RAIN 060221
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

RECORDS make embezzlement investigation difficult
Eyewitness News - East Providence,RI,USA
LINCOLN, RI (AP) -- Police say the condition of records at the 
Blackstone
Valley Historical Society is making it difficult for them to determine
whether to ...
<http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4529074&nav=F2DO>

Baseline Magazine
Christie Hefner: How Playboy Protects Its Assets
<http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1925349,00.asp>

THE end of the paper trail
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
... how documents and electronic information are created, managed and 
destroyed,
and what procedures are in place to stop your document destruction 
process
quickly ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/02/21/214284/Theendofthepape
rtrail.htm>

Waco Tribune
BREAKING NEWS: Baylor swept into suit involving SMU, Dallas condo owner
By Mike Anderson Tribune-Herald staff writer
Monday, February 20, 2006
Baylor University's efforts to keep details of its bid for the George 
W. Bush Presidential Library from going public just got a little more 
complicated.
<http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/02/21/20060221wac
smulawsuit.html>

WORLD'S First Automated Audiovisual Migration System Completes ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... to work with SAMMA was quite exciting and we are very happy with the
final results." says Joanne Rudof, Chief Archivist of the Fortunoff 
Video
Archive. ...
<http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/2/prweb348041.htm>

TRINKET treasures
Hamilton Spectator - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... Hamilton doesn't really have an official city archive or city 
museum.
... Margaret Houghton, archivist of Special Collections, says a lot of
the boosterism buttons ...
< 
http://www.hamiltonspectator.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=hamilto
n/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1140475846280&call_pageid=1020420665
036&col=1014656511815>

DISASTER recovery supplier dumped
ComputerWorld - USA
FEBRUARY 21, 2006 (TECHWORLD.COM) - Canadian company Simmons Canada Inc.
has switched disaster recover supplier from Iron Mountain Inc. to EVault
Inc. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/recovery/story/0,10
801,108863,00.html>

EU approves landmark data retention law
United Press International - USA
The so-called data retention directive has been the subject of a heated
political debate in Brussels for over a year, with supporters saying it
is needed to ...
<http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060221-104633-97
68r>

PRIVACY International Warns EU on Data Retention
CIO Magazine - Australia
Privacy International (PI) has written an open letter to the European 
Parliament
warning adoption of a proposed directive on data retention would "cause
an ...
<http://www.cio.com.au/index.php/id;1804011471;fp;4;fpid;21>

GLOBAL Legal Gotchas
ComputerWorld - USA
... contracts and proofs of purchase. Managers elsewhere aren't used to
such data retention practices. One of Blakeslee's clients discovered ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/policy/story/0,
10801,108766,00.html>

TECH Subpoenaed in SMU Lawsuit Over Presidential Library
KCBD-TV - Lubbock,TX,USA
The bid for the George W. Bush Presidential Library is now part of a 
lawsuit
and the West Texas Coalition is now being asked to turn over their 
proposal.
<http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=4528392&nav=3w6y>

SMALLEST 'unofficial' presidential library big on Atchison
Atchison Daily Globe - Atchison,KS,USA
... Molly, a kindergartner, attended the dedication of the World's 
Smallest
"Unofficial" Presidential Library with her father, Kirk Porter, on 
Monday
night ...
<http://www.atchisondailyglobe.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID
=5057&SectionID=16&SubSectionID=33>


CURATOR: Stealth pays at auction time
Springfield State Journal Register - Springfield,IL,USA
Bauer, curator of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum,
was answering questions about an auction that includes dozens of Lincoln
documents and ...
< http://www.sj-r.com/sections/news/stories/79311.asp>

STATE Gets Washington's Handwritten Resignation
WBAL Channel.com - Baltimore,MD,USA
... Action.". "This speech is the fundamental basis of civilian 
government,"
said Edward Papenfuse, Maryland's state archivist. Washington's ...
<http://www.thewbalchannel.com/health/7283667/detail.html>

THE Life and Death of Public Records
AlterNet - San Francisco,CA,USA
... statistics to all residents. "It's the first place everybody goes in
the Town Report," says state archivist Gregory Sanford. "Who was born
<http://www.alternet.org/rights/32242/>

NO end to debate on abuse archives
Chicago Tribune - United States
Whether the Catholic Archdiocese of Chicago should open its archives and
allow child welfare officials to investigate all past abuse allegations
against ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com 
/news/local/northwest/chi-0602210244feb21,1,5884440.story?coll=chi-newslo
calnorthwest-hed>

CITY displays interest in isles museum
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... to visit. Margaret Macdonald, archivist, will be hosting the talk 
called
A Look at the Collection of the Museum of the Isles. She ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=270062006>

CLOSED archive leads to Holocaust denial claim
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... of horrific medical experiments and files on alleged ... for 
withholding
access to the documents, and scholars ... treats the collection as 
private
records rather than ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,,1714413,00.html>


CORPORATE Security Too Many New Gadgets, Too Much Information at ...
New York Times - United States
... even create Word and Excel documents that can ... concerned about 
the
increasing vulnerability of those files. ... agents, rather than carry
 client records on their ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/business/businessspecial2/21secure.htm
l>

PROTECTING public data
Buffalo News - NY, United States
... Charles E. Schumer, who plans to introduce federal legislation that
would allow county clerks to remove some personal data from public 
documents.
<http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060221/1004018.asp>

