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RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news from around the world

 

LOST and found: Organise your hard disk
VNUNet.com - Haarlem,Netherlands
... help organise files and find information related to a specific keyword
from a range of sources such as email messages, documents and multimedia
files and old ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/features/1162770>

 

JUSTICES Skeptical of DOJ's Claims About Andersen Document ...
Texas Lawyer (subscription) - TX,USA
... argument that Andersen violated a federal witness-tampering statute
when one of its lawyers reminded employees about its document retention
policy in October ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1114592709785>

 

C/OS Urged To Adopt Document Retention Policies
Institutional Investor (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
Compliance officers at investment advisers should adopt and distribute
document retention policies, specifying which documents staff must keep,
on a firm-wide ...
<http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/default.asp?page=1&SID=498883&ISS=13937&type=23>

 

JUSTICES' queries tilt to Andersen
Chicago Tribune (subscription) - Chicago,IL,USA
... on "every major corporation or small business in this country," because
most have policies similar to those of Andersen on document destruction
and retention. ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0504280164apr28,1,7164077.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed>

 

AGENCIES promise reform after sensitive records found in trash
Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
... Earlier, the newspaper had found personal records outside Employment
Security and Human ... of all personal documents, either by locking them
up or shredding them. ...
<http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/11516147.htm>

 

ASIAN Film Archive aims to preserve regional films
Channel News Asia - Singapore
... The group has tied up with the National Archives of Singapore to collect
and store 500 films from around the region by the end of this year. ...
<http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/145030/1/.html>

 

TRANSLATING the FOIA
Newspaper Tree - El Paso,TX,USA
... Five years after conception, the new federal freedom of information
act has become a celebrated cause, but it remains a limp muscle barely
flexed. ...
<http://www.newspapertree.com/view_article.sstg?c=5f05cffb6da44a08&mc=ab95bd72208a4752>

 

UK Public Authorities Confront Freedom of Information Act ...
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
Last January, the UK's Freedom of Information Act 2000 went into effect,
and public agencies are struggling to meet its requirements. ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=24&id=93844>

 

FREEDOM of Information help
BJHC.co.uk - Weybridge,Surrey,UK
One of the main criticisms levelled at many health trusts regarding the
Freedom of Information Act is that, rather than viewing it as an opportunity
to ...
<http://www.bjhc.co.uk/news/industry/2005/ind504003.htm>

 

MAILER sells archives to UT
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
Mailer visited Austin Thursday to talk about the new partnership. He visited
San Antonio to train for the Army in the 1940s and ...
<http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=136220>

 

NORMAN Mailer visits UT, new home to his archives
KVUE (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... Texas campus Thursday. The Ransom Center paid $2.5 million to obtain
Mailer's personal archives, which span 70 years. Mailer, 82 ...
<http://www.kvue.com/news/local/stories/042805kvueMailer-eh.2229897c6.html>

 

TURKISH PM: Let's Open the Archives and Accept the Results
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
... Armenian President Robert Kocharian, who offered an intergovernmental
commission into the so-called genocide allegations, to open the archives
before making ...
<http://www.zaman.com/?bl=international&alt=&hn=18928>

 

 

 
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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