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RAIN 070604 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Preserving the past Towanda Daily Review - Towanda,PA,USA So, in order to ensure a copy of these records survive, Armenia Township is pursuing an effort to preserve the documents. During their last meeting,... <http://www.thedailyreview.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18416496&BRD=2276&PAG =461&dept_id=495082&rfi=6> Pitt lands massive collection of EU material Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA Especially interesting, Dr. Wilkin said, are the "research files," 50 file cabinets of official documents and related news stories arranged by topic. ...<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07154/791184-28.stm> 42 years later, the release of civil rights-era FBI files might ... Anniston Star (subscription) - Anniston,AL,USA So I kept digging until I eventually found a kindly archivist at the Justice Department who unearthed a four-page, 1965 memorandum that referred to an FBI ... <http://www.annistonstar.com/opinion/2007/as-insight-0603-jflemingcol-7f0 2s0207.htm> $ending a costly message Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA Too many officials responsible for overseeing public documents fail to understand that they belong to the public. One of the officials fined, ...<http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070603/OPINION/706030 346/1029> Feds give Web access to lobbying records Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA Those public documents are available online through a Senate Web site. The new Justice Department site, fara.com, also provides links to lobbying statutes, ...<http://www.star-telegram.com/464/story/121977.html> Texas concealed-gun records closed to public First Amendment Center - Nashville,TN,USA Another public-records bill allows local governments to charge people for staff time it takes to comply with document requests if the work exceeds 36 hours. ...<http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=18626> Prosecutor seeks lighter sentence for conspirator in Coke trade ... PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria ATLANTA (AP) - A prosecutor asked a judge Friday to give a conspirator in a scheme to steal Coca-Cola trade secrets a lighter sentence than federal ... <http://www.pr-inside.com/prosecutor-seeks-lighter-sentence-for-r141370.h tm> Scandal' over shredded reports Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK Mr Cable said it was a resigning issue if a minister had given the shredding order, and a disciplinary matter if it was an official. ... <http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/04/nshred04 .xml> More Companies Outsource Shredding Needs Hartford Business - USA Remy Fenelus doesn't do much shredding these days at his Remy's Custom Design tailor shop. Much of his business is done electronically. ...<http://hartfordbusiness.com/news1717.html> IN FIRM: View Of AICPA 2007 Top Technologies CPA Technology Advisor - Beltsville,MD,USA They must also update their retention policies to include digital data (and backups) and their destruction procedures to ensure that policies are adhered to ... <http://www.cpatechnologyadvisor.com/print/The-CPA-Technology-Advisor/IN- FIRM--View-Of-AICPA-2007-Top-Technologies-/1$1575> New York Times The Internets, They Can Be Cruel <http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/technology/04link.html?ex=1181620800&e n=6cbc179181f0083f&ei=5070&emc=eta1> Financial Week The SarBOX: Bank ducks SEC compliance threshold <http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200770601001> Local man nominated as archivist Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA AUGUSTA -- David Cheever of Augusta has been nominated by the Secretary of State to become the next state archivist. If his nomination is approved, ...<http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/3959030.html> Robbins-Gioia Study Reveals Significant Gap in Records Management ... Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA Survey participants were asked to provide feedback about their organization's project initiatives, compliance and records management practices, top business ... <http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news _view&newsId=20070604005289&newsLang=en> Atlanta: Archivist's office clutter provided the seeds of new Coca ... Miami Herald - Miami,FL,USA To get a sense of the archives' huge scope, you have to go to a place that's not open to the public, to the nether regions of world headquarters on North ...<http://www.miamiherald.com/126/story/122439.html> Dropping DRM a boon for classical music USA Today - USA Industry figures are hopeful that dropping copy protection – thus allowing for big, clear-sounding and non-compressed audio files – will generate even ...<http://www.usatoday.com/tech/webguide/internetlife/2007-06-04-drm-fre e-classical-boon_N.htm> Calaveras keeping close eye on e-mail Stockton Record - Stockton,CA,USA In some cases, such as major land-development projects, the policy would require county departments to create electronic files to collect information and to ...<http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070604/A_NEWS/7 06040320> The Shooter Prevails: Protecting Seung-Hui Cho's Privacy Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA ... says he may ask the State Crime Commission for a subpoena for Cho's medical files. That's the right move, and the next move after obtaining the records ... <http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2007/06/protecting_seunghui_cho s_priva.html> Government accused of shredding IT project reports IT PRO - London,Greater London,UK ... shadow chancellor, Vince Cable, has reportedly tabled a question in the House of Commons asking for the Treasury to explain the document destruction order. <http://www.itpro.co.uk/information-management/news/114629/government-acc used-of-shredding-it-project-reports.html> One in 10 use work laptop to view porn The Australian - Sydney,Australia ALMOST one in 10 Australian workers will use the company laptop to download pornographic material, an international study has found. ... <http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21851307-1702,00.html > Energy gets tough on laptop use GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA In February, the Justice Department's inspector general found that 160 FBI laptop PCs had been lost or stolen during a 44-month period. ... <http://www.gcn.com/print/26_13/44394-1.html> National Archives Opens Electronic Records Vault in Suitland Earthtimes.org - USA The Electronic Records Vault features a non-aqueous fire suppression system, strict environmental controls, and multiple levels of security to protect and ...<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,116437.sht ml> Getting Systems in Line New York Law Journal - New York,NY,USA Calculate as much as possible using hard numbers -- number of boxes, rows in a database table, clients, matters, files, documents, parties, etc. ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1180947929567> National Archives Opens Electronic Records Vault in Suitland Web Services Journal - Montvale,NJ,USA The Washington National Records Center provides records management services to headquarters and field offices of Federal agencies located in the District of ...<http://www.sys-con.com/read/384315.htm> Ship-shape archive sheds light on island life Scotsman - Edinburgh,Scotland,UK He's trying to think of something negative to say about the new Shetland Museum and Archive, but having had a sneak look inside after making a delivery he ...<http://living.scotsman.com/visual.cfm?id=865802007> Agencies face SSN scrubdown FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA Agencies face a daunting task to find and eliminate unnecessary Social Security numbers from their information systems, a chore that the Office of ...<http://www.fcw.com/article102862-06-04-07-Print> New rules for personal data start a long process GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA Other requirements, such as the culling of unnecessary Social Security numbers, probably will take a long time to accomplish. Still, it is a start, ...<http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/44427-1.html> Trentonian, Wed, 30 May 2007 0:13 AM PDT X-RATED FILES SURFACE: Porn-visit data, classified crime memos now public http://www.trentonian.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18400934&BRD=1697&PAG=461&dept_id=44551&rfi=6 EWING - Pornography and dozens of internal memos, some dealing with police murder and rape investigations, ended up in the public's hands after Ewing Township sold the computers at a public auction for just $16 three years ago. Police thought they had deleted the data in the computer hard drives, but a simple search provided at least 88 documents of private police information, sources said Cornell News Service, Wed, 30 May 2007 3:27 PM PDT Cornell Library will help document the founding of historically black colleges and universities http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May07/CUL-HBCU.cp.html A digital collection that chronicles the founding of America's black colleges and universities will continue to expand, thanks to a $450,000 grant to Cornell University Library from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Newswise, Fri, 01 Jun 2007 6:26 AM PDT Helping Document Founding of Historically Black Schools http://redirect.alexa.com/redirect?www.newswise.com/articles/view/530513/?sc=rsln Cornell Library is sharing its expertise in digital imaging, preservation and management with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance to expand a digital history collection. 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