RAIN 20080522
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Archiving the past
Georgian - Stephenville,Newfoundland,Canada
This is an experience Judy Simmons Parsons hopes visitors will have during
the town's archival display and art gallery, being organized for the
community's ...
<http://www.thegeorgian.ca/index.cfm?sid=136080&sc=333>
Red Cross could end management role at Nazi archive
The Associated Press -
AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) — The governors of a newly opened archive of
Nazi-era documents said Tuesday they will consider ending the 60-year role
of the ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jaV2njr0i612DoLvA9GbyWf0aPMAD90PHUPG0>
University toasts brewing archive
BBC News - UK
A major archive containing records, materials and images of the Scottish
brewing industry has been saved for the nation. Glasgow University will
house the ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7410167.stm>
Gov't planning centralised communications database
ZDNet UK - UK
To come into line with the requirements of the European Data Retention
Directive, introduced in 2006, UK communications providers have, for some
time, ...
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/communications/0,1000000085,39420722,00.htm>
Preserving the minutiae of Indian diplomacy - digitally
Thaindian.com - Bangkok,Bangkok,Thailand
The MEA does go through periodic 'weeding' of its records, but
departments taking care of various territorial divisions keep the
most-referred files in ...
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History is coming back home
Busselton Dunsborough Mail - Western Australia, Australia
They were bought by the State Library of Western Australia for $80000 at an
auction last August with the Busselton Shire Council contributing $11000....
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US Judge: Wait your turn for Clinton phone records
The Associated Press -
Librarians for the Clinton presidential library in Little Rock, Ark., said
there was a tremendous backlog. Fulfilling the Judicial Watch request
first, ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h4Z3zB9T9bAKKP_UQsmd8_w3k0sgD90PKEG84>
Groups Cry For More White ...
InternetNews.com - USA
By Judy Mottl: More stories by this author: Two groups suing to preserve
White House email and backup tapes want to go even farther on a
court-imposed ...
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http://www.internetnews.com/government/article.php/3748226/Groups+Cry+For+More+White+House+Email.htm
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Data Empowerment Puts the Billion-Dollar Records Management Genie ...
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
When one of America's major multi-national banks got hit with a billion
dollar judgment for violating evidentiary rules governing records
management, ...
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http://www.pr-inside.com/data-empowerment-puts-the-billion-dollar-records-r601450.htm
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Can We Trust Big Internet Companies With Our Health Data?
PC Magazine - USA
For a long time experts have argued that one of the ways to make the US
health care system more efficient is to make records management more
efficient. ...
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http://blogs.pcmag.com/securitywatch/2008/05/can_we_trust_big_internet_comp.php
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Email retention draws attention of agencies
Outer Banks Sentinel - Nags Head,NC,USA
... employees to review their own records retention policies. Easley's
office is accused of directing the departments under his administration to
delete all ...
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http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2008/05/21/top_stories/tops2251.txt
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Wells Fargo Introduces vSafe, a Virtual Safe-Deposit Box
Wall Street &amp; Technology - New York,NY,USA
... helping Wells Fargo's customer-retention efforts. In addition to
helping customers organize their document storage, the vSafe product also
can help the ...
<http://www.wallstreetandtech.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207800319>
Iron Mountain teams with IBM on records management
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The system would be capable of keeping physical and electronic records in
compliance with regulations and providing access to the records in the
event of ...
<http://www.bizjournals.com/masshightech/stories/2008/05/19/daily24.html>
Lager can beauties find a home in university archive
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Now they are in the careful hands of archivist Iain Russell. "Tennent's
initially showed pictures of hills and glens, then they included a model,
Ann, ...
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Reel Adventures
Cleveland Free Times - Cleveland,OH,USA
Nyback is a film archivist and scholar of everything from dorky
school/instructional films to PSAs to early music-video promotional and
video-jukebox films ...
<http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/55/reel-adventures>
Hoover photo error found
Stanford Daily - Palo Alto,CA,USA
"With a little collection we tend to believe the donor," said Hoover
Assistant Archivist Carol Leadenham. Hoover contains over 5600 collections
with ...
<http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2008/5/21/hooverPhotoErrorFound>
Archivist to retire at end of the month
Daily Northwestern - Evanston,IL,USA
To listen to University Archivist Patrick M. Quinn tell 150 years of NU's
stories - from the beginning of purple and white to the life of famed
anthropology ...
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http://www.dailynorthwestern.com/news/2008/05/21/Campus/Archivist.To.Retire.At.End.Of.The.Month-3374212.shtml
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Fishing records to return to Shetland
Shetland Marine News - Vidlin,Scotland,UK
County archivist Brian Smith said: "For the past thirty years Shetland
Archives has had a splendid relationship with the National Archives. ...
