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RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news stories from around the world. New York Times, Mon, 30 May 2005 6:40 PM PDT 'Kodak, Don't Take My Kodachrome' http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/31/movies/31koda.html Paul Simon sang about it. Film students shot on it. Now, advocates are signing up to save Kodachrome, or at least its Super 8 motion-picture version, a 1965 technology that the Eastman Kodak Company would very much like to do without. The Charleston Gazette, Mon, 30 May 2005 10:07 PM PDT On the records http://www.wvgazette.com/section/Today/2005053012 The Wise papers just came over. Four years of accumulated records have arrived from the administration of Gov. Bob Wise, who left office in January. Compact discs and hard drives arrived from Wise s office as well, said Fred Armstrong, the State Archives director. SIDEBAR: Know the Rules and Regulations of the E-records Game ComputerWorld - USA MAY 30, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Electronic records are legal evidence of business transactions. Legal adversaries, regulatory inspectors ... <http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,102044,00.html> SIDEBAR: Six Tips for Handling e-Records ComputerWorld - USA MAY 30, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - Jane Connerton, corporate records manager at Proctor & Gamble, recently oversaw the establishment of e-records guidelines and is <http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,102039,00.html> RECORD Risks ComputerWorld - USA ... Despite renewed attention to e-records management, however, many organizations still lack automated systems to efficiently process all e-records requested ...<http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,102035,00.html> MCKESSON'S E-Health Gambit InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA ... from more automation is Concord Hospital, a 295-bed, $450 million-a-year facility in Concord, NH Concord expects to complete an E-records project with McKesson ... <http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163701619&tid=5979> SURVEY tests openness of district courts' files Patriot-News - Harrisburg,PA,USA ... Newly elected district judges are told in training that their entire files are public records, and that they must provide photocopies, said Bob Hessler of the ... <http://www.pennlive.com/news/patriotnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1117531213129000.xml&coll=1> GOING Digital Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA ... done, he had compiled and sent out about 10 different paper case files on the ... audio tapes and video tapes of witnesses and suspects, to phone records and any ... <http://www.govtech.net/magazine/story.php?id=94102> WORLD turning to software VA shuns St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA ... showed that nearly five of six doctors run their offices on handwritten notes and paper files. When patients go from doctor to doctor, paper records often get ... <http://www.sptimes.com/2005/05/31/Worldandnation/World_turning_to_soft.shtml> SECURITY and privacy take center stage Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA ... the backup tapes with the names and Social Security numbers of 600,000 current and former employees lost after the tapes were misplaced by Iron Mountain Inc. ... <http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-zprivacy31may31,0,2512512.story?coll=sfla-business-headlines> ANDERSEN conviction overturned CNN - USA ... The company defended its document retention policy as necessary financial housekeeping, and denied shredding files to block a future investigation. <http://money.cnn.com/2005/05/31/news/midcaps/scandal_andersen_scotus/> PRIVACY alert: every patient on database Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia The medical records of every person in NSW will be held on a central electronic database - and patients will no longer have the right to choose whether this ... <http://www.smh.com.au/news/National/Privacy-alert-every-patient-on-database/2005/05/31/1117305622687.html> TECHNOLOGY subject to public-records laws San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA By Megan Blaney, Staff Writer. The laws governing public records and public meetings also include BlackBerry messages and phone calls. ... <http://www.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,208~12588~2895978,00.html> SORRY, can't give you those public records Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada Canada's information culture is truly backward. A team of 89 reporters from 45 newspapers blitzed federal and local government offices ... <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050531/ESECRECY31/TPComment/Editorials> SECRET world of industrial espionage BBC News - UK ... Lockheed Martin said Boeing had acquired thousands of confidential documents relating to its bid for a $2bn (£1.1bn) military rocket programme in 1998. ... <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4595745.stm> ISRAELI police uncover Trojan industrial spy ring ComputerWorld - USA ... The program appears to have been effective at stealing confidential documents from targeted companies, as well as monitoring activity on infected machines. ... <http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,102141,00.html> LOCAL Archivist Inaugural Winner of Mayor's Award Halifax Live - Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada (Monday, May 30, 2005) --A Halifax resident is the inaugural winner of the first Mayor's Award for Outstanding Contribution by an Individual to a Museum or ... <http://www.halifaxlive.com/artman/publish/award_300505_1230.shtml> HISTORY Room looks for help Kalamazoo Gazette - Kalamazoo,MI,USA ... and housed elsewhere in the archives -- is a favorite example of her Catholic order's heritage, said Sister Marilyn Sullivan, curator and archivist of the ...