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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
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Freedom papers reveal Berks' past
Reading Eagle
The documents had been filed with the recorder of deeds - slaves were
considered property at the time - between 1800 and 1808. Frank Gilyard,
president of ...< http://bit.ly/diTwMW>

Duplicating Federal Videos for an Online Archive
New York Times
David S. Ferriero, the archivist of the United States, said the archives
were fully supportive of what the citizen group was doing. ...
http://nyti.ms/9qKdQU

Rules vary on availability of government e-mail trails
Arizona Republic
In response to a public-records request, an Alaska Superior Court judge
ultimately ordered Palin's office to turn over e-mails from those accounts
that ...< http://bit.ly/aLMbjD>

Catching a glimpse of Malta's history
Malta Independent Online
... Notarial Archives, also lending a hand in the digitalisation process
will be students from the University of Malta reading for an archivist's
course. ...< http://bit.ly/c6nHIg>

National Steinbeck Center's volunteer archivist collects, tells ...
The Salinas Californian
Behrens has been the center's volunteer archivist for the past nine years.
... Robbie, often conduct tours of the archives as well as Ed Rickett's lab.
...< http://bit.ly/9FGj67>

A Records Management Battle Plan
ECM Connection (press release)
So how is that the records management function continues to survive with
barely enough people to even start a game of scrabble? http://bit.ly/cdXgs3

Vital records endangered in Freetown
SouthCoastToday.com
The ideal situation, according to Brown, would be to have a walk-in safe
with a records management system. "On Tuesday, Brown suggested that a
possible ...< http://bit.ly/bCBZrt>

Feds: Drew U. freshman stole, sold rare documents from Methodist archives
Dailyrecord.com
Authorities said Scott, a Drew freshman, worked as a paid student assistant
at the Archives Center since approximately October 2009. The Archives Center
is ...< http://bit.ly/cgre17>

Rocky Mountain News archives at the Denver Public Library: You still can't
see ...
Westword (blog)
As for the Rocky's physical and digital archives, they've been left to the
Denver Public Library, but no one can see them yet -- and Jim Kroll, ...
http://bit.ly/bBChg9

C-Span Puts Full Archives on the Web
New York Times
The archives, at C-SpanVideo.org, cover 23 years of history and five
presidential administrations and are sure to provide new fodder for pundits
and ...< http://nyti.ms/aYM5cK>

Agencies' progress meeting FOIA transparency mandate mixed
GovExec.com
The audit, conducted by the archive, an independent nongovernmental research
institute at The George Washington University, found relatively few agencies
...< http://bit.ly/cEPi99>

Fending Off Digital Decay, Bit by Bit
New York Times
Salman Rushdie at Emory University in Atlanta, which is currently exhibiting
his personal archive, including personal papers, and electronically produced
...< http://nyti.ms/aDKOCd>



Artifacts of Grateful Dead's long, strange trip
NorthJersey.com
Not all of the items come from the UC Santa Cruz archives. ... creator of
the "Dick's Picks" series, who was later brought on as the band's music
archivist. ...< http://bit.ly/9bgtid>

FBI historian gives context to bureau's complex past
Washington Post
Biggest challenge: Balancing demands for thorough research, public outreach,
archival work and many other responsibilities, including meeting the needs
of ...< http://bit.ly/cOmWns>

Zille abandons probe into document shredding
Cape Argus (subscription)
"I am still taking legal advice on whether we should get a spoliation order
on the tape, or not. This is the essential point. ... http://bit.ly/b9hqIS

The Oldest Unanswered Freedom of Information Act Requests
AllGov
The US government has a long way to go before it fulfills decades-old
requests for classified documents, despite the promises made by President
Barack Obama ...< http://bit.ly/aGREL9>

PROMISES, PROMISES: Records not so open with Obama
The Associated Press
Agencies often cite more than one exemption when withholding part or all of
the material sought in an open-records request. The administration has
stalled ...< http://bit.ly/aK3Txe>

County officials subject selves to records policy
Tulsa World
County Assessor Ken Yazel: He had sought a tape of the previous meeting and
was told to submit an open-records request. By KEVIN CANFIELD World Staff
Writer ...< http://bit.ly/bSjO6E>

