RAIN 20080112
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Cormac McCarthy archives coming to Texas State
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
He has, though, decided to sell his archives to the Southwestern Writers
Collection at Texas State University-San Marcos. The university announced
Thursday ...
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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/01/11/0111cormac.html
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Attorney General Files Lawsuit Against Medical Company
KCBD-TV - Lubbock,TX,USA
The Texas Attorney General is urging folks on the South Plains to check
their banking information, after police found thousands of personal records
left out ...
<http://www.kcbd.com/Global/story.asp?S=7608783&nav=menu69_2_9>
State sues over tossed Levelland medical records
LubbockOnline.com - Lubbock,TX,USA
... general filed a lawsuit Thursday against a Pennsylvania-based company
accused of discarding hundreds of intact medical records in a Levelland
Dumpster. ...
<http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/011108/loc_235668037.shtml>
Traders to support Brass Band Archive
4barsrest.com - UK
The Association of Band Traders has announced its support of a new website
initiative for the Brass Band Archives. Behind the initiative is Jon Handley
of ...<http://www.4barsrest.com/news/detail.asp?id=7046>
Confidential documents found in Hemlington street
GazetteLive - Middlesbrough,UK
A major inquiry has been launched after confidential police documents were
discovered dumped in a Teesside street. The forms - which include the names,
...
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http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-breaking-news/2008/01/11/confidential-documents-found-in-hemlington-street-84229-20339149/
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HIV test records found abandoned in bag
Metro - London,UK
Nearly 200 highly confidential documents were left in a motorbike bag found
near Kingston Hospital. The documents included test results and in some
cases ...
<http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=83045&in_page_id=34>
Probe after medical records found
BBC News - UK
An investigation has been launched into how medical records ended up strewn
across a country lane. The confidential paperwork from two London hospitals
...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7181463.stm>
Russia mulls library to preserve Putin legacy
Reuters - USA
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A group of Russian lawmakers wants to give President
Vladimir Putin a US-style presidential library to perpetuate his legacy
after he ...<http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSL1038369720080110>
Bank files fall from courier's van
The Press Association -
The documents were found by a vehicle recovery driver on a roundabout near a
sliproad for Junction 11 of the M4 near Reading in Berkshire. ... <
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ht43JLp6CoAb-cwloyidV8dsSiqA>
Mapping Global EDD Strategies
Law.com <http://law.com/> (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... vital aspects of metadata -- would have little effect on the text of the
document. However, for standalone files collected from servers and hard
drives, ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1199873132859>
How the latest MiFID directives have encouraged companies to ...
The Times - Johannesburg,Gauteng,South Africa
To meet these challenges a stringent e-mail archival policy was needed to
ensure that e-mail records could be stored and indexed in a cost-effective
manner ...<http://www.computingsa.co.za/article.aspx?id=677215
CSO
Computerworld: Data Center Robbery Leads to New Thinking on Security
Last October, a data center in Chicago owned by Web hosting and collocation
vendor C I Host was robbed by two masked men, who pistol-whipped a lone IT
staffer working the graveyard shift and then held him hostage for two hours
while stealing computer equipment.
<http://www2.csoonline.com/blog_view.html?CID=33434>
Wis. gov orders security reviews
CNNMoney.com - USA
Meanwhile, Ritz said EDS determined it was a human error that caused the
Social Security numbers to go on the labels. Assembly Speaker Mike Huebsch,
...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22171522.htm>
My Turn: Act now to preserve our state history
Juneau Empire (subscription) - Juneau,AK,USA
The state archives were founded two years later, and moved into their
current location in 1975. Now is the time to act in order to preserve our
history by ...<
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/011108/opi_20080111017.shtml>
Texas State acquires Cormac McCarthy archives
Houston Chronicle - United States
(c) 2008 AP SAN MARCOS, Texas -- The Southwestern Writers Collection at
Texas State University-San Marcos has purchased the archives of novelist
Cormac ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/life/books/5445607.html>
WVU's Sears Offers His Views on MBA Records Flap
WTRF - Wheeling,WV,USA
... Inc. executive Heather Bresch resulted during the transfer from paper to
electronic record keeping, according to College of Business and Economics
Dean ...<http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=33482>
Cartoons and Kit-Kats: the Giles archive
East Anglian Daily Times - Ipswich,England,UK
As well as the original drawings there are 5750 printed cartoons in annuals,
2750 glass negatives of cartoons, and 2300 cartoon proofs. ...<
http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/features/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=Features&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=features&itemid=IPED11%20Jan%202008%2017%3A12%3A07%3A453
>
The Lost Archive
Wall Street Journal - USA
Among the treasures lost, later lamented Anton Spitaler, an Arabic scholar
at the academy, was a unique photo archive of ancient manuscripts of the
Quran. ...<
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120008793352784631.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
Nature journal digitises archive
BBC News - UK
By Arran Frood The entire archives of the prestigious science journal
Nature, stretching back to the first issue on 4 November 1869, have been
made ...<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7138704.stm>
Trainspotter spotted at rail museum archive
York Press - York,UK
By Press reporter THE world's first trainspotter has been identified by the
National Railway Museum and many of his family lived in York. ...<
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/yorknews/display.var.1960174.0.trainspotter_spotted_at_rail_museum_archive.php
>
Author's papers to be preserved for future generations
News 8 Austin - Austin,TX,USA
Additionally, the archive contains similar materials related to his work on
the 1994 play, "The Stonemason," as well as four screenplays, including "No
...<http://www.news8austin.com/content/your_news/default.asp?ArID=197980>
I haven't heard from EVERY professional document shredder in the ...
Lansing State Journal - Lansing,MI,USA
Pulverization, they maintain, is more secure than shredding. But
professional shredders question the security of trucking intact documents
over 100 miles of ...
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http://www.lsj.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/COLUMNISTS09/801120322/1016/news
>
Encinitas updating its e-mail policy
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
The city's record-retention policy sets a two-year limit to the keeping of
printed records. An e-mail policy last revised in 2005 states e-mails must
be ...
<http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2008/01/12/news/coastal/3_01_991_11_08.txt>
Court: NASA Can't Investigate Employees' Medical Records, Finances ...
ShortNews.com - Regensburg,Germany
Low-risk employees of NASA's Jet Propulsion Labratory won their lawsuit to
prevent the government from investigating their financial and medical
records, ...<http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=67613>
Without collector Chris Strachwitz, there'd be no record of some ...
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
... assistant works on the Foundation's digitizing project, painstakingly
logging the information from the old records and recording them to computer
files. ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/01/11/CMK8TOSI5.DTL>
Businesses say data security rules would be too expensive
Boston Globe - United States
... level of encryption to protect files sent across public networks, and
retain records of their employees' access to customers' electronic
information. ...
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http://www.boston.com/business/globe/articles/2008/01/12/businesses_say_data_security_rules_would_be_too_expensive
>
EDS to pay for printing social security numbers
CNET News.com <http://news.com/> - San Francisco,CA,USA
... BadgerCare and SeniorCare participants in Wisconsin received a brochure
that had something extra on their address labels: their social security
numbers. ...<http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9849179-57.html>
Metro is committed to ensuring security
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
But for those whose Social Security numbers have already been put at risk,
additional safeguards at this point may seem futile. This is why we have
decided ...
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http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080112/OPINION01/801120332/1008
>
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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va
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