RAIN 20071104
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.

Longtime Director of State Archives Baffled by Firing
WSAZ-TV - Huntington,WV,USA
He doesn't understand why he was abruptly fired from his job as
Archives and History director. Armstrong says he received a letter of
termination Thursday ...
<http://www.wsaz.com/news/headlines/10971846.html>

Heritage Center Archive Expansion
KFYR-TV - Bismarck,ND,USA
A ribbon-cutting ceremony this afternoon marked the opening of a
30000-square foot addition to the state archives. "What it really is,
is preserving that ...
<http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=12619>

Saying Ahed's Destruction of Evidence "Profoundly Undermines" His ...
Xconomy - Cambridge,MA,USA
In order to avoid disclosure of trade secrets, she sealed the part of
her ruling that went into detail about what those secrets were, but
did say that her ...
<http://www.xconomy.com/2007/11/02/saying-aheds-destruction-of-evidence-profoundly-undermines-his-credibility-judge-issues-narrow-injunction-against-robotic-fx-much-of-record-sealed/>

IRobot wins injunction against competitor
Boston Globe - United States
IRobot claimed that Ahed had used iRobot trade secrets in the building of a
robot called the Negotiator, which beat out iRobot's PackBot for a
$280 million ...
<http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2007/11/03/irobot_wins_injunction_against_competitor>

Information Week
Control Issues: Who Really Owns The PC?
We revisit the eternal battleground of centralized authority vs.
decentralized flexibility and find that balance, as always, is key to
success.
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=202801577>

Heritage Center project celebrated
Bismarck Tribune - ND, USA
"The archives are important because it tells us both the big picture
and the little details," Newborg said. "And it tells us the story of
our lives. ...
<http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2007/11/03/news/local/142048.txt>


City charging $100 deposit to review e-mails
The Missoulian - Missoula,MT,USA
By Monday, however, the body of public documents the city posts online
will have grown to include e-mails sent to the group of Missoula City
Council members ...
<http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2007/11/03/news/local/news04.txt>

Digital archive: A step back in time
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Today the Guardian and Observer take a giant step backwards as their
newly digitised archive - which will contain every article from their
first issues in ...
<http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/news/2007/11/digital_archive_a_step_back_in.html>

From a Trash Bin, Singing Cossacks and a Bitter Dispute
New York Times - United States
By KAREEM FAHIM LAKEWOOD, NJ -- Like many strange tales, the story of
the antiques dealer, the scholars from Scotland and the contested
archive of a Russian ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/nyregion/03archive.html?em&ex=1194235200&en=c745476a087848aa&ei=5087%0A>

War author's huge archive goes on show
Scotsman - United Kingdom
AN exhibition on the archive of best-selling writer Cornelius Ryan –
author of A Bridge Too Far and The Longest Day - starts next weekend.
...<http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1753632007>

SAFE AND SOUND Heritage Center aims to preserve Fredericksburg ...
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
... surrounding counties--"has undertaken an important challenge at
the local level, where history begins," state archivist Conley L.
Edwards III has said.
...<http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/112007/11032007/324099>

Police ordered to delete records
BBC News - UK
Four police forces have been ordered to delete criminal records dating back
decades because they are "no longer relevant". The Information Commissioner
told ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7072241.stm>

Police told to erase 'irrelevant' crime records
Times Online - UK
Four police forces have been ordered by Mr Thomas to delete criminal
records because they are "no longer relevant" and breach data
protection rules. ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/public_law/article2781344.ece>

Citizenship at Stake. US Records Prove Paternity; Japanese ...
Japan Focus - Ithaca,NY,USA
There he was amazed to find photos showing wartime destruction in
Gumma. "I was impressed to see not only that photographs of a small
city in another ...<http://japanfocus.org/products/details/2567>

Dawn Miller
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
The day before the Manchin administration fired Fred Armstrong from
his 22-year job as director of state Archives and History, Armstrong
had arrived at work
...<http://wvgazette.com/section/Opinion/200711034>

Arkansas News Bureau
Fort Knox of Billaryland
Saturday, Nov 3, 2007
By John Brummett
Hillary Clinton says that release of her White House records is wholly
up to the National Archives and out of her hands. Bill Clinton says he
has always insisted on speedy release of his records.
<http://www.arkansasnews.com/archive/2007/11/03/JohnBrummett/343947.html>

Longtime director of state archives baffled by firing
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
Armstrong, who had overseen the state's archives since 1985, said he
received a letter of termination Thursday morning at a meeting with
Culture and History ...
<http://www.dailymail.com/story/News/200711027/Longtime-director-of-state-archives-baffled-by-firing/>

Keep data free from danger
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
To help prevent the loss of precious documents, a growing number of
companies are offering online and off-site data storage, known in the
business as data
...<http://www.charlotte.com/business/story/347870.html>

Devotee of old 78s captures long-lost refrains
Greenwich Time - Greenwich,CT,USA
... in putting together broken records was enlisted to repair it, and
a coherent version of the song was pieced together using digital
files, Brooks said. ...
<http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/local/scn-gt-a1brookssundaynov04,0,6204499.story?coll=green-news-local-headlines>

AMPAS: Archive before it's too late
Hollywood Reporter - United States
By Carolyn Giardina How many of you have favorite movies or music on
8-track, VHS or Betamax tapes but no longer have a player for these
formats? ...
<http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/news/e3i00627c6566fe8f5fedf234e72ea32bd2>


IT contractors may get FoI demands
Contractor UK - London,UK
The government wants to extend the Freedom of Information Act to
companies and contractors which "carry out functions of a public
nature". ... <http://www.contractoruk.com/news/003524.html>

The Hillary Clinton Paper Chase
Hillary Project - Newport Beach,CA,USA
... why so many of her papers at her husband's presidential library in
Little Rock, Ark., are still secret--and her answers have only invited
more questions. ...
<http://www.hillaryproject.com/index.php?/en/story-details/the_hillary_clinton_paper_chase/>

How long should police keep criminal records?
Reuters UK - UK
Four forces that have been told by the ICO to delete such records are
challenging the demand and the issue will now go to the Information
Tribunal.
<http://blogs.reuters.com/uknews/2007/11/01/how-long-should-police-keep-criminal-records/>

Album documenting Nazi art loot donated to National Archives
AXcess News - Georgetown,KY,USA
8 to archivists and researchers to help preserve and analyze the
document. The donor will give volume No. 6 to the Archives under
separate terms at a later ...
<http://axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/12936>

Reading by the light of the fire: Google versus the historian
ZDNet UK - UK
As the folkloric destruction of the Alexandrian Library illustrates,
the context of the past can always be trumped by the context of the
present. ...<http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10006341o-2000331777b,00.htm>




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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va