RAIN 20090314
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
County signs lease to store old documents: Could start moving ...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... County could be moving its original wills, deeds and other documents
from the 1700s and 1800s to its storage vault at Iron Mountain as early as
July 1. ...
<http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/2219951/>
A significant discovery 18th Century surveys of Bradford County ...
Morning Times - Sayre,PA,USA
“People have been looking for them for a long, long time, because many of
the deeds reference ZF Walker maps,” she said. ...
<
http://www.morning-times.com/articles/2009/03/12/local_news/doc49b8faf882807909857561.txt
>
Piecing together the past
BBC News - UK
The Red Cross say they'll need expert help from other countries, and will
almost certainly ask for volunteers to join their own archivists. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7940540.stm>
Wairarapa Archive goes online with image repository
Wairarapa Times Age - Masterton,New Zealand
By Matt Stewart The world of research is rapidly transforming and the
Wairarapa Archive is changing pace alongside it with a template image
repository ...
<
http://www.times-age.co.nz/localnews/storydisplay.cfm?storyid=3795883&thesection=localnews&thesubsection=&thesecondsubsection=
>
Shredding of land documents seen as a questionable deed
CanadaEast.com - Moncton,New Brunswick,Canada
Fred Farrell, manager of private sector records at the Provincial Archives,
said deciding what to keep and what to trash was meticulously considered....
<http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/front/article/601807>
Artists Help Historical Society To Interpret Brooklyn
Brooklyn Daily Eagle - Brooklyn,NY,USA
I decided I would populate the archives, so in the future people looking
through [the archive] would find a more diverse group. ...
<
http://www.brooklyneagle.com/categories/category.php?category_id=27&id=26947
>
Australian archivist praises Pacific system
Radio New Zealand International - Wellington,New Zealand
Its National Achives director, Adrian Cunningham, was attending an archives
workshop which is developing a government recordkeeping toolkit for
countries in ...
<http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=45304>
Cologne collapse: no compensation grouting used for archive building
New Civil Engineer - London,England,UK
Cologne’s City archive building had not been underpinned or compensation
grouted despite its proximity to the underground works being carried out
for the ...
<
http://www.nce.co.uk/sector-news/geotechnical/cologne-collapse-no-compensation-grouting-used-for-archive-building/1995084.article
>
President signs controversial Lex Nokia into law
Helsingin Sanomat - Helsinki,Uusimaa,Finland
The aim of the new law is to help prevent corporate espionage. It was given
the name Lex Nokia because of intense lobbying by Nokia for its passage....
<
http://www.hs.fi/english/article/President+signs+controversial+Lex+Nokia+into+law/1135244285536
>
Bidder seeks Rocky's archives
Denver Post - Denver,CO,USA
"The Rocky's archives are going to be a valuable tool for academic
inquiry," said Ferguson, who has followed the News for decades. ...
<http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_11900699>
Archives building: dedicated in January, closed in March
Arizona Capitol Times - Phoenix,AZ,USA
By Bill Coates, [log in to unmask] Visitors to the Polly
Rosenbaum State Archives and History Building are greeted by a sign that
informs that ...<http://www.azcapitoltimes.com/story.cfm?id=10669>
A Recession Demands Retention
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
There's a time and place to delete everything, and you should do so when
it's legally possible. The good news is that the retention solutions
available are ..<
http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/03/a_recession_dem.html
>
FBI cited for worst FOIA responses
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
George Washington University’s National Security Archive gave its
"Rosemary Award" to the FBI for what the group found to be a high
percentage of “no ...
<http://fcw.com/articles/2009/03/13/fbi-worst-foia.aspx>
EU Data Retention Directive provokes widespread condemnation
VNUNet.com - UK
... all store communication information from customers for a full year
starting on 15 March, as part of the controversial EU Data Retention
Directive (PDF). ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2238499/concerns-eu-retention-directive>
Historical documents donated to UM library
Montana's News Station - Missoula,MT,USA
... club's history and everything that they've been involved with," McCrea
said. McCrea said it will take at least a year to organize and archive the
documents.<
http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=10004240&nav=menu227_8
>
Clarkson 'insulted' by request for white council members e-mails
WWL - New Orleans,LA,USA
NEW ORLEANS – City Councilwoman Jackie Clarkson said she was "insulted"
by a public records request that sought the e-mail records of only the
council’s ...<
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl031309tpclarkson.2f739243.html>
Cal Neva tunnels filled with history
North Lake Tahoe Bonanza - Incline Village,NV,USA
... the Cal Neva,” said Guy Rocha, recently retired 28-year Nevada State
Archivist. “It can match with a Vegas property not on size but what
happened there. ...<
http://www.tahoebonanza.com/article/20090313/NEWS/903129955/1061&ParentProfile=1050&title=Cal%20Neva%20tunnels%20filled%20with%20history
>
Unpublished Dickens letter on loan at Tech
Monroe News Star - Monroe,LA,USA
Kardatzke and her husband Jon visited Tech's archives on the fourth floor
of Prescott Memorial Library on Thursday to see the Dickens letters
displayed, ...<http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090314/NEWS01/903140318>
Peeling Back Layers of History
Washington Post - United States
"What we have here is the closest thing we will get to having walls talk,"
said Elaine Rice Bachmann, director of outreach for the Maryland State
Archives. ...<
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2009/03/13/ST2009031303269.html
>
Old Sturgeon files found in courthouse
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
The Sturgeon archive consists of about 1000 files dating from 1860 to 1921.
The records also include an index for the files through the year 1914. ...
<
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/mar/14/old-sturgeon-files-found-courthouse-014/
>
Juror Tweet: "I just gave away TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS of somebody ...
ZDNet Blogs - USA
Preservation of e-mail evidence is crucial to avoid the costs of spoliation
motions. Twitter is currently a wild west of unregulated, off the cuff
comments, ...
<http://blogs.zdnet.com/collaboration/?p=413>
Obama Administration Says Treaty Text Is State Secret
PC World - USA
Love asked for seven documents in his FOIA request. "The texts are
available to the Japanese government," he wrote in a column on
HuffingtonPost.com. ...
<
http://www.pcworld.com/article/161234/obama_administration_says_treaty_text_is_state_secret.html
>
Red Cross archive traces WWI soldiers
PRESS TV - Tehran,Iran
A British historian has found a unique archive that can help identify the
location of those who served and died during World War I. Peter Barton
found the ...
<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=88628§ionid=3510212>
UCLA Library Acquires Aldous Huxley's Literary Archive
Library Journal - New York,NY,USA
The UCLA Library has announced that it has acquired the literary archive
novelist and essayist Aldous Huxley (1894–1963). The collection contains
literary ...
<http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6643361.html?industryid=47105>
--
Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
[log in to unmask]
Richmond, Va
Information not relevant for my reply has been deleted to reduce the
electronic footprint and to save the sanity of digest subscribers
List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.
mailto:[log in to unmask]
|