<http://www.mlive.com/news/kzgazette/index.ssf?/base/news-13/111755281950660.xml> ON the records Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA ... Mr. Miller was to take the negative. In 1911, the state adjutant general sent over Civil War records to Virgil Lewis, the first state archivist. ...<http://wvgazette.com/section/Today/2005053012> SHOW Clio the Money! Inside Higher Ed - Washington,DC,USA ... in Washington by the National Coalition on History, representing the interests of more than 70 professional organizations for historians and archivists. ... <http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2005/05/31/mclemee> ANDERSEN Conviction Overturned by US Supreme Court (Update4) Bloomberg - USA ... Andersen said firm officials, including in-house attorney Nancy Temple, merely reminded employees of its longstanding ``document-retention policy.'' That ... <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000087&sid=aOsZeaWyib78&refer=top_world_news> GOVERNMENT'S openness on information: Ombudsman makes final report PublicTechnology.net - UK ... for it. From January 2005 the Freedom of Information Act 2000 came fully into force superseding the non-statutory Code. The report ... <http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=2983> OFFICIALS seek better notice on data theft Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA ... Bank of America alerted customers about the missing data tapes even though it said law enforcement determined that the data likely had been lost, not stolen or ... <http://www.boston.com/business/technology/articles/2005/05/31/officials_seek_better_notice_on_data_theft> STOLEN computer contains credit card data for 80,000 US government ... Finextra - UK ... Furthermore, in December last year Bank of America "lost" computer tapes containing charge card account information for 1.2 million government card holders ... <http://www.finextra.com/fullstory.asp?id=13748> SUPREME Court Unanimously Overturns Andersen Conviction Los Angeles Times - CA,USA ... were deleted. The document shredding ended on Nov. 9, when the SEC formally requested Andersen's records related to Enron. In March ... <http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-053105scotus_lat,0,5154732.story?coll=la-home-headlines> NEW disposal rule for consumer data kick in SC Magazine - London,UK ... of reasonable measures, including implementing burning, pulverizing or shredding policies to ... The definition also applies to compilations of consumer records. <http://www.scmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsDetails&newsUID=4ef7018e-198c-4170-9dcd-bfe3bda211a2&newsType=News> Washington Post, Tue, 31 May 2005 4:54 AM PDT Imaging Technology Makes Ancient Text Readable http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/05/29/AR2005052900811.html?nav=rss_technology Two thousand years ago, Oxyrhynchus, "city of the sharp-nosed fish," was a provincial capital in central Egypt populated by the well-educated descendants of Greek settlers. It had an 11,000-seat theater, a religious cult dedicated to the city's namesake -- and a municipal dump on the outskirts of... Deutsche Welle, Mon, 30 May 2005 11:15 PM PDT Files Could Shed New Light on East German Spies http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,915181,00.html Just a number and a card -- the highly sensitive Rosewood files on former East German spies have arrived in Germany from the U.S. The CIA recently handed over sensitive files that name thousands of former East German secret service agents to Germany. COURIER archives online Catholic Courier - Rochester,NY,USA By Rob Cullivan/Catholic Courier. If you're interested in past articles from the Catholic Courier, you now can find many of them ... <http://www.catholiccourier.com/tmp1.cfm?nid=78&articleid=65499> CALLAHAN donates papers for research Kentucky Post - Covington,KY,USA ... House of Representatives, including nine as majority caucus chair, will donate his career papers to the school's Schlachter Family Archives, making them ... <http://news.kypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050531/NEWS02/505310363/1014> LIBRARY opens archive doors Pioneer Times - Wayne,NJ,USA ... been an archivist for WPU for 16 years, as well as special collections librarian to the Cheng Library and a member of the University Archives Committee, which ... <http://www.pioneertimeswpu.com/news/2005/05/17/CampusNews/Library.Opens.Archive.Doors-951040.shtml> Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]