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RAIN 20100127 Part 1
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
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Social Networking: A Workplace Policy
Law.com
Implementing a policy on the use of blogs and social networks can protect
against loss of company trade secrets and injury to the company name, ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202439369681&Social_Networking_A_Workplace_Policy>
A Closer Look at Digital Signatures
Internet Evolution
... or records management (RM) applications. Examples of these mightinclude
Documentum, Oracle URM, Open Text LiveLink, FileNet P8, or MS SharePoint. ...
<http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=766&doc_id=186933&f_src=internetevolution_gnews>
As Records Go Digital, Cultures Clash
Kaiser Health News
... electronic medical records say the result has been a massive headache:
surprise charges, inadequate training and even blocked access to patient files.
...<http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2010/January/22/electronic-medical-records.aspx?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+khn+(All+Kaiser+Health+News)>
Little-known law is blocking path to
Jerry Brown's papers
Inside Bay Area
With Brown all but declared as a candidate for governor again, his papers —
documents that cover the wide swath of decisions he made in office from 1975 to
...<http://www.insidebayarea.com/top-stories/ci_14241254>
Berlin insures future
of Stasi file archive
The Local
“The question of when and in what form the Stasi file archive will be
transferred to the national archive will be addressed by an independent
commission ...<http://www.thelocal.de/national/20100122-24741.html>
Botnets: "The Democratization of
Espionage"
CSO
Roland Dobbins, Arbor Networks: Well, ten to fifteen years ago, if you were
going to be the target of state sponsored or corporate espionage, you yourself
...<http://www.csoonline.com/article/521619/Botnets_The_Democratization_of_Espionage_>
Secret lives of town's benefactors laid
bare
The Bury Times
The funding, which comes from the National Cataloguing Grants Programme for
Archives, will be used to employ an archivist who will spend six months sorting
...<http://www.burytimes.co.uk/news/4861985.Secret_lives_of_town___s_benefactors_laid_bare/>
Don't Put E-Discovery on the Back Burner
IT Business Edge (blog)
...[G]iven that we are now more than three years removed from the revised FRCP,
courts seem increasingly likely to not give litigants the benefit of the
...<http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/bentley/dont-put-e-discovery-on-the-back-burner/?cs=38912>
Treasure trove of historical documents
available on CD
Midland Daily News
Among the files on the disc are cemetery records from 1850-1981, census records
from 1850 to 1894, a Midland
County probate index
covering the years ...<http://ourmidland.com/articles/2010/01/23/local_news/2358255.txt>
Ruling Backs Palin's Use of Private
E-Mail for State Work
New York Times
Ms. McLeod argued that Ms. Palin and the governor's office had a responsibility
to save e-mail messages related to state business as public records, ...<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/us/politics/24palin.html>
State Destroys SF Studios Project
E-Mails: Communications Older Than 90 Days ...
TMCnet
In response to an Inspection of Public Records Request by the Journal seeking
all correspondence relating to the Santa Fe Studios project, the department
...<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-state-destroys-sf-studios-project-e-mails-communications-/2010/01/23/4586672.htm>
Storage solutions
Montgomery Advertiser
Companies turn to off-site records management for several reasons, Roberts
said. Records simply grow to the point that space is an issue at some
companies. ...<http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20100124/BUSINESS/1240340/Storage-solutions>
Off-site record-keeping a growing
business
Montgomery
Advertiser
By Cosby Woodruff • January 24, 2010 New regulations for some industries and
expensive office rents for others are causing more businesses to turn to
...<http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20100124/BUSINESS/1240340/1003>
A Chinese American immigration secret
emerges from the dark days of discrimination
Los Angeles Times
By claiming to be citizens whose records had been lost in the destruction, they
became free to travel to China; once there, they could either bring back
...<http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-paper-son24-2010jan24,0,590955.story>
Debate over significance of released
'Auschwitz blueprints'
New Zealand
Herald
Ralf Georg Reuth, the historian who wrote the piece in Bild, said the existence
of such plans in Russian archives was known, "but German institutions have
...<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10622120>
Wild Web deserves to be tamed
Monterey County Herald
However, we will attempt to apply more stringent standards and we will delete
more postings. In addition to the racists, the haters and the vulgar, ...<http://www.montereyherald.com/opinion/ci_14258623>
WaterSecure to deploy eDRM system
Computerworld Australia
“Implementing a records management program underpinned by an electronic
information management solution supports WaterSecure's compliance obligations
under ...<http://www.computerworld.com.au/article/333711/watersecure_deploy_edrm_system>
'Prototype Laptop' Stolen from Apple's
Campus Last Year (Report)
Softpedia
By asking for Apple-tablet information in exchange for prize money, the contest
induced breach-of-contract and disclosure of Apple trade secrets, ...<http://news.softpedia.com/news/Prototype-Laptop-Stolen-from-Apple-s-Campus-Last-Year-Report-132986.shtml>
Sinclair Lewis letters on the Internet
SCSU University
Chronicle
said Thomas Steman, University Archivist/Associate Professor. “St. Cloud State University
has actually had this collection since 1996 when Mary Branham had ...<http://www.universitychronicle.com/news/sinclair-lewis-letters-on-the-internet-1.2147198>
A 70 TB tape cartridge: too much, too
late?
