RAIN 070308
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
National Library of New Zealand partners with OCLC
DUBLIN, Ohio, USA, 5 March 2007—The National Library of New Zealand
will add some 8 million records and the holdings of 275 libraries to
WorldCat, the world's richest database and resource for discovery of
materials held in libraries around the globe. As a result, records of
items held in New Zealand libraries will be visible to Web searchers
worldwide through the OCLC WorldCat.org service, or through popular
search engines such as Google and Yahoo!
<http://www.oclc.org/news/releases/200653.htm>
Dispute over data destruction means records pile up at office
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
The officials cited a statewide document-retention policy amended in
2005 to include electronic records. Previously, only paper court files
were destroyed ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/NEWS0
1/703070927/1008/NEWS01>
Intel deleted court ordered emails
bit-tech.net - Hereford,UK
Intel has acknowledged that it may not have been as fastidious in its
data retention as it had outlined that it would be in July of 2005
(when the court ...
<http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/03/07/Intel_deleted_court_ordered_emai
ls/>
Intel, AMD Ordered To Work On Fix For Lost E-Mail In Antitrust Suit
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
While not accusing Intel of intentionally destroying evidence, the
company questioned the effectiveness of the procedures Intel put in
place to protect ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19780089
9>
Date breaches? You're NIKD
Techworld.com - London,UK
Iron Mountain provides a vaulting service that can collect and store
backup tape cartridges, or that can receive data to be archived off
site over network ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=3213&pagty
pe=samechan>
House passes bill outlining process for redaction of Social ...
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
A bill passed Wednesday by the Texas House of Representatives
eliminates arequirement that county clerks remove Social Security
numbers from public ...
<http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18048818&BRD=2288&PAG=46
1&dept_id=475626&rfi=6>
New House bill addresses Social Security numbers
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
Carl Isett, R-Lubbock states he has pre-filed House Bill 59, proposing
protecting Social Security numbers and other sensitive information for
Texans.
...<http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2007/03/07/news/news01.txt>
House OKs public information measure
Waxahachie Daily Light - Waxahachie,TX,USA
AUSTIN (AP) — The state House approved a measure Monday that would
allow county and district clerks to release Social Security numbers
under the Texas ...
<http://www.waxahachiedailylight.com/articles/2007/03/07/dailylight/news/
04-03-07-capitol.txt>
Intel has a month to search for lost e-mails
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
On Monday Intel disclosed that its document-retention policies might
have failed to preserve a number of e-mails that should have been
retained following ...<http://news.com.com/2061-10791_3-6165312.html>
Intel Ordered to Explain Missing Evidence
BetaNews - USA
... "Today, Intel began to account for its destruction of potentially
massive amounts of evidence, reaching to the highest executive levels
of the company. ...
<http://www.betanews.com/article/Intel_Ordered_to_Explain_Missing_Evidenc
e/1173304424>
New e-voting rules could mean new machines would be scrapped
ZDNet - USA
"The bill right now requires a printer with archival paper. As of right
now, I don't know of any system that has archival paper," said Regis
Young, ...<http://government.zdnet.com/?p=2974>
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
New voting machines could be trashed
Altered U.S. law would require radical changes
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07065/767130-178.stm>
Nazi documents being readied for scholars, but politics could ...
USA Today - USA
Reto Meister, the head of the Tracing Service, said he was bringing
"good news": the first collection of documents — incarceration records,
death catalogs, ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-03-07-nazi-papers_N.htm>
This one’s Bellingham’s really big box store
Bellingham Herald - Bellingham,WA,USA
His company also retrieves the stored documents and delivers them to
clients, pulling out nearly 100 files a day. Furst, who previously
worked in the ...<http://www.bellinghamherald.com/255/story/50605.html>
Moe Koffman's widow donates records to Library and Archives Canada
Ottawa Citizen (subscription) - Ottawa,Ontario,Canada
Thousands of documents, photographs and recordings from the life and
music of the late jazz great Moe Koffman have been donated to Library
and Archives ...
