RAIN 20100307 Part 1
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
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The storage manager's role in compliance
Search Storage
Blair explains the role of storage managers in building and caring for
compliance systems; what tools they can use for data archiving, data
retention, ...< http://bit.ly/b4ofcX>
UFO sightings will vanish in the ex files
Times Online
Dr David Clarke, a lecturer in journalism at Sheffield Hallam University,
obtained the memo through the Freedom of Information Act. He said: “This is
the ...< http://bit.ly/cndByN>
VA Accused of Destroying Documents Sought by Freedom of Information Request
AllGov
But instead of complying with CREW's May 2008 Freedom of Information Act
request, VA officials destroyed relevant emails and records, leading to a
lawsuit ...< http://bit.ly/cuk845>
What Transparency Looks Like to the Obama White House
Heritage.org (blog)
Or so it would seem, if you take a look at the CEQ's response to a Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) request issued by the US Chamber of Commerce, ...<
http://bit.ly/bQW7i2>
'Secret' SVSU sites explored
Valley Vanguard
Each day, archivist Melissa Ford sits at her desk in the chilly, cavernous
space cataloging and digitizing the late sculptor's archives — a collection
that ...< http://bit.ly/bpkh4s>
Plainfield library combs through massive photo collection
myCentralJersy.com
We took care to give some of our archival material to area libraries and
groups so it can still be utilized by the public." One look at the
collection, ...< http://bit.ly/b5jPWr>
Security and the rise of corporate espionage
Techworld.com
Likewise my suggestion that the conventional wisdom about industrial
espionage, or economic espionage, should not be so heavily relied on as we
moved ...< http://bit.ly/b8K4FW>
Online archive of UK science launches
Ethiopian Review
An advisory board will help the project pick key technological innovators
and scientists for the archive. The interviews will be put online to form a
...< http://bit.ly/dysUQs>
Head of 'Climategate' research unit admits he hid data - because it was
'standard practice'
Professor Phil Jones said it was not 'standard practice' in climate science
to release data and methodology so that other scientists could check and
challenge the research.
Full Story: http://bit.ly/9eJRgh
'TigerText': iPhone app helps you lie and cheat
CNET
What is so beautiful is that not only do your texts disappear from your own
phone records, they also vamoose from the phone of your unfortunate
recipient. ...< http://bit.ly/akPvc7>
British Library creates archive of defunct Web
The Associated Press
LONDON — The British Library is creating an archive of the country's defunct
Web sites to preserve snapshots of the ever-changing Internet for posterity.
...< http://bit.ly/dti5ji>
Mass. law requires strict IT security
Foster's Daily Democrat
Manage record destruction properly (in-office shredding, ... the days of
password-protecting a PDF file containing personal information and sending
it as an ...< http://bit.ly/dy3ZIT>
Court sides with city in records request judgement
The Review
... LIVERPOOL - In a judgment filed Friday, Judge David Tobin sided with the
city of East Liverpool and dismissed a case involving a public records
request. ...< http://bit.ly/a9Kmnr>
HPD vice officer accused of record tampering
Houston Chronicle
By BRIAN ROGERS Attorneys for a Houston Police Department vice officer
arrested on two charges of tampering with a government record in connection
with a ...< http://bit.ly/aZwhNG>
MPs quiz 'climategate' scientist
BBC News
"The Freedom of Information Act should not have been brought into this,"
former Chancellor Lord Lawson of Blaby, a longstanding critic of climate
policy, ...< http://bit.ly/bO61Z4>
Maurice Frankel: An important blow has been struck for freedom of
information
Independent
Almost unnoticed, the Freedom of Information Act was last week spared a
potentially devastating blow. The Government had been proposing to create a
new FOI ...< http://bit.ly/9UEjyP>
Hillsborough document panel to see secret files for first time
Liverpool Echo
The panel could also meet the archivists employed by Sheffield council to
sift through the huge dossier and present it to the eight-strong group in
some ...< http://bit.ly/b11Bvd>
University Products is a Leader in Archival Storage Production and Sales
Business West
For the world's top museums and the armchair archivist and scrapbook maker
alike, UP makes and markets all the products needed to keep priceless
collections ...< http://bit.ly/8ZKxZA>
Guest column: Don't destroy records of former workers
Green Bay Press Gazette
Consult your company's legal, accounting and records management
professionals to determine exactly what should be kept for your situation.
...< http://bit.ly/9HN1kX>
DC rushing to fix problems with AIDS records at clinics
Washington Post
... is scrambling to correct dozens of billing and record-keeping
deficiencies discovered at Washington area medical clinics that draw federal
AIDS funding. ...< http://bit.ly/c2Mrfg>
Coming to a P2P network near you: your medical records
Ars Technica
With the increasing digitization of health records, individual users are
more likely to exchange e-mails and files with their doctors, insurers, ...<
http://bit.ly/bKvWjW>
911 recordings valuable as public records
Longmont Daily Times-Call
Sometimes, however, those public documents do, indeed, expose people to
elements of their lives that they would just as soon keep secret. ...<
http://bit.ly/9oYbKa>
Document Retention Vs. Document Creation: Which Is More Important?
http://bit.ly/94KW3H
Hillsborough panel views scale of archive task
BBC News
After writing a report of its contents, Bishop Jones said the panel would
make recommendations about a national archive of the Hillsborough documents.
