RAIN 20091028

Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.

Native Americans learn about culture preservation
Seattle Times
The National Tribal Archives, Libraries and Museums Conference is the fourth
national gathering to help preserve, archive, display and perpetuate Native
...<
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2010113971_aportribalculture.html
>



State Fair of Texas v. Iron Mountain Information Management
Leagle, Inc.
[ 3 ] In an effort to preserve the appeal, we have reviewed the entire
record, including the motion for summary judgment, the response, the trial
court's ...<
http://www.leagle.com/unsecure/page.htm?shortname=intxco20091020518>



Inside Intel / Israel's garden of secrets
Ha'aretz
Instead of entrusting their documents and research studies to the state
archives, as the law stipulates, they set up their own private archives.
...<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1122831.html>



Galvin: City Hall e-mails deleted inappropriately
Boston Globe
"This willful destruction of evidence is not an honest mistake -- it is not
a glitch," said Flaherty, an at-large city councilor who has scheduled a
press ...<
http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/10/galvin_city_hal.html>



Nazi Looted Paintings Discovered at Southern Methodist University, Future
Home ...
Reuters
During World War II, two Monuments Men who believed in that concept died
during combat trying to protect works of art from the destruction of the war
and ...<
http://www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS191023+22-Oct-2009+PRN20091022
>



Electronically Stored Information (ESI) Management is Top of Mind for ...
SYS-CON Media (press release)
A strong majority in the US and UK have a document retention policy, but a
much smaller number (46 percent in the US and 41 percent in the UK) claim to
have ...<http://www.yachtchartersmagazine.com/node/1153049>



California Investigating Voting Machine's Undetectable Vote-Delete Function
Wired News
The investigation is examining how the system's internal audit logs actually
work and whether audit records can be easily altered or deleted, according
to ...<http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/audit-log/>



Public shortchanged by vanishing e-mails
Nashua Telegraph
For his part, Hottel explained that it was his practice to routinely delete
e-mails from his school account that didn't concern public issues in order
to ...<
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091022/OPINION01/910229965/-1/opinion
>



Moving To A Digitized Workplace
Processor.com
However, the days of paper as a primary records storage medium are numbered;
hard copy records take up too much space and take too long to search and
...<
http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fp3126%2F31p26%2F31p26.asp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&bJumpTo=True
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At UD, protecting confidential information is everyone's business
University of Delaware - Newark,DE,USA
“Don't leave files open on your computer when you walk away from your desk,”
he said ... already do a good job of shredding paper documents containing
PNPI, ...<http://www.udel.edu/udaily/2010/oct/cybersecurity102209.html>



Police make a mockery of data protection
Register
... which looked into events surrounding the Soham murders, the police and
the Information Commissioner took different positions on data retention.
...<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/21/police_data_protection/>



Legal Implications of Cloud Computing -- Part Three (Relationships in the
Cloud)
Information Law Group (blog)
A final example: data retention and destruction policies. What if the SaaS
provider is working on a Cloud Platform that creates residual copies of data
that ...
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http://www.infolawgroup.com/2009/10/articles/cloud-computing-1/legal-implications-of-cloud-computing-part-three-relationships-in-the-cloud/
>



When Folly Is Forever
Wall Street Journal
Archivists and librarians have looked for strategies to preserve digital
public records, with mixed success. As futurist Stewart Brand put it a few
years ...
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704597704574485742145322708.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>



Savannah archives house extensive collection of priceless artifacts
Savannah Morning News
Glenda Anderson, left, director of the city's Research Library and Municipal
Archives, and archivist Luciana Spracher examine an 1820 map of Savannah.
...<http://savannahnow.com/node/907270>



Hawaii's moon rocks go missing
Honolulu Advertiser
"I have tried the governor's office," said Gutheinz, who was told to contact
the Hawaii State Archives. After contacting that office, he said, ...<
http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091023/NEWS01/910230366/Hawaii+s+moon+rocks+go+missing
>



E-record conversion costs doctors a bundle
Las Vegas Sun - Las Vegas,NV,USA
It takes about five to seven years for an e-records system to pay for
itself, Evans said. ... Just 10 percent of small practices have an e-records
system, ...<
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2009/oct/23/e-record-conversion-costs-docs-bundle/
>



Corporate Counsel Discuss Risks of Landing in the Hot Seat
Law.com
Disputes about alleged electronic discovery spoliation, or evidence
destruction, are especially likely to result in lawyers being called as a
witness, ...<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202434879072>