ZDNet (blog)
Magnetic tape is the oldest digital storage technology still in use. Once mass
storage meant tape storage because drums - and later, disks – were tiny and
...<http://blogs.zdnet.com/storage/?p=769>
'First record' of Africans at Stirling Castle found
BBC News
He said the importance of the Bread Book was its clarity at a time when
record-keeping was relatively thin. The research has been published in a paper
by ...<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8478535.stm>
Oregon Zoo gains a trunkful of history
OregonLive.com
Inside were bits of history that had been lost during an era when the zoo was
less conscientious about its record keeping.The estate sale brimmed with photo
...<http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/oregon_zoo_gains_a_trunkful_of.html>
On the job: Georgia Historical Society
intern
Savannah Morning News
Brian Williams, the heritage tourism intern at the Georgia Historical Society,
spends much of his time researching Civil War history in Georgia, ...<http://savannahnow.com/exchange/2010-01-25/job-georgia-historical-society-intern>
How to digitise your old vinyl records
PC Advisor
Here, you can choose to import an existing audio file, record music from vinyl
or tape or copy files from an audio CD. <http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=3211130>
The Rise Of Structured Data: What
Businesses Need To Know
Fresh Business Thinking
This sudden surge in data storage requirements can be accounted for by a rise
in stored data and records such as stock trades, ATM transactions, ... <http://www.freshbusinessthinking.com/business_advice.php?AID=4411&Title=The+Rise+Of+Structured+Data%3A+What+Businesses+Need+To+Know>
6 Ways Document Management and Records
Management Differ
CMSWire
Records often have strict compliance requirements regarding their retention,
access and destruction, and generally have to be kept unchanged. ...<http://www.cmswire.com/cms/document-management/6-ways-document-management-and-records-management-differ-006454.php>
Pa. Historical Society Digitizing Its
Civil War Collections
KYW1060.com
On Monday, an archivist was setting up a special digital camera acquired by the
Historical Society of Pennsylvania which will digitize thousands of letters,
...<http://www.kyw1060.com/Pa--Historical-Society-Digitizing-Its-Civil-War-Co/6199881>
National Archives to ban photography in
exhibit
Washington Post
AP WASHINGTON
-- Tourists will soon be banned from taking photographs or video at the
National Archives main exhibit hall to help protect the Declaration of ...<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012501609.html>
Linda Wise, electronic archives and
giant bugs...oh my!
Bizjournals.com (blog)
Lorraine Stuart, director of archives for the museum, told me that the museum
was the first fine art museum to receive that kind of grant from the NHPRC.
...<http://www.bizjournals.com/houston/blog/2010/01/linda_wise_electronic_archives_and_giant_bugsoh_my.html>
Get Data Out Of The Cloud
InformationWeek (blog)
If you are using cloud storage as a way to store backups, archives or to
collaborate on data, having an extra copy within your control should be
straight ...<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2010/01/get_data_out_of.html>
County cash boost for archive appeal
Romsey Advertiser
Hampshire County
Council has agreed to pledge £100000 towards the University of Southampton's
appeal to purchase the Broadlands Archives.<http://www.romseyadvertiser.co.uk/news/4870005.County_cash_boost_for_archive_appeal/>
Digitization of archive repositories on
anvil: Jora
Rising Kashmir
... documents and records of three Archive Repositories of Srinagar, Jammu and Ladakh, ...
