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RAIN 070402 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Belleville News-Democrat, Sun, 01 Apr 2007 1:14 AM PDT Sleuthing librarians <<http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/local/17010106.htm?source =rss&channel=belleville_local>> Move over, Jessica Fletcher. Librarians at Madison County Historical Museum and Archival Library in Edwardsville do just as much sleuthing as the amateur detective in "Murder, She Wrote." Grains of truth: Wheat Board among agencies bracing for info requests Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada Under the access law, Canadians who pay $5 can ask for government files ranging from audits and expense records to briefing papers and correspondence. ...<http://www.canada.com/topics/news/agriculture/story.html?id=aed676b8- a3bb-424d-9e35-39fa34c2df82&k=48822> Maine's history and artifacts should not be relegated to second ... Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA Again, by way of illustration, many records and documents stored at the State Library, Museum, and Archives hold vital information. ... <http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/view/columns/3762468.html> Who's guarding your data in the cybervault? USA Today - USA It also exited the highly profitable business of selling Social Security numbers, birth dates and driver's license numbers to private detectives, ... <http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/computersecurity/infotheft/2007-04-01- choicepoint_N.htm> Fourth Amendment.com Failure to timely assert attorney-client privilege after a search warrant may constitute waiver <<http://fourthamendment.com/blog/index.php?blog=1&title=failure_to_timel y_assert_attorney_client&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1>> New York Times ARTS / ARTS SPECIAL | March 28, 2007 One Picture, 1,000 Tags By PAMELA LiCALZI O’CONNELL Museums are encouraging the public to annotate their online collections by supplying descriptive tags, creating a new shared vocabulary. <<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28social.html?ex=117 6177600&en=dba94eda237aff30&ei=5070&emc=eta1>> Daily Telegraph, Fri, 30 Mar 2007 1:08 PM PDT Paper-chase around Britain http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/main.jhtml?xml=/travel/2007/03/24/nosplit/etwallpaper124.xml Snippets of mass-produced wallpaper evoke memories more effectively than perhaps any other museum exhibit, says Sophie Campbell. The Globe Gazette, Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:10 PM PDT North Iowa's Signature Collection http://www.globegazette.com/articles/2007/04/01/local/doc460efd544c818230286979.txt For a link to a slideshow of autographs from the MacNider collection at the Mason City Public Library, please click here. St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Sun, 01 Apr 2007 11:46 PM PDT College yearbooks are so old-school http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/855A5D478A1A3C93862572B100126BC6?OpenDocument In a glass-walled room of the St. Louis University library where pens are not allowed to be used, assistant university archivist Randy McGuire flips through one of the few surviving copies of the first issue of the student yearbook, The Archive. York Daily Record, Mon, 02 Apr 2007 3:23 AM PDT Records give way to hidden history http://www.ydr.com/redlion/ci_5575407 Official: Pennsylvania State Archives has thousands of records revealing pieces of York County history. Apr 2, 2007 ? David Hively has had success in researching his family tree. Mother Jones The Emails the White House Doesn't Want You to See The U.S Attorney firings provide more evidence of the Bush administration avoiding its own email system (and accountability, posterity, prosecution). << http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/2007/03/white_house_emails.html>> 'Persistent' Bakken has nurtured a strong foundation for good Muncie Star Press - Muncie,IN,USA ... Jackie, to become an archivist at Cornell University. From there he entered the private sector, becoming administrator of archives for Anheuser-Busch ... <http://www.thestarpress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070402/NEWS01/7 04020321/1002> Executive Q&A: IBM's Paul Brown Computer Business Review - UK Availability protects against accidental or intentional removal of data, the electronic equivalent of illegally shredding documents. ... <http://www.cbronline.com/article_cbr.asp?guid=4E73245A-DC2C-4FAF-B909-49 A5135E81C6> Steps you can take to protect your privacy on the Web Detroit Free Press - Detroit,MI,USA There are also commercial programs like Evidence Neutralizer (www.evidenceneutralizer.com) that will do this for you, electronically shredding little ... <http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070402/COL11/704020309 /1011/BUSINESS Rights of Passage Bank Technology News - USA ... shredding and expiration capabilities to meet regulatory compliance and corporate business rules on document retention. Files and e-mails that otherwise .