RAIN 20071206
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
The Weekly Standard
Google and Its Enemies
The much-hyped project to digitize 32 million books sounds like a good idea.
Why are so many people taking shots at it?
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Safe Harbor Rule Covering Inadvertent Destruction of Electronic ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Later, she filed a Motion for Sanctions for Discovery Misconduct and
Spoliation of Evidence against the college defendants. The defendants
sought refuge ...
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National Archives Poised To Set Up Electronic System
Bru Direct - Brunei Darussalam
Bandar Seri Begawan - The National Archives is set to establish an
electronic archival database system with online search facilities by the
third quarter of ...
<http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/Dec07/051207/nite26.htm>
Putting a Lock on Data Liability
Law.com <http://law.com/> (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
In January 2006, the FTC settled with choicepoint Inc., a consumer data
broker that had compromised more than 163000 consumer financial records,...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1196762672307>
State wants 1776 document back
MaineToday.com - Portland,ME,USA
... The state will go to court in January to try to recover a 1776 copy of
the Declaration of Independence, State Archivist David Cheever said
today....
<http://news.mainetoday.com/updates/019285.html>
IT chiefs will need to examine data retrieval systems in light of ...
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
Businesses will have to put in place storage and data retention policies,
and will need to ensure their computer networks and IT systems are not
vulnerable ...
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Archives director named at YSU
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown,OH,USA
YOUNGSTOWN -- The former director of government records at the Nebraska
State Historical Society will oversee the newly opened University Archives
and ...
<http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/347989528423163.php>
Holding on to history may cost county dearly
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
... the documents were kept, until July of this year, at the health
department. Once they were moved to the Register of Deeds office, the
damage and need ...
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/811899.html>
New Norcia awarded heritage grant
Central Midlands & Coastal Advocate - Moora,WA,Australia
"The grant was important in supporting the effort to preserve the music
collection at the grassroots level," New Norcia archivist Wendy mckinley
said. ...
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Virtual Data Rooms 101
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... as centralized document repositories for public companies that need to
comply with Sarbanes-Oxley requirements for document retention and
auditing. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1196849073222>
Special Counsel Scott Bloch Defends Himself
Wall Street Journal - USA
The White House is aware of these conflicts. The article didn't report that
the computer files were only from the internal hard drive of my laptop
and...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB119682194191813957.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
Group plans for emergency care of UD collections, holdings
University of Delaware - Newark,DE,USA
... emergency preparedness coordinator at Public Safety at
[[log in to unmask]]; Lisa Gensel, assistant archivist, University archives
at [[log in to unmask]]; ...
<http://www.udel.edu/PR/UDaily/2008/dec/erwg120507.html>
Waldorf Archives offer step into the past
Mason City Globe Gazette - Mason City,IA,USA
The second floor of the Hanson Library is home to the Waldorf College
Archives, where artifacts from as far back as the 16th century are safely
displayed. ...
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Nazi rocket scientist's top-secret papers go on sale
Guardian Unlimited - UK
Wernher von Braun, the Nazi physicist-turned-leading figure in US space
exploration, created the 166-page document for his PhD dissertation in
April 1934. ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/germany/article/0,,2221278,00.html>
CC partner cleared in shredding row
Legal Week - London,UK
CC Frankfurt partner Kersten Schenck has been cleared after a key document
was illegally shredded following a Deutsche Bank annual general meeting
(AGM) in ...
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Camera gets hero fired
Daily News Journal (subscription) - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
"Advice of counsel is not a recognized defense of a records request in
Tennessee," said Hollow, a Knoxville-based attorney. If the mayor doesn't
provide the ...
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UK data breach: stripping data 'would not have been costly' (December 06
2007, 12:00AM)
Testimony this week to British officials investigating the breach that
"misplaced" data on 25 million people revealed that it would have cost about
$102,000 to pare away the confidential data from the missing files -- and
that this breach is by no means HMRC's first.
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Govs' e-mail purges raise hackles
Stateline.org <http://stateline.org/> - Washington,DC,USA
Messenger was told that the governor's staff regularly deletes e-mails
after a week - a possible violation of the state's open records laws....
<http://www.stateline.org/live/details/story?contentId=262617>
No More Vancouver Postcards
TheTyee.ca - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
Our city archives contain many magnificent images but only recently have we
become seriously interested in looking at the backside and the underside of
the ...
<http://thetyee.ca/Photo/2007/12/06/NoVanPostcards/>
FRCP and e-discovery: One year later
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
This week marks the first anniversary of changes to the Federal Rules of
Civil Procedure (FRCP), which mandates the speedy recovery of
electronically stored ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/newsletters/stor/2007/1203stor2.html>
Michelangelo drawing discovered in Vatican archives
AFP -
VATICAN CITY (AFP) -- An original drawing by Michelangelo has been
discovered in the Vatican archives, the Holy See's mouthpiece Osservatore
Romano reported ...
<http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iKiC-vq4sI8-A8Li1JHZkA4S2i8A>
National Geographic licenses Chinese archives
CCTV - Beijing,China
With global attention focusing on China and next year's Olympics, people
all over the world have found an appetite for learning much more about
Chinese ...
<http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20071206/102485.shtml>
If disaster strikes, is your data safe?
MSNBC - USA
It's your information," said Michael Griggs, president of the
Denver-based Disaster Restoration, Inc. Sure, copies of your insurance
plans, mortgages, deeds ...
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22103087/>
Airlines feud over password-protected site
Globe and Mail - Canada
According to court documents, they spent 14 hours gathering thousands of
records including computer files belonging to Mr. Woloschuk's wife. ...
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Books, records rot in closed Detroit schools
Detroit Free Press - United States
At Redford, a file folder marked "Redford Records" sits near a window in
what used to be the main office but is now a ransacked mess of papers and
scattered ...
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Local historian donates life's work to Dickson Mounds Museum
Canton Daily Ledger - Canton,IL,USA
He used a camera with plate glass negatives and processed many of the
plates himself. His photographs depict the idyllic life of a close-knit
family in a ...
<http://www.cantondailyledger.com/articles/2007/12/05/news/news01.txt>
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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va
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