Army: Wikileaks A National Security Threat
InformationWeek
Plagued by controversy since its inception, the site often runs afoul of
institutions whose confidential documents have been posted to it, ...<
http://bit.ly/ds9puC>

Lessons in Corporate Agility: A Records and Information Manager's Quiet
Leadership
CMSWire
To develop into a sophisticated records and information management program —
which includes the categorization, retention and destruction of its records
...< http://bit.ly/9TGP3a>

Banks and Other Financial Services Find They're Using Less Paper
Business West
Such a shift from paper to electronic record storage is changing the way
financial-services firms and banking institutions are doing business — and
saving ...< http://bit.ly/beK1Y1>

Archivists 'in dark' on plans
Otago Daily Times
By John Gibb on Wed, 17 Mar 2010 Archivists say they are waiting "in the
dark" and are increasingly worried about a lack of information and
consultation ...< http://bit.ly/9Hcl8I>

Lack of funds cuts Yosemite memories short
Union Democrat
Rogers and assistant archivist Brenna Lissoway set out to rectify that with
their ambitious project of documenting life in and around Yosemite from the
...< http://bit.ly/9W17sM>

Queens Library putting archives online
Queens Courier
... areas of Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau and Suffolk, will be upgraded and
modified, allowing it to henceforth be known as “The Archives at Queens
Library”. ...< http://bit.ly/93A0ZK>

IDPH receives over $8 million for electronic records plan
Radio Iowa
by Dar Danielson on March 16, 2010 The federal government is sending the
Iowa Department of Public Health nearly $8.4 million over the next four
years to ...< http://bit.ly/a7WQG1>

Australian in-house legal face up to the digital challenge
IDM.net.au <http://idm.net.au/>
Respondents to the survey indicated that the most significant challenge
faced was the volume of electronic records. The three key risk priorities of
...< http://bit.ly/dhuUbq>

AK sues ex-employees over theft of trade secrets
Oxford Press
However, the suit alleges that before he left, Earley accessed “confidential
information and trade secrets on AK Steel's computer systems and sent
numerous ...< http://bit.ly/asxt6I>

State library announces announces notable documents of 2009.
WACH
State Library Director David Goble handed out awards to a variety of
agencies including the state museum, department of natural resources and
South Carolina ...< http://bit.ly/d6jFyA>

Avoid Pitfalls in Pursuing Paperless Goal
Accounting Software 411 (press release)
The new paperless world seems to make document storage, retrieval,
collaboration and security ... When a firm is concerned with state retention
rules, ...< http://bit.ly/cdSU0S>

A Gold Mine For Film Research
Indie Wire
Like anyone who's spent much of his life in libraries and archives, ... One
dedicated film scholar and archivist is trying to change all that. ...<
http://bit.ly/9DQfs5>

College Freshman Allegedly Stole Dead Presidents' Letters
Gothamist
Archivists checked their shelves, and found a number of letters and
documents, including the ones named by the dealer, missing. “For Methodists,
these are ...< http://bit.ly/9HSsEi>

Vague rule governs officials' e-mails
CharlotteObserver.com
Dick Lankford, the state archivist, said his interpretation of a petition is
that it's a document that would include more than one person lobbying the
...< http://bit.ly/bHN3nV>



Truly special collections: A voyage into the history contained in SJSU's
vaults
The Spartan Daily
... university archive materials." Moon said she is the first person
appointed to the position of director who has professional training as an
archivist. ...http://bit.ly/aU11rb

Holistic Information Managemement
CMSWatch (blog)
Now, this team understood the technicalities of document and records
management just as well as I did. My “aha!” moment came when I suddenly
realized that ...< http://bit.ly/aEmUpo>

Police on trail of zapped city files
MiamiHerald.com
... deleted any records. And anyone who suggests otherwise is a liar,''
Pizzi said. ``To tell you the truth, it's in his interest to protect those
files. ...< http://bit.ly/d4o7gY>

NYTimes
Student Is Accused of Stealing and Selling Valuable Historic Letters

http://nyti.ms/cSWybu

Seward city administrator accused of abusing public records
Lincoln Journal Star
... 7:48 pm Seward City Administrator Dan Berlowitz has been ordered to
appear in county court April 7 to answer to a charge of abuse of public
records. ...< http://bit.ly/b4SCId>