WASHINGTON letter comes home
Baltimore Sun - United States
... in the same small assembly room where Washington made his speech a
little over 222 years ago, officials announced that the Maryland State
Archives will acquire ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-te.md.letter21feb21,0,7015893
.story?coll=bal-local-headlines>

RAMBUS in New Legal Wrangle
TheStreet.com - USA
... Cramer's Take) and the rest of the chip industry flared up again 
Tuesday,
when the company was accused of intentionally shredding documents that
cast doubts on ...
<http://www.thestreet.com/_googlen/tech/semis/10269606.html?cm_ven=GOOGLE
N&cm_cat=FREE&cm_ite=NA>

NEW Study Debunks Identity Theft Myths
CBS 2 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... "About 70% of people are shredding documents and so what that means
is what's going in your trash isn't accessible to thieves any longer.".
Myth No. ...
<http://cbs2.com/consumer/local_story_051193855.html>

HOSPITAL CIOs Embrace Electronic Records
CIO Today - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
By Walaika K. Haskins. For several years, hospital administrators, 
privacy
advocates, and policymakers have debated the benefits ...
<http://www.cio-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=11100002R8K0>


PATIENTS' files are secure, St. John says
Longview Daily News - Longview,WA,USA
... In fact, none of the electronic records are even "stored" in 
Longview,
but rather in Eugene, Ore., where all of the PeaceHealth hospitals' 
computer
networks ...
<http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/02/21/area_news/news08.txt>

EXHIBIT from NCR Archive
Dayton Daily News (subscription) - Dayton,OH,USA
... of Patterson's programs for his employees. The collection's 100,000
glass negatives also will be tapped. The exhibit is not meant ...
<http://www.daytondailynews.com/localnews/content/localnews/daily/0221joh
nh.html>

ONLINE gay archive to be launched
PinkNews.co.uk - UK
An online gay database has been set up at the national archives as part
of the Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender history month. ...
< http://www.pinknews.co.uk/news/entertainment/2005-551.html>

ARCHIVES open up online window to gay history
Times Online - UK
By Will Pavia. The National Archives has launched a pilot project 
consisting
of an online portal devoted to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender
history. ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2050106,00.html>

New York Times, Mon, 20 Feb 2006 7:18 PM PST
U.S. Reclassifies Many Documents in Secret Review
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/21/politics/21reclassify.html
At the National Archives, intelligence agencies have been removing from
public access thousands of historical documents.

Daily Courier, Tue, 21 Feb 2006 7:10 AM PST
Borough learns of missing minutes
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_426012.html
Mt. Pleasant officials have found they are missing a piece of borough
history and records.

PRINCE begins privacy case to keep diaries secret
Times Online - UK
... "These responsibilities include treating confidential documents as
confidential," said Mr Tomlinson, adding that this was "strikingly 
absent
from the defendant ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2050674,00.html>

THE witness statement Charles tried to stop: full text
Times Online - UK
... There were differing levels of security for the treatment of 
confidential
documents, none of which applied to the travel journals. ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2051784,00.html>

EDITORIAL - Holocaust files ought to be public
University of Pittsburgh The Pitt News - PA, United States
... and flooded; electronic files become corrupted. If the facility at
Bad Arolsen were to be destroyed, wouldn't it be good to know that the
records still exist ...
<http://www.pittnews.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/02/21/43fac6f289580>

SENTENCING Today For Man Convicted Of Stealing Files From Acxiom
Eyewitness News Memphis - TN, USA
... in federal court today following his conviction for stealing files
 from Acxiom ... and his company stole one-point-six billion customer 
records,
the equivalent of ...
<http://www.myeyewitnessnews.com/news/tristate/story.aspx?content_id=31CA
1B91-98F6-4694-B648-7421797AFB07>

TASK force recommends some access to court records online
Boston Globe - United States
... Right now, each court's staff only has access to that court's 
dockets
and files. ... a case and where it was filed, then visit that courthouse
to see the records. ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2006/02/21/task_
force_recommends_some_access_to_court_records_online>

MICRON Files RICO Suit Against Competitor
KBCI - Boise,ID,USA
... In Rambus' suit against Infineon, the Virginia court ruled that 
Rambus'
actions relating to destroying documents and litigation misconduct 
warranted
the ...
< http://www2.kbcitv.com/x70419.xml>

COPING with a major IT security breach
ElectronicsWeekly.com - UK
In November 2005 a laptop belonging to an employee of the Boeing 
Corporation
was stolen. Among the information on the machine was ...
<http://www.electronicsweekly.com/Articles/2006/02/21/37705/Copingwithama
jorITsecuritybreach.htm>


SUN: Tape storage evolving, not dead
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Magnetic tape data storage may have been around for more than half a ...
with government regulations dealing with short- and long-term storage
of company records. ...
<http://news.com.com/Sun+Tape+storage+evolving,+not+dead/2100-1015_3-6041
506.html>

HOW much are your personal details worth?
Bankrate.com - USA
... In fact, we'd be stuck in the slow lane as a society if they didn't,
according to James Lee, chief marketing officer for ChoicePoint, the 
industry
leader based ...
<http://www.bankrate.com/brm/news/pf/20060221b1.asp>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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