RAIN 20100207 Part 1

Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.

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Gracie Fields tracks to be released
The Press Association
... languished in a record company archive, a converted bank vault, for many
years. The tapes were to be dumped when the firm moved but archivist Ray
Crick, <http://bit.ly/abHTez



Senate ratifies Freedom of Information bill
Inquirer.net
On Senate Majority Floor Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri's motion, the Senate
adopted the measure, also known as the “Freedom of Information Act of 2009.
...< http://bit.ly/cca17x>



TN's state librarian shares 20 years of insights at retirement
The Tennessean
"It's the history of a community and the history of a people." In recent
years, archivists have begun posting massive amounts of data online. ...
http://bit.ly/avYmZb



Archivist sailed high seas of history as a paper 'pirate'
Ottawa Citizen
The boundary lines between archives and gallery were “blurry and ill
defined.” According to him, An Order in Council in 1938 made the painting
officially ...< http://bit.ly/a7UfNn>


New mayor gets blank slate on documents

LoHud.com

WHITE PLAINS — "Apparently, not a piece of official correspondence came in
or out of here in 12 years."

Those were the words of city Chief of Staff John Callahan as he and Mayor
Adam Bradley announced that they found barely a shred of paper in the
mayor's office when they took over on Jan. 1. <http://bit.ly/9R83xd>



Haitians fight to save historic archives
National Post
Another downtown library, at the seminary Les Freres de l'Instruction
Chretienne, also contains unique archival materials, which includes letters
by ...< http://bit.ly/aEmpkv>



Managing Information Over Years
PC Quest
This concept is variously known as data classification or Information
Lifecycle Management (ILM). ILM is a concept that encompasses the discovery,
...< http://bit.ly/dnxTvh>

Budge Weidman: Uncovering our nation's history
Washington Post
Weidman's group is now digitizing the Civil War Widows Pensions Records,
which involves preparing the original Civil War widows' pension application
files ...< http://bit.ly/bBMEet>



Decision Underlines Counsel's Obligation to Understand e-Discovery Rules and
...
PR Newswire (press release)
(A spoliation charge given by a judge to a jury allows it to consider
presuming that lost data would have been helpful to the requesting party.
...< http://bit.ly/9so2ob>



CREW Seeks Relief for VA's Destruction of PTSD Documents
Earthtimes (press release)
Based on the destruction of the records, CREW has asked the Court to let us
depose VA employees who may have known exactly what the VA was doing about
PTSD ...< http://bit.ly/9HjVyG>



Stanford shredding trial starts today in Miami
Houston Chronicle
... or destroying company records, according to the US By Feb. 23,
Raffanello and Perraud allegedly had made arrangements for a commercial
shredding company ...< http://bit.ly/dnHrzC>



National Archives Releases New Data Sets on Data.gov
InfoToday.com
Archivist of the United States David S. Ferriero announced that the National
Archives and Records Administration (NARA; www.archives.gov) has added three
...< http://bit.ly/b5SC01>



Technology's Language Barrier
Forbes
To meet these challenges, information technologies must be smarter,
beginning at the design of data intake processes and throughout record
storage and ...< http://bit.ly/aq0wWh>



Disparities in how firms manage their physical and electronic records
Infosecurity Magazine
... variety of business and market sectors, researchers found that there is
a disparity between how well firms manage their physical and electronic
records. ...< http://bit.ly/cOD9dl>



Employers Must Be Able to Monitor Electronic Devices They Pay For
U.S. News & World Report
Employers must simultaneously protect their trade secrets and their
customers' private information. If employee privacy is expanded, as
suggested in the ...< http://bit.ly/dh22TK>



News Photos, on the Move, Make News
New York Times
But like many other photo agencies Magnum began digitally scanning its
archive many years ago, and in 2006, the cooperative's membership voted to
begin ...< http://bit.ly/bcARdd>

Stanford Workers Illegally Shredded Files, Jury Told
BusinessWeek
“Especially documents like the ones they were dealing with.... That's what
they were shredding.” He also said Raffanello canceled the normally
scheduled ...< http://bit.ly/bIcvQR>



Cloud security: Try these techniques now
ARNnet
HIPAA and Sarbanes-Oxley privacy and data-retention requirements weren't
designed with cloud-based services in mind. "IT staffs have to figure out
new ways ...< http://bit.ly/a6hngx>



