Can anyone get me in contact with the RM or Archivist at SW Medical School
in Dallas or Harris Hospital in Fort Worth?
Thanks in advance,
Mary Hayes, M.A., C.A.
College and Special Collections Archivist
Pearce Civil War Collections at Navarro College
3100 W. Collin St.
Corsicana, Texas 75110
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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Not all government officials treat e-mail records same way
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Hitting delete when your in-box fills may not be a big deal to the average
e-mail user, but it's different when you work for elected officials
such as
Gov. ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-citwa
tch_14pro.ART.State.Edition1.cc2e00.html>
Federal Parliament passes data retention and wire tapping legislation
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
The opposition parties uniformly voted against the bill which is also aimed
at transposing EU-guidelines on data retention of phone- and internet data
into ...
<http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/99158>
13000 determined to file suit against data retention legislation
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
Interest in the proposed "mass filing of constitutional complaints" against
last week's passing of the data retention amendments by the Federal
Parliament ...
<http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/99161>
Sending E-mail Into Thin Air
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
Under federal law, White House officials can't destroy records, including
e-mail, without an OK from the national archivist. But some e-mail between
March ...
<http://www.theledger.com/article/20071119/NEWS/711190347/1036>
Secrecy for Farm Animals
OMB Watch - USA
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a bill late last month that would
create a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption for records in the
National ...
<http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/4080/1/1?TopicID=1>
Michigan Daily, Wed, 21 Nov 2007 1:16 AM PST
Answers: The sporting historian
http://www.michigandaily.com/news/2007/11/21/TheStatement/Answers.The.Sporti
ng.Historian-3113287.shtml
As an associate archivist at the Bentley Historical Library, Gregory
Kinney spends a lot of his time sifting through old documents from the
Athletic Department. Originally a history major, Kinney studied
library sciences at the University and eventually fell into his
current field of study - a position he says is unique to the
University, an athletic historian.
Security firms condemn HMRC for breach
IT PRO - London,England,UK
... given the technology available," she said, adding that electronic
records systems are working well for Connecting for Health's (CfH) Spine
database, ...
<http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/140811/security-firms-condemn-hmrc-for-breach.h
tml>
Courts letters shredded in error
Tyrone Times - Dungannon,Northern Ireland,UK
"No post has gone missing, no personal details or no confidential documents
have gone astray," stressed a Courts Service spokesman. ...
<http://www.tyronetimes.co.uk/latest-irish-news/Courts-letters-shredded-in-e
rror.3511369.jp>
Police told to delete old records
News Guardian - North Tyneside,England,UK
By ANTHONY MCLEAN NORTHUMBRIA Police has been ordered to delete a
decades-old criminal record because it is "no longer relevant", it has been
revealed. ...
<http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/latest-news/Police-told-to-delete-old.3489131
.jp>
Idiots. Utter, unbelievable, jaw-dropping, unpardonable idiots. It ...
Times Online - UK
Even data you delete can be recovered. We cant go back to paper files
stored locally. The genie is out of the bottle and the modern world cannot
function ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/alice_miles/article2910
272.ece?ILC
The Bill of Rights finally came back
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
The packing material included records of the General Assembly, says state
archivist George Stevenson in an affidavit. "A number of the documents were
taken ...
<http://www.charlotte.com/opinion/story/372009.html>
Democratic caucus trashed files, sources say
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Brad Bumsted and Debra Erdley HARRISBURG -- Internal House Democratic
Caucus documents were shredded as a grand jury investigation was under way
late ...
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_539041.html>
British government hit by loss of sensitive computer records
Earthtimes - London,UK
London - A massive investigation was under way in Britain Wednesday
following the embarrassing revelation that the government has lost personal
computer ...
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/145618.html>
British Leader Apologizes After Taxpayer Information Security Breach
Voice of America - USA
... there have been no reported signs of fraudulent banking activity that
could have resulted from the information contained on those revenue
computer records.
<http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-21-voa38.cfm>
Data breach in Britain creates potential for massive fraud
International Herald Tribune - France
... US Department of Veterans Affairs last year, which affected the names,
birth dates and social security numbers of 26.5 million former service
personnel. ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/21/technology/privacy.php>
Disposal Done Right
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
... has an accurate paper trail, [and] we also provide a video copy of the
shredding process so that there is a visual record, as well," Lanzet
says. ...
<http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fp2947%2F2
3p47%2F23p47.asp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&bJumpTo=True>
How to get 7.5m records on two cds
Channel 4 News - London,UK
It's a lot of data but according to a data storage expert Channel 4 News
online spoke to it is quite possible to store it all on two standard
compact discs ...
<http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/how+to+get
+75m+records+on+two+cds/1076647>
State hires new data firm after student records are lost
KTBS - Shreveport,LA,USA
The Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission has approved
contracting with a Houston-based company for electronic and encrypted data
storage that ...
<http://www.ktbs.com/news/State-hires-new-data-firm-after-student-records-ar
e-lost-6686/>
State hires new data firm
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
The more expensive, electronic data storage system offered by Truistic,
which also has a Baton Rouge office, takes the truck delivery component out
of the ...
