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RAIN 20090306 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. UI Libraries Digitizes Women's Physical Education Image Collection WOWT - Omaha,NE,USA Almost 1000 historic photographs of University of Iowa women's physical education classes -- from archery and synchronized swimming to basketball and dance ... <http://www.wowt.com/news/headlines/40734042.html> Judge bars New Orleans City Council e-mails' release The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA Civil District Court Judge Lloyd Medley Jr. ordered lawyer Tracie Washington, who obtained the electronic messages under a public-records request, ... < http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2009/03/judge_bars_council_emails_rele.html > The King Papers WSFA - Montgomery,AL,USA During our research in Atlanta archivists helped us search through the mountains of information to find king's acceptance address which he gave to the ... <http://www.wsfa.com/Global/story.asp?S=9949801&nav=0RdE> EDRM saves three football pitches of paper for Eastleigh Borough ... PublicTechnology.net - UK IDOX group has successfully implemented a fully integrated and scalable Electronic Document and Records Management System (EDRMS) to Eastleigh Borough ... < http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=19213 > Inadvertent Disclosure: A Lesson Learned Law.com - San Francisco,CA,USA Moreover, "[t]he implementation of an efficient system of records management before litigation may also be relevant." While the 3rd US Circuit Court of ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202428760093> Long-lost manuscript available to historians Derby Evening Telegraph - Derby,England,UK The book, complete with its parchment wrapper, did not resurface until it was handed to county archivist Margaret O'Sullivan by history professor Mark ... < http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Long-lost-manuscript-available-historians/article-746805-detail/article.html > YCCC to help Trolley Museum archive postcards York County Coast Star - Kennebunk,ME,USA The goal is to get the entire collection digitized, cataloged, protected with archival sleeves, and uploaded online for the world to enjoy. ... <http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20090305-NEWS-903050391> Don't toss records of abuse reports Perhaps 'unfounded' complaints ... DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA It's an open question how long such records should be kept, but six months ... service or the men's caretakers because of the records-destruction practice. ... < http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20090305/OPINION03/903050337/-1/ENT05/Don+t+toss+records+of+abuse+reports+Perhaps++unfounded++complaints+had+merit > INTERNET LAW - Failure to Produce E-Discovery and the Honest ... IBLS INTERNET LAW (subscription) - Irvine,CA,USA Upon plaintiff’s notification that electronic and handwritten daily activity records were missing from defendant’s response, defendant explained that it did ... < http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=articles&id=06CD76CB-FC1C-4F2E-A423-6713CDD910CA > Release of council e-mails has council, adminstration scrambling WWL - New Orleans,LA,USA After delays on WWL-TV's public records requests for his own e-mails for months, Mayor Ray Nagin didn't seem too upset with Veronica White's actions during ... <http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl030409tprift.3131c41.html> Obama Team Runs Into Internet Problems - Obama Breaks Promise ... Post Chronicle - USA He envisioned text broadcasts, complex up-to-date email broadcasts. He has run into to problems with technological upgrades, privacy laws, and lack of money ... <http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212211928.shtml> Collapsed Cologne Archive Will Get Government Aid, Neumann Says Bloomberg - USA Treasures in the archives included medieval housing records and certificates, and manuscripts from writers including Heinrich Boell and composers such as ... <http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aIjCeAG77sgg&refer=muse > Library's radio museum archives still in limbo Thousand Oaks Acorn - CA, USA The radio archives in the bank's basement at Hollywood and Vine may have been contaminated by toxic polychlorinated biphenyls in 2004, when an underground ... <http://www.toacorn.com/news/2009/0305/Community/008.html> Spanish newspaper archives to be housed under one virtual roof editorsweblog.org - USA For the first time, newspaper archives dating as far back as the end of the 18th century are now accessible at the click of a mouse, thanks to a new... < http://www.editorsweblog.org/launches_closures/2009/03/spanish_newspaper_archives_to_be_housed.php > Russia Publishes Soviet Famine Documents Journal of Turkish Weekly - Ankara,Turkey But the head of the Russian State Archive, Vladimir Kozlov, rejects claims of genocide in Ukraine. Kozlovsays not a single document exists that would even ... < http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/66170/-russia-publishes-soviet-famine-documents.html > Bournemouth email row leaves staff morale low Bournemouth Daily Echo - Bournemouth,Dorset,UK A week or so later, and around 20 Bournemouth council employees are marched out of their offices and told to stay at home while their computer records are ... < http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4179007.Bournemouth_email_row_leaves_staff_morale_low/ > Expert: E-Mail Release Causes Concern From Public WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA Julian Murray spoke with WDSU about the city's public records policy, which is under fire this week after a local attorney apparently circumvented the... <http://www.wdsu.com/news/18864864/detail.html> City Council Meets About Release Of E-Mails WDSU - New Orleans,LA,USA The release of the e-mails, which are considered public records, comes just two weeks after Nagin responded to a request for his 2008 e-mails by saying they ...