Clerk's office at the forefront of technological progress
Vineland Daily Journal
In 2006, we applied for and received a grant for electronic document
recording. This "e-file" system has been in use for more than 3 1/2 years
and we have ...<
http://www.thedailyjournal.com/article/20091023/OPINION02/910230328>



SUNY orders records protected in Binghamton probe
Sports and Weather Right Now
By MICHAEL GORMLEY AP Writer ALBANY, NY (AP) - The State University of New
York chancellor has ordered that all records be protected from destruction
in the ...<http://www.swxrightnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11346484>



Document retention policies lacking in companies says survey
Infosecurity Magazine
Kroll's research of 230 UK companies suggests that, whilst a strong majority
of UK companies have a (paper) document retention policy, only 41% for firms
...<
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/4749/document-retention-policies-lacking-in-companies-says-survey/
>



ESI strategy fails to measure up: survey
IDM.net.au <http://idm.net.au/>
October 23, 2009:A strong majority of corporates in the US and UK have a
document retention policy, but less than half claim to have an ESI discovery
...<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=17173>



UM seeks clarity in e-mail policies
Columbia Daily Tribune
By Janese Heavin University of Missouri System administrators need to
rethink how they retain electronic records and consider implementing an
e-mail ...<
http://www.columbiatribune.com/news/2009/oct/23/um-seeks-clarity-in-e-mail-policies/
>



Data deduplication: When, why, where and how?
Infostor magazine
Until then, IT departments should carefully evaluate their company's cost,
performance and data retention goals prior to choosing how and where to
deploy ...<
http://www.infostor.com/index/articles/display/7681693716/articles/infostor/storage-management/data-de-duplication/2009/10/data-deduplication.html
>



Iron Mountain Digital opens cloud storage APIs for data archiving
Search Storage
By Beth Pariseau, Senior News Writer Iron Mountain Digital, a subsidiary of
Iron Mountain Inc., today said it will open application programming
interfaces ...<
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid5_gci1371292,00.html
>



Did spies steal GM secrets for rival?
Detroit Free Press
What's more, the US Attorney's Office recently announced charges against a
Chinese man, alleging he stole trade secrets while working as a product
engineer ...<
http://www.freep.com/article/20091024/BUSINESS01/910240324/1331/Did-spies-steal-GM-secrets-for-rival
>



Skorton: Cornell will realize its future by way of its past
Cornell Chronicle
To make the connection between Cornell's past and present, Skorton asked
university archivists and historians to display a few of the university's
historic ...<http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct09/stateOfU09.sk.html>



Chinese films donation gives USC collection a different view of 20th century
The State
University archivists haven't seen much of the film, but they suspect it
depicts the China that the government wanted US audiences to see. ... <
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/996454.html>



Curators' work revealed rare Japanese masks at SMU
Dallas Morning News
Over the summer, the archivists-turned-detectives sought advice from John
Lunsford, the retired Meadows Museum director. He believed the masks were
Japanese ...
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/102509dnmetsmumasks.3b7d0cb.html
>



Preserving the past for the future; Grant aids archival work at Institute
The Times of Trenton - NJ.com
Asked if they intended to now seek these collections for inclusion in the
new Center here, the archivists nodded discreetly but with barely-concealed
...<
http://www.nj.com/mercer/index.ssf/2009/10/preserving_the_past_for_the_fu.html
>



New £10.5m archive centre opens to public
Aberdeen Press and Journal
By Jonny Muir THE new £10.5million Highland Archive and Registration Centre
in Inverness will open to the public today. The centre includes an archive
...<http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1453984>

Smithsonian internship helps student explore career options as archivist and
...
Appalachian State University
“This internship has opened my eyes to the world of archives and what
archivists do,” she said. “I would enjoy working with archives, ... <
http://www.news.appstate.edu/2009/10/26/smithsonian-internship/>



GeoCities Closes Today; Archive Team Trying to Save Sites for Posterity
BayNewser
"Guitar tab archives. MP3s that surely took the owners hours to rip and
generate. GIF files, untouched for 13 years. Fan fiction. ...<
http://www.mediabistro.com/baynewser/yahoo/geocities_closes_today_archive_team_trying_to_save_sites_for_posterity_141311.asp
>



