RAIN 20091021
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Dallas County courts moving to all-electronic filing
Dallas Morning News
Dallas County District Clerk Gary Fitzsimmons' office is moving to a
paperless system for its court records. The district clerk's office is
converting files ...<
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/crime/stories/DN-paperless_11met.ART0.Central.Edition1.4c23aaf.html>
California county pays $500000 in map data dispute
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
... could withhold or charge extremely high fees for electronic maps that
were sought during a public records request, the San Jose Mercury News
reported. ...<http://www.rcfp.org/newsitems/index.php?i=11061>
Continental Steel Mill Archive Creates a Legacy
istockAnalyst.com (press release)
A PowerPoint presentation rolls through some of the best of the archival
footage with a historian's eye, dismissing neither the plant's dangers nor
its ...<
http://www.istockanalyst.com/article/viewiStockNews/articleid/3551883>
New York Institutions Digitize Archives
NY Convergence (blog)
... Theater Company and the Morgan Library have received grants from the
Leon Levy Foundation to identify, preserve and digitize their archival
collections. ...<
http://www.nyconvergence.com/2009/10/new-york-institutions-digitize-archives-.html
>
O'Fallon, Mo., police shred case records damaged by water
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Kelley says the damaged case records were at least a decade old and already
scheduled for shredding. Kathleen Corrigan, the department's records
supervisor, ...
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http://www.stltoday.com/blogzone/chas-beat/police/2009/10/ofallon-mo-police-shred-case-records-damaged-by-water/
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ntel, AMD Battle Over Evidence Retention
eWeek - Woburn,MA,USA
Intel and AMD once again are feuding over the document retention policies
that have been at issue since AMD filed its antitrust lawsuit against Intel
four ...<
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Desktops-and-Notebooks/Intel-AMD-Battle-Over-Evidence-Retention-505615/
>
Fulbright & Jaworski 2009 Litigation Trends Survey: U.S. Companies ...
Reuters - USA
Stricter document retention policies, such as systematic destruction, also
help keep discovery costs down. The 2009 survey asked companies to consider,
...<
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS131327+15-Oct-2009+BW20091015
>
Mandela archive to be made public
BBC News
The Nelson Mandela archive, a collection of the former South African
president's prison diaries, unseen letters and journals are soon to be made
public. ...<
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/10/091015_mandela_wt_sl.shtml>
Iron Mountain adds e-discovery to hosted archive service
Computer Business Review
The service can be used to archive up to 10 years-worth of email in a secure
offsite location, but which can be searched from the desktop. ... <
http://www.cbronline.com/news/iron_mountain_adds_e_discovery_to_hosted_archive_service_151009
>
Meeting Compliance Requirements With Document Management Software
Business Solutions Magazine
"If you think compliance is expensive, try noncompliance." This paper is
based on the three tenants of information compliance: Records Management,
...<
http://www.bsminfo.com/article.mvc/Meeting-Compliance-Requirements-With-Document-0002
>
Preserving the magic of film
Greensboro News Record
And in an age when certain media may go obsolete after a few years, it's
especially important to preserve the original product, archivists say. ...<
http://www.news-record.com/content/2009/10/15/article/preserving_the_magic_of_film
>
Ex-Ford employee held in data theft
The Detroit News
Law enforcement officials say that, just prior to leaving the Dearborn
automaker, Yu copied thousands of confidential documents, including what
they ...
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http://www.detnews.com/article/20091016/AUTO01/910160357/1148/Ex-Ford-employee-held-in-data-theft
>
Think twice before deleting that e-mail
Daily Journal of Commerce
Among other things, you should: • Implement a document retention policy that
addresses storage and destruction of ESI. • Train employees to store their
ESI ...<
http://djcoregon.com/news/2009/10/15/think-twice-before-deleting-that-e-mail/
>
Does Fresno man own Ansel Adams negatives?
