RAIN 20090528
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Lockheed Wins $37 Million in IP Suit Against Contractor
Above the Law - Washington,DC,USA
$37.3 million for the misappropriation by a Texas defense contractor of
trade secrets associated with the design and construction of Lockheed's ...
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Smithsonian, black archivists help locals hold on to history
Charleston City Paper - Charleston,SC,USA
by Greg Hambrick by Greg Hambrick by Lindsay Frost by Dan mccue by Greg
Hambrick It's not hard to glean the significance of a picture with Malcolm
X or a ...
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Presidential library selects Don Wilson as new leader
Staunton News Leader - Staunton,VA,USA
STAUNTON — Don W. Wilson, former archivist of the United States and
director of the George HW Bush Presidential Library Foundation, has been
tapped to ...
<http://www.newsleader.com/article/20090527/NEWS01/905270315>
Interior Dept. Bungles Passport Records
Washington Post - United States
Investigators found approximately 200 files containing applications and
expired passports “stacked on unsecured shelves and spilled onto the
floor” at NBC's ...
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President Medvedev opens Presidential Library in Petersburg
ITAR-TASS - Moscow,Russia
PETERSBURG, May 27 (Itar-Tass) - President Dmitry Medvedev opened the Boris
Yeltsin Presidential Library in St. Petersburg on Wednesday. ...
<http://www.itar-tass.com/eng/level2.html?NewsID=13984134&PageNum=0>
Chicago Defender Archives Find a Home
Chicago Public Radio - Chicago,IL,USA
They are in the Vivian Harsh Collection, a preeminent African-American
archive at the Woodson branch. SENGSTACKE: I pretty much single handedly
rescued ...
<http://www.wbez.org/Content.aspx?audioID=34454>
Akira Kurosawa digital archives unveiled online
Mainichi Daily News - Japan
Ryukoku University professor Yoshihiro Okada unveils the digital Akira
Kurosawa archives at the university in Kyoto on Tuesday. ...
<http://mdn.mainichi.jp/mdnnews/news/20090527p2a00m0na010000c.html>
NHS climbdown on care record deletion
ComputerworldUK - UK
By Siobhan Chapman, www.computerworlduk.com Patients will be allowed to
delete their record of treatment from the new national database, in an
abrupt about ...
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Information Security: Employee Errors Put Data at Risk
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
"We immediately contacted all of our original folks that we had sent the
e-mail to, asked them to delete the e-mail and attest to the fact that they
had ...
<http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/690954>
Japan launches digital archive on director Kurosawa
AFP
A digital archive of 20000 items went live on the Internet this week,
ranging from private photos and newspaper clippings to notes and sketches
of movie ...<
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ib3bY8um0CLdUl9bYEO-mrLI6VTA
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Civil War cases to become public this week
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
The post-war cases are now available for review at the state archive's St.
Louis office in the Globe-Democrat building at 710 North Tucker, room
213....
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Ex-Caseworker Charged With Falsifying Records
New York Times Blogs - New York,NY,USA
The former caseworker, Stephanie Sabouni, 27, altered agency computer
records, the authorities said, to make it appear that she had visited a
child's home ...<
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/ex-caseworker-charged-with-falsifying-records/
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Mattress Mack draws lessons from store fire
Houston Chronicle - United States
He also credits a decision, ahead of Ike, to back up Gallery's computer
records to a remote location with enabling him to resume business the
morning after ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/6442433.html>
EU to Sue Sweden Over Lack of Data Retention Law
Digital Media Wire - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Brussels - The European Commission is filing a lawsuit against Sweden for
failing to implement data retention policies at ISPs and search engines,...
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Obama orders review of government classification
The Associated Press
Echoing language he used earlier to open more government information to the
public under the Freedom of Information Act, Obama said, "A democratic ...
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St. Louis opens Civil War era court documents
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - St. Louis,MO,USA
LOUIS — White-gloved archivists digging through brittle pages inside
metal file drawers at the St. Louis circuit clerk's office have unlocked
never-before ...
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Mo. court archives give glimpse of Civil War life
The Associated Press
"The files are as rich a repository as one would find anywhere," State
Archivist John Dougan said. They especially hold a wealth of material on
women, ...
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The History Of Computer Memory
PC Plus - UK
Magnetic tape came into use from the early 1950s as a general data-storage
medium. Though it was fast, could store far more data than paper tape and
was ...
<http://www.pcplus.co.uk/node/3063/>
Government Wrestles With Social Media Records Retention Policies
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
"The federal government is in a constantly evolving records environment,"
Arienne Thomas, acting archivist of the United States, said in a luncheon
speech ...
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New Lincoln letter added to archives
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The National Archives on Thursday added to its
collection a short letter written by President Abraham Lincoln to help an
ousted US Mint ...
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Poarch Creek Donates $500000 to Alabama Department of Archives and ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The donation will go toward the installation of a new exhibit gallery,
Alabama Voices, located in the west wing of the Archives building. ...
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IRS Does Not Properly Dispose of Taxpayer Records
Softpedia - Bucharest,Romania
"We found no documentation to show that any review of the background
investigation files was performed by IRS officials. One contracted shred
facility ...
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Showmen's Museum back on track, gets $1 million donation
South Shore News and Tribune - Ruskin,FL,USA
Already, about 250 photos are on line and accessible to the public through
the University of South Florida's archive page. ...
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http://southshore2.tbo.com/content/2009/may/28/showmens-museum-back-track-gets-1-million-donation/news/
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