Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.RAIN 20080118

INTERNET LAW - Internet Disclosure of Civil Court Records: State ...
IBLS INTERNET LAW (subscription) - Irvine,CA,USA
In other words, some state public records laws have become accomplice of
defrauders who use 'this mandated service" to obtain people's financial and
other ...<
http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1959>


White House 'Recycled' Backups of its Email Records
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
If the White House is trying to prevent its internal communications from
becoming public records, delaying tactics and unclear answers work to its
benefit. ...<
http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/01/6883_white_house_doe.html>


White House Tape Recycling May Have Erased Controversial Emails
Washington Post - United States
The White House's electronic record-keeping system has come under increasing
scrutiny from Democrats in Congress and is the subject of a lawsuit by two
...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011602202.html?hpid=topnews
>

School still looking into scope of missing documents
(AP) -- An investigation into missing files from former coach Rich
Rodriguez's office has revealed that the academic records of Mountaineer
football players ...<
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2008/football/ncaa/01/16/wvu.documents.ap/>


Using city archives will be easier after lottery grant boost
Worcester News - Worcester News, UK
By Kate Yates ACCESS to records of Worcester's history will be vastly
improved thanks to a £228000 Heritage Lottery Fund grant. ...
<http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/wnnewslatest/display.var.1970240.0.using_city_archives_will_be_easier_after_lottery_grant_boost.php
>

White House discloses details of e-mail backup system
Meredith Fuchs, the National Security Archive's general counsel, said the
account represents a departure from what White House officials have said in
the ...<http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151320-1.html>

Blunt approves $2 million e-mail archive
Matt Blunt has ordered work to begin on a $2 million plan to archive
government e-mails in response to concerns about e-mail deletions in his
office and ...<http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/447547.html>

Blunt says email archive system will cost $1.4 million
By Jo Mannies Gov. Matt Blunt said Wednesday he expects it will take months
to get a new, $1.6 million system in place that would permanently store all
of ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/politics/story/774E156A341A526B862573D30016E09D?OpenDocument
>

World War II Vets Archive Memories In Augusta
NBC Augusta - Georgia,South Carolina,USA
By Dustin Blanchard And if you know a World War II veteran -- they probably
have a lot of wisdom to share. ...<
http://www.nbcaugusta.com/news/local/georgia/13847752.html>

Mounds of paperwork disguise Baldwin police helper's importance
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Baldwin Borough police Chief Chris Kelly checked brown evidence bags
containing wads of cash, making sure the amount of bills matched computer
records. ...<
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_547755.html>


Scruggs defense will fight to stop tapes
Prosecutors said a team is still sifting through computer records. During
the one-hour hearing, Backstrom sat at defense tables with a row of
attorneys, ...<http://www.sunherald.com/278/story/306004.html>

STORY'S AUTHOR ON RICH RODRIGUEZ: 'I don't think that there's ...
Detroit Free Press - United States
Again, it goes back to my contention that, worst case scenario, by shredding
this documents, he has destroyed some sort of incrimination evidence. ...
<
http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080117/SPORTS06/80116075/1050/SPORTS02>


Privacy Debate Runs Hot in Germany
Germany's implementation of an EU data retention directive, which went into
effect at the beginning of 2008, came in for particular criticism in the
report, ...<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3063735,00.html>

White House Reused E-Mail Tapes
The recycling of backup tapes by the Bush White House represents a reversal
in policy from the final year of the Clinton administration. ...<
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsG0My2Q3Eu9Sj2PSupnj4xeQXxAD8U75KQ81>

White House Tape Recycling May Have Erased Controversial E-Mails
... the start of the Iraq war and the CIA's destruction of interrogation
videotapes. The White House's electronic record-keeping system has come
under ...<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/16/AR2008011602202.html?hpid=moreheadlines
>

Museum Provides Detail From Nazi Archive
After months of work on more than 100 million digital images from the files,
the museum was announcing Thursday that it would begin answering requests
from ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jVqkaYAPficVwA3ku7ZLXnEzW08AD8U7MM3O0>

eWeek
Personal Devices Create a Dilemma for Corporate IT
<http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Mobile-and-Wireless/Personal-Devices-Create-a-Dilemma-for-Corporate-IT/
>

White House Copied Over E-Mail Tapes
The Associated Press -
The backup tapes, which also contain electronic documents in addition to
e-mail, are the last line of defense for saving electronic records.
...<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsG0My2Q3Eu9Sj2PSupnj4xeQXxAD8U79OL00
>

