RAIN 20100307 Part 2

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

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DFW's Papers Go to UT-Austin
New York Observer
By Molly Fischer The University of Texas at Austin has bought the David
Foster Wallace archive. His papers will reside in the University's Harry
Ransom ...< http://bit.ly/cUgTRh>  http://bit.ly/d0oTAq

Ghost Army exhibit and film shed light on WWII's elusive phantoms
AnnArbor.com
The filmmaker is including video taken from 20 interviews that he had with
Ghost Army members in the film, as well as images and archival materials he
...< http://bit.ly/bq0ejj>

Feds Set To Start Implementing Health IT Policies
InformationWeek
In the near future, those who practice medicine without aid of electronic
records will be viewed as unprofessional at best, negligent at worst, he
predicted ...< http://bit.ly/bvO4pq>

State of Texas: Metro has been breaking the law for years
KHOU
FORMER METRO ATTORNEY: No, the responsibility will be with us to make sure
our own records do not get deleted. Later, KHOU followed up with Metro ...<
http://bit.ly/ajDY5j>

Trial of American puts spotlight on the business of 'state secrets ...
Washington Post
American automotive engineer Hu Zhicheng is accused of misusing trade
secrets. His wife, who first spoke out about the case in December, says the
arrest in ...< http://bit.ly/dcuLTx>

Gloucester Times

Dale J. Jones, whose decade as the head of federal fisheries law enforcement
has produced a dossier of alleged heavy-handed practices against the fishing
community, authorized a mass document-shredding operation last November
http://bit.ly/bpuQfB

Better Backup and Disaster Recovery with Continuous Data Protection
CIO
CDP provides the capability to replicate and maintain multiple versions of
data at local and remote DR sites for online data retention and recovery to
any ...< http://bit.ly/c1ZAqP>

Tribunal rules that Landscape institute unfairly dismissed archivist Annabel
Downs
Horticulture Week
Although the archive is currently mothballed, a plan is underway for a
"major fund-raising campaign" to provide for its future, he added. ...
http://bit.ly/b2O2uz

Metro issues: from wedding to shredding
Houston Chronicle
... among the issues that may arise in a hearing scheduled today on a
judge's order forbidding Metro from destroying documents in an open records
request. ...< http://bit.ly/9L33tc>

Measure to close records advance. Campus threat probes would remain private
Charlottesville Daily Progress
Rob Bell, R-Albemarle, would also exempt all records generated by the threat
assessment teams from the Freedom of Information Act. This FOIA provision
would ...< http://bit.ly/co5P2f>

Put some teeth into social media governance with enforcement tools
SearchUnifiedCommunications.com
Hewlett-Packard is also dipping its toes in the social media governance
waters with its records management software, HP TRIM, which it acquired in
2008 from ...< http://bit.ly/cmrCJY>

Overseeing the Steps for Legal Holds
Law.com
... records management, human resources, compliance (especially in the case
of a public organization), and other critical lines of business such as ...<
http://bit.ly/dz8QCg>

Stars like Sarah Jessica Parker undercut NBC's family tree show 'Who Do You
...
New York Daily News
The show also could acknowledge the thousands of archivists, researchers,
genealogists, historians and librarians who patiently help people with no
fame on ...< http://bit.ly/9Dxe2S>

George Eastman House Names New Curator of Motion Pictures
Art Daily
... has programmed films for the American Movie Classics cable channel and
is a former director of the board for the Association of Moving Image
Archivists. ...< http://bit.ly/aoRaTg>

State Historic Preservation Office and Archives of Michigan Join ...
Earthtimes (press release)
... at Wayne State University and the US Consulate building in Kobe, Japan.
... who in turn alerted State Archivist Mark Harvey of the Department of
Natural ...< http://bit.ly/aJU9Z6>

State is erasing its history
Philadelphia Inquirer
The Pennsylvania State Museum and the State Archives, both in Harrisburg,
have had to reduce their hours. Brandywine Battlefield, the largest
Revolutionary ...< http://bit.ly/d4ZfDI>

Secretary of State Kemp Announces Program to Digitize Historical Records
Duluth Weekly
Atlanta (March 4, 2010) – Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp announced
today that the Georgia Historical Records Advisory Board (GHRAB) has
launched a ...< http://bit.ly/9su7vL>

Blackford County moving documents across the street
NewsLink Indiana
Now Blackford County is waiting to hear back from the Indiana State Archives
as to whether they will take some of the records from them. ...<
http://bit.ly/aWE270>

Preserving documentary heritage
Manila Bulletin
A document can be single or a group of documents such as a collection, a
holding or an archival material. This documentary heritage is usually
preserved in ...< http://bit.ly/9usb6B>

Grateful Dead exhibit truckin' to New York
Los Angeles Times
And they were in a partying mood this week as they unveiled "The Grateful
Dead: Now Playing at the New-York Historical Society," a roomful of
treasures ...< http://bit.ly/cWNLP0>

Replacing Storage? What To Look For
Information Week (blog)
Since the early days of Hierarchical Storage Management (HSM) and later
Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) we have been trying to figure out how
to ...< http://bit.ly/933xMq>



Panel head under fire over Toyota documents
The Detroit News
26 demanding an explanation for the documents, which, he said, "indicate
Toyota deliberately withheld records" that it was required to share with
plaintiffs ...< http://bit.ly/cltvD6>