Fresno Bee - Fresno,CA,USA
A historically documented photograph by Adams, left, is shown with a print
from one of Norsigian's glass negatives. Rick Norsigian, left, shows a print
from ...<http://www.fresnobee.com/updates/story/1674858.html>
Collector insists garage-sale find is Ansel Adams' early work
Belleville News Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA
A handful of experts are trying to prove what Rick Norsigian has suspected
for years: that his garage-sale find of 60 glass photo negatives are the
early ...<http://www.bnd.com/breaking_news/story/967992.html>
Burlington Northern Sante Fe Railroad Destroyed Evidence in Attempted Cover
Up
InjuryBoard.com (blog)
To punish the railroad, which allegedly began destroying evidence within
minutes of the 2003 accident, Judge Ellen Maas awarded $4 million to the
victims' ...<
http://kansascity.injuryboard.com/mass-transit-accidents/burlington-norther-sante-fe-railroad-destroys-evidence-in-attempted-cover-up.aspx?googleid=272794
>
Toyota Can Peek Inside Four Boxes of Evidence, but Not Plaintiffs Attorneys
The National Law Journal
Biller claims the four boxes are filled with internal documents from his
time at Toyota that prove the company was concealing and destroying evidence
in the ...<
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202434645663&Toyota_Can_Peek_Inside_Four_Boxes_of_Evidence_but_Not_Plaintiffs_Attorneys
>
Pierce County's History Detectives
Tacoma Daily News
"These will be the historic photographs people will look at 60 years from
now," said Johnson. Her tone was less pomp-and-circumstance and more ... <
http://www.tacomadailyindex.com/portals-code/list.cgi?paper=88&cat=23&id=1643122&more=0
>
Ex-Ford engineer charged with trade secret theft
Computerworld
Yu, 47, was charged with theft of trade secrets, attempted theft of trade
secrets and unauthorized access to protected computers. Each of the
theft-related ...<
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9139472/Ex_Ford_engineer_charged_with_trade_secret_theft
>
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http://www.freep.com/article/20091015/BUSINESS0102/91015037/1319/Ex-Ford-engineer-charged-with-stealing-trade-secrets
>
Vandals smash windows at £10.5m archive centre
Press and Journal
Other records will be transferred from the National Archive Centre in
Edinburgh. The new building also includes a registration service, and it can
host ...<http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1443132>
When 2+2 Equals a Privacy Question
New York Times
The Web site of Practice Fusion, meanwhile, quotes Ryan Howard, the chief
executive, as saying that the company subsidizes its free record-keeping
systems ...<http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/18/business/18stream.html>
Library in line to receive valuable papers of FDR
Poughkeepsie Journal
HYDE PARK - A valuable collection of papers of Franklin D. Roosevelt will
likely be donated to his presidential library in town due to congressional
action. ...<
http://www.poughkeepsiejournal.com/article/20091018/NEWS01/910180361/1006/news01
>
Archivist's two years of indexing
Henley Standard
Sarah Charlton, archivist at the Buckinghamshire Record Office in Aylesbury,
was responsible for indexing all the manorial records in Berkshire and ...<
http://www.henleystandard.co.uk/news/news.php?id=668399>
Few Prepared for e-Discovery
Compliance Week (subscription)
The vast majority of both groups said they had a document retention policy
(87 percent of US companies, 80 percent of British ones), but far fewer had
a ...<
http://www.complianceweek.com/article/5639/report-few-prepared-for-e-discovery
>
BNA BOOKS' New 'Preserving Electronically Stored Information: A Practical
...
Reuters
The book is co-authored by Mr. Jeffrey Fowler, Esq., the co-founder of
O'Melveny & Myers Electronic Discovery and Document Retention Practice, and
a member ...<
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS164557+19-Oct-2009+PRN20091019
>
Record Managers and the threat of Cloud Computing
CMSWatch
Secondly, when Cloud-based vendors tell you that you never need to delete
anything, that this is the beauty of the Cloud (many do), you need to run a
mile ...<
http://www.cmswatch.com/Trends/1716-Cloud-Computing-Records-Management>
Library archives enter 'Twilight Zone'
Times Daily
Although the archive and special collection section of Collier Library has
its share of rare Hollywood memorabilia, archivist Louise Huddleston said
it's ...