Treasures tucked away in archives at OSU
Some people mistakenly consider the archives to be the font of all OSU
knowledge. "We get all kinds of bizarre questions," said university
archivist Raimund ...
<http://dispatch.com/live/content/life/stories/2008/01/17/1A_BLUN17_with_art.ART_ART_01-17-08_D1_EK92EU6.html?sid=101
>

Preserving new music
University at Buffalo Reporter - Buffalo,NY,USA
The reformatting will be conducted by George Blood's Safe Sound Archives in
Philadelphia, a vendor with a strong reputation and extensive experience in
The...<http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol39/vol39n17/articles/DigitizedMusic.html
>

More and more states are adopting statutes and court rules addressing
the discovery of electronically stored information. Here is a current
list with links to the relevant provisions. Arizona Amendments to
Rules of Civil Procedure 16, 26, 26.1, 33, 34,...
http://www.ediscoverylaw.com/2008/01/articles/resources/current-listing-of-states-that-have-enacted-ediscovery-rules/index.html



CIO Magazine
busting the 10 Myths About Data Protection
Whether from security breaches or careless insiders, data protection is on
the mind of every CIO these days. However, it's steeped in misconceptions.

http://www.cio.com/article/171551/Busting_the_Myths_About_Data_Protection

State's library-museum project needs support, capital funding
Cordova Times - Cordova,AK,USA
The State Archives were founded two years later and moved into its
current location in 1975. Now is the time to act to preserve our
history by combining and ...
<http://thecordovatimes.com/news/story/1231>



County begins plans for $2 million building
Circleville Herald - Circleville,OH,USA
"We maintain so many records, storage is a big problem for us," said
auditor Melissa Betz. "Unaudited documents have to stay here until
they are audited. ...
<http://circlevilleherald.1upmonitor.com/main.asp?SectionID=3&SubSectionID=98&ArticleID=105671&TM=29503.81>



Livingston probes employee's e-mail conduct
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
The e-mails, requested under the FOIA by The News, show Pratt
congratulating the teacher of the year, discussing agenda items and
passing along confidential ...
<http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080117/METRO/801170486/1409/METRO>

Mining E-Discovery Stateside
Law.com <http://law.com/> (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
1, 2006, when the amended FRCP went into effect, parties in federal
courts worked under the general assumption that e-mails and electronic
documents were ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1200594602161>

Images found of Abraham Lincoln's inaugural
Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA
A reader browsing through the Library of Congress' online Civil War
photographic negative collection noticed three glass negatives
identified as taken ...
<http://www.dailymail.com/mostRecent/200801170757>

Send in your cell phone photos to keep history alive
Natchez Democrat - Natchez,MS,USA
A visual recording of our generation seems more fragile than even
Henry Norman's glass negatives. Each February, The Natchez Democrat
issues its annual ...
<http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2008/jan/18/send-your-cell-phone-photos-keep-history-alive/>

Who is responsible for what?
IT-Director.com - USA
To start to assign roles, it's best to take a step back and understand
why anyone should want to define roles for records management.
... <http://www.it-director.com/business/content.php?cid=10188>



Sheriff's office e-mail purge catches some deputies off guard
Houston Chronicle - United States
... can be deleted and purged from a system immediately, said Tim
Nolan, a records specialist at the Texas State Library and Archives
Commission.
 ... <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5465569.html>



Lawrence audit finds 2-year gap in computer
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
By Nancy Glasscock MOULTON -- An audit of Lawrence County Commission
building contents reveals a two-year gap in computer records, said
Alton Sizemore, ...
<http://www.decaturdaily.com/stories/3430.html>

Journalist's archive set to be preserved for future generations
HoldTheFrontPage.co.uk <http://holdthefrontpage.co.uk/> - UK...
journals, books, research notes, articles, correspondence and
photographs, many dealing with the local area, are now being stored in
the Conwy archive. ...
<http://www.holdthefrontpage.co.uk/news/2008/01jan/080118archive.shtml>

Suspect In Laptop Theft Turns Himself In
WKRN - Nashville,TN,USA
The man suspected in last month's theft at the Davidson County
Election Commission turned himself into authorities at Metro Police
headquarters Thursday ...
<http://wkrn.com/nashville/news/suspect-in-laptop-theft-turns-himself-in/135695.htm>



Election Commission laptop harddrive found
Nashville City Paper - Nashville,TN,USA
Police do not yet know if any of the other seized equipment –
including additional hard drives -- came from a second malfunctioning
laptop also stolen from ...<
http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/news.php?viewStory=58576>



