RAIN 20081212
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Purdue special collections, archives find new home in Stewart Center
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA
By Brian Wallheimer ¡E [log in to unmask] ¡E December 11,
2008 Those who use Purdue University's Archives and Special Collections
might notice ...
<http://www.jconline.com/article/20081211/NEWS0501/812110326>
The White House's History Of Slave Labor
CBS News - New York,NY,USA
Three weeks ago, the National Archives' Reginald Washington saw a batch of
200-year-old wage records for slaves for the first time. ...
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/12/10/eveningnews/main4661606.shtml>
Hansberger: Records were "appropriately" tossed
San Bernardino Sun - San Bernardino,CA,USA
His successor as 3rd District supervisor, Neil Derry, reported Tuesday that
files containing such items as project reports and contracts were missing
when ...
<http://www.sbsun.com/news/ci_11190974>
Records lost in fire won't jeopardize care, hospital says
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Thursday that the loss of medical records in the Sayre Fire should not
jeopardize any patient's care because the files were more than two years
old, ...
<http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_11190869>
Historic plans now online
Westmorland Gazette - Kendal,England,UK
Most of the plans are scans taken from the county archives, and the council
intends to add more plans to the list every month.
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Ex-Library of Congress worker charged with using records for ...
Washington Examiner - Washington,DC,USA
William Sinclair and Labiska Gibbs are facing up to 20 years and 37 years
in prison, respectively, on charges that they accessed library personnel
files and ...
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TV's buried treasure: Classics saved
Independent - London,England,UK
Also eye-catching is a rediscovered series called Chelsea at Eight, found
by an archivist among a collection of travelogues. This 1950s Granada
precursor to ...
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WPL houses a large, local historical archive
News Virginian - Waynesboro,VA,USA
The library has many records on microfilm including census records, county
records and area newspapers. The census records include the federal
population ...
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Rockledge updates open records policy
Ft. Washington Montgomery Newspapers - Fort Washington,PA,USA
The policy could create a backlog of work for borough employees, and
especially Borough Manager Grace Metzinger, who was named the borough's
open records ...
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Ex-Blunt aide says e-mail deleting was encouraged
The Associated Press
A lawsuit by a bipartisan pair of court-appointed attorneys general
contends Blunt "knowingly and purposely" violated Missouri's open-records
law by denying ...
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DIGITALIZATION OF DOCUMENTS AND FILMS IN NATIONAL ARCHIVE
Panorama.am - EÇÙÇÍÇÊÇÈÇÖ,Armenia
But I can not say how much we have done," said Amatuni Virabyan, the
director of National Archive to Panorama.am. According to him 72mln AMD has
been ...
<http://www.panorama.am/en/culture/2008/12/11/tvaynacum/>
Bulgarian, Armenian Presidents Discuss Possible Cooperation in ...
BSANNA NEWS - Ukraine
... State Administration and Administrative Reform; and a cooperation
agreement between the Armenian National Archive and Bulgaria's Archives
State Agency. ...
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Browsing the past: National Archives' WWII records digitized
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
By John Timmer | Published: December 10, 2008 - 08:16PM CT Thanks to a
collaboration between the US National Archives and the historical document
website ...
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Wilson library open house includes future archive
WDBJ7.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
The building next to the museum will serve as an archive to house the
library's expanding collection of Wilson papers. About $2 million in
private money is ...
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Backup vs. Archive
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
In its "E-mail Archiving & Management Report 2008," analyst firm CMS Watch
found that 80% of mail data is duplicated because enterprises lack a
basic...
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Historical images available for online viewing
St. Olaf College News & Announcements - Northfield,MN,USA
DeKrey and Associate Archivist Jeff Sauve selected images that portray
early college buildings, people and events, and the town of Northfield. ...
<http://fusion.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=4545>
Company buys back GeorgeWBushLibrary.com name
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
... a valuable piece of online real estate to enterprising cyber-squatters,
the Bush presidential library has replanted its flag into that e-territory.
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Map of Goldfields Victoria could lead to untold riches
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Map librarian Judith Scurfield inspects the 1860s map of Victoria, which
was recently recovered from Ireland, at the State Library. Photo: Wayne
Taylor THEY ...
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The Forgotten Goulds: Cabinetmaker's Legacy Hidden in Ledgers
New York Times - United States
By EVE M. KAHN Since 1835 three vellum-bound books with smudged handwritten
pages have been lingering on shelves at the Massachusetts Historical
Society in ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/arts/design/12anti.html>
Erasing a Hard Drive: Not as Easy as You Think
CIO Today - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
E-Solutions documents the shredding of hard drives and, if requested, even
provides footage of the entire process, protecting clients by insuring
them...
<http://www.toptechnews.com/story.xhtml?story_id=023002CUJJ7A>
The ladies keeping Suffolk's past alive
East Anglian Daily Times - Ipswich,England,UK
What's become known as the Spanton Jarman Collection - some 4000 glass
negatives amassed by three local photographic businesses and taken mostly
between ...
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Website of the Week ¡X Footnote.com
Voice of America - USA
"We actually get the microfilm reels from the National Archive, and we will
basically digitize the microfilm," he explained. "We can do that on a very
quick ...
<http://www.voanews.com/english/Science/2008-12-12-voa29.cfm>
Barack Obama makes history, and museums chronicle it
Chicago Tribune - United States
The curators and archivists at Illinois museums have been excited to find
themselves in the middle of history in the making, and they have searched
out ways ...
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What Ms. Roosevelt Might Have Said About Gay Rights
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
18 boxes of love letters archivists discovered between the two women over a
thirty-year time span speak to the intensity of that relationship. ...
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Huge WWII Records Archive Now Online
Military.com - USA
AP NEW YORK - An online collection of World War II documents, billed as the
world's largest, debuted last week. Footnote.com, which archives
historical...
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Daily Mail
Victorian S*x Scandal
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Dallas Morning News
Bush library still far in the future, but vision coming into focus
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