RAIN 20091221
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
The chaos of the nhs's electronic records
Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/>
With this information, we looked him up on the new, super-duper NHS
electronic records. There he was! Bingo! But what was it we were hoping to
find out? ...<
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthadvice/maxpemberton/6787809/The-chaos-of-the-NHSs-electronic-records.html
>
22 million missing Bush White House e-mails found
The Associated Press
The two private groups Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington and the National Security Archive said Monday they were
settling the ...<
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gWSuD9llgfBBhc3k1rUyEqyMZYowD9CJBNKG0
>
ECU library launches new digital collection
Greenville Daily Reflector
... the Institute of Museum and Library Services, administered by the State
Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural
Resources. ...<
http://www.reflector.com/news/ecu-library-launches-new-digital-collection-1014663.html
>
Los Angeles Times
Why workers can't get beyond e-mail 'Enterprise 2.0' helps explain why a
transformative wave of office technology is largely a washout.
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-books14-2009dec14,0,1263412.story
Obama Administration Will Restore Missing Bush White House Emails
TPMMuckraker - New York,NY,USA
... Iraq -- will be transferred to the National Archives, and eventually
made public. ... Some of those are from the office of vice President Dick
Cheney, ...<
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/obama_administration_will_restore_missing_bush_whi.php
>
Council rejects hiring archivist
Belleville Intelligencer
City council's rejection of a motion to spend a portion of a $100000 reserve
fund on an architect and a full-time archivist for an archive facility to
be ...<http://www.intelligencer.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=2221236>
'Lost' Bush e-mail settlement requires that White House reveal IT practices
Computerworld
... IT staff also discontinued use of legacy, circa 1994, electronic
management and archiving system, called Automated Records Management Systems
(ARMS. ...<
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9142268/_Lost_Bush_e_mail_settlement_requires_that_White_House_reveal_IT_practices_?taxonomyId=18
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The Million-Dollar Words of E-Discovery
Law.com
Cross-functional groups should include representatives from IT, records
management, legal, and outside counsel so the players can get to know each
other and ...<
http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202436326174&The_MillionDollar_Words_of_EDiscovery
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Dallas County sued over document preservation contract
Dallas Morning News (blog)
Dallas County recently awarded a seven-year, $17.5 million contract to
preserve various county records like deeds and birth certificates. ... <
http://cityhallblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/12/dallas-county-sued-over-docume.html
>
Fire historian returns from fact-finding trip to America
Cotswold Journal
By Simon Crump » THE historian and archivist from Moreton's Fire Service
College has returned from a fact-finding trip to America. ... <
http://www.cotswoldjournal.co.uk/news/4794541.Fire_historian_returns_from_fact_finding_trip_to_America/
>
Deal announced on missing e-mails
Washington Post
Any restored e-mails will become part of the Bush collection at the National
Archives and Records Administration, and officials said many will probably
be ...<
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/14/AR2009121403710.html
>
IBM Helps Egyptian Government Preserve National Archives
TMC Net
By Anil Sharma, TMCnet Contributor The national project for the digital
documentation of the National Archives of Egypt, or NAE, based on a
sophisticated ...<
http://ip-pbx.tmcnet.com/topics/ip-pbx/articles/71059-ibm-helps-egyptian-government-preserve-national-archives.htm
>
Germans take government to court over data retention - Summary
Earthtimes (press release)
"The fundamental constitutional problem to consider will be whether data
retention without cause for a period of six months, as EU law prescribes,
...<
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/299490,germans-take-government-to-court-over-data-retention--summary.html
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Significance of DOE litigation hold
Examiner.com
A "litigation hold" is a suspension of a company's document
retention/destruction policies for those documents that may be relevant to a
lawsuit that has ...<
http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m12d15-Significance-of-DOE-litigation-hold<http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d15-Significance-of-DOE-litigation-hold>
