RAIN 20080224
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Transparency and the DuPage County Election Commission
Chicago Daily Observer - Chicago,IL,USA
DuPage election commission officials continue to maintain that record
destruction transparency is "unnecessary paperwork." for the fact that the
DuPage ...
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Piecing together the past
Joliet Herald News - Joliet,IL,USA
Then a modern archival Japanese tissue was applied. "This project was unique
in that, we had another original copy of the map to use to fill the losses.
...
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Ongoing Training of Archivists Defended
AngolaPress - Angola
... based in the Ministries and in the National Historical Archive are
insufficient, in the light of national archive policy and of general law of
Archives, ...
<http://www.angolapress-angop.ao/noticia-e.asp?ID=597785>
Data Compliance: Guilty Until Proven Tamperproof
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Long-term data-retention mandates are a minefield as well. Organizations
covered by OSHA regs must keep physical exam records for 30 years after an
...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=206800870>
County treasurer indicted for tampering with public records
Clovis News Journal - Clovis,NM,USA
By Sharna Johnson: CNJ staff writer Curry County Treasurer Rhonda Bookout
was indicted today on the charge of tampering with public records, a
fourth-degree ...
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School Project Turns into Passion
KOMU-TV - Columbia,MO,USA
The Missouri State Archives house million of pages of documents and people
willing to help them find what they are looking for. ...
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Company follows through with software probe
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
A North Carolina company that failed to provide Warren County with a records
management system that functions as promised has followed through on a ...
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*TECHNOLOGY * | February 22, 2008
*Researchers Find Way to Steal Encrypted Data
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/22/technology/22chip.html?ex=1204434000&en=42df1e796fb08f3f&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
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By JOHN MARKOFF
A computer security research group has developed a way to steal encrypted
information from computer hard disks.
<http://tinyurl.com/22gbzm>
City has another FOIA mishap
Peoria Journal Star - Peoria,IL,USA
Instead, Ray was able to delete the Social Security number and return a copy
to the newspaper. At City Hall, each department has a trained FOIA
coordinator ...
<http://www.pjstar.com/stories/022308/TRI_BFS3Q3HA.061.php>
Army Says It Will Restore Public Access to Online Library
Washington Post - United States
Steven Aftergood of the nonprofit Federation of American Scientists, who had
filed a Freedom of Information Act request for all of the publicly
releasable ...
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Man Amasses Black History Treasure Trove
Seattle Times - United States
Blockson also recently donated thousands of items to the Penn State library,
which plans to open the Charles L. Blockson Room in April. ...<
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004197066_apblackhistorycollection23.html
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Jail cites HIPAA in refusal to release inmate's records
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
The department keeps medical records of inmates, and such records are kept
separately from other records of inmates, Arnott said. ...
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Picking Online Storage Services: Top Tips
Byteandswitch.com <http://byteandswitch.com/> - New York,NY,USA
Not to mention more traditional online backup and storage services from Iron
Mountain or Canada-based Storagepipe, to name just two. ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=146721&WT.svl=news1_2>
Web Site Enjoined From Posting Confidential Documents
Law.com <http://law.com/> (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... enjoined a Web site known for posting a wide array of confidential
documents that allege skullduggery by companies and governments around the
world. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1203508153788&pos=ataglance>
The Herald-Mail, Fri, 22 Feb 2008 5:06 PM PST
Today's New Stories
http://www.herald-mail.com/?cmd=displaystory&story_id=186874&format=html
BOONSBORO â€" When Debra Smith arrived at work Friday about 7:45 a.m. she
saw flames spreading from a nearby building toward Boonsboro's Town Hall.
Smith, the town manager, said she and a town clerk immediately started
moving records and historical documents from the building.
SMU to Host Bush's Presidential Library
Washington Post - United States
By Michael Abramowitz President Bush's future presidential library and
public policy institute will be housed at Southern Methodist University in
Dallas, ...
