RAIN 20080122
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
A treasure for a nation to share: inside Scotland's family album
The Herald - Glasgow,Scotland,UK
Dr Irene O'Brien, senior archivist at the Mitchell Library, responsible for
Glasgow City Archives, and chair of the Scottish Council on Archives, ...
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Newspaper wins open records case over state workers' birth dates
KTEN - Denison,TX,USA
... state employees with the same or similar names. Newspaper attorney
David Starr says the appeals court outcome is an important open records
victory.
<http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=7742398>
Police recover confidential documents
Mid Devon Star - Taunton,England,UK
By Matthew Colledge DEVON and Cornwall Police have today (Monday) revealed
they have received confidential documents relating to the Department of
Work and ...
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http://www.middevonstar.co.uk/display.var.1980162.0.police_recover_confidential_documents.php
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Historical Society electronically records history
EastOregonian.info (subscription) - OR,USA
AP EUGENE - The Lane County Historical Society and Museum is
undertaking a
preservation effort that promises to save historic photographs and
avoid a
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Of science, heritage, archives
Hindu - Chennai,India
The workshop aims to provide librarians and archivists with a framework and
guidelines to help them set up an archive within their organisation. ...
<http://www.hindu.com/2008/01/21/stories/2008012160240400.htm>
Antebellum Town a Record of Black Experience
NPR - USA
Johnny Waits in Flat Rock says he hopes he can get the funding to
create a
national archive here and change that. "In 50 years, I want people to come
in and ...
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18233281>
Phone and net data to be retained
IrishExaminer.com - Ireland
Yesterday, a spokesman for the department said while it would not sign off
on the data retention directive this month, as was reported last week, ...
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Coin company seeks injunction against former employee
Southeast Texas Record - Beaumont,TX,USA
According to the plaintiff's petition, Dominguez violated the "confidential
services and trade secrets" clause of the employment agreement he entered
into ...
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http://www.setexasrecord.com/news/206684-coin-company-seeks-injunction-against-former-employee
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County changes FOIA procedure
MLive.com - MI,USA
18, modifying the county's policy governing Freedom of Information Act
requests. That move came in the wake of a controversy over whether a
judge's ...
<http://blog.mlive.com/lcn/2008/01/county_changes_foia_procedure.html>
White House Has No Comprehensive E-Mail Archive
Washington Post - United States
The White House's record-keeping problems have thrown new attention on a
gap in statutory language covering the retention of presidential records.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012102070.html
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Security Software Tracks Down Stolen PCs
FOXNews - USA
There's no external dongle for thieves to unplug, and the company said the
software transmits a signal whenever the stolen laptop is connected to the
...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324465,00.html>
How to Stop Laptop Theft
PC World - USA
Laptop thefts out of parked cars and conference rooms may grab headlines,
but a far greater number of devices simply get left behind in places like
cabs, ...
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/141388/how_to_stop_laptop_theft.html
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Walker Refuses To Be Forgotten; Emory Archive Preserves Memory
The Emory Wheel - USA
Therefore, it should come to no surprise that Walker's personal papers,
the newest addition to The Manuscript Archives and Rare Book Library's
African ...
<http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=24908>
Eye-Fi: Wirelessly Upload and Archive Photos
WebWorkerDaily - San Francisco,CA,USA
Whether you frequently work with digital photos online or manage a lot of
personal photos, one of the very best new gadgets to have on your radar is
the ...
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http://webworkerdaily.com/2008/01/21/eye-fi-wirelessly-upload-and-archive-photos/
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Getty Images put up for sale with a £770m tag
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The "for sale" sign has been hoisted above the picture archive that
featured in Stephen Poliakoff's 1998 BBC serial Shooting the Past. The
Hulton Archive is ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/jan/22/2>
Three jailed for selling computer records
UTV - Belfast,Northern Ireland,UK
Belfast Crown Court heard this case is the first of its kind in Northern
Ireland. It involved two public workers - a traffic warden and a civil
servant ...
<http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=87107&pt=n>
Businesses told to be ready for disasters
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
... for backing up all computer records; meet regularly with your insurance
agent and consider a policy that will reimburse you for business
disruptions. ...
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http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080122/GPG03/801220515/1247/GPGbusiness
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White House Study Found 473 Days of E-Mail Gone
Washington Post - United States
Waxman said he is seeking testimony on the issue at a hearing next month
from White House counsel Fred F. Fielding, National Archivist Allen
Weinstein and ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/17/AR2008011703575.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Largest Postal Unions Sue to Block IG's Access to Medical Records
Occupational Health Safety - Dallas,TX,USA
... workers have filed a lawsuit in federal court in New York to stop the
USPS inspector general's office from obtaining postal workers' medical
records. ...
<http://www.ohsonline.com/articles/57634/>
230 retailers affected by data breach after tape lost
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
GE Money, which manages in-store credit-card programs for the majority of
US retailers, first realized that the tape was missing from an Iron
Mountain ...
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http://www.infoworld.com/article/08/01/18/230-retailers-affected-by-data-breach_1.html
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No Excuse for Destroying E-Mail
Washington Post - United States
Certainly, the Treasury could afford the little it would have cost to burn
e-mail files onto a DVD each day, especially given that the law required
their ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/21/AR2008012101942.html
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Report: Shoddy White House e-mail archives
United Press International - USA
The Clinton administration was, in fact, under a court order to set up a
system to save e-mail. . The Bush White House recorded over backup server
tapes ...
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/01/22/report_white_house_e-mail_archives_shoddy/8912/
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Managing Incoming Employee Email
Mediapost.com <http://mediapost.com/> - New York,NY,USA
The organization's rights stem from the need to prevent the transmission
of trade secrets or inappropriate (racist, sexist, pornographic) messages
by ...
<http://blogs.mediapost.com/email_insider/?p=572>
Federal Grant Helps Preserve Lubavitch Archival Footage
Chabad.org <http://chabad.org/> - Brooklyn,NY,USA
"An archive like this is quite rare and needs to be preserved." Consultant
Steven Davidson's preliminary findings last year confirmed historians'
fears: The ...
<http://www.chabad.org/article.asp?aid=627939>
On the Mark: Sharks hungry for IT staffers
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Records management, Patterson contends. Highly regulated businesses, such
as finance and insurance, or those prone to lawsuits, like manufacturing,
...
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FOX 2 News St. Louis, Mon, 21 Jan 2008 8:18 PM PST
OX Files: St. Louis' Earliest Probate Records
http://www.myfoxstl.com/myfox/pages/News/Detail?contentId=5548443&version=1&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=VSTY&pageId=3.2.1
Have you ever started cleaning a closet and found something you've spent years
looking for? Well, imagine finding something you've been missing for
decades and
maybe even longer. In the Fox Files, FOX 2’s Paul Schankman has the amazing
story of a book of historic documents missing for years and found by
accident in
an old safe.
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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va
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