<http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=6eac6df5-ad47-419
d-ab7d-14885bc7c859&k=41879>
Moe Koffman's Legacy Now Part of Library and Archives Canada's ...
CCNMatthews (press release) - Toronto,ON,Canada
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(CCNMatthews - March 7, 2007) - On the occasion of
Canadian Music Week, Library and Archives Canada is pleased to announce
that it has ...
<http://www.ccnmatthews.com/news/releases.Controller?action=check4Cookies
&searchText=false&showText=all&actionFor=639223>
State to move archives to Arad as part of Negev development plan
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
... in the Negev and Galilee on Wednesday approved several plans to
develop the Negev, including a plan to move the State Archives from
Jerusalem to Arad. ...<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/834401.html>
Book Review - Scanning Negatives And Slides: Digitizing Your ...
Blogcritics.org - Aurora,OH,USA
The answer is Scanning Negatives And Slides: Digitizing Your
Photographic Archives. Sascha Steinhoff found that it can be just as
challenging to get a
...<http://blogcritics.org/archives/2007/03/07/173722.php>
Library Of Congress Selects Stones' Song
Guardian Unlimited - UK
From AP. By NATASHA T. METZLER. AP Writer. WASHINGTON (AP) - They say a
picture is worth a thousand words. But what about an original sound
recording? ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6462508,00.html>
Namibia: Struggle History Now On Website
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Much of the material was collected and compiled by the National Archive
of Namibia - where the project is based - in tandem with Aluka
representatives Tom ...<http://allafrica.com/stories/200703070555.html>
County tables decision on redaction software
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
An agenda item requesting funds to pay for software that would help
redact sensitive information from county records was tabled until the
next meeting of
...<http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2007/03/07/news/news02.txt>
Snap happy
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
His collection includes tintypes, stereoscopic cards, several glass
negatives and a large selection of studio portraits and prints,
including rare ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/investment/snap-happy/2007/03/05/117294335372
9.html>
SMU seeking church approval for Bush library site
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
Southern Methodist University plans to ask church leaders next week for
approval to lease campus land for the George W. Bush presidential
library,
...<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/APStories/stories/D8NNLJV80.h
tml>
Historians Fight Bush on Access to Papers
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
At a congressional hearing last week he said that waiting time at the
Reagan Presidential Library had increased to six and a half years from
18 months in
...<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/08/books/08arch.html?ref=books>
Computer problem blacks out state insurance agency's records
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
AP. BATON ROUGE - Computer problems have blacked out the financial
records of Louisiana's state-backed insurer of last resort for months,
and it may have to ...
<http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/BREAK
INGNEWS/70307009>
E-mail lawsuit challenged Morgan County officials want public ...
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
In other counties the commission chairmen say they are in charge of
computer records in data processing departments and written records
kept in their ...
<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/070307/lawsuit.shtml>
Commissioners OK e-mail archive plan
Online Athens (subscription) - Athens,GA,USA
JEFFERSON - Jackson County commissioners agreed Monday to pay $11253
for a backup system to archive all county e-mails sent over the course
of at least one ...
<http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/030707/news_20070307046.shtml>
CKX Acquires Extensive Photo Archive of Muhammad Ali Images
Earthtimes.org - USA
NEW YORK, March 7 -- CKX, Inc. , today announced that its subsidiary,
Muhammad Ali Enterprises LLC, acquired approximately 11000 photographs
of Muhammad Ali ...
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,71538.shtml>
What’s public information, and what’s not?
Stirling Echoes Sentinel - Stirling,NJ,USA
... record,” Pidgeon said, explaining the committee during the course
of its work might have access to township documents that are not public
documents. ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18050294&BRD=1918&PAG=461&dept
_id=506420&rfi=6>
Documenting political history
PSU Daily Vanguard - Portland,OR,USA
The state archive keeps some of its records permanently if a measure
qualifies for the ballot. Petition files and a summary of the
contribution and ...
<http://www.dailyvanguard.com/news/2007/03/07/News/Documenting.Political.
