RAIN 20100414
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Agencies Release Open Government Plans
InformationWeek
A Freedom of Information Act dashboard, mobile applications on air quality,
online scheduling from Social Security, and a community health data
initiative ...< http://bit.ly/csvcyI>
FOIA in a Holder World: Cloudy with a chance of rain
Salon
By Danielle Citron A little over a year ago, Attorney General Eric Holder
issued a memorandum requiring agencies to administer Freedom of Information
Act ...< http://bit.ly/cPDTtF>
Sealed by kings: see the priceless paperwork that created our city
Worcester News
Archives chiefs are now hoping a selection of the most important charters
will go online for people to look at within the next six months. County
archives ...< http://bit.ly/94oZZq>
Archivists and privacy
Globe and Mail
The privacy concerns raised on behalf of the Catholic entities involved are
very real and are of paramount concern to archivists across Canada. ...<
http://bit.ly/c1MCTs>
OMB Restricts Authority of Paperwork Reduction Act on Social Media but Some
...
OMB Watch
A December 22, 2009 memo from the National Archives provided advice on
implementing records management requirements of the OGD. Overall, this is a
positive ...< http://bit.ly/a0v7Lk>
Mervyn Peake Archive Acquired for British Library with Help from Art Fund
Art Daily
The British Library has acquired the archive of writer and artist Mervyn
Peake, best known as the author of Gormenghast, for which he won the
Heinemann ...< http://bit.ly/axeDqL>
Design Archives Auction Is Canceled
New York Times
By EVE M. KAHN; Compiled by DAVE ITZKOFF One of the largest private archives
documenting the mid-20th-century furniture designers Charles and Ray Eames
has ...< http://nyti.ms/cTlHK7>
Rowntree's social poverty archives find new home at York University
The Guardian
Photograph: Rowntree Archive A dusty box of glass slides wrapped in
newspaper which had a dramatic effect on British politics has been rescued
and found a ...< http://bit.ly/9EXXGp>
UGA digital archive provides access to historic newspapers
Newnan Times-Herald
The Atlanta Historic Newspapers Archive -
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/atlnewspapers - consists of more than 67000
newspaper pages and provides historical ...< http://bit.ly/cTMTu7>
Yee says college hid e-mail about Palin speech
San Francisco Chronicle
But it shows that the university may have violated California's Public
Records Act by denying it had any undisclosed Palin-related documents, said
state Sen ...< http://bit.ly/9pMhio>
Nation's top fisheries cop replaced after documents shredded ...
CanadianBusiness.com
... found that he ordered dozens of files destroyed during the
investigation. ... Zinser said that Jones told him the shredding was
unrelated to the review ...< http://bit.ly/bbaBnu>
http://bit.ly/abwkUW
Houston Chronicle
State court aims to protect vanishing court records
GALVESTON —The document featured on the Web site was just a little piece of
Rusk County history, a page where court information was kept.
But the yellowed page was up for sale, which appalled Houston attorney Bill
Kroger. It had been taken from its proper place. http://bit.ly/b8WcNG
Historic photos could be saved with donor card
Express & Echo
The card is intended to stop the destruction of historic photographs which
often happens during house clearances. Members of the public are being
encouraged ...< http://bit.ly/9e5uDA>
Historian to bring new life to Grateful Dead's past
San Jose Mercury News
To begin with, the man newly hired to oversee the archive has extensive
experience in the archivist arts, with a master's degree in library science
from the ...< http://bit.ly/br5AvO>
US Justice Department to Create Online FOIA 'Report Card'
Government Technology
The US Department of Justice (DOJ) will create a Web site that compares 92
federal agencies' compliance with the Freedom of Information Act – in hopes
that ...< http://bit.ly/c8dxfX>
Majority of Wright's Eames Auction Canceled Due to Last Minute Lawsuit
mediabistro.com (blog)
... Charles and Ray Eames auction of the century, which would find the
entire collection of the official Eames Office archivists, John and Marilyn
Neuhart. ...< http://bit.ly/dlIFiz>
Google Buzz Exposes White House Internet Policy Advisor Andrew McLaughlin's
...
Huffington Post (blog)
... Bush White House made an absolute mockery of the Presidential Records
Act, with senior officials frequently using Republican National Committee
email ...< http://huff.to/9SjINu>
What you need to know about storage in the cloud
FCW.com
So what about data storage? In the cloud model, agencies would send their
data across the Internet or a private network to a storage service provider
that ...< http://bit.ly/dAKyl2>
Groups challenge Tulare County e-mail policy
Visalia Times-Delta
... the California Public Records Act — Government Code Section 26202 — sets
a minimum two-year period for county records to be retained. ...
http://bit.ly/9fagAW
Companies Under-Invest in the Protection of Trade Secrets
TMC Net
The survey states that information theft by employees or trusted outsiders
is costlier than the data security incidents related to accidental loss.
...< http://bit.ly/dxF9AU>
Neglect of archives shows contempt for citizens
Irish Times
The problem is simple: there is no statutory protection for the archives of
medical institutions. Local county archives have usually inherited (by
custom ...< http://bit.ly/cEjBln>
Contract storage violates state law
Lansdale Reporter
At that time, she was told to apply to the County Records Improvement Fund
(CRIF). Though willing to accept $150000 reportedly budgeted for information
...< http://bit.ly/ctw8BG>
Who watches WikiLeaks?
