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Walgreen Drops Bid for City Contract After Employee Took Data
New York Times
Public documents show that CVS, which is based in Woonsocket, RI, and
acquired Caremark, a pharmacy benefits manager, in 2007, has provided the
service for ...< http://nyti.ms/dl37MN>
Hawaii asks Obama for presidential library
Boston Herald
It says a presidential library in Hawaii would give the people of the
islands access to documents and artifacts of the Obama administration. ... <
http://bit.ly/bqe1Xt .
Papal Bull issued in 1412 saved as historic gem
Runcorn World
County archivist Jonathan Pepler, said: “This is a wonderful piece of local
history but it also involves a man who certainly made his mark on the
Catholic ...< http://bit.ly/aFj2Vg>
Machine pieces together the ripped secrets of the East German state
Times Online
The reunified German state insisted that the files be reconstructed, and a
team of 30 in Nuremberg set about manually sticking the documents together
using ...< http://bit.ly/cN7iNw>
Appeals Court Orders Federal Reserve to Release Bank Bailout Records
AllGov
Bloomberg News and Fox Business Network sought the identities of the banks
through the Freedom of Information Act, but after the Fed refused to comply
with ...< http://bit.ly/bN1Ivp>
Proposed law change could hide interventions by Prince of Wales
Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/>
The level of the Prince's involvement in discussions about Chelsea Barracks
was revealed by documents requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
...< http://bit.ly/dBYhne>
SUSLA receives Lampkins collection
Shreveport Times
Each of these experiences and others are part of the collection, said Raegan
Stearns, the campus' archivist. "We are so excited to have it," she said.
...< http://bit.ly/ag1bEv>
Media Matters Jumps to Defend Unsolicited White House Emails to Federal
Employees
Big Government (blog)
Why are federal employees on the whitehouse.gov email list? And why are
federal employees being hounded to do the White House's political bidding
for a ...< http://bit.ly/caI35v>
Destroying electronic documents safely
Wisconsin Law Journal
by Jack Zemlicka When it comes to removing a client file or billing record
from a computer, simply tapping the delete key is not sufficient. ...<
http://bit.ly/dz9rV1>
Campus mail not private: University can screen e-mails
Red and Black
... they only do so under legal obligation, such as court subpoenas or
requests filed under the Georgia Open Records Act. According to the
University E-mail ...< http://bit.ly/ainaTX>
PROMISES, PROMISES: Records not so open with Obama
Las Vegas Sun
AP One year into its promise of greater government transparency, the Obama
administration is more often citing exceptions to the nation's open records
law ...< http://bit.ly/cb53Oa>
Lawmakers want to limit txt msgs and e-mails
msnbc.com
In Florida, with one of the most far-reaching open records laws in the
country, a state commission recommended a number of new policies in a
January 2009 ...< http://bit.ly/cYjsgy>
EDITORIAL: Destroyed documents
Asahi Shimbun
But the government should not shy away from investigating the allegations
that these documents were destroyed. That would undermine its own efforts to
...< http://bit.ly/aKgyEh>
Corporate Espionage: Fact And Fiction
San Francisco Chronicle
Corporate espionage is probably not what you think of when you hear the word
spy. It's not Sean Connery with his debonair manner, nor is it Tom Cruise
...< http://bit.ly/9o0JYV>
IGNCA archivist cries foul over misuse of rare pictures
Daily Pioneer
IGNCA deputy archivist Himani Pande has sought permission from centre's
member secretary Prof Jyotindra Jain to lodge an FIR against the wrongdoers,
...< http://bit.ly/9o62Le>
House passes e-records management bill
FCW.com
Government auditors have found that without a statutory prescription for
maintaining electronic records, agencies print and file them as they would
paper ...< http://bit.ly/dlBTNg>
Harry Ransom Center to House Magnum Photo Archive
American Libraries
Magnum Photos, the photographic cooperative whose members snapped some of
the most iconic images of the last half of the 20th century, has sold its
archives ...< http://bit.ly/9MSsns>
Digital jukebox shows 100 films of Wales and its people
BBC News
The Through the Dragon's Eye archive has 1898 views of Rhyl, a documentary
about the 1934 Gresford mining disaster and the comedy Gavin and Stacey.
...< http://bit.ly/chDYVm>
Hawaii asks Obama for presidential library
The Associated Press
HONOLULU — Hawaii lawmakers are asking President Barack Obama to put his
future presidential library in the state where he was born and raised. ...
