RAIN 20090522
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
National Archives loses hard drive with Clinton era records
CNN - USA
But work was halted last year because archivists "wanted to investigate
using automated tools to generate inspection reports." Staffers were moved
to other ...
<http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/05/20/lost.hard.drive.clinton/>
FIRELOCK Awarded GSA Contract
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... The Texas State Archives, Indiana State Archives and Washington State's
Digital Archives; backup tapes for municipal, county and state agencies....
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http://www.prweb.com/releases/gsa_contract/fireproof_vaults/prweb2439584.htm
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Information Malpractice: Coming Soon To A Cloud Near You?
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... of law and regulations around privacy and information-retention and
archiving and FRCP at all levels of government and across more and more
industries, ...
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2009/05/information_mal.html
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Viewpoint: Touching the Past at the Danvers Archival Center
Danvers Herald - Beverly,MA,USA
By Richard B. Trask/Town Archivist People bring in all sorts of items for
donation to the Danvers Archival Center, some more unusual than others. ...
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http://www.wickedlocal.com/danvers/news/lifestyle/columnists/x1083516783/Viewpoint-Touching-the-Past-at-the-Danvers-Archival-Center
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National Archives Q&A on Missing Disk
GovInfoSecurity.com - Princeton,New Jersey,USA
The drive contains both federal and Presidential records, depending on
which EOP office the files came from. What types of personally identifying
...
<http://www.govinfosecurity.com/articles.php?art_id=1483>
The National Archives
TIME - USA
Among the documents open for perusal by anyone aged 14 and up are military
records, naturalization records for generations of immigrants, ...
<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1900055,00.html>
Kansas to study electronic filing of court records
KTKA.com - Topeka,KS,USA
Supreme Court spokesman Ron Keefover said the advisory committee will study
how the state could set up a system to allow attorneys to file their
documents ...
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http://www.ktka.com/news/2009/may/21/kansas_study_electronic_filing_court_records/
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Discovery Dispute Leads SEC to Seek Attorney Sanctions
The National Law Journal - USA
Second, the remote access the defendants offer would show and create a
record of exactly what documents the commission reviews and prints. ...
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http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202430872753&Discovery_Dispute_Leads_SEC_to_Seek_Attorney_Sanctions
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Camagüey's Provincial Archive, Custodian of the Memory
Radio Cadena Agramonet - Cuba
"They work in different departments and areas, like the so-called Technical
Process, where the papers are described and classified before setting them
in ...
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http://www.cadenagramonte.cubaweb.cu/english/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=342:camagueeys-provincial-archive-custodian-of-the-memory-&catid=33:patrimony&Itemid=38
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Researchers use nanotech to create 'fifth dimension' data storage
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Because nanoparticles react to light according to their shape, this allowed
the researchers to record information in a range of different color
wavelengths ...
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=disaster_recovery&articleId=9133377&taxonomyId=151&intsrc=kc_top
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Data missing at the National Archives - $50000 USD reward offered
The Tech Herald - Indianapolis,IN,USA
Yet, Origin Storage, who is a data storage security vendor based out of the
UK, said that the drive's loss staggered them. "The fact that the US
National ...
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http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/200921/3729/Data-missing-at-the-National-Archives-50-000-USD-reward-offered
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Hiring a coup for university
The Beacon Herald - Stratford,Ontario,Canada
Mr. Wilson, who in 1999 was appointed Archivist of Canada, is an
acknowledged leader in information management who is well connected with
government and ...
<http://www.stratfordbeaconherald.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1575878>
National Archives Loss Adds to List of Govt. Data Goofs
PC World - USA
The external drive, stored at the US National Archives and Records
Administration, held personal data from the Clinton era, including
information about ...
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/165281/national_archives_loss_adds_to_list_of_govt_data_goofs.html
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State tax department workers arrested for accessing private records
WRGB - Albany,NY,USA
In a separate complaint, 48-year-old Diane Buehler of Schenectady is
accused of instructing an employee at the tax department to delete more
than $3500 in ...
<http://www.cbs6albany.com/news/state-1263550-department-tax.html>
Images of early Burnaby found in a drawer
Burnaby Newsleader - Burnaby,British Columbia,Canada
Inside each were 20 four-by-six-inch glass-plate negatives which he ... On
the bottom of the box someone had written, “glass negatives, Capitol
Hill. ...
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http://www.bclocalnews.com/greater_vancouver/burnabynewsleader/news/45528912.html
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NARA's preservation practices for e-records called 'fatally flawed'
Nextgov - Washington,DC,USA
The Obama administration's call for agencies to use collaborative and
social networking tools will add to NARA's challenges to store public
records, ...
<http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090521_7652.php>
Vancouver considers adopting free software and open standards in ...