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With library sealed, SMU still has University Park land deals to make
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
By IAN McCANN / The Dallas Morning News A resolution to Southern Methodist
University's negotiations with the George W. Bush Presidential Library
Foundation ...
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Bush Picks SMU for Presidential Library
New York Times - United States
By Ariel Alexovich After considering sites across Texas, President Bush will
build his presidential library on the Dallas campus of Southern Methodist
...
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Insurer Works to Prevent Ex-Chief From Seeing Files
New York Times - United States
Lawyers for Mr. Greenberg, 82, have argued that the 36 documents could help
clear his reputation, because they contain details of questionable financial
...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/23/business/23aig.html?ref=business>
Archivist given lifetime achievement
Newsdurhamregion.com <http://newsdurhamregion.com/> - Durham,Ontario,Canada
So it's only fitting that during the 40th anniversary of the archives Mr.
Winter started he has been awarded the Lieutenant Governor's Ontario
Heritage ...<http://newsdurhamregion.com/news/whitby/article/94280>
The 'work product' excuse for secrecy
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
And it would sabotage the intent of the current law, which states that "all
public records shall be open for inspection by any person at reasonable
times. ...
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http://www.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/feb/23/the-work-product-excuse-for-secrecy/
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Paying up for public records: You may have the right to see them ...
ReporterHerald.com - Loveland,CO,USA
Those also are public records, but you'll have to pay state employees to
redact confidential information. If you're planning to get public records
from the ...
<http://www.reporterherald.com/news_story.asp?ID=15147>
E-mail at work comes in handy, but use it wisely
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
Employees delete most of those informal e-mails at their work station, but
the record lives on in company servers * Give workers clear, written
policies ...
<http://www.sanluisobispo.com/business/story/285471.html>
Trading in state treasures
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... investigation and the arrest of a trusted archivist, who authorities
say admitted to looting the State Library's Manuscripts and Special
Collections. ...
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FSU hopes to fill a museum with snippets of your campus life
Tallahassee Democrat - Tallahassee,FL,USA
He worked for the Virginia state library before FSU beckoned him home. "I
couldn't imagine coming to this position with this enthusiasm if I didn't
have a ...
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Treasure-troves at risk
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
"Are you going to strip-search a 54-year-old state archivist?" He was
referring to Daniel Lorello, who is charged with stealing hundreds of
documents from ...
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http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=666322&category=REGIONOTHER&BCCode=&newsdate=2/24/2008
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UN scandals are secrets no longer
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Since 2006, the Bush administration has posted thousands of pages of
confidential documents on the Web. By COLUM LYNCH, Washington Post The
Bush...
<http://www.startribune.com/world/15894262.html>
Confidential files are found dumped in Crouch End
This is Local London - UK
He added: "The records do not appear to have been tampered with, they still
remain complete and intact. The council has secured the files. ...
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SMU agrees to terms with Bush library planners, court deposition shows
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
"Clearly, our proposal contemplates what we believe to be ample property
for a presidential library, museum and institute that takes advantage
of a
campus ...
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The ABCs of record management: archive, back up and covert operations
SearchCIO ANZ - Sydney,NSW,Australia
But like the White House, their employees can be called as witnesses in
court, and their email records subpoenaed. 'Til death do you part ... from
your ...
<http://www.searchcio.com.au/topics/article.asp?DocID=6101195&SiteID=19>
Drawbacks to online records
phillyBurbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By JENNA PORTNOY Bucks County's electronic records system is a double-edged
sword, say those who make their living looking up deeds, mortgages and
other ...
<http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/157-02242008-1492766.html>
Thai antiquities in US may be stolen
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
"It destroys the archaeological record," White said. "It's shameful really,
a destruction of knowledge." Increasingly sensitized to those concerns, ...
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Specter of ID theft raised for city golfers
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
A lot of people chose their Social Security numbers because they were easy
to remember, he said. "Back in the late '90s, identity theft wasn't nearly
the ...
<http://www.azstarnet.com/business/226569>
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