RAIN 061208
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Courthouses back in operation; archive restoration winding down
Pascagoula Mississippi Press - Pascagoula,MS,USA
... Lois Castigliola, county archive director, said the storm affected
archived records that were one of a kind. "I had the old stuff people
used," she said. ...
<http://www.gulflive.com/news/mississippipress/index.ssf?/base/news/11655
7681239250.xml>
Ex-Boeing manager pleads to obstruction in trade secrets case
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... to a lesser charge stemming from an investigation into the theft of
sensitive ... prosecutors dropped a charge of conspiring to steal trade
secrets from Lockheed ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/16192875.h
tm>
UK Enterprises Vulnerable To Data Theft Reveals Survey
Managing Information - UK
... companies that do not have a system to track data theft, 80% report
...
repository and used for nefarious purposes, such as blackmail or selling
trade secrets. ...
<http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=5399>
The last word
Florida Jewish News - FL,USA
... Yale archivist Richard Szary, who supervised the accession of the
collection, said that ... "Any serious researcher can go into the [Henry
Ford] archive, see the ...
<http://floridajewishnews.com/News/World/The_last_word_20061208604/>
Preserving Catholic Artifacts Digitally
Seton Hall University News & Events - South Orange,NJ,USA
... Catholic Research Portal Web site, a project by a consortium of
universities that aims to provide a central portal for identifying
Catholic
archival, book, art ...
<http://www.shu.edu/news/news-details.cfm?customel_datapageid_12463=24943
>
Microsoft's Open XML Now a Standard
Top Tech News - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
... In contrast, a standard that is adopted by many vendors has a
greater
chance of being seen as a format that will stand the test of time for
archival purposes. ...
<http://www.toptechnews.com/news/Microsoft-s-Open-XML-Now-a-Standard/stor
y.xhtml?story_id=020001ZSI3XW>
NCRI: Workers left with secrets
Kansas.com - KS,USA
says two former employees started competing firms and took with them the
company's trade secrets. BY BILL WILSON. A Wichita disaster ...
<http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/business/16190218.htm>
Microsoft sues Quincy to protect server farm plans
KNDO/KNDU - Yakima,WA,USA
EPHRATA, Wash. Microsoft is suing the city of Quincy to block a public
records request for building plans for a data storage center the
company is
building. ...
<http://www.kndo.com/Global/story.asp?S=5788111&nav=menu484_2_10>
Identity theft keeps Canadians on edge
Business Edge - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
... People put their identity at risk by not shredding their personal
documents before throwing them in the garbage, says RSAI. Young ...
<http://www.businessedge.ca/article.cfm/newsID/14259.cfm>
Ruling forces schools to rethink eMail storage
eSchool News - Bethesda,MD,USA
... An expert on issues concerning technology and the law, Lindsay has
called prematurely deleting or copying over eMail documents a matter of
"virtual shredding.". ...
<http://www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6734>
Doctor's Office to Dumpster - Part Two
KSL-TV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
... Thousands of medical files in an American fork dumpster spurred an
immediate ... Deputy Attorney General Richard Hamp: "Too many to count,
medical records in an ...
<http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=708433>
ALA, Sun, 03 Dec 2006 11:09 AM PST
Copyright Office Grants DMCA Exemptions
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ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=144422
Despite its reluctance to do so in the past, the U.S. Copyright Office
November 22 granted six exemptions to the 1998 Digital Millennium
Copyright Act. In the government’s triennial review, Librarian of
Congress James H.
Billington approved the exemptions, ruling that “persons making
noninfringing uses [in these areas] will not be subject to the
prohibition against circumventing access controls
The Des Moines Register, Fri, 08 Dec 2006 2:18 AM PST
Urbandale security records may be confidential
http://www.desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061208/NEWS
05/612080303
City records related to emergency preparedness or security procedures
may be kept from the public under a resolution the Urbandale City
Council...
Johnston debates public access to staff calls
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... "I believe from my experience in advising people in regard to open
records, that if someone requested those they would be considered open
records," she said. ...
<http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061208/NEWS05/
612080311/1010/NEWS08>
Renewed focus on e-mail misuse clears city worker of wrongdoing
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
... Green Bay City Attorney Jerry Hanson said that a more detailed
review
— prompted in part by a Green Bay Press-Gazette Open-Records demand —
showed that the ...
<http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20061208/
GPG0101/612080577/1207/GPGnews>
Tobacco giant gags cancer council
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... BAT has previously come under fire for its so-called "document
retention policy" — which led to documents being destroyed that might
have been beneficial to ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/tobacco-giant-gags-cancer-council
/2006/12/08/1165081153111.html>
CASE STUDIES: How users address compliance
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... communications, he's first to admit the process of developing e-mail
retention policies around ... how easy it is to restore any e-mail or
document through the ...
<http://www.infostor.com/display_article/279299/23/ARTCL/Display/none/CAS
E_STUDIES:_How_users_address_compliance/>
MLA Support Helps Save 600 Year Old Archive
Managing Information - UK
... People can find out more about archives through the Archive
Awareness
Campaign, as local and national archives, large and small, public and
private, general ...
<http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=5401>
When in doubt, seek Rocha out
Nevada Appeal - Carson City,NV,USA
That's the word from state Historian and Archivist Guy Rocha regarding
the
textbook "Nevada: A Journey of Discovery," which was used as a
supplemental
text ...
<http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20061208/DAYTON/112080089>
New online system being tested by Vermilion recorder's office
Urbana/Champaign News-Gazette - Champaign/Urbana,IL,USA
... and a more efficient and cost-effective way of handling documents.
...
In August, office staff began converting all land records to electronic
files that can be ...
<http://www.news-gazette.com/news/local/2006/12/08/new_online_system_bein
g_tested_by_vermilion_recorders_office>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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