<http://www.banktechnews.com/article.html?id=20070327W63NML9J> Texas AG sues RadioShack Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA Schmidt added that the store in Portland is part of a shredding program the company has in place for the secure disposal and destruction of sensitive <http://www.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2007/04/02/daily9.html?jst=b_l n_hl> Canada: The Duties Of Departing Employees: Are They On The Move? Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK Clearly, an employee has duties to a present employer not to divulge trade secrets or to work against the interests of his or her employer but the duty is ... <http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=47174&searchresults=1> Another Pants Check Investor's Business Daily (subscription) - USA He later admitted to stuffing his clothes with classified documents and leaving the building with them. He also admitted he destroyed a document that was ... <http://www.investors.com/editorial/editorialcontent.asp?secid=1501&statu s=article&id=260406272896592> Uncle Sam's Secrets GovExec.com - Wahington,DC,USA In 2000, the FBI provided 1284 unaltered documents in response to FOIA requests. In 2006, only 56 such documents were released. ...<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0407/040207ol.htm> Iron Mountain storage and archiving for email - good combination IT Directors - USA Iron Mountain Incorporated recently introduced its Active Archiving Service for Email, a comprehensive solution for managing email storage, retention, ... <http://www.it-director.com/business/content.php?cid=9392> Google becomes the first to limit retention of full search data IBLS INTERNET LAW (subscription) - Irvine,CA,USA The company also wants to abide to data retention requirements. In Europe, these requirements limit retention to periods of not less than six months and not ... <http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1 716> Eat It, New Yorker! Harper's Puts 157-Year Archive Online mediabistro.com - New York,NY,USA The archive, available free to the magazine's subscribers, includes a quarter-million scanned pages available as PDFs from the magazine, starting with ... <http://www.mediabistro.com/fishbowlny/magazines/eat_it_new_yorker_harper s_puts_157year_archive_online_56168.asp> Big increase in users of new archive study centre Blyth Wansbeck Today - Whitley Bay,England,UK HISTORY hunters have kept staff busy after the opening of a 21st century archives centre in Northumberland. Archives experts from Northumberland County ... <http://www.blyth-wansbecktoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1115&Ar ticleID=2219230> Redaction of Social Security numbers not mandatory Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Arlington,VA,USA A new Texas law clarifies that government officials are not liable for the release of Social Security numbers in public documents. ... <http://www.rcfp.org/news/2007/0402-foi-redact.html> County clerks not responsible for the release of social security ... KCEN-TV - Eddy,TX,USA State lawmakers ruled county clerks aren't responsible for the release of social security numbers on public documents. ... <http://www.kcentv.com/news/c-article.php?cid=1&nid=12571> Texas Gov. signs law that exempts clerks from privacy laws Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA Perry's approval put an end -- at least temporarily -- to a controversy involving the distribution of public documents containing personal data, ... <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic& taxonomyName=government&articleId=9015318&taxonomyId=13&intsrc=kc_top> Historical society's vault houses Ridgefield's past Danbury News Times - Danbury,CT,USA Gary Singer, president of Ridgefield Historical Society, and Kay Ables, town historian, review some of the archives in the vault at the historical society’s ...<http://www.newstimeslive.com/news/story.php?id=1041436> American Indian deeds on new Web site Gloucester Daily Times - Gloucester,MA,USA Consequently, when the Registry of Deeds began updating its documents about five years ago, they were startled to find a succession of long-forgotten deeds, ... <http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_092093904> Librarian gets 11 months' jail for book theft Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand ... New Zealand-Pacific librarian, was able to remove the books out of a secure part of the library and then delete them from the library's records. <http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4014940a12855.html> Peter Kurilecz Richmond Va ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =0