RAIN 20100407

Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
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Duke student finds a treasure
Durham Herald Sun
... of Haiti's Declaration of Independence in the British National Archive.
... archivist and the chief conservator of one of Haiti's oldest libraries.
...< http://bit.ly/bMBbFY>

Collector in Chief Hoards Nation's Irreplaceable Stuff
New York Times
David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, at the National
Archives, which houses the documents that define the nation. The latest on
the arts, ...< http://nyti.ms/9JxTFf>

Haiti's Founding Document Found in London
New York Times
“It's a strange thing in the period of the earthquake we find the first
document that made the state,” said Patrick Tardieu, an archivist at the
Library of ...< http://nyti.ms/9VTJ2K>

Don't forget social media in e-discovery
Wisconsin Law Journal
“That's not spoliation. That is just using your head.” But once the
information is posted, Rosenbaum cautioned that attorneys can't simply
direct clients to ...< http://bit.ly/dd2WNG>

Oregon part of effort to keep citizen petitions as open records
Statesman Journal
By Peter Wong • Statesman Journal • April 1, 2010 Oregon has joined 17 other
states in supporting a legal effort to keep open as public records citizen
...< http://bit.ly/aF1YPA>

Dot woman tries to nab JFK memorabilia
Boston Herald
By Benjamin Bell A Dorchester woman was arrested Tuesday evening after
police said she tried to leave the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and
Museum in ...< http://bit.ly/8Y3XCe>

Scholar uncovers Haitian history
CharlotteObserver.com
By Eric Ferreri Julia Gaffield discovered an original copy of the Haitian
Declaration of Independence in the British National Archive. ...
http://bit.ly/din3wk

Archives show Wallenberg may have been alive after alleged execution
The Budapest Report
Swedish Researchers have revealed that new evidence from Russian archives
suggests that a Swedish diplomat credited with rescuing thousands of Jewish
...< http://bit.ly/awCEWD>

Rwanda: Gacaca Archives Need Proper Preservation
AllAfrica.com
Kigali — The volumes of documentation accumulated by Gacaca courts, that are
in their final stages, need to be carefully preserved. ...
http://bit.ly/aMuWTn

Director's mom archives VU's music memories
Gary Post Tribune
She has taken special care to file photos, fliers, posters, programs and
newspaper articles of each festival and recently opened her archive to
recall ...< http://bit.ly/aCESZa>

Duke Graduate Student Discovers Haiti's Original Declaration of ...
Duke University
The National Archives has posted a copy of the document at ... a noted
Haitian archivist who is now a fellow at Brown University's John Carter
Brown Library ...< http://bit.ly/bR8zM8>

Inside an underground data bunker
BBC News
Originally built in the 1950s as a nuclear bunker, Iron Mountain's 'The
Underground' high-security facility in Pennsylvania, USA, is now home to one
of the ...< http://bit.ly/bWEyPi>

Watchdog group requests White House official's e-mail after Google Buzz
mishap
Los Angeles Times (blog)
Consumer Watchdog has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to obtain e-mails
between ...< http://bit.ly/d3gFb4>

FBI System Modernization Faulted
InformationWeek
... of an enterprise portal, improved usability, and initial workflow,
document management, records management, and external systems interface
work. ...< http://bit.ly/9d9WGe>

An adventure into the past
Express Buzz
The digitisation scheme was launched by the State Archives Department with
the intention of storing it for generations and making it available online.
...http://bit.ly/bQ9R6e

No investigation for missing files
Geneseo Republic
By Lisa Depies Officials with the Illinois State Police have declined to
investigate the removal of disciplinary records from employee files at the
Henry ...< http://bit.ly/cchMAi>

Art Gallery nets famed photo archive
Yale Daily News
The Yale University Art Gallery and the Beinecke Rare Book and Manscript
Library will announce today their joint acquisition of Friedlander's archive
for an ...< http://bit.ly/bQ0rKq>

Preserving Hingham's history in photographs
Hingham Journal
These comprise the Hingham Historical Society's vast collection of local
historic photographs, which two volunteers, Carl Achille and Faith Smith,
...< http://bit.ly/9A0C3O>

A legacy of Jewish film
Boston Globe
A. We started the archive in 1975, with this initial acquisition. ... No
film archivist trusts any of the digital mediums for long-term preservation.
...< http://bit.ly/azBRzG>

Canadian student unearths only known copy of Haitian Declaration ...
Calgary Herald
So when she stumbled upon that phrase again in London's archives while
looking through ... a noted Haitian archivist currently working in the
United States, ...< http://bit.ly/dfSg4f>

Iron Mountain Searches PCs For Data, Do You Mind Being Watched?
CMSWire
With Iron Mountain the issue raises its head again as Connected Classify &
Collect can even collect search terms used. Obviously though with the
possible ...< http://bit.ly/bAKfu1>



Country's first electronic media archive taking shape
Deccan Herald
While both Doordarshan and All India Radio have their own archives, there is
no archive for electronic news encompassing various channels, ...<
http://bit.ly/cSPMrQ>

Sharing residential school archives
The North Bay Nugget
A project to digitize more than three decades of archives collected by the
Shingwauk Project began in earnest at the beginning of this year, ...
http://bit.ly/axrxQl

Why City Turned Off Text Messaging
Journal & Topics Newspapers Online
... for the Illinois Press Association and a leading expert on the state's
Freedom of Information Act. "Governments must produce public records on
request. ...< http://bit.ly/a16vib>

Haiti founding document discovered in Britain's Archives
NatGeo News Watch
The National Archives has posted more details and a copy of the document on
its ... a noted Haitian archivist who is now a fellow at Brown University's
John ...< http://bit.ly/bgelKb>

Oklahoma brings in millions by selling personal data
NewsOK.com
An open records request by the Tulsa World for a list of recipients of OU
student directory information is pending. Concealing birth dates in public
records ...< http://bit.ly/drzAfE>

Corporate espionage creates 'peek' earnings
New York Post
By RICHARD WILNER In the first few days of the summer of 2008, headlines in
the business media carried news of heavy rains and floods across Iowa — and
much ...< http://bit.ly/cqgBsN>

NHS sends confidential patients records to India despite pledges it would
not
Daily Mail
They say patient data can be sent abroad if they are not part of this
electronic records project. The risks of transferring data overseas were
highlighted ...< http://bit.ly/9LeXcP>

A binding gift
Windsor Star
As part of the permanent shutdown, which is expected to be completed in late
summer, employees are going through a process called information life cycle
...< http://bit.ly/cQQatq>

Crites writes the story of oil boom artist Hermann
Times Record News
Crites began volunteering at the Wichita County Archives in 1992 and still
volunteers at the North Texas History Museum four days a week. ...<
http://bit.ly/a5brvF>

Owner of Automated Record Management Services in De Pere keeps others ...
Green Bay Press Gazette
Eric Haas is the hands-on owner of ARMS (Automated Records Management
Systems), a full-service commercial records center in De Pere.
http://bit.ly/bjiq38

Library persists with Jazz Preservation
Fort Worth Business Press
“Building an archival collection of this scale can be slow going,” adds
Kellam. “The archival collection so far consists of eight [linear] feet of
records ...< http://bit.ly/bn5Kgc>



Puppet past preserved
Mason City Globe Gazette
Saving the 16mm films to a new archival format was a goal for many years,
but the process is costly. Two grants funded the $11000 project — from the
...< http://bit.ly/bGGH4B>

Why Your Data Can Reduce E-Discovery Abuses
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel
I might add that lawyers are increasingly using spoliation both as a sword
and as a shield. Where they have to defend a claim without the information
that ...< http://bit.ly/dD6iat>