History-2760879.shtml>
Tapes not always the best records
Taunton Gazette - Taunton,MA,USA
The question of taping public meetings and preserving them as public
records came up recently before the Taunton Conservation Commission. ...
<http://www.tauntongazette.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18052586&BRD=1711&PAG
=461&dept_id=24229&rfi=6>
ID theft is exploding in the US
iT News - Australia
And a laptop stolen from a secure office in the Seton Family of
Hospitals in Texas is putting at risk identifying information on 7800
patients without
...<http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=47122>
Sunsine at UAF
UAF Sun Star - Fairbanks,AK,USA
When hackers were revealed to have infiltrated the university’s systems
in April, the Sun Star used a records request to get a help desk file
from the
...<http://www.uaf.edu/sunstar/archives/20070306/editorial.html>
Broin sues to protect trade secrets
Sioux Falls Argus Leader - Sioux Falls,SD,USA
In a new federal lawsuit, Broin says two employees of a
Broin-affiliated ethanol plant in central Iowa learned confidential
information and trade secrets ...
<http://www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/NEWS03/70
3070307/1001/NEWS>
Wall Street Journal
Irish Anglers Say Duke's River Claim Is Pretty Fishy
Locals Cite Magna Carta In Bid to Hook Salmon, But Court Doesn't Bite
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117328231025629595-email.html>
Wolfgang's Vault fights back, says the record labels "can't ...
Zeropaid - San Diego,CA,USA
It was about 3 months ago that Wolfgang's Vault was sued by a number of
artists upset over the fact that old concert footage and recordings
that featured ...
<http://www.zeropaid.com/news/8489/Wolfgang's+Vault+fights+back,+says+the
+record+labels+%22can't+destroy+us!%22/>
Carroll County property records on display
Examiner.com - USA
... documents - all from 1869 - three months ago, the library gained a
rare historical gem, said Wesley Wilson, chief of the State Library
Resource Center. ...
<http://www.examiner.com/a-607125~Carroll_County_property_records_on_disp
lay.html>
A VISIT TO THE PROVINCIAL ARCHIVES PROMISES SOME GOOD OL ...
VUE Weekly - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
Along the walls of this circular reading room are binders and card
catalogues, which will help the archivist on staff to track down the
documents or ...<http://www.vueweekly.com/articles/default.aspx?i=5927>
Archival Environment, Part 4
B-EYE-Network - Boulder,CO,USA
You have built your archival environment and you have done everything
right. You have built many “data vaults.” You have freed the archival
data from the ... <http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/3820>
Message in a battle
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
"This is where you really see the value of archival information," says
Mariners' Museum assistant archivist Gregg Cina, showing off one of
many letters ...
<http://www.dailypress.com/features/lifestyle/dp-72511sy0mar08,1,3541339.
story?coll=dp-features-thurslife>
Historic records and deeds to state lands now on Web
The Reporter - Fond du Lac,WI,USA
“This is the culmination of a several year project to digitize these
documents, many of which date back to the founding of our State in
1848,” La Follette ...
<http://www.fdlreporter.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070307/FON0101/7
0307165/1289/FONnews>
Editorial: Security and access to records essential
Bryan College Station Eagle - Bryan-College Station,TX,USA
Many public documents - from birth, marriage and death records to
property transfers - contain Social Security numbers. After the
attorney general's ruling,
...<http://www.theeagle.com/stories/030807/opinions_20070308087.php>
Man Who Dumped Personal Documents Says He Did Nothing Wrong
KCBD-TV - Lubbock,TX,USA
After checking out the pile ourselves we found addresses from Wolfforth
and other very personal information in the documents. The records say
they are from ...<http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=6195524>
RFID Aids Records Management
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
FileTrail says its system enables companies to keep tabs on all
documents, cutting time and costs associated with lost files, not to
mention reducing ...<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=8146>
Managing Your Organization’s (Information) Assets
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
And can you prevent destruction if required to do so? Stop and ask your
organization these questions: Does your organization have a documented
records ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1914&Itemi
d=44>
Inside Bay Area, Tue, 06 Mar 2007 2:55 AM PST
Archivists hope to catalog UC's entire library online
http://www.insidebayarea.com/ci_5365544?source=rss
RICHMOND — About a dozen twentysomethings are creating the library of
the future in a small room attached to a colossal University of
California book warehouse.