http://bit.ly/9cmK7h
ISO Reports Cover Patient Archives
Health Data Management
The International Organization for Standardization has published two
documents that provide internationally harmonized guidelines for archiving
patient ...< http://bit.ly/9tR0Jk>
Document preservation a concern when moving data to clouds
Federal Times
30 directing agencies as to how to comply with federal records regulations
while using cloud computing, said Arian Ravanbakhsh, an electronic records
policy ...< http://bit.ly/cH15g5>
How computer evidence gets retrieved
CNN (blog)
Matt Baker's computer records were a key part of the prosecution's murder
case against the Baptist minister. By tracing his IP address, authorities
were ...< http://bit.ly/cjeqZr>
Jurors in Boy Scouts trial view 'perversion files'
Seattle Times
On Monday, the Multnomah County Circuit Court jurors got a rare look at
letters and documents from a confidential file kept by the Boy Scouts of
America ...< http://bit.ly/a544yi>
SS documents discovered near Auschwitz
Telegraph.co.uk <http://telegraph.co.uk/>
... had unearthed the documents during a restoration, and that many of the
files refer to SS Doctor Victor Capesius, who worked with Mengele at the
camp ...< http://bit.ly/cNJZR2>
Documents offer glimpse of the making of US history
Boston Globe
By Joseph P. Kahn Items from one of the most impressive private collections
of American historical documents ever assembled, including more than two
dozen ...< http://bit.ly/cltyjY>
'Sexting,' Texting and EDD Before High Court
Law.com
Under certain circumstances, however, failure to preserve and produce
outlier ESI has been held to constitute spoliation and resulted in sanctions
such as ...< http://bit.ly/9iMs4b>
Attorney general asks for new rules to govern e-records
Lake Wales News
The messages were requested by The Lake Wales News and The Polk County
Democrat but county leaders were unable to provide the public documents
because, ...< http://bit.ly/aXYge2>
Health IT Storage Challenges To Surge
InformationWeek
"A lot of healthcare organizations are getting ready for a huge inflow of
data as they prepare to accommodate electronic health records (EHRs)," said
...< http://bit.ly/dqRCr4>
Investigation of destruction of CIA videotapes appears to be nearing end
Washington Post
By Carrie Johnson and Julie Tate An investigation into the destruction of
CIA videotapes that depicted harsh interrogations of terrorism suspects
appears to ...< http://bit.ly/cM7wIe>
Editorial: Bidding for Obama's library
Scripps News
Even before his inauguration, there was discussion about where Barack Obama
should put his presidential library, although a final decision on that happy
... http://bit.ly/bKX9zF
Freedom Charter copy back in SA
Times LIVE
The Trust says the copy will be given back to the National Archive and the
Department of Arts and Culture, SABC reported. International media reported
...< http://bit.ly/bZ3Bfq>
An archivist at work
Lake Wales News
Would you like to have a list of your closest friends and associates 25
years or more ago, including what their jobs were, and perhaps even some
information ...< http://bit.ly/9SwVZ6>
Deborah C. Peel: Your Medical Records Aren't Secure
Wall Street Journal
Electronic records, Mr. Obama said in his 2009 speech, "will cut waste,
eliminate red tape and reduce the need to repeat expensive medical tests
[and] save ...< http://bit.ly/9943SM>
A Magnum Opus for Ransom
Wall Street Journal
By ANNE S. LEWIS Even without a Texas nexus, it's an excellent fit: Magnum's
huge archive of press prints—some predating the founding of the venerated
...< http://bit.ly/akif7c>
C-SPAN Archive puts history's raw copy on the Internet
Journal and Courier
The archives of the Purdue Research Park-based C-SPAN Archive are now
online. So far, 160000 hours that span 23 years of history are available for
free ...< http://bit.ly/c9edDt>
Parole official defends destruction of files
San Diego Union Tribune
(AP Photo/John Gibbins, Pool) Establish an ongoing review of
document-retention polices to determine appropriate periods before any
records are destroyed. ...< http://bit.ly/9sFuHl>
Obama must do more on open records
Austin American-Statesman
The Freedom of Information Act allows federal officials to cite the
so-called "deliberative process" exception as a legitimate reason not to
release records ...< http://bit.ly/9kUiDo>
Now Available Online: Web Archiving (State of the Art Report)
ResourceShelf (blog)
There are technical, organisational, legal and social issues that Web
archivists need to address, some general and some specific to types of
content or ...< http://bit.ly/cKT6AT>
What You Need to Know for E-Discovery Success
IT Business Edge
The Amendments to the FRCP can be summarized in 19 words: "If electronic
evidence is stored anywhere in your organization, you must produce it
accurately ...< http://bit.ly/boXeuM>
Retain Your Records No Longer Than You Must
New York Times
By JENNIFER SARANOW SCHULTZ I'VE long been a pack rat when it comes to
saving financial documents. I have a file cabinet full of old cellphone and
credit ...< http://nyti.ms/crCNNc>
Looking for Medical Miracles in Medieval Manuscripts
Did monks in the Middle Ages know more about medicine than we thought? A
German medical historian is combing medieval manuscripts looking for recipes
that could be helpful today. Pharmaceutical companies have taken a keen
interest in his research. http://bit.ly/cgEAbm
Archives merger 'dangerous' to democracy
3News
"We're very uncomfortable about the threat that this could mean for the
autonomy of national archives, and also of the Chief Archivist's role within
...< http://bit.ly/br17t7>
Pickering documents shed light on lumber history
Union Democrat
... and the west cell block is full of items that need to repopulate the
History Center,” said Charlie Dyer, county records manager. “They need more
space. ...< http://bit.ly/d0PAlW>
Archives International Sale Broad in Scope
NumisMaster.com
By Bank Note Reporter The fifth tranche of American Bank Note Co. archives
will go under the hammer on April 15 and 16 in Englewood, NJ, courtesy Dr.