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http://www.shetlandmarine.com/2008/02%20Fishing/fishing_records_to_return_to_shetland.htm
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The Leather Archives and Museum: To protect and serve
Windy City Times - Chicago,IL,USA
My tour of The Leather Archives and Museum had begun. The Leather Archives
and Museum has been serving and preserving the fetish community since
1991,...
<http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=18368>
Burst water pipe closes Canadian archives in Ottawa
Canada.com - Don Mills,Ontario,Canada
OTTAWA - A burst water pipe flooded part of the main building of the
Library and Archives Canada building in downtown Ottawa on Tuesday morning,
...
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<http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2008/05/20/ot-archives-080520.html>
New York State Issues Comprehensive E-Records Study on Openness
ReadMedia (Press Release) - Albany,NY,USA
... to promote openness and transparency aimed at ensuring public records
remain free from being locked into proprietary systems and software
applications. ...
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http://readme.readmedia.com/news/show/New-York-State-Issues-Comprehensive-E-Records-Study-on-Openness/139973
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Easley panel calls for longer e-mail storage
University of North Carolina The Daily Tar Heel - Chapel Hill,NC,USA
Mike Easley to review public records law regarding e-mails made its
recommendation to the governor Tuesday. The panel recommended that Gov. ...
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http://www.dailytarheel.com/home/news/2008/05/22/StateNational/Easley.Panel.Calls.For.Longer.EMail.Storage-3374354.shtml
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An Inconvenient Data Retention Policy
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Is this realistic and can you get away with that short of a data retention
policy? Not really and here's why... What the client really meant by this
45 day ...
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/05/an_inconvenient.html
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Data management: Capturing the data you really need
WTN News - Madison,WI,USA
... dimension to court proceedings and government investigations, requiring
organizations to revisit document retention and incident-response policies.
...
<http://wistechnology.com/articles/4764/>
Brewing industry archive preserved for the nation
stv.tv - UK
An irreplaceable archive containing records, materials, and images of the
Scottish brewing industry has been saved for the nation. The University of
Glasgow ...
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http://www.stv.tv/news/Brewing_industry_archive_preserved_for__080521182941436
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Journey into the past: Kemper archive produces BHS find
Boonville Daily News - MO, USA
Echo Company, Kemper Military School operates an archive and research
facility at its Wisconsin headquarters where volumes of manuals, yearbooks,
...
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http://www.boonvilledailynews.com/news/x934428816/Journey-into-the-past-Kemper-archive-produces-BHS-find
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Could Message Archiving and eDiscovery Have Saved Bear Stearns?
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
Safecore, Inc., the eRecords management company, is confronting the growing
problem of visibility around the subprime financial fiasco with its message
...<http://www.s-ox.com/dsp_getNewsDetails.cfm?CID=2305>
They Knew, and Didn't do it Anyway
FederalNewsRadio.com - USA
Top-level managers "need to realize the serious problems with their
agency's electronic records management and take steps to correct them. ...
<http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=410&sid=1408474>
The "Big Scrape": This Time, You're on Your Own
FederalNewsRadio.com - USA
NARA says they did the harvests with reluctance in 2000 and 2004, "because
we had not yet issued records management guidance to federal agencies on
managing ...
<http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=410&sid=1408482>
Rishton man is Raider of the Lost Archive!
This Is Lancashire - Blackburn,England,UK
Danny, an archivist at the Lancashire Telegraph said: "I was making tea for
actors when the chance to be involved in a big college scene came up. ...
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Film showcases best of Bute archive
Buteman - Isle of Bute,Scotland,UK
"In a way I've got a bit of a cheek - after all, what right do I have to
appoint myself the island's archivist? And I thought well, if I hadn't done
it, ...<http://www.buteman.co.uk/news/Film-showcases-best-of-Bute.4109992.jp
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Buried, razed - but not forgotten
Times Online - UK
Officials delete swaths of electronic information routinely. Methods of
storing information that seemed cutting-edge ten years ago are already
obsolete. ...
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article3986184.ece
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Archivist of the United States Establishes 'Controlled ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
WASHINGTON, May 22 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Archivist of the United States
Allen Weinstein announced today the establishment of the "Controlled ...
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Metro archives to stay put for now
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
Metro Archivist Ken Fieth said he generally goes once a week to the Elm
Hill site — which housed the full archives until 2001 — to pick up
materials ...
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http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080522/NEWS0202/805220371/1009/NEWS01
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