White House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone
Washington Post - United States
Waxman said he is seeking testimony on the issue at a hearing next
month by White House counsel Fred F. Fielding, National Archivist
Allen Weinstein and ...<
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011703575.html?hpid=topnews>



Still incomplete, archive is open
Emporia Gazette (subscription) - Emporia,KS,USA
By Joey Berlin Emporia State University archivist Heather Wade poses
with a framed sign that will hang near the door of the renovated
archive library area ...
<http://www.emporiagazette.com/news/2008/jan/17/still_incomplete_archive_open/>

 Sealaska's historical photo collection grows
Juneau Empire (subscription) - Juneau,AK,USA
That was about seven years ago, and four years ago, the institute
hired a professional archivist. Current archivist Zachary Jones will
inspect the newest ...

<http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011608/loc_20080116025.shtml>



SMB - Stay out of the data swamp with a strong strategy
Infoworld - Netherlands
Often referred to as information life-cycle management, data
management includes a combination of business processes, policies, and
disk storage hardware ...

<http://www.infoworld.nl/idgns/bericht.phtml?id=002570DE00740E18002573D400061BD4>



Opinion: Why you should lose your paper records
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Once indexed, companies can set policies that delete records as they
reach the end of their useful life in order to mitigate future legal
risks. ...

<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9057680>



Piecing Together the Dark Legacy of East Germany's Secret Police
Wired News - USA
As pressure mounted, agents turned to office shredders, and when the
motors burned out, they started tearing pages by hand -- 45 million of
them, ... <http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/16-02/ff_stasi>



The TelegraphMoD
loses data of 600,000 would-be recruits
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml;jsessionid=ZDJ1YC2Y2EIBPQFIQMGCFGGAVCBQUIV0?xml=/news/2008/01/19/ndata119.xml>



Rodriguez' attorney to respond to shredding allegations
MLive.com - MI,USA
... class attendance records and records on personal conduct and
community service, be it positive or negative. If Rodriguez shred
public documents - and ...
<http://blog.mlive.com/jim_carty/2008/01/rodriguez_attorney_to_respond.html>



Files go missing at WVU: Rodriguez blamed; agent says there should ...
Detroit Free Press - United States
The Gazette reported that multiple people from the Puskar Center, the
football building, said they saw Rodriguez and his video coordinator
shredding ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080116/SPORTS06/801160424/1054>



Rich Rodriguez reportedly destroyed files on WVU players
Detroit Free Press - United States
17, removed all files pertaining to the players, the Gazette reported,
including academic records and community service events, disciplinary
results and all ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080115/SPORTS06/80115046/0/SPORTS12>



Fondren Library gets presidential look
smudailycampus.com - Dallas,TX,USA

The exhibit has been in planning stages for months and is not linked
directly to any announcements over the George W. Bush Presidential
Library. ...
<
http://www.smudailycampus.com/home/news/2008/01/18/News/Fondren.Library.Gets.Presidential.Look-3157690.shtml>



Data Lost on 650000 Credit Card Holders
The Associated Press -
It was being stored at a warehouse run by Iron Mountain Inc., a data
storage company, and was never checked out but can't be found either,
said Richard C. ...
<
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZchJDcVnuQDNPJsok2PSPr5vwRQD8U823R03>

BigString Launches E-mail Destruction Service
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Since not everyone likes to wipe out their records immediately,
BigString gives users the option to set a time before an e-mail is
virtually shredded. ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/internet/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=205900530>



Data Lost on 650000 Credit Card Holders
The Associated Press -
It was being stored at a warehouse run by Iron Mountain Inc., a data
storage company, and was never checked out but can't be found either,
said Richard C. ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iZchJDcVnuQDNPJsok2PSPr5vwRQD8U808VO0>




RODRIGUEZ SPEAKS -- PART ONE: Trashed documents were 'useless to ...
Detroit Free Press - United States
On the accusations of shredding documents: "Oh sure, I shredded some
... the secretaries were there, the staff members were there. It was
files out of a ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080118/SPORTS06/80117085/1123/SPORTS05&theme=UMOFF>



In court: Can you keep your password private to protect against ...
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
According to court documents, the files are nearly impossible to open
without knowing the password or without any "back doors" to the files.
 ... <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9057740&intsrc=hm_list>



Waxman: Chart showed White House missing e-mails
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Fielding, director of the White House's Office of Administration, and
Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein have been asked to
testify
. ...<http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151358-1.html>








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Richmond, Va

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