RAIN 20080624
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Lesbian novel features in archive
BBC News - UK
Scotland's first women's archive, including family planning leaflets,
suffragette photos and one of the first known lesbian novels, is to be set
up. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/7468014.stm>
Antarctic map handed over to Australia's archives
Radio Australia - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
The first Australian map of the entire Antarctic continent has become part
of the National Archives collection. The handover by the Australian
Antarctic ...
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http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200806/s2283463.htm?tab=australia
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Nagy's secret trial public at last
Budapest Times - Hungary
The National Archive was only willing to make the recordings public if all
those concerned and their descendants gave their consent as the law now
demands. ...
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http://www.budapesttimes.hu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8055&Itemid=29
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What is the Role of Government on the Web? (Part 3 of 3)
CMSWire - San Francisco,CA,USA
Governments urgently need to develop a national archive strategy. The vast
majority of information that governments produce has minimal value. ...
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http://www.cmswire.com/cms/web-content/what-is-the-role-of-government-on-the-web-part-3-of-3-002811.php
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Archive will chart struggles of Scotland's women
Times Online - UK
A rare edition of a once-banned lesbian novel and stirring memorabilia from
the suffragette movement will be housed in new archive that documents the...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article4201222.ece>
Mapping the Holocaust archive: MSU prof explores records of Nazi ...
MSU Today - East Lansing,MI,USA
A recent agreement among the 11 nations represented on a committee
overseeing the archives now permits scholars to examine the materials and
allows for the ...
<http://newsroom.msu.edu/site/indexer/3422/content.htm>
Lotto cash for women's archive
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
The Heritage Lottery Fund announced today a grant of £410000 to create the
first Women's Archive in Scotland. Filling 500 packing boxes, ...
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http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.2357430.0.Lotto_cash_for_womens_archive.php
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Records missing at Utica City Hall
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
A New York State Archives director said there are guidelines government
officials are supposed to follow regarding document retention and
disposal....
<http://www.uticaod.com/news/x379973703/Records-missing-at-Utica-City-Hall>
Madison Co. increasing online access to public records
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
By Elizabeth Crisp • [log in to unmask] • June 23, 2008
A group that promotes open access to public records has chosen Madison
County's Web ...
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http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080623/NEWS/80623021
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Sensitive documents found all over road
abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA
The files were full of confidential information and lost by an insurance
agency last Friday. We saw files on at least six different businesses. ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6223413>
Historic Township Documents Being Preserved, Archived For Posterity
TomRiver Times - NJ,USA
The grant money is used to continue to staff a records manager and three
part-time records assistants, said Mutter, manager of the archives
program....
<http://tomsrivertimes.micromediapubs.com/news/2008/0625/front_page/003.html
>
Firms at risk from litigation for failing to manage information
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
Firms are failing to effectively manage their unstructured information,
which can comprise 80% of their total data, says the Document and Records
Management ...
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2008/06/24/231174/firms-at-risk-from-litigation-for-failing-to-manage.htm
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Papers of Lowell Weicker, US Senator and Connecticut Governor ...
University of Virginia - Charlottesville,VA,USA
Weicker, former US representative, US senator and Connecticut governor, is
leading the collaborative effort, the Lowell Weicker Jr. Archival Papers
Project, ...
<http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=5550>
Katy board changes mind on records law
Houston Chronicle - United States
They range from student directories and police reports to documentation of
student academic performance and reference letters from employee files. ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5852770.html>
State records law does not require retention of e-mail
KPUA - HI,USA
Ihara disagreed, saying technology has made storage space for e-mails and
other computer files inexpensive. "You can store virtually everything," he
said. ...
<http://www.kpua.net/news.php?id=15198>
How an obscure FBI rule is ensuring the destruction of ...
Slate - USA
At the time, I was new to the weird science of FOIA requesting, so I didn't
know the FBI was allowed to destroy files routinely. Dismayed, I looked
into how ...
<http://www.slate.com/id/2191902/>
The electric avenue
The Lawyer - London,UK
... of e-disclosure that has yet to be tested in the UK courts is the
circumstances in which incorrect handling of electronic evidence leads to
spoliation. ...
<http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=133539&d=415&h=417&f=416>
Saddam Hussein's Papers at Stanford : Watergate on Steroids?
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
The Society of American Archivists and the Association of Canadian
Archivists have also come out in support of the return of the archive to
Iraq. ...
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/bookpatrol/archives/141903.asp?from=blog_last3
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Rosenberg grand jury material closer to release
The Associated Press -
... American Historical Association, the American Society for Legal
History, the Organization of American Historians and the Society of
American Archivists.
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5i7H03tYRs4w33IdyAeXdn-kf7feAD91GL2BO0>
Orders of Emperors Alexander I and Nicholas II Stolen from Russian ...
Russia-InfoCenter - Moscow,Russia
St. Petersburg militia in cooperation with Rossvyazokhrankultura (the
Russian media and culture supervision agency) have found and confiscated
from antique ...
<http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/6584/>
Living history
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
By Pamela H. Sacks TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF MP Barker was bent over her
work as an archivist when she came across a 275-year-old bill that piqued
her ...
<http://www.telegram.com/article/20080624/NEWS/806240389/1102>
Tom Lantos' archive goes to Cal's Bancroft Library
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
The university contacted him to ask for his archives shortly before he died
of cancer on Feb. 11 at the age of 80. "When he announced his retirement
in...
<http://www.bizjournals.com/eastbay/stories/2008/06/23/daily25.html>
Internet Archive helps prevent digital dark age
Peterborough Examiner - Peterborough,Ontario,Canada
This fact was not lost on a group of people at the University of
California, and in 1996 the Internet Archive was created (
www.archive.org). ...
<http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1086101>
1800s marriage, real estate documents digitized
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
"All of these digitized images will come together in a digital repository
of private and public records to document the unique stories of each
(Denver) ...
<http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_9684803>
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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
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