RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
stories from around the world.
EVERYTHING in its place
Sydney Morning Herald (subscription) - New South Wales,Australia
... In Australia, the Public Records Office of Victoria has been a world
leader. It is now 10 years since PROV initiated the Victorian Electronic
Records Strategy. ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/Perspectives/Everything-in-its-place/2005/04/04/1112489393087.html>
HITACHI Stacks Up 1TB Storage Capacity
Daily Finance And Business News - Statesville,NC,USA
Hitachi Global Storage Technologies have developed a digital storage
technology
method that will create a record 1TB storage density on disk drives. ...
<http://www.dailyfinancenews.com/story.php?id=675>
GROUP looks to curb campus appetite for paper
Sacramento State University (press release) - Sacramento,CA,USA
... Last year, Sacramento State sent 250 tons of office paper and
shredded
confidential documents to the recycler--that's an average of 166 pounds
for each of ...
<http://www.csus.edu/news/040405curbAppt.stm>
RELEASE of asbestos forces temporary closure of NS Public Archives ...
Canada East - Canada
HALIFAX (CP) - Nova Scotia's public archives have been closed after
asbestos
was released inside the building, officials said Tuesday. ...
<http://canadaeast.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050405/CPA/41660025>
ASBESTOS forces shutdown of archives
CBC Nova Scotia - Nova Scotia,Canada
HALIFAX -- The province's public archives have been closed for safety
reasons
after asbestos was released into the air. "It is ...
<http://novascotia.cbc.ca/regional/servlet/View?filename=ns-asbestos20050405>
MUSEUMS Share £15.6M Cash Handout
Scotsman - UK
South West museums will benefit to the tune of £15.6 million in a huge
cash handout from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4353358>
THE Winchester Star
Winchester Star - Winchester,VA,USA
... cooperative project with the Virginia Historical Society, the
Library
of Congress and the Library of Virginia, said Dr. Conley Edwards, state
archivist at the ...
<http://www.winchesterstar.com/TheWinchesterStar/050405/Life_map.asp>
BUSINESSES Flirt With Disaster by Not Protecting Their Vital ...
Khalsa News Network - Punjab,India
... and has been on a crusade to urge businesses to make it a high
priority
to get control of paper records. There are other reasons to proper
management
of files. ...
<http://www.kntimes.com/knreleases/fullstory03053-insight-news-status-1-newsID-1845.html>
COUNTY loses 18 complaint files
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... Tircuit disclosed her office's missing files in a recent letter to
attorney Sidney Willens ... Willens had asked for records from 2003
forward
as part of a review ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11311913.htm>
DESPITE PDF, Paperless Office Remains a Mirage
DocumentIQ - Topsfield,MA,USA
... And the way Word files with revision tracking replaced my need to
interact
with ... office once they realized that PDF can help make billions of
documents on hard ...
<http://www.pdfzone.com/article2/0,1759,1782302,00.asp>
ARCHIVIST acts as detective to uncover stories about Maritime ...
Fairfield Daily Republic - Fairfield,CA,USA
... in the archives contains the brass steering stand and steering wheel
from a World War II Victory ship. Graduates send old uniforms. Being an
archivist means ...
<http://www.dailyrepublic.com/articles/2005/04/05/top_stories/news01.txt>
SOME advice on e-mail records policy
GCN.com - USA
Michael Kurtz, assistant archivist at the National Archives and Records
Administration, said 95 percent of all agency e-mail messages are
considered
federal ...
<http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/35462-1.html>
DOMESTIC case files taken off Web site
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
... court records. The documents are considered public records and will
still be accessible to the general public at the Courthouse. ...
<http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050405/NEWS01/504050363>
DIGITAL deeds done dirt cheap
Woonsocket Call - Woonsocket,RI,USA
... NY, to begin scanning the records onto computer files. ... The cost
will cover only documents filed after the ... Payeur has a plan for
digitizing
past records as well ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14284525&BRD=1712&PAG=461&dept_id=478996&rfi=6>
FILENET Helps Virginia Department of Taxation Streamline ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... storage system where employees processed all files by hand ... as
well
as access to documents, we believe ... of decision making related to
tax
records, the management ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050405/latu016.html?.v=5>
BRACING for the compliance storm
Network Magazine India - Mumbay,India
... the right data longer and recover it faster, but know when to delete
it ... So whether it is financial data, client records or old e-mails,
this information must be ...