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http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20091020/ARTICLES/910205032?Title=Library-archives-enter-Twilight-Zone-
>
Dad's Dumpster Dive Led to $1.8M Win in Phone Records 'Pretexting' Case
ABA Journal
Lawlor's intrusion-on-seclusion claim contended that North American provided
confidential information from her personnel file that Probe used in the ...<
http://www.abajournal.com/news/dads_dumpster_dive_led_to_1.8m_win_in_phone_records_prextexting_case
>
Archivist enjoys variety of her work
Northumberland Today
The Port Hope Archives, located on Mill Street north in the municipality,
has a new archivist. An honours BA graduate with a History and Teaching
Education ...<
http://www.northumberlandtoday.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2137308>
Internet Archive prepares to enter the e-book store fray
TECH.BLORGE.com <http://tech.blorge.com/>
The Internet Archive (IA) was founded by Brewster Kahle in 1996, and ever
since its inception it has attempted to be a library of collections for the
...<
http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:%20/2009/10/20/internet-archive-prepares-to-enter-the-e-book-store-fray/
>
Internet Archive uncloaks open ebook dream machine
Register
The Internet Archive and various like-minded partners have launched an open
architecture for selling and lending digital books online, ... <
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/20/internet_archive_bookserver_launch/>
Dallas County commissioners vote to allow computer data seizures
Dallas Morning News
... County civil district judge, said he and other judges will sign a
standing order today prohibiting anyone from trying to take their computer
records. ...<
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/102109dnmetdalcounty.236273e8e.html
>
State spying to cost £200m each year to track your every online move
Daily Mail - UK
But a Home Office spokesman said the costs involved were entirely separate
from those necessary to comply with the European Data Retention Directive,
...<
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1221839/State-spying-cost-200m-year-track-online-move.html
>
Public cloud vs. internal social networks
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
"If you're doing anything other than customer support or marketing on a
public social network, then it's risky in terms of data retention," says
Jevon ...<
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/10/19/urnidgns002570F3005978D885257654005CAA56.DTL
>
Can we control records in the cloud?
FierceContentManagement - Washington,DC,USA
There is a great deal of anxiety and even mistrust among record keepers when
it comes to the cloud, and the consensus seemed to be against records
storage ...<
http://www.fiercecontentmanagement.com/story/can-we-control-records-cloud/2009-10-20
>
Preserving tribal culture focus of national conference, from ...
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
The National Conference Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums is the fourth
... Dallas Dick, a photo archivist at the Tamástslikt Cultural Institute,
...<
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/10/preserving_tribal_culture.html
>
Are You Prepared For Regulatory Compliance?
Integrated Solutions Magazine - Erie,PA,USA
In fact, most regulatory compliance mandates governing the management of an
organization's records and communications have not undergone any drastic
changes ...<
http://www.isminfo.com/index.php?option=com_jambozine&layout=article&view=page&aid=5862
>
MARIE PARENTE: Digging gun rights out of a State House Dumpster
Milford Daily News
... of state or his designee, governor or his designee, director of JFK
Library, state librarian and Haverhill library director and other
archivists. ...
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http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x42388449/MARIE-PARENTE-Digging-gun-rights-out-of-a-State-House-Dumpster
>
My Word: Oakland must reform its record keeping
Oakland Tribune - Oakland,CA,USA
A records committee formed as part of our proposal has been bogged down by
... the resignation of the city's records manager and lack of attention by
the ...<http://www.insidebayarea.com/opinion/ci_13602172>
Preserving Native American Cultures
OregonLive.com
When she isn't organizing national conferences, Malissa is the archivist for
Tamastslikt Cultural Institute on the Umatilla Reservation. <
http://photos.oregonlive.com/oregonian/2009/10/preserving_native_american_cul_1.html
>
State archives office cries for attention
The Hindu
There are only three staff members, including the Archivist in-charge, to
safeguard the treasure trove of knowledge. There is not even a watchman to
guard ...<
http://beta.thehindu.com/news/cities/Visakhapatnam/article36537.ece>
Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Management is Top of Mind for ...
Reuters
Kroll Ontrack Annual Study Reveals a Large Disparity Between the Existence
of Corporate Document Retention Policies and ESI Discovery Readiness
Strategies ...<
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS134860+21-Oct-2009+BW20091021
>
BBC unlocks Berlin Wall archive
World Television and Business News
Audiences will now be able to re-live one of the defining moments in
post-war history as the BBC Archive releases its latest online collection
documenting ...<
http://www.worldbusinessnews.co.uk/media-news/company-news/1026-bbc-unlocks-berlin-wall-archive.html
>
Surprise for RP: Bernal film file
Inquirer.net - Philippines
“This is monumental,” film archivist Vicky Belarmino of the Media Arts
Department ... Belarmino said this is where the newly formed National Film
Archives ...<
http://showbizandstyle.inquirer.net/entertainment/entertainment/view/20091021-231538/Surprise-for-RP-Bernal-film-file
>
Cornerstone laid for Iron Mountain Archive Center at Gazeley's Magna Park
...
AME Info
The center will be one of the biggest and most sophisticated digital record
centers from Iron Mountain, world's leading information management service
...<http://www.ameinfo.com/213269.html>
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