A look back in time with free historic photographs of Ireland
Irish Central
The National Library of Ireland has launched a new digital collection of
some 34000 photographs going back nearly 150 years. National Library
director Fiona ...< http://bit.ly/ceGmYH>

Lewis: How grateful can taxpayers be for the Dead?
Denver Post
By Al Lewis A concert poster is among the items in the archive. ... listed
another Dead position, a full-time archivist who will make up to $68892 a
year. ...< http://bit.ly/b8mE4x>

AK Steel Corp. lawsuit: Employees stole trade secrets before coming to work
at ...
al.com (blog)
A competitor of ThyssenKrupp AG has sued three employees of the German
steelmaker, saying they stole trade secrets before taking jobs last year at
the plant ...< http://bit.ly/9fCgzZ>

In 1941, governor made the day green
Boston Globe
... is stored in our archives at Columbia Point,'' Galvin said. The document
was retrieved, and the archivist quickly discovered the green and black ink.
...< http://bit.ly/bzxhhQ>

Bristol Cathedral's fascinating archives go on show
BBC Bristol website
City archivist John Williams said: "The cathedral and diocese have played an
integral part in the history of Bristol and and the surrounding region. ...<
http://bit.ly/9jRzgy>

Groundbreaking Partnership Unites Decades of Research
New York Times
Its photo archive includes more than one million photographs documenting the
work of 36000 artists. “The Frick was collecting in areas the Met wasn't,”
Mr. ...< http://nyti.ms/bC9tCB>

8Public E-mails: On the record Public: Officials find e-mail can be double
...
MassLive.com
Many are printed out and filed, and some are saved in an electronic
record-keeping system. E-mail could prove damaging evidence in a trial
scheduled May 12 ...< http://bit.ly/duvIYL>

Ex-Employee Wreaks Havoc on 100 Cars -- Wirelessly
PC World
Ramos-Lopez began by targeting specific customers, but soon discovered he
could access files for every car that had the remote access system
installed. ...< http://bit.ly/c0EdYp>

Urine Containers, 'Space Boots' and Artifacts Aren't Just Junk, Argue
Archaeologists
California has named the remains of the Apollo 11 mission a state historical
resource -- to the delight of the young profession of space archaeologists.
They fear that the trash and equipment left behind by the United States'
journeys to the moon could someday wind up for sale on eBay if they aren't
protected.
http://bit.ly/9UWqTZ

Previously Unknown J.D. Salinger Letters Discovered in New York
He was considered a loner and a misanthrope, but J.D. Salinger, who died
recently, also had a warm and affectionate side. Previously undiscovered
letters he wrote to an old army friend, which have been seen by SPIEGEL
ONLINE, offer fascinating insights into the private life of the reclusive US
author.
< http://bit.ly/9u2Dul>

report says Dresden firebomb toll was exaggerated
Times Online
During five years of research the Dresden Historians' Commission reviewed
records from city archives, cemeteries, official registries and courts and
checked ...< http://bit.ly/cnasZK>

AP corrects caption to reflect soldiers' memory
The Associated Press
Eventually, that led to the original photograph, on file in the National
Archives in Washington, DC The catalog recorded it as a photo of American
prisoners ...< http://bit.ly/a2Lwbv >

NC e-mail accounts in archive system grow slowly
WLOS
RALEIGH, NC (AP) -- Fewer than 900 of the 61000 e-mail accounts maintained
by North Carolina state government are on a new archive system designed to
make ...< http://bit.ly/buPMIC >

Bloomsbury Set archive released
New Zealand Herald
By Andy McSmith View as one page A letter on the disappearance of writer
Virginia Woolf (pictured) is one of the items in the newly released archive.
...< http://bit.ly/bpgCDg >

Police accessed 140000 phone calls and texts last year
Prague Post
Last year, the German Constitutional Court ordered the immediate deletion of
all data collected under the Data Retention Directive law. ... <
http://bit.ly/cMLbEB>