<http://www.networkmagazineindia.com/200503/vendorvoice01.shtml>
UK Freedom of Information Act: New Survey
OfficialWire - New York,NY,USA
... snapshot of FOI within the NHS, the study reveals that the vast
majority
of NHS bodies are coping well with the Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA),
with all but ...
<http://www.baou.com/newswire/main.php?action=recent&rid=20147>
SURVEY Reveals NHS's Freedom of Information Experience
Managing Information - UK
The NHS is coping well with the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA),
according
to a new survey. The snapshot of FOI within the public ...
<http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=3692>
Dallas Morning News, Mon, 04 Apr 2005 6:43 AM PDT
City lauded for delving into past
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/040405dnmetparkaward.a561.html
Dallas – often criticized for slighting its past – has been recognized
for preserving history
BRAINS And Medical Records Collected by King County
KIROtv.com - Seattle,WA,USA
... Now Team 7 Investigators reveal allegations that the coroner's
office
may have improperly collected private medical records of dead clients
as well. ...
<http://www.kirotv.com/news/4344956/detail.html>
SUFFOLK sells land records access
FCW.com - USA
... clerk's office has provided free online land record documents since
2003 so homeowners could get copies of their deeds and other public
record
documents. ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article88494-04-05-05-Web>
AG sues Barrington over public records access
Barrington Times - Barrington,RI,USA
... General Patrick Lynch filed suit against the Town of Barrington last
week for "willfully and knowingly" violating the state's Access to
Public
Records Act and ...
<http://www.eastbayri.com/story/283001828953151.php>
The Shawnee News-Star, Mon, 04 Apr 2005 11:59 PM PDT
Flames eat water records
http://www.news-star.com/stories/040505/New_8.shtml
An apparent electrical problem sparked a fire in the offices of the
Pottawatomie County Development Authority Sunday night, damaging the
office area,
equipment and records.
MAYBE UC can't be trusted with security
Inside Bay Area - CA,USA
The latest security faux pas was a laptop lapse in ... graduate
students,
applicants and alumni were stolen when a ... computer was taken from a
Berkeley office March ...
<http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/oped/ci_2640387>
PAPER records only opt-out available to patients
EHI Primary Care - London,UK
... This can only be achieved through the use of electronic records as
paper has been proven time and time again to be both inadequate and on
occasion outright ...
<http://www.ehiprimarycare.com/news/item.cfm?ID=1130>
GAME agency blotted out lunch tabs, citing law-enforcement risk
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
... asking the judge to review the documents to determine whether the
Department
of Game and Inland Fisheries had violated the state Freedom of
Information
Act. ...
<http://www.timesdispatch.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=RTD%2FMGArticle%2FRTD_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1031781969995&path=!news&s=1045855934842>
Times-Picayune
Stolen St. Tammany archives recovered
Ex-clerk's office worker arrested
Thursday, March 31, 2005
By Meghan Gordon and Paul Rioux
St. Tammany bureau
Calling it a boon to genealogists and Civil War historians, St. Tammany
Parish Clerk of
Court Malise Prieto announced Wednesday the recovery of hundreds of
stolen 19th century
records that document many aspects of life in the parish's early days.
<http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-8/1112253990305720.xml>
STORAGE Security: Back In The Spotlight
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
... over into the "worth it" column. Tapes may get lost, but you don't
want to worry if data has been stolen. Just ask Bank of America. ...
<http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/3495281>
Electronic record storage hub in the pipeline
By Amit Roy Choudhury , Business Times
31 Mar 2005
THE National Archives of Singapore (NAS) and its technology partners
are set to
create Singapore's first eRegistry Hub where private and public sector
organisations
can store vital records in a safe and secure manner.
URL: http://it.asia1.com.sg/newsdaily/news002_20050402.html
Amherst County Museum has many photographs that remain a mystery
Christie Chapman
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Sunday, April 3, 2005
AMHERST - Faces flashed by as Holly Mills sifted through the manila
folder of old photos
of unidentified people.
<http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?c=MGArticle&cid=1031781940405&pagename=LNA/MGArticle/LNA_BasicArticle&path=!news!archive>
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Richmond, Va
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