Dallas officials agree to restore public access to online crime data
Dallas Morning News
A document obtained through open records laws indicates the city instructed
the software vendor to make it more difficult. In early January, a new
vendor ...< http://bit.ly/cL5Ewj>

Thrown under the bus? Houston Metro attorney fired from agency in ...
Texas Watchdog
“Pauline was constantly trying to get them to present to the board a
document retention policy that would set up the standards as to what should
be ...< http://bit.ly/dbopfH>

METRO document shredding case goes to court
abc13.com
HOUSTON (KTRK) -- There's a court hearing scheduled for today, looking into
the METRO document shredding controversy. The court hearing today is all
part of ...< http://bit.ly/cBjdL9>

Records Management: How do RM and DM differ?
Formtek Blog (blog)
A Document is stored information that contains structured and unstructured
data. Documents are often associated with metadata, a set of properties or
...< http://bit.ly/bdtEGU>

Fightback! German High Court tells government to delete all phone call and
...
TelecomTV
The records were to be kept for six months - a much shorter period than the
years and years on end being demanded by administrations in the US and the
UK ...< http://bit.ly/aIU2Qb>

The walls protecting Oregon state government's computer records are still
too ...
Hillsboro Argus - OregonLive.com
The state built the $64 million data center and started collecting
government computer records in 2007 behind its security walls. An earlier
audit found the ...< http://bit.ly/aIBUsN>

Hillsborough administrator Bean facing firestorm over record searches
Tampa Tribune
In his audit, Barnes uncovered computer records showing at least three
instances of what he said were questionable email searches that could be
traced ...< http://bit.ly/bJV0Xe>

NZ archivists incensed over review http://bit.ly/bUl5qT



Concern is growing among the country's archivists and other critics
over what they see as a secretive review of Archives New Zealand which
could threaten its constitutionally vital independence.

Archiving Britain's web: The legal nightmare explored
Wired.co.uk <http://wired.co.uk/>

But the archivists are being held back by the law, he says. The team
currently has to contact the copyright holder of every website it
wants to archive and ...
http://bit.ly/duCeJT

Oklahoma union faces ethics investigation in stunt to protest records request

NewsOK.com

At the urging of their union, dozens of state workers on Friday used
state phones and e-mail accounts to complain about an open records
request by The ...< http://bit.ly/cEKqGp>



Metro told to save files as criminal probe begins

Houston Chronicle

Neither Kelley nor his attorneys have disclosed the reason for their
open records request. Kelley has said the records he has thus far
received from Metro ...< http://bit.ly/9qR5w3>

NASS: unbiased, vital information

Delta Farm Press

We've been tested by the Freedom of Information Act and the state version,

the Open Public Records Act. And we've always prevailed. ...
http://bit.ly/ckemVM

Creation of The Public Archive of Haitian history combats misinformation and ...

Vanderbilt University News

In light of this obliteration of history, The Public Archive has been

initiated to serve as an accessible clearinghouse of historical essays, ...
http://bit.ly/aZ7gUt

How Librarians Can Save The World

NPR

Newsprint and sepia photos, stored in acid-free, carefully labeled archival

boxes, are stacked neatly on shelves around a big worktable. In her spare

time, ...http://bit.ly/9FOqhs

E-mail audit has three top Hillsborough officials at odds

Tampabay.com

But she said Friday in a prepared statement that she had her staff seek the

computer files only after they informed her that Lee's office also had

pulled a ...http://bit.ly/boyCr7

Judge orders Metro not to destroy any documents

Texas Watchdog

By Lynn Walsh A judge ordered Metro Friday to not destroy or delete any

documents until further investigations can take place. All physical

documents, paper ...http://bit.ly/a6TY2g

Adult Photography Record-keeping and Inspection Law Threatens Free
Speech, Privacy

Kansas City infoZine

In its amicus brief in support of the coalition filed today, EFF asked the

judge to throw out the record-keeping regulations as an unconstitutional

chill on ...http://bit.ly/dsHeRs

Western Reserve Historical Society sells its history to save institution

Plain Dealer (blog)

By Joan Mazzolini, The Plain Dealer Joshua Gunter, The Plain DealerPhoto

illustration of the exterior of the Western Reserve Historical Society. ...
http://bit.ly/d6p8y7

Privacy commissioner questions security of health records after doctors die

The Canadian Press

... when it comes to records. But that person may not know what that

entails, especially when it comes to keeping files secure or allowing

patients access. ...http://bit.ly/cuSK2V

Lands Registry ripe for radical surgery

Business Daily Africa

With one swift move, she was sending a strong message to the registry mafia

that hid the files and only produced them against payment of the usurious...
http://bit.ly/9K6TQm

County wants to restore historic documents

Galveston County Daily News

Most of the historical documents are court records that have been stored

anywhere the county could find space. Some of the items include evidence

from ...< http://bit.ly/8X5VxJ>

OUR VIEW: Shredded confidence

SouthCoastToday.com

No doubt NOAA would be considering a criminal case against fishermen who

destroyed documents during a federal investigation. Regardless of Jones'

assertion ...< http://bit.ly/9tA8KM>

Michelangelo letters up for grabs as Renaissance archive goes up for sale

The Guardian

On sale will be the archive of the man credited with being the father of

Western art history: Giorgio Vasari, whose Lives of the Artists chronicled

the ...http://bit.ly/bIpi4L



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