RAIN 20071030
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Texas Attorney General Sues Fitness Spa For Exposing Customer ...
Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK
Code Ann. § 35.48), which require the safeguarding and proper destruction
of the sensitive personal information of clients. Under Texas law, the
Texas ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=53624>
Storing by the rules
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
Complying with regulations governing data storage and retrieval could put
you on the hot seat. Here's how to stay cool. By Deni Connor, Network
World, ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/supp/2003/storage/0324gov.html>
Former mortgage company files found in dumpster
WTOL - Toledo,OH,USA
... records at his home. By law, he has to hold on to them for a couple
years. He says he did have some files in a storage facility but had them
destroyed. ...
<http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=7280631>
COUNCIL RECORD STAFF UNDER FIRE
This is Nottingham - Nottingham,England,UK
Its report highlights "a lack of records management strategy" and says
that, as a result, staff have "a poor understanding of where and how
records should ...
<http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=134436&command=displayContent&sourceNode=134094&contentPK=18807114&folderPk=78480&pNodeId=133993>
Thousands of binders record systematic extermination of Jews
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
This is the largest archive of Nazi documents in the world - more than 33
million pages of records, stored in six buildings in Bad Arolsen, a Baroque
town ...
<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/917805.html>
No flap this time: Varitek gives World Series final ball to Red Sox
The Canadian Press -
"We have a club archivist who should be in here, should have retrieved it
already," Lucchino said in the middle of the celebration in the visiting
clubhouse ...
<http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ggPWcySHOUFyBehfVMfUNKbX3O-g>
Harold Holt films for national archives
Melbourne Herald Sun - Australia
... belonging to former prime minister Harold Holt - who disappeared,
presumed drowned, in 1967 - will be handed over to the National Archives
tomorrow. ...
<http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22672117-5005961,00.html>
Ruling: Dallas officials' e-mails must be turned over
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
In Texas, awarding of legal fees is mandatory in public records cases in
which the court orders the release of information that a governmental body
should ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/102907dnmetemails.317323a.html>
UC moves to protect private info
Cincinnati Enquirer - Cincinnati,OH,USA
In the latest case, records including Social Security numbers for about
21000 people were in filing cabinets that were sent out to be resold. ...
<http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071029/NEWS01/310290054/1056/COL02>
Her letter changed face of nation
Joplin Globe - Joplin,MO,USA
The alumna is Karen Needles, of Washington, DC She has been working for six
years as a researcher for the Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in
...
<http://www.joplinglobe.com/neo_sek/local_story_302224306.html?keyword=topstory>
State Report: Texas Has Too Many Reports
The Associated Press -
The Texas State Library and Archives Commission spent 18 months and
canvassed more than 170 agencies and public colleges and universities,
checking on all ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g38KL0kWeFmqyYRA2_kM-4jCMm9gD8SJANP80>
Tracking Down the Tale of the Knights Templar
Discovery Channel - USA
Barbara Frale, the 37-year-old Vatican archives official who rediscovered
the Chinon parchment after more than 10 years of research in the Vatican
Secret ...
<http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/10/29/knights-templar.html>
Fort Kent: UMFK welcomes new Acadian Archives director
Bangor Daily News - Bangor,ME,USA
By Beurmond Banville FORT KENT - Lise Pelletier was born in Fort Kent and
is returning in the coming weeks to become the director of the Acadian
Archives at ...
<http://bangornews.com/news/t/?a=155900>
Wall Street Journal
Inside Katharine Hepburn's Theater Papers
The actress's estate gives her stage-related journals, scripts,
photographs and letters to New York Public Library
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119368061257875121-email.html
Hartford Financial misplaces back-up tapes with personal data on ...
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The warning followed the loss of three backup tapes containing the names,
addresses, Social Security numbers and driver's license numbers of
customers of ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9044801&intsrc=news_ts_head>
Iron Mountain A Stronghold In This Market?
Minyanville.com - New York,USA
Iron Mountain (IRM), according to its website, "is the global leader for
information protection and storage services." Not exactly the sexiest
business out ...
<http://www.minyanville.com/articles/IRM/index/a/14681>
IT is not ready for MIFID's record keeping requirements
VNUNet.com - UK
A large number of European financial institutions do not currently have
record keeping procedures that are required by the Markets in Financial
Instruments ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/news/2202386/ready-mifid-record-keeping>
Columbia firm wins contract to digitize FDA archives
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
"Federal agencies -- especially those involved in regulation and oversight
-- have archives that literally amount to millions of printed pages stored
within ...
<http://www.bizjournals.com/baltimore/stories/2007/10/29/daily17.html>
Quality Associates to digitize FDA archives
Washington Technology - Washington,DC,USA
"Federal agencies, especially those involved in regulation and oversight,
have archives that literally amount to millions of printed pages stored
within ...
<http://www.washingtontechnology.com/online/1_1/31710-1.html>
Archives unseal documents from McKenna's cabinet
CBC New Brunswick - New Brunswick,Canada
Documents from the private deliberations of former New Brunswick premier
Frank McKenna's cabinet are beginning to be unsealed by the provincial
archives. ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/new-brunswick/story/2007/10/30/mckenna-release.html>
Lost Ayckbourn play survives after all
Stage - London,England,UK
Simon Murgatroyd, an archivist of The Bob Watson Archive based at the
theatre, said: "Many of the early Ayckbourn plays were not kept and were
lost, ...
<http://www.thestage.co.uk/news/newsstory.php/18706/lost-ayckbourn-play-survives-after-all>
Ayckbourn's missing play comes to light
Times Online - UK
Working with curators from the Department of Manuscripts at the British
Library, they found it in the archives of the Lord Chamberlain who, until
1968, ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/article2767107.ece>
Attorney general: Many businesses aren't protecting personal records
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
Kentucky law requires businesses to properly dispose of records containing
personal information by shredding, erasing or other methods to make the
personal ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/216654.html>
German Foreign Office comes out in favor of Open Document Format
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
... Word documents," Yatindra Singh, a judge at the High Court in
Allahabad, declared. These were not easy to convert into ODF-compatible
files, he stated. ...
<http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/98208>
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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va
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