SEC workers investigated for porn-surfing
Washington Times
In response to the open records request by The Washington Times, the
inspector general's office provided more than 150 pages of records and
transcripts on ...< http://bit.ly/bIt4G9>



Leaked climate change emails scientist 'hid' data flaws
The Guardian
Last week the Information Commissioner's Office – the body that administers
the Freedom of Information Act – said the University of East Anglia had
flouted ...< http://bit.ly/cTngEy>



Online Recordkeeping: It's All in a Name
Internet Evolution
Research firm Gartner Inc. predicts that by 2012, 80 percent of Global 1000
companies will deploy a records management approach in support of business
...< http://bit.ly/aIyjcS>



Bosses Should Be Honest About Their Electronic Privacy Policies
U.S. News & World Report
High-tech employers need to protect their trade secrets from being shared
with competitors. That's understood. All employers need to be concerned
about ...< http://bit.ly/9hivyt>



Gartner tells businesses to retrain their IT staff
Tech Eye
These so called 'hybrids' are litigation support managers (legal and IT
hybrids), digital archivists (librarian IT worker hybrids), business
information ...< http://bit.ly/91lpeN>



Magnum Sells Press Print Archive to Dell Mogul, Other Investors
Photo District News
Many also contain handwritten notes from the photographer to the darkroom
printer or the Magnum archivists. MSD Capital, the investment fund managed
by John ...< http://bit.ly/9qHrKP>



Early draft of the Constitution found in Phila. | Philadelphia Inquirer | 02
...
Philadelphia Inquirer
She "found a document that was sort of buried in its right place, but not
taken out by an archivist for special treatment," said Kaminski, ...
http://bit.ly/beJdt5

Archives Unit shares historic information on Tsunami in the VI
BVI News Online
BY GIS PRESS RELEASE Monday, February 1 – The Archives and Records
Management Unit has confirmed that the Virgin Islands experienced a tsunami
more than a ...< http://bit.ly/agm3ys>



Right to know is left in shreds
The Journal News | LoHud.com
Anne McPherson, city clerk and records management officer, told The Journal
News that destruction of municipal documents must follow rigorous
guidelines. ...< http://bit.ly/aJxPyW>



Electronic Discovery In Federal Court: Top 10 Cases From 2009
Mondaq News Alerts (Registration)
The electronic discovery-related amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure have now been in place for over three years, and 2009 brought many
...< http://bit.ly/cdC7WL>



Seventh Circuit's Electronic Discovery Pilot Program
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel
What we are doing is developing procedures that enable the purposes of the
FRCP to be achieved in the 21st century and make them work for the types of
...< http://bit.ly/9WysYm>



Data standards fall short at 81% of schemes
Professional Pensions
By Jenna Towler Trustees and administrators have been told to increase the
quality of their record keeping after just 19% of schemes measured up The
...< http://bit.ly/d654kj>



Open records policies raise board's brows
Calaveras Enterprise
Designating a public records custodian and at least one alternate in each
department and agency. • Making either paper or electronic documents that
are ...< http://bit.ly/cyK4gd>



Dell fund acquires Magnum opus
Financial Times
By Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson in New York Michael Dell is buying one of the
most valuable modern photographic archives for the university where he
started ...< http://bit.ly/cpCGtE>



(Climate) Information Wants to Be Free
New York Times (blog)
Here's my question to Mr. Horner about this request: Very impressed with
that incredibly detailed FOIA you've filed for “foia” “delete” etc at NASA
and NOAA ...< http://bit.ly/bPMzMd >



American Eagle may face $2.5 million for inaccurate weights
Dallas Morning News
Eagle officials said the electronic records – not the paper records – are
used in the crucial calculations that keep planes balanced. ...
http://bit.ly/dbWlNO

Dell Buys Magnum Archive Valued at Over $100 Million
Bloomberg
Among its holdings are the Watergate Papers, Norman Mailer's archives and
page proofs from James Joyce's “Ulysses.” The Magnum archive includes the
work of ...< http://bit.ly/9AKnu7>

Italy state film archive to sue over Mussolini iPhone application
Earthtimes (press release)
By : dpa Rome - Italy's national film archive company said Tuesday it will
take legal action against the "improper" distribution of a set of fiery
speeches ...< http://bit.ly/9JHvhC>

Bankruptcy Complicates Deal for Roosevelt Papers
New York Times
The archivists also concluded that some of the documents might belong to the
National Archives, finding that Ms. Tully's files included materials that
...< http://nyti.ms/9jvlPF>