Laid bare: the Bloomsbury set revelaed in fascinating collection ...
Daily Mail
The archive is also a snapshot of history in the making, said archivist
Patricia McGuire. 'Many of [the group] were quite free with sex as a
reaction ...< http://bit.ly/cJ8XyQ>



Handford Collection finds permanent home at the Arnprior and McNab/Braeside
...
EMC Arnprior
Former Arnprior Archives archivist Laurie Dougherty takes a seat in the
original photographers chair on display March 7 as part of the Handford
Studio ...< http://bit.ly/chDBqU>

How Enterprises Can Capture Elusive Online Data
Internet Evolution
... create records agility; she or he creates the appropriate gear to
empower colleagues' decisions -- the basis of any online record-keeping
effort. ...< http://bit.ly/9bOHBz>

Group Pushes for More Gov't Documents to Go Online
PC World
Public documents that get shipped off to a warehouse are "about as public
and as transparent and accessible as a nuclear missile silo," Israel said.
...< http://bit.ly/atqRiJ>

Horry County vows to begin saving its e-mails
Myrtle Beach Sun News
The move follows reports by The Sun News that the county regularly deletes
e-mails considered public documents, keeping most for 30 days and deleting
others ...< http://bit.ly/bacRjz>

Hospital can't account for keys to bins of patient records for shredding
Las Vegas Sun
Clark County Commissioner Steve Sisolak suggests that the hospital reduce
the number of recycling boxes and install a shredder over each one, so the
records ...< http://bit.ly/a0Vvfp>

Archives theft disgraces Drew U.
Acorn
By Hanna Kristin Jrad William Scott's ('13) arrest on Sunday morning by the
FBI for theft of historical documents from the United Methodist Archives
Center ...< http://bit.ly/dluRmh>

E-Mail Evidence in Theft of Historic Letters
New York Times (blog)
It's super simple to steal from archives and from special collections. It
does not take a criminal mastermind to do it.” The dealer, identified in the
...< http://nyti.ms/aAXeuS>

19th-century industrial spy stole No. 1 drink
BusinessWeek
But the target of the theft is neither a new-generation computer chip nor a
biotechnology breakthrough. Rather, it's the plants, seeds, ... <
http://bit.ly/8Z7B2t>

Ex-DuPont employee sentenced for espionage
Richmond Times Dispatch
... and was a salesman and engineer for DuPont for almost 24 years, earlier
had pleaded guilty to the theft of trade secrets and obstruction of justice.
...< http://bit.ly/bUSsvq>

Student charged with stealing rare documents
CNN
The archive, on the campus of Drew University in Madison, is the official
repository for all artifacts and documents pertaining to the Methodist
faith, ...< http://bit.ly/bvi6pw>

Securing the shots that tell a city's story
The Age
And it is to this city's State Library that 90 per cent of his raw material,
the negatives, are being deposited courtesy of an arrangement between the
...< http://bit.ly/cBKBYR>



Archive reveals life of the 'Red Dean of Canterbury'
Independent
For the first time, the life of one of Britain's most controversial clerics
is to be laid bare as historians and archivists delve into the life of
Hewlett ...< http://bit.ly/bpEre7>

Revived Seattle Municipal Archives celebrate 25 years
Seattle Times
Cline has been city archivist since the archives' formal beginning in 1985.
Since then he has improved the place and its services while winning prizes
from ...< http://bit.ly/9eeJSF>

Amazing 1954 radio show find highlights Coast history
SunHerald.com (registration)
When she called MGCCC archivist Charles L. Sullivan, she wasn't certain the
fragile tapes were usable. “At first I thought 'Down South of the Air' was
the ...< http://bit.ly/b0nTpH>

State's record keeping 'disgraceful!'
Jamaica Gleaner
"There is this terrible state of record keeping in the public sector, in
particular in relation to personnel," Witter told The Sunday Gleaner
recently. ...< http://bit.ly/9hcIXJ>

Rare flying boat from Western Reserve Historical Society collection goes to
...
Plain Dealer (blog)
The Plain Dealer recently detailed the Western Reserve Historical Society's
sale of artifacts including planes, cars, furniture and other collections to
pay ...< http://bit.ly/9s3nzg>


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