Nawang Rigzin Jora during his visit to State Archive Repository, ...<http://www.risingkashmir.com/?option=com_content&task=view&id=20249>
New digital archive for Shakespeare
scholars
The Hindu
Funded by the UK Joint Information Systems Committee and the US National
Endowment for the Humanities, the Shakespeare Quartos Archive (www.quartos.org)
is ...<http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/books/article94808.ece>
Stitching the Narrative of a Revolution
New York Times
Why the government is releasing some documents from the era is unclear. Archive
officials declined repeated requests for interviews. Experts say the files
...<http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/world/asia/26files.html>
Cloud storage hype: Customers not buying
it
San Francisco Chronicle
The market has numerous mature backup services such as Asigra, EMC?s Mozy,
i365, IBM Business Continuity and Resilience Services and Iron Mountain,
...<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/01/25/urnidgns852573C400693880002576B60071A7E4.DTL>
Congress urged: Ratify Freedom of
Information Act
Inquirer.net
“After a long struggle, the passage of the Freedom of Information Act is
finally near at hand,” Network said, adding that it should not take long for
the ...<http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/nation/view/20100126-249502/Congress-urged-Ratify-Freedom-of-Information-Act>
Image mission required 7 years
Florida Today
That's when federal archivists lost track of them, Benn said. And the original
index of the 78 aerials had been destroyed. Benn became the historical ...<http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100126/NEWS01/1260320/1006/Image+mission+required+7+years>
National Archives to Ban Photography
DCist.com
Here, the archivists are concerned for the preservation of the most important
documents our country created, and anyone who's visited the Archives knows
...<http://dcist.com/2010/01/national_archives_to_ban_photograph.php>
Baseline
Disaster-Proofing IT After Katrina
Gulfport Municipal Court streamlined its infrastructure after Hurricane Katrina destroyed numerous court documents, investing in a digital imaging solution and storing data in multiple sites to prevent such a disastrous loss from ever happening again.
Archivist, architect approved
Belleville
Intelligencer
Months of debate, delays and deliberation have come to an end – city council
has approved hiring both an archivist and an architect for the new archives
...<http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2276786>
UCLA Library names Tom Hyry new head of
special collections
UC Los Angeles
Prior to that, Hyry spent nine years in Yale University Library's manuscripts
and archives department, where he began as an entry-level archivist and ...<http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/hyry-appointment-152164.aspx>
Book, papers by late Pat Wagoner donated
to Historical Society
Keyser Mineral Daily News Tribune
McDonald said a photocopy of the Nancy Hanks book is housed in the state
archives in Charleston, but members of the Historical Society had “never seen
an ...<http://www.newstribune.info/news/x1658504437/Book-papers-by-late-Pat-Wagoner-donated-to-Historical-Society>
UNCG Opens Web Portal to Greensboro's Civil Rights
History
UNCG University News
Civil Rights Greensboro, a searchable digital archive, covers such subjects as
desegregation of local schools, the historic February 1960 sit-ins at ...<http://www.uncg.edu/ure/news/stories/2010/jan/CRGDatabase012510.htm>
As Health Files Go Digital, Patients May
Spot Unpleasant Surprises
Huffington Post Investigative Fund
Federal officials expect many Americans to not only store their personal health
records in a digital file, but also to share them with doctors and hospitals
...<http://huffpostfund.org/stories/2010/01/health-files-go-digital-patients-may-spot-unpleasant-surprises>
How to digitise your old vinyl records
IDG
If you want to record an album, there's a handy option to 'Save automatically
into individual files'. Step 7. If you want to copy your records and then burn
...<http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=6B7E54D1-1A64-67EA-E462E05A76BFED75>
BlueCross computer theft already costs
$7 million
Chattanooga Times Free Press
The missing computer files contained audio copies of telephone calls and
records of video screen images that could compromise the identity or privacy of
up ...<http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2010/jan/26/bluecross-computer-theft-already-costs-7-million/>
Alaska Mental Health Trust Land Office
Takes Paperless Approach to Property ...
PR Web (press release)
With Document Locator in place, staff can quickly access land use
authorizations, planning files, and project documents, allowing for accurate
...<http://www.prweb.com/releases/document/management/prweb3495114.htm>
E-Discovery: Doing It In An
"Ignorant And Indifferent Fashion" May Lead To ...
Mondaq News Alerts (registration)
The failure to do so may result in the spoliation of relevant evidence, thus
opening the party up to severe sanctions, such as an adverse inference ...<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=92798>
Long-lost aerials of old Brevard County
Florida Today
The city of Melbourne
hopes to receive $385000 in federal disaster-recovery funding for storm-water
upgrades in this neighborhood, county records show. ...<http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20100126/NEWS01/1260319/1006/Long-lost+aerials+of+old+Brevard+County>
Legal battle begins over Lackawanna
County director's e-mails
Scranton Times-Tribune
Ms. Melewsky said she found the court administrators' request to destroy
records "troubling" in light of the disputed nature of the records.
"Destruction of ...<http://thetimes-tribune.com/news/legal-battle-begins-over-lackawanna-county-director-s-e-mails-1.571584>
Whitby archives
looking to capture history of photographer
Newsdurhamregion.com
"We've got some information about her but we're looking for a lot
more," said town archivist Brian Winter, encouraging people to come
forward and share ...<http://www.newsdurhamregion.com/news/article/146796>
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