RedNova, Thu, 08 Mar 2007 9:51 AM PST
By Digitizing, Are We Trading Future Accessibility for Current
Availability?
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/863204/by_digitizing_are_we_trading_future_accessibility_for_current_availability/index.html?source=r_technology
By Balas, Janet L Sometimes I feel that I am becoming a technology
curmudgeon. I don't just jump on the bandwagon at each announcement of
a new technology; instead I wait to see if it has any advantages
besides being new.
RedNova, Thu, 08 Mar 2007 9:51 AM PST
International Search Engines and Directories: Beyond Tourist Sights and
Sites
<<http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/863207/international_search_eng
ines_and_directories_beyond_tourist_sights_and_sites/index.html?source=r_
technology>>
Sun-Sentinel, Mon, 05 Mar 2007 0:33 AM PST
Don't get personal with computers and other technology on the job
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-ybbiztech05mar05,0,7009205.column?track=rss
Natalie Boden has a fairly succinct set of rules for people using her
corporate computers or network.
Saipan Tribune, Tue, 06 Mar 2007 6:00 AM PST
Historical document collection now available
http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=66305
The NMI Council for the Humanities is pleased to announce the
availability of a substantial collection of historical documents
associated with the three CNMI Constitutional Conventions.
The Bryan-College Station Eagle, Wed, 07 Mar 2007 5:55 AM PST
Help on the way for Brazos County Clerk's Office
http://www.theeagle.com/stories/030707/local_20070307016.php
The Brazos County Commissioners Court agreed Tuesday to set aside about
$800 per week for two temporary employees at the County Clerk's Office
to help with redacting records.
KNOW WHERE YOUR TAPES ARE?
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
Just ask Bank of America, which in 2005 lost a tape cartridge with
credit-card information on 1.2 million customers. Ameritrade, Time
Warner and Citigroup
...<http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/16855604.htm>
Gay Attorney Responds to Firm's Suit
Gay City News - USA
... S&C filed its counter-suit, Charney destroyed the hard drive on his
home computer, where S&C claimed he had housed the confidential
documents at issue. ...
<http://www.gaycitynews.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18055289&BRD=2729&PAG=46
1&dept_id=568860&rfi=6>
Soccer ladies’ archive film on TV
This Is Lancashire - Blackburn,England,UK
Historic archive footage is to be broadcast next week to illustrate one
of Preston's greatest and most-inspiring sporting stories. ...
<http://www.thisislancashire.co.uk/news/localnews/display.var.1245820.0.s
occer_ladies_archive_film_on_tv.php>
The Boeing Company Provides $5 Million for the National Archives ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
WASHINGTON, March 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Foundation for the
National Archives announced today that The Boeing Company has awarded a
$5 million ...
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,69761.shtml>
Gift of rare manuscripts adds to Oriental Institute’s riches
Ahmedabad Newsline - Ahmedabad,India
According to Wadekar, the Gwalior manuscripts would now be classified
and categorically arranged to enable people to study them. ...
<http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=225710>
Intel faces e-mail probe in AMD case
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
Intel told US District Judge Joseph J. Farnan Jr. in a letter Monday
that "some document-retention lapses" had occurred because of
"inadvertent mistakes" in ...
<http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-intel8mar08,1,1023302.story?coll
=la-mininav-technology>
Intel Faces Up to E-Mail Retention Problems in AMD Lawsuit
eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA
Intel is facing some big-time legal problems in its 2-year-old legal
tussle with a major competitor, AMD—largely because its own internal
e-mail archiving
...<http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2101674,00.asp>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
________________________________________________________________________
AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free
from AOL at AOL.com.
=0
List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
|