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US DOE sends litigation hold notice to all staff re CRU
Examiner.com
As a reminder, this Litigation Hold preservation obligation supersedes any
existing statutory or regulatory document retention period or destructive
...<
http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m12d15-US-DOE-sends-litigation-hold-notice-to-all-staff-re-CRU<http://www.examiner.com/x-28973-Essex-County-Conservative-Examiner%7Ey2009m12d15-US-DOE-sends-litigation-hold-notice-to-all-staff-re-CRU>
>
Restoration Of Burned Courthouse Turns Up Treasures
WLWT
Many documents -- deeds, marriage licenses -- dating back centuries were
lost, but not all. Many binders soaked in soot and water were freeze-dried
and put ...<http://www.wlwt.com/news/21976529/detail.html>
Pennsylvania Data Center Built Underground Uses Limestone for Cooling
GreenPacks
A data center is being used to test a new interesting concept in
Pennsylvania the center has been built into the Iron Mountain, deep
underground. ...<
http://www.greenpacks.org/2009/12/15/pennsylvania-data-center-built-underground-uses-limestone-for-cooling/
>
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http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/ultra-efficient-data-center-housed-22-stories-underground-in-limestone-cave.php
>
To Have and to Hold: A Romantic Guide to Document Preservation
Law.com
There is an ongoing obligation for counsel to "take affirmative steps to
monitor compliance so that all sources of discoverable information are
identified ...<
http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202436361715&To_Have_and_to_Hold_A_Romantic_Guide_to_Document_Preservation
>
'Two-year wait' for Hillsborough papers
Yorkshire Post
Sheffield City Council is recruiting three archivists to start cataloguing
hundreds of thousands of documents held in the city, while papers from the
...<
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/39Twoyear-wait39-for-Hillsborough-papers.5915944.jp
>
Plugging The Government's Biggest Data Leak
Forbes
The new national archivist will face questions about fixing his agency's
''staggering negligence'' on cybersecurity. When David Ferriero was named
head of ...<
http://www.forbes.com/2009/12/15/cybersecurity-government-ferriero-technology-cio-network-nara.html
>
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http://www.gloucestertimes.com/punews/local_story_349224118.html?keyword=topstory
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High Court takes e-way, starts e-courts
Expressindia.com
All these documents will be scanned, saved in a particular file format and
then stored in a central server so that records are accessible to all
connected ...<
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/high-court-takes-eway-starts-ecourts/554613/
>
Progress report on liberating America's video archives
Boing Boing (blog)
Now Carl has given his testimony and he reports: Thanks to everybody for
viewing the public domain videos I posted from the National Archives. ... <
http://www.boingboing.net/2009/12/16/progress-report-on-l.html>
Scores of Scottish ministers' files lost or stolen
Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/>
A summary released under the Freedom of Information Act shows documents that
were not marked secret were left on a train in February this year and never
...<
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/6827331/Scores-of-Scottish-ministers-files-lost-or-stolen.html
>
Search, Compliance, Collaboration To Drive ECM 2010 Spending
InformationWeek
Forrester Research also found in surveying 170 information and knowledge
management professionals that Web content management and records management
will be ...<
http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/integration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222002451
>
Behind the scenes at the Bush library, 'you get to see the history ... you
don ...
Fort Worth Star Telegram
But for now, archivists are trying to get their arms around the massive
collection of documents and "museum objects" stored in the 60000-square-foot
...<http://www.star-telegram.com/news/story/1836555.html>
House panel probes dual-roles of National Archives
FederalNewsRadio.com
... and National Archives Subcommittee, part of the House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee, for David Ferrierro, the newly confirmed
Archivist of ...<
http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=35&sid=1842845>
How can this story be saved? Minnesota Historical Society ponders newspaper
...
Chaska Herald
That's when the Minnesota Historical Society cut its budget and eliminated
its microfilm lab, according to Robert Horton, MHS director of Library, ...