...< http://bit.ly/9nu0mR>
President Hu watches play honoring military archivist
Xinhua
... 2 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao and high-ranking military
officials on Tuesday watched a play honoring an outstanding military
archivist. ...< http://bit.ly/bMc0LI>
Hillsborough panel facing a "daunting" task
ESPN
"The establishment of the panel, the recruitment of the archivists and the
growing recognition of the scale of this undertaking, both locally and
nationally ...< http://bit.ly/d50KzT>
The art of war: Works connect past to present and help tell warriors'
stories
Salt Lake Tribune
... father's home that they found the work that Air Force Historical
Research Agency archivist Archie DiFante calls "a significant historical
collection. ...< http://bit.ly/c8Bdui>
FCC to propose new video archive in national broadband plan
Nextgov
By Aliya Sternstein 03/02/2010 A proposal in the draft of the government's
imminent broadband plan would create a YouTube-like online archive called
...< http://bit.ly/9WDopD>
Secret documents: The Truth about MoD's UFO files
Register
Meanwhile there has been a policy of transferring the existing, vast piles
of filed reports to the National Archives, which then makes them public.
...< http://bit.ly/d4RNix>
CHF International Recovers Archives From the Catholic Church in Haiti
PR Newswire (press release)
Representatives of the office of Archbishop Joseph Serge Miot, who was a
victim of the earthquake, approached CHF to help recover the archives –
documents ...< http://bit.ly/c13c3l>
Soccer Hall of Fame's historian Allaway wants to keep museum archives intact
Examiner.com
Hall of Fame historian and author Roger Allaway has concerns about the
preservation of the extensive archives. Not part of the display collection,
...< http://bit.ly/bHnB7k>
BAM Announces Plans for Hamm Archive Center
Broadway World
BAM has announced plans to create a BAM Hamm Archive Center, set to begin
construction in 2011. The center will house BAM's archival holdings, ...<
http://bit.ly/bu56s1>
Project digitizing historic documents
Port Clinton News Herald
Funding for the project was provided by a grant from the State Library of
Ohio, Columbus, through the Library Services and Technology Act, ...
http://bit.ly/awT95X
“The Tiger Woods Relief Act?”
The Ledger (blog)
That's what public records activists are asking about a bill being proposed
by the Florida House Governmental Affairs Policy Committee that would exempt
...< http://bit.ly/cTAcCi>
German court rules against data retention policy
CNET
Government and law enforcement officials have argued that such data
retention is needed to help combat terrorism. But privacy advocates have
counterargued ...< http://bit.ly/bZNZBk>
http://bit.ly/aamlvg
eDiscovery Cloud: Processing, ECA, Analysis And Review Through Production
The Metropolitan Coporate Counsel
... you don't know where (including what country) your files are stored, and
you don't know if you can really control document retention and destruction.
...< http://bit.ly/c7ZzP7>
Grateful Dead Archive makes its public debut in New York
San Jose Mercury News
The Grateful Dead Archive - established in 2008 at UCSC - and the New-York
... stages of choosing a full-time professional archivist to oversee the
project. ...< http://bit.ly/b8OVsn>
Loughton Library based resource holds biggest jazz collection in ...
Guardian Series
One of the district's hidden treasures, the archive, based at Loughton
Library, ... Archivist David Nathan has been heading up the operation since
1997, ...< http://bit.ly/cospaG>
Council tables action on adoption of State Records Schedule
Reno Gazette Journal
According to Shumway's staff report the City of Fernley established a
Citywide Records Management Plan in Oct. 2006 and in Jan. 2007 the city
contracted ...< http://bit.ly/aBc7I9>
Waterford Company announces new jobs
Waterford Today
We were the first in Ireland (and only the second in Europe) to receive the
quality mark for records management (ISO 15489-1:2001). ...<
http://bit.ly/cE2lO8>
Probe into collapse of Cologne archive mired in scandal one year on
Deutsche Welle
One year after Cologne's city archive collapsed, the cause of the disaster
is still unclear. Two people died and precious documents were lost. ...<
http://bit.ly/bHOMou>
Rutgers cartographer canvasses Jersey in new coffee-table book
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com
You'll find an archival map of Llewellyn Park among the 225 maps, graphs and
diagrams that collectively illustrate the Garden State's environment, land
use, ...< http://bit.ly/byZMyZ>
MHA to digitalise about 12 lakh files and records
Press Trust of India
New Delhi, Mar 3 (PTI) The Union Home Ministry will digitalise about 12 lakh
files and records relating to claims and compensation for displaced persons.
