RAIN 070702
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Retired Union Pacific worker wants to tell story of railroaders
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
He also has spent hours at the state archives and making calls to
survivors listed in railroaders' obituaries. Wherever he goes, he takes
his three-inch ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/stor
y/872C8B34379318F98625730A001AC34A?OpenDocument>
Lawyers decry state's disposal of insurance complaint records
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Florida's Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink has halted the destruction
of records, which began under the previous administration, said her
spokeswoman Tara ...
<http://www.jacksonville.com/apnews/stories/070107/D8Q3UR1O0.shtml>
Archives vital for athenaeum
The Republican - Springfield,MA,USA
The athenaeum held an "archives summit" last week with various city
departments, businesses and organizations to discuss their archival
holdings. ...
<http://www.masslive.com/hampfrank/republican/index.ssf?/base/news-10/118
3191636319420.xml&coll=1>
Jewish history carries on in newspaper's 'Lens'
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... archivist Chana Pollack have put together a book of more than 500
black-and-white photographs drawn from the more than 40000 in the
paper's archives. ...
<http://www.suntimes.com/entertainment/weiss/450688,CST-BOOKS-jewishphoto
s0.article>
Officials discuss grant at meeting
Today's Sunbeam - Salem,NJ,USA
Kurt Harker, records manager for the county, explained that the first
year of funding from the highly-competitive grant failed because the
vendor used to ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/sunbeam/index.ssf?/base/news-2/1183097557151150.x
ml&coll=9>
Survey Finds Action on Information Requests Can Take Years
New York Times - United States
The survey found that 10 federal agencies had misrepresented their
backlog of FOIA requests in annual reports to Congress, misstating the
age of their
...<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/02/washington/02secrets.html?ref=us>
Court:Paper records just fineCourt:Paper records just fine
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
Berney also denied that the agency treated some requesters differently
from others, saying disclosure of electronic records depended upon the
records in ...<http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/149839.html>
Yale U. Press Strikes Deal With Russian Archive to Open Stalin's ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
The Russian archive and Yale University Press have struck a deal to
digitize that library and some 440000 other documents. The press will
also publish books ...<http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i44/44a01301.htm>
VA inspector general blames IT specialist for Birmingham data loss
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The specialist also initially lied about the scope of the breach and
attempted to delete or encrypt several files on his computer after
reporting the loss
...<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBas
ic&articleId=9026059&intsrc=hm_list>
"Test Method for the Estimation of the Archival Lifetime of ...
ICT Standardization Report - USA
"Test Method for the Estimation of the Archival Lifetime of Optical
Media" was approved by Ecma International during its June 28 General
Assembly, ...
<http://www.ictstandardization.com/news/200707/article200707104.html>
Sports vs Film leads to an archival crisis
Minnesota Public Radio - Saint Paul,MN,USA
An article in the Independent newspaper says the British Film Institute
is in deep financial weeds, possibly because a whole chunk of lottery
money, ...
<http://minnesota.publicradio.org/collections/special/columns/movie_natte
rs/archive/2007/07/sports_vs_film.shtml>
Universities are the most likely place for data incidents
The NonProfit Times - Morris Plains,NJ,USA
PRC lists only breaches that put personal data at risk that can lead to
identity theft, with the majority of cases being exposed Social
Security numbers, ...<http://www.nptimes.com/07Jul/npt-070701-2.html>
Order stops disposal of records related to consumer disputes
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
Sink's spokeswoman Tara Klimek said the records destruction began under
the previous administration. The Florida Department of Financial
Services decided ...
<http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-flfrecords0702nbjul02
,0,740742.story?coll=sfla-news-florida>
Lawyers rip agency for destroying documents
Florida Today - Melbourne,FL,USA
A public records champion called the practice "horrendous." A
Department of Financial Services lawyer countered that since the files
weren't requested and ...
<http://www.floridatoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070702/NEWS01/7
07020334/1006>
Mary Penner: Homestead records offer wealth of data for researchers
Albuquerque Tribune - Albuquerque,NM,USA
The documents in homestead case files can provide genealogists a
variety of family information. In addition to a description of the
property, you may learn ...
<http://www.abqtrib.com/news/2007/jul/02/mary-penner-homestead-records-of
fer-wealth-data-re/>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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