<http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/11679231.html>
Oklahoma City bombing archive surfaces
United Press International - USA
21 (UPI) -- The Center for American History at the University of Texas
holds a previously overlooked archive detailing the bombing of a federal
building in ...
<http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/11/21/oklahoma_city_bombing_arch
ive_surfaces/9583/>
After Years in Low, Archives Moves Out
CU Columbia Spectator - New York,NY,USA
By David Xia The University Archives and Columbiana Library has completed
its move out of Low Library and is expected to resume its services on
January 2, ...
<http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/28270>
Obama's State Government Records Missing
Blogger News Network - USA
Even Tim Russert brought up the candidate's state archives to an evasive
Obama. On the November 11th episode of Meet the Press, Russert brought up
the ...
<http://www.bloggernews.net/111844>
Drive for museum gets closer to reality
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA
... with another $3.9 promised by 2004, little was getting done other than
the accumulation of two truckloads of memorabilia by the Louisiana State
Archives.
<http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-34/1195626210247670.x
ml&coll=1>
State bonus investigation a step ahead of shredders
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Some documents, sources said, did not find their way into the legislative
research files and were destroyed separately. Among items destroyed were
computer ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07326/835982-85.stm>
Iron Mountain acquires Xepa Digital
Computer Business Review - UK
By Staff Writer Iron Mountain provides film studios and record labels
preservation services, including long-term archiving, tape inspection and
duplication ...
<http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=D5B23C87-6FBA-4A8A-9908-B2A5
EBDE93C9>
mcveigh's lawyer donated large defense file to UT
Houston Chronicle - United States
(c) 2007 AP AUSTIN, Texas -- Stashed in 700 feet of boxes tucked away at
the University of Texas lies a detailed look at the case of Timothy
mcveigh, ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5320473.html>
Court post bags destroyed after shredding error
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
By Dearbhail mcdonald Legal Affairs Correspondent The shredding was last
night blamed on "human error" and although documents in relation to
significant ...
<http://www.independent.ie/national-news/court-post-bags-destroyed-after-shr
edding-error-1226485.html>
losing secrets can cost you a lot of money
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... accusing former sales director janine brisbois of "illegal conduct"
when she allegedly engaged in "theft of trade secrets" for the benefit of
her new ...
<http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=aedad537-0c3
0-44fa-8b9a-a4a2a2918ac8>
iron mountain buys digitizer xepa
CNNMoney.com - USA
new york (associated press) - information storage company iron mountain
inc. said monday it has purchased xepa digital llp, which transfers
outmoded audio ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/0209e659809900394dc4765
3daf872ff.htm>
Hudson's Bay archives join world list
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
The province announced this morning that the archive, a huge collection
chronicling much of Canada's history and the expansion westward, has been
added to ...
<http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4081788p-4681156c.html>
£5000 would have made HMRC discs safe
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the procedure to delete the details - which
would have removed much of the threat of identity fraud - would have cost
just ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/23/ncustoms123
.xml>
linton presidential library releases files on ufos
FOX News - USA
little rock, arkansas -- in a move sure to provide fodder for conspiracy
theorists, the clinton library withheld e-mails with subject lines like
"x-files" ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311545,00.html>
Security experts slam government data retention
Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,Ireland
While DRI sees the British Government's massive loss of sensitive
data as
a reason to repeal existing data retention laws, UK analysts Ovum points
out that ...
<http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single9686>
Data protection Lost in the post
Economist - UK
... of Veterans Affairs in America in 2006, and the loss by Bank of America
in 2005 of tapes containing information on 1m American government
employees. ...
<http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10177106>
Can de-dupe data be used for compliance storage?
Techworld.com - London,UK
Say you need to prove that an electronically-stored file or object is the
original document. If it is an electronically-generated document in the
first ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureID=3827&pagtype=
all>
activist spams gov. perry to stop shredding practice
abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA
(11/11/07 - austin, tx) - after learning that gov. rick perry has his staff
destroy e-mail records after seven days, a political activist decided this
week ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=state&id=5754873>
Leader: It's time for a data breach disclosure law
Silicon.com - UK
The Prime Minister's decision to allow the Information Commissioner to make
spot checks on data storage and security at government departments is
welcome ...
<http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39169239,00.htm>
Inland Revenue's Loss of Data Confirms Worldwide Lack of Privacy
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Investment funds do not hold pieces of paper, but computer records. Bankers
transfer huge sums of money by computer. Politicians fight elections by
seeking ...
<http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/inland-revenue/2007/11/23/>
Data Leak in Britain Affects 25 Million
New York Times - United States
Last year, a computer and detachable hard drive with the names, birth dates
and Social Security numbers of 26.5 million veterans and military personnel
was ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/world/europe/22data.html?ref=europe>
The Telegraph
Ministers 'ignored data security warnings'
<http://tinyurl.com/ytsg9z>
Computer Weekly
Missing child benefit CDs: what went wrong, and why it would have
carried on regardless
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/11/21/228217/missing-child-bene
fit-cds-what-went-wrong-and-why-it-would-have-carried-on.htm>
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Richmond, Va
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