...< http://bit.ly/dmlDRb>
E-Medical Records: 10 Steps To Take Now
InformationWeek
For instance, is information on patients' allergies in paper charts or
computerized files? Start collecting information on how many prescription
drug orders ...< http://bit.ly/bazYaF>
Revisiting Zubulake: "Discovery Sanctions In The eDiscovery Context"
Mondaq News Alerts (Registration)
She issued a permissive spoliation/adverse inference instruction against the
plaintiffs. In reaching this decision, Judge Scheindlin touched on four key
...< http://bit.ly/aAj8Sz>
What MySpace will tell the police about you -- leaked documents
Computerworld (blog)
The document then describes how long MySpace retains your records, during
which time they're available to law enforcement agencies who request them in
the ...< http://bit.ly/cpfhIs>
Is UCF Breaking the Law by Blacking Out Records?
KnightNews.com
Instead of redacting the records electronically, as the Orange County
Sheriff's Office does when releasing reports to KnightNews.com, UCF
routinely forces ...< http://bit.ly/acXTyN>
Judge sides with state over TNIvestco records
Knoxville News Sentinel
But an advocate for open records said this area of the law lets the state do
business in the dark under the guise of economic development. ...
http://bit.ly/98PdXW
German court overturns law on phone, e-mail data
The Associated Press
The Netherlands also set 12 months for most data storage in a contentious
decision, prompting the Dutch digital rights group Bits of Freedom to
applaud the ...< http://bit.ly/aXzuMg>
Cloud, Mobile, Web Logs The Future Of Security Nightmares
StorefrontBacktalk
The authors found a wide range of confidential documents about their target
companies by doing Google searches for the word “confidential. ...<
http://bit.ly/9oreLP>
Ancient culture hidden away with park closure
Arizona Republic
On this day, she is sitting at her desk in the visitors center shredding
personnel records. Berggren is a warm, exuberant woman with a lilting
Tennessee ...< http://bit.ly/ceviFB>
Cambridge University to release films on final days of British Empire
Associated Press of Pakistan
They were originally gathered by Mary Thatcher, the Centre's first
archivist. In the 1960s, she set about compiling an archive of memoirs of
the British in ...< http://bit.ly/a2NdOp>
Santa Cruz-bound Grateful Dead Archive makes its public debut in New York
San Jose Mercury News
The Grateful Dead Archive — established in 2008 at UC-Santa Cruz — and the
New-York Historical Society are teaming up for an exhibition of some of the
...< http://bit.ly/8YJW88>
Will Parker archives land in museum?
Janesville Gazette
To learn more about what's happening with Parker Pen's archives worldwide,
visit parkerpens.net. Local interest in the wayward Parker Pen archives
keeps ...< http://bit.ly/dcolF4>
New! Browse 137 Years of the PopSci Archive, Free
Popular Science
By John Mahoney Posted 03.03.2010 at 1:00 pm 0 Comments We've partnered with
Google to offer our entire 137-year archive for free browsing. ...
http://bit.ly/9f0dlb
Maine Bill Would Restrict Birth, Marriage Records
WBZ
A public records expert and advocate said Wednesday he does not know of a
single case of identity theft in Maine or elsewhere involving birth or
marriage ...< http://bit.ly/9sZm6m>
Inspector: US fishery officer shredded documents
The Associated Press
"As the top cop at NOAA and a longtime investigator himself, Dale Jones must
be acutely aware that shredding documents during a federal investigation
raises ...< http://bit.ly/aAMeX3>
Channeling history
The Coast Halifax (blog)
An archive has a different tenor than a museum. The former is the quiet
keeper while the latter is the animated interpreter. But, HRM archivist
Susan ...< http://bit.ly/caRFFl>
Amazing films show last days of the Raj
Cambridge News
The priceless archive is owned by the University's Centre for South Asian
... Dr Kevin Greenbank, a Cambridge University archivist, said: "'The films
are ...< http://bit.ly/a1hnvo>
Days of division over, historical society says
Asbury Park Press
I just think, losing a curator, a professional curator and archivist, is not
in the best interests of the future of our museum," Lillie said. ...
http://bit.ly/9Nt3rp
I am fascinated to think what Freedom of Information might have uncovered if
...
Scotsman
... has joined the judging panel to help The Scotsman uncover how in history
could have been altered had the Freedom of Information Act been around. ...<
http://bit.ly/ad4sev>
Lawmakers eyeing open records law exceptions
Tahlequah Daily Press
Legislators are currently discussing limits to open records laws, mainly in
an attempt to protect the privacy of goverment employees. ...
http://bit.ly/990k6A
Archivist, exhibits honor LGBT history
Philadelphia Gay News
... however, is no easy feat and depends on the commitment of such
volunteers as Bob Skiba, who's served as the archivist in the center's John
J. Wilcox Jr. ...< http://bit.ly/97wpJ3>
New Earhart exhibit showcases the famous aviator
Journal and Courier
"The collection is actually over 5000 pieces," said Sammie Morris, a
professor of library sciences, university archivist and head of the Division
of ...< http://bit.ly/dCxTB9>
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