Fix E-Discovery: Speak Out About The Facts
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel
The greatest concern that senior people have is exposing their companies to
sanctions for spoliation. Therefore, a great deal of time is spent on ...
http://bit.ly/aB2Hzj

Archives merger idea questioned
Otago Daily Times
By John Gibb on Tue, 6 Apr 2010 The poor quality of a Cabinet paper which
advocates merging Archives New Zealand and the Internal Affairs Department
is ...< http://bit.ly/aMZV6B>

Nelson City tackles information 'labyrinth'
Computerworld New Zealand
Data management coordinator Martin Erasmuson says regulatory compliance was
one of ... Document and records management was a key plank in fixing that
issue, ...< http://bit.ly/c5awfm>

Security driven by compliance, rather than protection
CNET
Secrets--that can confer long-term competitive advantage such as product
plans, earnings forecasts, and trade secrets. Secrets refer to information
that the ...< http://bit.ly/9Usnxj>

Technicolor Donates Film Collection to George Eastman House
Self Storage Industry News
Individuals and businesses storing their own archival film collections can
learn from the Eastman House's methods for preserving film artifacts. ...
http://bit.ly/8ZKadv

Rambus Defends Document Policy in Hynix, Micron Patent Appeals
BusinessWeek
... Rambus, a designer of high- speed computer-memory chips, said it
destroyed documents as part of a legal practice to reduce stored paper. ...
http://bit.ly/9djACS

Eames Heir Sues to Stop Sale of Parents' Archive of Photos
BusinessWeek
... Marilyn Neuhart of Hermosa Beach, California, came to possess the photos
and other materials as they assisted her parents in organizing their
archives. ...< http://bit.ly/dnjvtM>

Study finds businesses spending too much on compliance
SC Magazine US
However, attackers today also aim to steal trade secrets, which for an
organization can result in significant losses in future revenue. ...
http://bit.ly/be8ksP

Unpack records savings
Business Mirror
One often overlooked area where savings can be found is in records storage.
If your company is like most, you use an off-site facility to store
documents ...< http://bit.ly/dzjhwS>



Developing and managing e-mail archiving policies
ITWorld Canada
The general perception is that volume is the problem and companies need to
have document retention policies, records retention policies and eliminate
...< http://bit.ly/b3Xzs4>

Data Stolen From India, UN, Dalai Lama Traced To China
InformationWeek
As a consequence, the researchers were able to obtain copies of various
sensitive and classified documents from the hackers. These documents
included files ...< http://bit.ly/95y7K1>

Wright archivist scores big at LA auction
AZ Central.com
It has been his life's work to ensure that the archives are as complete as
possible. Recently, Pfeiffer got his white whale when the foundation bought
a ...< http://bit.ly/a3MTR1>

No laws violated in destruction of notes
Statesman Journal
... a public meeting with concerns about destruction of public records,"
according to an April 5 follow-up from the DOJ to city attorney David
Rhoten. ...< http://bit.ly/9U7BY7>

Rail archives to be saved for nation
Rail-News.com
A national archive is to be created to ensure that the records from train
operators and rail companies that no longer exist, such as GNER, are
conserved and ...< http://bit.ly/dxvXZd>

UC Santa Cruz taps Nicholas Meriwether to be new archivist for Grateful Dead
...
UC Santa Cruz
The University of California, Santa Cruz, has appointed Nicholas Meriwether
as the new archivist for the campus's historic Grateful Dead Archive. ...
http://bit.ly/abhOhQ

Records management in a new regulatory environment
Hedge Funds Review Magazine
The volume of electronic records now vastly surpasses paper-based ones.
While a good thing for the industry, this change in records management has
brought ...< http://bit.ly/9TOjOA>

Meet the Grateful Dead Archivist
Atlantic Online (blog)
In the March Atlantic, I wrote a piece about the soon-to-open Grateful Dead
Archive at the University of California, Santa Cruz, and about the academics
who ...< http://bit.ly/bH0cGj>


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