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http://www.chaskaherald.com/news/history/how-can-story-be-saved-minnesota-historical-society-ponders-newspaper-preservation-112
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Sanctions Imposed for Wiping BlackBerrys
Law.com
31, 2009), the Middle District of Florida imposed spoliation sanctions for
destruction of e-mails, calendar entries and text messages that were stored
on ...<
http://www.law.com/jsp/lawtechnologynews/PubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1202436385235&Sanctions_Imposed_for_Wiping_BlackBerrys
>
Black lesbians display their Sapphic history
Bay Area Reporter
A digital archivist and a longtime donor to the GLBT Historical Society,
Tellefsen recognized she was in a unique position to begin organizing black
lesbian ...<http://www.ebar.com/news/article.php?sec=news&article=4402>
Museum archives destroyed in fire
BBC News
The museum's collection officer Nicola Wynn said the boxes the archives were
stored in protected many of the items in the fire-damaged areas. ... <
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8417667.stm>
Book offers peek at artifacts in Vatican's 'secret' archives
USA Today
Yet one thing Hollywood hasn't exaggerated is the value of the archives'
collection, which spans 1200 years and documents the story of the papacy in
its ...<
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2009-12-17-VaticanArchives17_ST_N.htm>
Digital proof of infidelity in text messages, e-mails
Houston Chronicle
Delete this message after you read it. He said the woman involved didn't
delete. But Hughes might have gotten the text even if it had been deleted,
...< http://www.chron.com/CDA/archives/archive.mpl?id=2009_4824417>
War poet Siegfried Sassoon's papers arrive in Cambridge
BBC News
The archive of World War I poet Siegfried Sassoon has been delivered to the
Cambridge University Library after a campaign to raise £1.25m. ...<
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/8418787.stm>
Put an Information Management Policy in Place
BusinessWeek
Good information governance integrates business objectives with information
management policies to address corporate mandates, regulatory compliance,
...<
http://www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/tips/archives/2009/12/put_an_informat.html
>
Archivist recognized by state board
Palladium-Item - Richmond,IN,USA
Newman was named State Archivist in 1971, a position he held for the next 15
years. His work eventually led to the creation of the Indiana Commission of
...<http://www.pal-item.com/article/20091218/NEWS01/912180312>
Passaic historian, library director in fracas over city archives
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
That conflict spilled into Tuesday's Library Board meeting, with City
Historian Mark Auerbach defending himself against a memo written by Library
Director ...<
http://www.northjersey.com/community/121709_Passaic_historian_library_director_in_fracas_over_city_archives.html
>
Collection is history of Bush presidency
UPI.com
Jennifer Schulle, registrar for the George W. Bush Presidential Library,
said among the items being stored in a warehouse in Lewisville, Texas, ... <
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/12/17/Collection-is-history-of-Bush-presidency/UPI-64551261083242/
>
Parliamentarians call for disclosure of Prince Charles's letters
U.TV <http://u.tv/>
... raised concerns within Downing Street that his views could cause a
constitutional problem, according to documents obtained from the National
Archive. ...<
http://u.tv/News/Parliamentarians-call-for-disclosure-of-Prince-Charless-letters/227d2c3f-94f8-4f0b-b9bd-94ea8ba19d35
>
Float Design Team Consults UCR Archive
UC Riverside
UCR Libraries house the Western Region Tuskegee Airmen Archive, a growing
collection of papers, photographs and oral histories of the pilots and
others ...<http://newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=2231>
E-mail spat may change Brevard records requests rules
Florida Today
Those e-mails are available for public inspection, according to Florida's
Public Records Act. But a series of miscommunications ensued. ... <
http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20091218/NEWS01/912180317/1006/E-mail+spat+may+change+Brevard+records+requests+rules
>
Zambia: Collect Historical Materials, Minister Tells National Archives
AllAfrica.com
Mr Mangani said in Lusaka yesterday that the Government attached great
importance to management and preservation of public records and archives
because they ...<http://allafrica.com/stories/200912180433.html>
Iron Mountain's Virtual File Store Service Keeps Data Safe & Accessible
Processor.com
Iron Mountain has specialized in storing and protecting information for
organizations since it first opened for business in 1951. However, back in
the early ...<
http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles/P3130/14ap30/14ap30/14ap30.asp&guid=
>
Right-to-know audit: Law is a challenge for small municipalities
York Daily Record
Railroad, with a population of 300, sub-contracts out almost all of its
work, so any public documents related to zoning, building permits or
engineering ...<http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_14033860>
Because of Net, past can haunt you
Nashua Telegraph
The granting of an annulment prompts the courts to notify the state's
criminal records unit so that a record can be deleted from state and FBI
files. ...<
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/statenewengland/490051-227/because-of-net-past-can-haunt-you.html
>
Centuries of village life in the internet spotlight
Yorkshire Post
Workers from the firm spent around a fortnight in the parish offices going
through the records and scanning them, and another two weeks making the
files ...<
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Centuries-of-village-life-in.5926988.jp>
He's history -- Heritage Museum archivist to retire after 10 years on the
job
Journal Times
Mary Kay Mandli Nelson will take over the archivist position part-time when
the archives reopen in February. The department will maintain the same hours
...<
http://www.journaltimes.com/news/local/article_544a3612-edf0-11de-812b-001cc4c002e0.html
>
A lifetime of stored bits
National Post
... of the archives in mud and rubble that made international news. "Now the
memory of a European city has been destroyed," the city's chief archivist
said. ...<http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=2365993>
Want Some Hartford History? Look No Further Than The Hartford Public Library
Hartford Courant
As part of the project, archivist Gary E. Wait has been documenting
correspondence, manuscripts and photographs of the city's parks. Once he is
finished, ...<
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-city-scene-library-1219.artdec21,0,2527402.story
>
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