RAIN 20070921
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Memorial set for lesbian scholar Yolanda Retter Vargas
Bay Area Reporter - San Francisco,CA,USA
She also devoted herself as founding archivist of the Lesbian Legacy
Collection at the International Gay & Lesbian Archives (USC) and spent
many
volunteer ...
<http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=2218>
Women's movement archive finds home at Western
Western News - London,Ontario,Canada
Some women in the London community wanted to create an archive of their
gender's history in the city and The University of Western Ontario
Archives and ...
<http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/women%92s_movement
_archive_finds_home_at_western_20070920440202/>
Kenya: Stout Building That Surveys Our Past, Present And Future
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Senior archivist George Muoria said the Archive's duties are to acquire
and
preserve records from the Government ministries, parastatals,
authorities,...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200709201207.html>
A Tug-of-War at Habitat for Humanity
BusinessWeek - USA
The agreement also gives Habitat International the right to inspect
e-mails
and other documents of affiliates on probation, details new
record-retention ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/sep2007/db20070919_3
14040.htm?chan=top+news_top+news+index_businessweek+exclusives>
Author's collection donated to college
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
Personal journals, letters and photographs dating from the mid-19th
century
to the author's death in 1961 comprise the archival gift. ...
<http://www.rutlandherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070920/NEWS01/
709200338/1002/NEWS01>
Holographic data storage pushes into the third dimension
Search Storage - Australia
Every enterprise needs archival storage to meet compliance requirements
and
address litigation issues, but "deep" archiving remains a challenge. ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/topics/article.asp?DocID=1273033>
How To Archive Email
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
Archiving all of a company's email in a central archive with fast
search/retrieve and export capabilities allows a company to respond to
discovery requests ...
<http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fp2938%
2F33p38%2F33p38.asp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&bJumpTo=True>
UC-Santa Cruz to put novelist Robert Heinlein's archive online
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
By Lisa M. Krieger The complete archive of renowned American
science-fiction writer Robert Heinlein will be made available online,
thanks to an unusual ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/centralcoast/ci_6945542>
Reshaping the Architecture of Memory
New York Times - United States
The huge increases in digital storage made possible by giant
magnetoresistance, or GMR, made consumer audio and video iPods, as well
as
Google-style data ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/11/technology/11storage.html?em&ex=118965
6000&en=b645d89ec5cae691&ei=5087%0A>
The state of Califor-notification
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
If it weren't for California 1386 and ChoicePoint, would we all be
talking
so much about data breaches these days? Maybe, but maybe not. ...
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/techwatch/archives/014010.html>
Tracy e-mail ruling appealed
Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA
... regarding city business sent from Vice Mayor Suzanne Tucker's
personal
e-mail account are not subject to the California Public Records Act.
Attorneys ...
<http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070921/A_NEWS/7092
0009>
An award now in the records
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
By Deborah K. Dietsch John Hope Franklin (left) had a warm and lingering
conversation Tuesday evening with filmmaker Ken Burns at the National
Archives, ...
<http://washingtontimes.com/article/20070921/ENTERTAINMENT/109210048/1007
>
Peace museum to verify 3000 A-bomb photos
The Daily Yomiuri - Osaka,Japan
... and duplicated photographic film supplied by the US National
Archives
of pictures used in the 1947 US Strategic Bombing Survey. ...
<http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070922TDY02007.htm>
Guy Rocha: Historian and self-described activist
Reno Gazette Journal - Reno,NV,USA
Most people associate Guy Rocha with his job as state archivist -- one
who
manages records and archives. Not as many know him as a truth-seeker,
...
<http://news.rgj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070921/CARSON/709210323
/1144/NEWS>
Important Documents Damaged
WKRG-TV - Mobile,AL,USA
Brenda says all the record keepers scrambled to help out. "Everybody's
sitting with hairdryers. This is what we started with is hairdryers and
trying to ...
<http://wkrg.com/news/article/important_documents_damaged/5285/>
Gibson Discusses Learning From Storage Failures
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
Another big development in the world of petascale data storage is the
establishment of the Computer Failure Data Repository, where end users
(so
far just ...
<http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/hardware/features/article.php/3700
671>
User puts NEC grid backup to the test
Search Storage - USA
At the time, it had two big problems: first, it had been filling a
tractor
trailer and several basements on its campus with paper records for
years....
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci127
2777,00.html>
Dumpster Full of Personal Information Discovered
KLAS-TV - Las Vegas,NV,USA
"All of our members have gone through training that the board offers
and ID
theft and disposed of this material in a safe affective manner, mainly
shredding ...
<http://www.klas-tv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7091061&nav=menu102_1>
Robotics firm says rival stole designs
Boston Globe - United States
18, Ahed purchased a paper shredder at a local Staples office supply
store.
He used the shredder to destroy some disks, but it broke. ...
<http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2007/09/21/robotics_f
irm_says_rival_stole_designs>
Kenya: A New Bill for E-Kenya
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... by means of reliable electronic records; "To minimise the incidence
of
forged electronic records, intentional and unintentional alteration of
records, ...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200709210312.html>
Study Finds Security Problems in Electronic Health Records
IT Business Edge - Louisville,KY,USA
... with only rudimentary skills could get into systems retrieve and
alter
data, such as changing medication dosages, or delete records, reports
FCW.com. ...
<http://www.itbusinessedge.com/blogs/hdw/?p=906>
Ark. Computers Delete Huckabee Criticism
The Associated Press -
Mike Beebe and others were made using a state government computer,
according to an analysis by The Associated Press of records from
Wikipedia
and the state. ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hwb5bHLROOMFDba3ewZgSwsfl8oA>
Commissioners continue to discuss storage solutions
Leavenworth Times - Leavenworth,KS,USA
If the file clerk is searching for records in the file room, there is no
one available to take demands for the records. "We get some requests for
files by ...
<http://www.leavenworthtimes.com/articles/2007/09/20/news/news04.txt>
Leak idles clerk's office
TriCities.com - Johnson City,TN,USA
The Sullivan County Registar of Deeds Office utilizes similar procedures
when it protects documents related to real estate transfers. ...
<http://www.tricities.com/tristate/tri/news.apx.-content-articles-TRI-200
7-09-21-0006.html>
State auditor finds problems with Fayette's record keeping
Boonville Daily News - MO, USA
By Darren McFadden - // Reporter // Missouri State Auditor Susan Montee
released the results of her audit of the city of Fayette's municipal
court
division ...
http://www.boonvilledailynews.com/articles/2007/09/20/news/news2.txt
MSU returns tape of Ashcroft speech
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
The university returned the tape because of restrictions Ashcroft's
representatives placed on who could listen to the archival copy in the
school's library. ...
<http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070921/BREAKING0
1/70921036>
War Imagery, Media, and the Internet
O'Reilly Radar - Sebastopol,CA,USA
There should be a concerted archival effort to record Iraq war media for
posterity. The Internet Archive has a small but growing collection of
videos on the ...
<http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/09/war_imagery_med.html>
Historical society's director is leaving
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
By Jeanette Steele The San Diego Historical Society is looking for a new
director, as the businessman hired to turn around the organization's
finances has ...
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/metro/20070921-9999-7m21watson.html>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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