Time to Review Corporate Computer Policies
Law.com
Nick Akerman is a partner in the New York office of Dorsey & Whitney who
specializes in the protection of trade secrets and computer data.
http://bit.ly/9mPLSE

Sask. archivists seek ID for 'lovely lady in a hat'
CBC.ca
Archives Board) Saskatchewan's archivists are going online to solve some
mysteries among the photographs in their collection. ...http://bit.ly/caGmly

Warhol's snaps donated to small US museums
CBC.ca
For years, archivists and curators have been poring through this collection.
Warhol, who died in 1987, indicated that he wanted his namesake foundation
to ...< http://bit.ly/crlL8m>

NARA: President Requests $460M for National Archives FY11 Budget
ResourceShelf (blog)
... speed the processing of classified and other sensitive records, help
ensure a new generation of archivists for the future, and improve the
research ...< http://bit.ly/ageA7H<http://www.resourceshelf.com/2010/02/02/nara-president-requests-460m-for-national-archives-fy11-budget/>
>

Archivist details challenges of massive declassification job
FederalNewsRadio.com
Neil Carmichael is a supervisory archivist at the National Archives and
Records Administration. Until recently, he was with NARA's "Initial
Processing and ...< http://bit.ly/ay5r2c>

Archivist going back to Haiti to help save 'country's history'
The Province
Included in the archives are documents from the 13-year Haitian revolution
from 1791-1804, which resulted in Haiti becoming the first Western nation
ruled http://bit.ly/c7KSLe>

Cumbria bids to keep Wainwright archive
Westmorland Gazette
The Cumbria Archives Service - part of Cumbria County Council - has been
given the ... assistant county archivist at the Cumbria Record Office in
Kendal. ...< http://bit.ly/bQD2q1>

Prepare Your Enterprise for the iPad
TidBITS
Based on the information on the iPad Web site, iWork will be able to read
Microsoft Office file formats, but output only PDF or iWork files, ...<
http://bit.ly/9osIFf>



Commentary: What is Harrisburg to do with Wild West Museum artifacts?
Patriot-News
They are in the warehouse [next to the incinerator] and at the city archives
in the Walnut Street garage,” said Jeb Stewart, the city's special
consultant ...< http://bit.ly/9803gD>

File cabinets may soon become obsolete at Clerk of Courts office
News-Sun
Among the benefits, for example, a courier no longer has to hand deliver
files. Documents can now be sent directly to the records department in
seconds, ...< http://bit.ly/b88g2N>

National Portrait Gallery reveals all in online archive
The Guardian
It comes after two years of cataloguing previously unseen material, a
project that the gallery's archivist and records manager, Charlotte
Brunskill, ...< http://bit.ly/cQoRd8>

How National Portrait Gallery dealt with rat pack
The Press Association
The grant allowed an archivist to be taken on. The papers also show how
staff dealt with a murder in the gallery in 1909 and how works were
protected during ...< http://bit.ly/cDNVKU>

Ex-Gov. Easley used private e-mail for state business
CharlotteObserver.com
Johnson denied telling public information officers for state agencies to
delete e-mail messages to the governor's office. Notes taken by two PIOs
during a ...< http://bit.ly/9tVNkm>

Rwanda: Financial Institutions Train in Records Management
AllAfrica.com
The training also incorporated the modern technologies in the industry and
the type of electronic records that they generate and how they are managed.
http://bit.ly/aDMub5

From the Archive: Reverse Order
New York Times (blog)
On the occasion of the sale and transfer of Magnum's print collection, the
archive director, Matthew Murphy, took time this week to decipher some of
those ...< http://bit.ly/aP1jR0>

Key Samsung tech leaked to top rival in semiconductors
JoongAng Daily
Han is charged with taking nine such confidential documents. AMAT supplies
parts to both Samsung Electronics and Hynix. The confidential information
taken ...< http://bit.ly/botF5y>

Public records opinion addresses release of proprietary information
NOLA.com
By Ed Anderson, The Times-Picayune Public officials can decide whether a
document contains proprietary information before releasing it to a public
records ...< http://bit.ly/dbYeCU>

White Plains mayor unlikely to seek charges against predecessor for document
...
The Journal News | LoHud.com
... criminal charges against former Mayor Joseph Delfino for the wholesale
shredding of all documents in the mayor's office before Delfino retired on
Dec. ...<http://bit.ly/aPamIw>




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