<http://www.wdsu.com/news/18862143/detail.html> Maghan wants to archive records Hagerstown Morning Herald - Hagerstown,MD,USA Documents such as deeds, birth, death and marriage records are automatically archived, according to Commissioner Jim Surkamp. There are no reader comments ... <http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=218237&format=html> What Does the Cologne Building Collapse Mean for the Future of ... findingDulcinea - New York,New York,USA But there is hope for restoration: There are already about 20 archivists at work on the site, and thousands of “microfilm duplications of the material ... < http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/Europe/2009/march/What-Does-the-Cologne-Building-Collapse-Mean-for-the-Future-of-Archive-Preservation.html > One hundred years of minutes Blayney Chronicle - New South Wales, Australia GWAHS Corporate Records Manager, Karen-Lea Delaney said the hand written minutes from 1879 contain some very special memories. “We’ve learnt a great deal ... < http://blayney.yourguide.com.au/news/local/news/general/one-hundred-years-of-minutes/1452374.aspx > Preventing Inadvertent Privilege Production Linex Legal - London,UK The Explanatory Note also references the value of an --efficient records management system before litigation|| as a potential --reasonable step|| in the ... <http://www.linexlegal.com/transit.php?content_id=82531&id8=1> Cologne collapse: emergency workers rush to stabilise tunnel New Civil Engineer - London,England,UK The tunnels for the north to south light rail project - known as nord-sud Stadtbahn Köln - ran alongside the city's archive building, and are believed to be ... < http://www.nce.co.uk/news/2009/03/cologne_collapse_emergency_workers_rush_to_stabilise_tunnel.html > Fire damages LCSC Center for Arts and History KLEW - Lewiston,ID,USA Bush said archival information from as far back as the 1860s was stored in the basement. He said he was unaware of how much damage there was in that area. <http://www.klewtv.com/news/local/40806147.html> Humanities Talk Addresses Digital Awareness of South Africa Hamilton College The Spectator - Clinton,NY,USA This creation of an online forum goes along with the Museum's efforts, started in 2006, to digitize its archival collections in order to make them available ... <http://my.hamilton.edu/Spectator/030509/Features/Digital_Awareness.html> RIM CIO: We Record Employee BlackBerry Calls and It’s No Privacy ... CIO - Framingham,MA,USA Bienfait justified RIM’s extensive record keeping by explaining there’s no invasion of user privacy because all of its staffers with corporate-issued ... < http://advice.cio.com/al_sacco/rim_cio_we_record_employee_blackberry_calls_and_it_s_no_privacy_violation > Valuable Works of Art 'Unaccounted For' at the UN FOXNews - USA ... as well as the digitization of all archives. She acknowledged that poor record-keeping in the past caused many of the problems raised in the audit. <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,505364,00.html> E-Discovery in the Criminal Context: Considerations for Company ... Linex Legal - London,UK ... ESI issues early on is just as (and perhaps more) important in a criminal matter given the significant consequences that can result from spoliation. ... <http://www.linexlegal.com/content.php?content_id=82504> No clear access to public documents Cyprus Mail - Nicosia,Cyprus By Stefanos Evripidou PARLIAMENT and members of the public have no clear access to public documents, even when those relate to their person, concluded the ... <http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=44414&cat_id=1> MPAA Claims RealNetworks 'Destroyed' Evidence in DVD Copying Case Wired News - USA "The evidence here is that Real actively destroyed documents," the MPAA wrote (.pdf) US District Judge Marilyn Hall Patel, the San Francisco judge presiding ... <http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2009/03/mpaa-claims-rea.html> MPAA Says Real Destroyed RealDVD Evidence PC Magazine - USA RealNetworks insisted that it has implemented strict document retention policies. The company said its legal department sent a memo on October 6 to the ... <http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2342626,00.asp> Acclaimed German writer's archive lost in building collapse guardian.co.uk - UK The ruins of the city of Cologne's historical archive, which collapsed on Tuesday 3 March 2009. Photograph: Vladimir Rys/Getty For the best part of a decade ... <http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/06/heinrich-boll-archive-cologne> Disgruntled staff misuse data to hit out at employers Economic Times - Gurgaon,Haryana,India However, there are no stringent Indian laws to prevent such data theft. “Trade secrets are protected by contract and are not statutory in India.... < http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/Infotech/Disgruntled-staff-misuse-data-to-hit-out-at-employers/articleshow/4236941.cms > UCLA Gets Huxley Archive New York Times - United States In an honor that’s nearly as estimable as achieving Alpha-Plus status, the literary archive of Aldous Huxley, the writer and “Brave New World” novelist, ... <http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/06/ucla-gets-huxley-archive/?hp> Aldous Huxley archive finds home at UCLA Library Los Angeles Times - CA,USA The UCLA library has acquired the literary archive of Aldous Huxley, the visionary essayist and novelist who is perhaps best known for his book "Brave New ... <http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2009/03/aldous-huxley-a.html> -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA [log in to unmask] Richmond, Va Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers