Using These Top 5 Strategies to Protect Your Data - And ...
Small Business Informer (press release) - Orland Park,IL,USA
Organizations should also require employees to use shredders when
destroying confidential documents. Sharing information is a natural
instinct among social
...<http://www.sbinformer.com/guides/planning_your_business/articles/0708
09dataprotectionstrategies.html>
Greetings from Midcoast, Maine ... and beyond
VillageSoup Belfast - ME, USA
This first slideshow hosted by PMM photo archivist, Kevin Johnson, will
tell the story of the postcard company and show more than 100 images of
Midcoast ...
<http://waldo.villagesoup.com/AandE/story.cfm?StoryID=97969>
Reel Memories Captivate Crowd
New Haven Independent - CT, USA
Molly Wheeler, 30, an archivist at Beinecke library, organized New
Haven's
first Home Movie Day last August. After hearing about the event from her
friends ...
<http://www.newhavenindependent.org/archives/2007/08/as_projectors_w.php>
History man
Press-Register - al.com - Mobile,AL,USA
The Eufaula native returned to Mobile earlier this summer after three
years
as the first director of Clinton's $165 million presidential library in
Little ...
<http://www.al.com/entertainment/press-register/index.ssf?/base/entertain
ment/118699700622510.xml&coll=3>
EXCLUSIVE: Local BMV investigated after documents trashed
WKYC-TV - Cleveland,OH,USA
Hunter said the state has strict policies regarding retaining and
shredding documents with personal information. Failure to adhere to
those policies could
...<http://www.wkyc.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=72706>
To IM or not to IM?
ZDNet.com blogs - USA
Keep in mind the new FRCP rules requiring us to be able to produce any
electronic communications produced by teachers and staff (including
IM). ...<http://education.zdnet.com/?p=1185>
State Library of WA secures Bussell family diaries
ABC Regional Online - Australia
The diaries of the Bussell family, who founded Busselton in south-west
Western Australia, have been sold at auction to the State Library of
WA.
.<http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/14/2004572.htm?site=southwestwa>
PNC trying to preserve Mercantile's history
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Local historian Dean Krimmel is interviewing longtime Mercantile
employees whose stories will be captured on video, and archivist Mary
Beth Corrigan is ...
<http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2007/08/13/daily7.html>
Digital information at risk of being lost
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada
It is quite another to meet the archival challenges of today's
enterprise
data centers." He added that these data centers can be characterized as
...
<http://www.echannelline.com/usa/story.cfm?item=22315>
Clip-Tabs: First Major Paper Clip Innovation in More Than 100 ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
For the "filers" and "pilers" of the world, Clip-Tab bundles documents
from
the top or from the side. Attached at the top of a file, upright files
are
...
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,158460.shtml>
Clinton's first lady records locked up
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... various files on UFOs and flying saucers and one for the full name
of
the pastry chef who made a birthday cake for Chelsea Clinton. Before
documents are ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-na-clintondocs14aug14,0,1390329.
story?coll=la-home-center>
Keep the E-Mail Around Longer, DC
Washington Post - United States
E-mail is then deleted from the server, but the archives remain intact.
Why
is the city seemingly so unclear on something so basic? ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/13/AR200708
1300917.html>
250 years of history
Nashua Telegraph - Nashua,NH,USA
The records are supposed to be in the state archives. In 1985, it was
found
that the steeple was badly in need of repair. The building was closed
while
...
<http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070813/NEWS0
1/208130338/-1/BUSINESS02>
Aide helping to shape library
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... of Bush elections and policies, is among the aides who've begun
shaping
the presentation of his legacy at the planned Dallas presidential
library.
...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stori
es/DN-library_14nat.ART.State.Edition2.4242ef5.html>
Privacy Commish Likes Cancer Board's E-records System
770chqr.com - Calgary,Canada
Work says he's very encouraged the system includes a privacy impact
assessment and hopes other agencies and public bodies looking to use
electronic records ...
<http://www.770chqr.com/news/news_local.cfm?cat=7428327912&rem=72319&red=
80132723aPBIny&wids=410&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm>
Iron Mountain retrofits truck fleet with self-designed security system
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
In May 2005, the Boston-based records management company admitted to
losing
40 Time Warner Inc. backup tapes while in transit. Just two months
later,
...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
articleId=9029139>
Archive: Rove in new controversy over e-mails
National Post - Canada
The White House disclosed that the Republican National Committee in
early
2006 took away Mr. Rove's ability to delete e-mails sent and received
through a ...
<http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/story.html?id=ab1ca1fd-112c-4add-b5c8
-d3ce7d4638f1>
Archive sleuth plays key role in multitown land dispute
Cape Cod Times - Hyannis,MA,USA
By Robin Lord BREWSTER -- It has the makings of an intriguing tale:
Colonial settlers who bought land from sons of an Indian sachem; a
courthouse fire; ...
<http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070814/NEWS/70
8140326>
Foxing in the archive
San Francisco Bay Guardian - San Francisco,CA,USA
BY ANNALEE NEWITZ TECHSPLOITATION Paper archives are dangerous. For the
past several weeks, I've been standing knee-deep in paper untouched by
human hands ...
<http://www.sfbg.com/entry.php?entry_id=4267&catid=4&volume_id=254&issue_
id=310&volume_num=41&issue_num=46>
PR man buys maps archive
New Zealand Herald - New Zealand
By Anne Gibson A Christchurch man has bought the rights to a large
historical archive of maps and surveys. Chris Rennie, a public relations
consultant and ...
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/8/story.cfm?c_id=8&objectid=10457730>
Yale project to save South Asian Independence history
Hindustan Times - India
... at Yale is also looking for personal recollections and narratives
describing experiences from the period to enrich the published and
archival
record. ...
<http://www.hindustantimes.com/Redir.aspx?ID=e092648e-3cd4-4655-9af6-d9b3
a9eaedba>
Tricolour hoisted by Nehru missing?
Economic Times - India
The inquiry about the flags at the National Museum, National Archive,
Nehru
Memorial and MEA Toshakhana also drew the negative response.
<http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/News/News_By_Industry/Services/Trave
l/Tricolour_hoisted_by_Nehru_missing/articleshow/2280262.cms>
Coast Guard loses 3500 sensitive records
NavyTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA
According to the Coast Guard, no electronic files were lost. Service
officials think the records likely were discarded or destroyed in the
move,
...
<http://www.navytimes.com/news/2007/08/coastguard_lost_info_070814w/>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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