China helps US to retrieve remains of crashed American aircrew 59 years ago
Xinhua
By Xinhua writers Yan Hao and Liu Xin BEIJING, Oct. 26 (Xinhua) – The
Chinese armed forces have reviewed key information in military archives to
locate the ...<
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-10/26/content_12333913.htm>



Poisoning-accused KFC 'purged records'
NEWS.com.au <http://news.com.au/> - Australia
Mr Bartlett is seeking to have KFC's computer records analysed, which he
estimates will take three months and cost $100000. "We have to deal with
these ...<http://www.news.com.au/story/0,27574,26261045-29277,00.html>



Jansen's collection preserved at UCA Archives
Log Cabin Democrat - Conway,AR,USA
Jansen recently donated her papers to the archives following her retirement
last year from her position as a news anchor at KTHV. Archivist Jimmy Bryant
...<
http://thecabin.net/news/2009-10-26/jansen%E2%80%99s-collection-preserved-uca-archives
>



Top 10 E-mail Blunders Of 2009, So Far
InformationWeek
White House Spam: A White House effort to set the record straight about its
healthcare plans in August led to the sending of unsolicited e-mail. ...<
http://www.informationweek.com/news/security/vulnerabilities/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=220900597
>



Labor Dept. Still Destroying Email, Group Claims
About - News & Issues - New York,NY,USA
These procedures allow for records destruction only under the authority of a
records disposition schedule approved by the Archivist of the United States.
...<
http://usgovinfo.about.com/b/2009/10/27/labor-dept-still-destroying-email-group-claims.htm
>



The Digital Pioneer
Wall Street Journal
The Washington VA hospital alone used to have between 4000 and 5000 folders,
not including imaging files, and sometimes they got lost during file
transfers, ...<
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574428750133812262.html?mod=googlenews_wsj
>



HHS Breach Notification Rules Again Under Fire
eWeek
... Services' data breach rules for personal health records. Under the
current interim rules health care organizations that use encryption or
destruction, ...<
http://www.eweek.com/c/a/Health-Care-IT/HHS-Breach-Notification-Rules-Again-Under-Fire-363972/
>



New Ideas for Old Information
Information Management - New York,NY,USA
Any good records manager will tell you the art of archiving is getting rid
of stuff.” Unlike building an addition, maintaining and cleaning house is
seldom ...<
http://www.information-management.com/specialreports/2009_168/cloud_computing-10016355-1.html
>



geocities Decommissioning Unleashes Torrent of Nostalgia
OS News
The Archive Team is working on saving as much of geocities as possible for
future generations. The internet is ephemeral, and, like ancient
civilizations, ...<
http://www.osnews.com/story/22400/GeoCities_Decommissioning_Unleashes_Torrent_of_Nostalgia
>



Archivist urges need for preservation
UT The Daily Texan
In a talk tuesday titled “My Life in Disaster Preparedness,” a nationally
known archivist spoke at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library and
Museum ...<
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/university/archivist-urges-need-for-preservation-1.2040773
>



Archiving Chinese families
Vancouver Courier - Vancouver,British Columbia,Canada
The City Archives also uploaded 150 videos from the 1920s to 2006 onto its
website last summer. There are other digitized photos and documents on the
...<
http://www2.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=bb4b8c74-b4d2-496e-b1c2-f556cba832fb
>



FBI cannot handle load of electronic evidence
FierceGovernmentIT
The FBI said it's working on reducing its backload of audio records and
electronic documents, and is looking at hiring more linguists to help out.
...<
http://www.fiercegovernmentit.com/story/fbi-cannot-handle-load-electronic-evidence/2009-10-27
>



Geocities Shuts Down
PC World
Yahoo will not be archiving web sites, though the nonprofit Internet Archive
is copying many of them, according to Yahoo. <
http://www.pcworld.com/article/174427/geocities_shuts_down.html>



More Questions Than Ansels... Until Now
NBC Los Angeles - Los Angeles,CA,USA
By JONATHAN LLOYD Lowry Digital will attempt to confirm whether glass
negatives found at a Fresno garage sale are the works of Ansel Adams. ... <
http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local-beat/More-Questions-Than-Ansels-Until-Now-66994347.html
>



Forrester report: SaaS not in future for records management
Supply Chain Management Review - Waltham,MA,USA
Forrester Senior Analyst Brian Hill's report, released last week, presents
the results of a survey Forrester, along with ARMA International, ...<
http://www.scmr.com/article/366722-Forrester_report_SaaS_not_in_future_for_records_management.php
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