Western Standard- Shotgun Blog - Calgary,Alberta,Canada
Responsible record keepers shall in any case have long since transferred
legacy files to current media. This not to say open document formats and
platforms ...
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http://westernstandard.blogs.com/shotgun/2009/05/vancouver-considers-adopting-free-software-and-open-standards-in-government.html
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Madison plans to rebuild courthouse
WTHR - Indianapolis,IN,USA
State archivists will freeze-dry all the documents salvaged from the fire
in hopes of preserving some of the counties records. The surprise in all of
this ...
<http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=10406213>
Cause not yet determined for Madison courthouse fire
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
But he expects many of the building's store of documents — including
deeds, marriage and divorce records, adoption records and genealogy
documents — were ...
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http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090521/NEWS02/90521043/Cause+not+yet+determined+for+Madison+courthouse+fire
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WAVE 3 TV Louisville, KY | Fire officials investigating cause of ...
WAVE - Louisville,KY,USA
"The state archivist director is coming to Madison right now, and I know
that we're going to go through and process every document that's been
water-damaged ...
<http://www.wave3.com/Global/story.asp?S=10401924>
Moving to digital – how hard can it be?
IDM.net.au <http://idm.net.au/> - Surry Hills,NSW,Australia
May 22, 2009:The move to digital document and records management challenges
behaviour, whether you work in the public or private sector. ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=16851>
Expert archivists needed to explore secret Hillsborough files
Liverpool Echo - UK
EXPERT archivists will have to be employed to study the huge dossier of
secret Hillsborough disaster documents, MPs said today. Members of the
Hillsborough ...
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http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/liverpool-news/local-news/2009/05/22/expert-archivists-needed-to-explore-secret-hillsborough-files-100252-23686620/
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Huntingdon's new library starts taking shape
Hunts Post - Huntingdon,England,UK
HUNTINGDONSHIRE'S archivists are "in seventh heaven" as they start to move
around a million records of the historic county into their new home in ...
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http://www.huntspost.co.uk/content/hunts/news/story.aspx?brand=HPTOnline&category=News&tBrand=HertsCambsOnline&tCategory=newslatestHPT&itemid=WEED21%20May%202009%2017%3A35%3A09%3A773
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Patrol will keep records of governor's travel
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
The patrol will keep the records for four years after the governor leaves
office and then turn them over to the state archives. Most parents want
schools to ...
<http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1536308.html>
Sloppy handling of state's vital records reviewed
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Wheat took some time off, and employees discovered boxes of records and
various documents and case files in his office, including Federal Witness
Protection ...
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http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/stories/2009/05/22/vital_records_office_wheat.html
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Former lottery staffer charged in data theft
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
According to a search warrant filed in September, an assortment of Lottery
Commission files was discovered on Mueggenborg's state computer while he
worked ...
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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/05/22/0522lotto.html
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County Recorder set to launch e-recording
Kingman Daily Miner - Kingman,AZ,USA
"We are working with Tyler and the Quickdocs software program," Mohave
County Records Manager Robert Ballard said. "We have vendors, or
submitters, ...
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http://www.kingmandailyminer.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&subsectionID=1&articleID=31565
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Records to soon be destroyed at Stuttgart High
Stuttgart Daily Leader - Stuttgart,AR,USA
This destruction of records is only for students who no longer receive
special education services and is required under federal law. ...
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http://www.stuttgartdailyleader.com/news/education/x12066567/Records-to-soon-be-destroyed-at-Stuttgart-High
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New report offers insights on how to keep the bad apples from ...
Dark Reading - New York,NY,USA
... who knowingly breaks security policy to achieve a selfish or malicious
end. theft to gain a competitive advantage, sometimes called corporate
espionage. ...
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http://darkreading.com/insiderthreat/security/attacks/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217600658
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Ex Motorola boss denies destroying evidence
Inquirer - Harrow,England,UK
By Nick Farrell FORMER MOTOROLA CFO Paul Liska has denied thwarting an
investigation by wiping files from a company laptop. Liska sued Motorola,
saying the ...
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http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/981/1051981/ex-motorola-boss-denies-destroying-evidence
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UK firms face e-disclosure upsurge, says survey
OpRisk and Compliance (subscription) - London,UK
UK firms are subject to the increased online security requirements of the
European Union's Data Retention Directive. The first phase of the directive
came ...
<http://www.opriskandcompliance.com/public/showPage.html?page=858669>
International Records Management Trust And ARMA International
ECM Connection (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
The International Records Management Trust (IRMT) and the ARMA
International Educational Foundation (AIEF) signed an Accord of Partnership
and Cooperation. ...
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http://www.ecmconnection.com/article.mvc/International-Records-Management-Trust-0001
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