The Guardian
... short years by releasing to the world more than a million confidential
documents from highly classified military secrets to Sarah Palin's hacked
emails. ...< http://bit.ly/ddCGuo>
Senator Investigating Destruction Of Records
KHON2
“We had two people witness the destruction of the documents because it was
erotic material,” said Johnson. “The fiscal records are still maintained up
there ...< http://bit.ly/do9aXU>
Bill seeks to archive papers of politicians
Concord Monitor
By KATHY McCORMACK AP New Hampshire is considering legislation that would
require governors and congressmen to turn over records to the state archives
soon ...< http://bit.ly/apPLES>
Archives body can not collect all records because of space shortage
Irish Times
More than 200 people, including representatives from the Irish Society for
Archivists, attended the Robert Emmet Lecture at Trinity College Dublin to
voice ...< http://bit.ly/9AtpLV>
Secret Service probing county payments to records consultant
http://bit.ly/bwxm15
DA investigates allegations of deleted records
Daily News - Galveston County
... that his office is looking into allegations by Mayor Geraldine Sam that
City Manager Eric Gage deleted e-mails sought in an open records request.
...< http://bit.ly/bQcdxO>
Bill Would Require NH Govs To Donate Some Records
WBZ
... that would require New Hampshire governors and congressmen to turn over
a selection of their records to the state archives soon after they leave
office. ...< http://bit.ly/bQARh8>
Open records law should apply to governor too, senator argues
NOLA.com
The archiving requirement calls for the governor's office to preserve all
records, transferring them to the secretary of state's archives at the
conclusion ...< http://bit.ly/dtHz8x>
Records of Jersey ears found in St Brelade Parish hall
BBC News
While cleaning out old files in St Brelade Parish hall, ancient records in
French were found identifying people by describing their ears. ...<
http://bit.ly/d1wUPS>
Avoiding Sanctions over Duty to Preserve Evidence
JD Supra
Eslinger,1 is the first reported case to sanction in-house counsel for
spoliation of electronic evidence. In Swofford, while in pursuit of two
suspects, ...< http://bit.ly/aDJ6eU>
FBI Making 'Steady Progress' Toward Releasing Massive Kennedy File
FOXNews
The FBI records center is making "steady progress" toward completing its
review of Ted Kennedy's 3000-page file and plans to release it well before
the end ...< http://bit.ly/9KszqF>
Former Googler in hot water over White House email practices
ZDNet
I've discussed my White House email analysis with hundreds of both extremely
liberal and extremely conservative radio hosts and in all instances, ...<
http://bit.ly/9dFh6n>
Jacqueline Kennedy interviews to be made public
The Guardian
Proceeds of the book will go in part to the John F Kennedy Library
Foundation, of which Caroline is president, which supports the presidential
library.< http://bit.ly/95slcx>
The Archivist Enters the Blogosphere
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) (blog)
By Jennifer Howard That's Archivist with a capital A, as in the person who
heads up the National Archives and Records Administration. ...
http://bit.ly/bdCDRY
Kevin Barry's last letter and previously unseen IRA archive from 1920s go
...
Irish Times
A number of artefacts and mementos are contained in the archive of Kathleen
Napoli McKenna, a personal adviser and secretary to Michael Collins. ...
http://bit.ly/cutNsY
Calif. students find Palin contract in trash
Kansas City Star
By ROBIN HINDERY AP Writer FILE - In this Feb. ... campus trash bin by
students who heard administrators might be shredding documents related to
the speech. ...< http://bit.ly/anUmKp>
Report finds 75% of NOAA chief's files destroyed
Gloucester Daily Times
The House Domestic Policy Subcommittee of the Committee on Oversight and
Government Reform, found the destruction of documents, first revealed last
month by ...< http://bit.ly/aM54oI>
White House Deputy CTO Questioned Over Gmail
InformationWeek (blog)
Nevertheless, the Consumer Watchdog organization has filed a Freedom of
Information Act request seeking copies of e-mails between McLaughlin and
Google ...< http://bit.ly/djewns>
Sierra Leone: Civil Servants Trained On Records Management
AllAfrica.com
Freetown — In keeping with its mandate to enhance the capacity of the civil
service for quality service delivery in a timely manner, the records
management ...< http://bit.ly/b41EQX>
Tax records destroyed every seven years
Times-Georgian
“The government holds tax records for seven years before they're destroyed,”
said Richard Rayburn, director of records at the National Archive for the
...< http://bit.ly/9Y80P3>
Search to begin for new library archivist
The East Texan
After serving 37 years as head of special collections and archivist for
A&M-Commerce, Dr. James Conrad retired last week. The university now faces
the ...< http://bit.ly/9VZzkp>
Clarington Archives puts out welcome mat to the public
Newsdurhamregion.com
"We've been collecting for 49 years," said archivist Charles Taws. "It's a
time to raise awareness of the archives." During Clarington Archive
Awareness ...< http://bit.ly/cTnjmm>
Ransom Center Opens Archive of Prize-winning Writer Jim Crace
University of Texas at Austin News
The Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The
University of Texas at Austin, acquired Crace's archive in 2008. ...
http://bit.ly/aQmejd
Google and Library of Congress archive tweets
CNNMoney
Plus, Google is making the Twitter archive searchable. Google's "replay"
feature that searches the Twitter archive shows a spike in tweets about the
"Apple ...< http://bit.ly/ca4whb>
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