Robert ...< http://bit.ly/dgEw5U>
Museums are morally obligated to return Nazi-looted art, says expert
Deutsche Welle
So I did research in all the closest archives - in our own archive, in the
city archive and in the Wiesbaden Central State Archive. ...
http://bit.ly/9axgAV
Eastman House receives Technicolor archive material
Rochester Business Journal
Eastman House officials traveled to Hollywood for the announcement of the
gift of Technicolor's historic archive dating from 1915 to 1974. ...<
http://bit.ly/9bL5dT>
DHEC Employee Fired For Not Shredding Personal Documents
News Channel 7
During preliminary inquiries with SLED, an employee admitted throwing the
documents in the recycling instead of taking them to DHEC's shredding
facility. http://bit.ly/bvabOH
http://bit.ly/cY9lJz
Records in Real Time
New York Times
The Freedom of Information Act has done a lot to make government more
transparent. But in Washington — where need-to-know is the favorite status
symbol ...< http://nyti.ms/b42ZsB>
NHS staff 'can access records'
The Press Association
Data obtained under the Freedom of Information Act suggested hospital
administrators, porters and IT staff are able to access records either in
paper form ...< http://bit.ly/bVKv0U>
Archives restructuring a blow to accountability
Scoop.co.nz <http://scoop.co.nz/> (press release)
“The independence of the Chief Archivist is at risk with the amalgamation of
Archives New Zealand into DIA” according to Ms Newman. “The Chief
Archivist's ...< http://bit.ly/d32VLe>
State Sector Merges - "1998 Battle Lines Are Drawn Again"
Voxy
The Archivist would be the chief executive of the New Zealand Archives,
directly accountable to a Minister. Neither the Archivist nor the Archives
should be ...< http://bit.ly/d1gBYt>
NHS porters and cleaners can snoop on your medical records
Daily Mail
North Staffordshire said porters did not have access to electronic records,
but routinely carried paper files between departments as part of their job.
...< http://bit.ly/c97JvC>
ID Theft Ring Used Hospital Records For $300K Shopping Spree
The Consumerist (blog)
Police say she did this to upward of 250 different patient files. If this
were a movie, it would be at this point that the "me and my girlfriends go
on a ...< http://bit.ly/aFNiUC>
Exhibit Showcases History Of Rental Housing In Toronto
CityNews
Renters have made up about half of Toronto's population since the 1970s and
a new exhibit at the City Archives highlights some of the struggles tenants
have ...< http://bit.ly/aEApN4>
Upstate NY film museum gets Technicolor collection
The Associated Press
"Technicolor is to be commended for understanding the crucial importance of
preserving its archive," Scorsese said in a statement. ...
http://bit.ly/aAJI9w
An online photo archive reflects the colours of nostalgia
Daily News & Analysis
Anusha Yadav, photographer and founder of The Indian Memory Project, an
online archive of photos from pre-90s India, is a self-described photo ...
http://bit.ly/9QtNdQ
Revisiting 'Zubulake' Six Years Later
Law.com
Although the case did not present any "egregious examples of litigants
purposefully destroying evidence," 13 plaintiffs were sanctioned – seven for
...< http://bit.ly/b5Yq7i>
Stunning flood of claims held in secret diocesan archive
Irish Independent
By John Cooney and Ralph Riegel A METICULOUSLY maintained secret archive on
abuse allegations against clerics in the Diocese of Cloyne has shocked both
...< http://bit.ly/98HInt>
The origins of a holy book
Boston Globe
The archive that was to become the Corpus Coranicum was started by the
German Arabist Gotthelf Bergstrasser, who traveled through Europe and the
former ...< http://bit.ly/aUdeup>
The war on WikiLeaks and why it matters
Salon
But what is worth noting is how and why this classified Report was made
publicly ... incriminating documents (similar to this CIA Report) that
expose the ...< http://bit.ly/b3B79g>
Lawyer weighs in - ISU faculty attorney: Petition destruction OK
Idaho State Journal
“The only records retention policy applicable to the Faculty Senate is ...
administrative — meetings, minutes and agendas,” he writes. ...
http://bit.ly/bVogFh
Archive loss risks Calgary's wisdom
Calgary Herald
So why did the Glenbow Archives let go half its archivists recently? Budget
problems, of course, but we forget the past at our peril. ...<
http://bit.ly/bVCrH2>
Eustis students archive Web sites for future generations
Orlando Sentinel
Partnering with the Library of Congress and Archive-It.org, the project
allowed students to choose Web sites that they believe will be important
years from ...< http://bit.ly/a7svms>
Data Theft Hits 3.3 Million Borrowers
Wall Street Journal
In 2006, 1.7 million computer records held by Texas Guaranteed Student Loan
Corp. were breached, while the US Department of Education said a bug in its
Web ...< http://bit.ly/aqMzcC>
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