RAIN 20100430
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
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Most data shouldn't have an unlimited life
FierceContentManagement
... having a major impact on content management was the explosion of data.
... and if you're smart you practice information lifecycle management (ILM).
...http://bit.ly/cqcHgz
Medical Records Keep Getting Dumped
InformationWeek (blog)
... official with the company indicated an employee had thrown the files
way. “A garbage bag full of medical records is not an oversight,” Nichols
said. ...< http://bit.ly/bh7j3R>
Russia releases secret papers on Katyn massacre signed by Stalin
Times Online
More than 100 volumes of documents relating to a criminal investigation into
the Katyn massacre remain classified, however, despite Polish requests for
them ...< http://bit.ly/bZSYet>
http://bit.ly/9HNxjN
Administration continues to defy Senate subpoena for Fort Hood documents
Washington Post
The Pentagon said, however, that it will give the Senate Committee on
Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs access to Hasan's personnel file,
...< http://bit.ly/bSgqMt>
Paperless office? Ha! How about a paperless life?
Australian Techworld
... a completely digital workplace without paper memos, forms, files or
records. ... eliminate paper as a data storage medium for the past six
months. ...< http://bit.ly/cjxv1m>
Salt mines store national treasures
Winsford Guardian
The books will sit alongside documents from the National Archive London,
police, university and hospital records, BBC archives and a scale model of
Wembley ...< http://bit.ly/b73nii>
Publicity garners donations to Burnaby archives
Burnaby Newsleader
Burnaby's city archivist Arilea Sill is thrilled at material donated to the
archives in recent months, and she believes recent publicity around
additions to ...< http://bit.ly/bJEma8>
While the Artists Chatted, He Taped
New York Times
Though it has never received much attention in the United States, it has
long had an art-world cult following in Europe, and in 2004 its archive,
...< http://nyti.ms/9YCvOW>
Archive for NK Human Rights
동아일보
The justice ministry of the West German state of Niedersachsen, which
bordered East Germany, established a central legal archive in Salzgitter on
Nov. ...< http://bit.ly/bhKBZX>
Mormon church's storied Granite Mountain vault opened for virtual tour
Deseret News
Archivists are also concerned with the slightest contamination, including
"blue jean dust," the cotton fibers created by brushing pant legs when large
...< http://bit.ly/cStHkW>
Local archive seeks to recharge zine culture
Seattle University Spectator
Hugo House's Zine Archival and Publishing Project (ZAPP) stores more than
20000 zines sorted into 30 different genres. ZAPP holds zine-making
workshops and ...< http://bit.ly/c4pivn>
Pit used to burn prison records
Honolulu Star-Bulletin
State law requires that all state agencies have a plan for the retention or
destruction of state records. Clayton Frank, public safety director, ...<
http://bit.ly/be9RY8>
Trade secrets run aground at lost and found
San Jose Business Journal
Bob Taylor, a veteran IP litigator and managing member of the Palo Alto
office of Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC, said while IP theft
s ...< http://bit.ly/bX81EB>
Poland's Komorowski approves shakeup of archive body
Arab News
By GABRIELA BACZYNSKA | REUTERS WARSAW: Poland's acting president signed
into law on Thursday a plan to reorganize an archive institute that has been
at the ...< http://bit.ly/cvv6ZN>
Iraq demands return of its Jewish archive
Washington Post
Susan Cooper, a spokeswoman for the National Archives and Records ... to
make sure I was still alive -- I've known him for many years – called
Cheney. ...< http://bit.ly/9NrxFp>
Records management: a journey, not a task
KMWorld Magazine
“This approach provides many benefits,” Mandel explains, “including lower
paper handling and storage costs, prompt and complete responses to
compliance ...< http://bit.ly/aRVCHW>
Theft of company secrets on the rise from 'rogue employees'
San Jose Business Journal
A careless employee can cost a company dearly through the loss of valuable
information, but trade secrets are also lost through a worker's malicious
intent. ...< http://bit.ly/coWMcl>
County to scan records to disc
Great Falls Tribune
In the future, public documents will be placed online, county officials
said. Anderson said it will cost the county about a penny a document to
perform the ...< http://bit.ly/bNDLmj>
Yamasaki Archives Saved from Destruction
Architectural Record
By John Gallagher A last-minute rescue effort has saved from destruction the
company archives of famed mid-century modernist Minoru Yamasaki. The records
...< http://bit.ly/9M1tpx>
National Archives displays Civil War vaults
San Francisco Chronicle
Stories like these emerge from documents that go on rare public view today
at the National Archives in Washington as the nation prepares to mark the
150th ...< http://bit.ly/bqPDQ4>
http://bit.ly/aoRVNS
ANC protects archives
Independent Online
The ANC has blocked public access to its archives which are being kept at
Fort Hare University in the Eastern Cape after media reports revealed
alleged ...< http://bit.ly/acLJSM>
LDS-owned Granite Mountain Records Vault is moving genealogy files to
digital
StandardNet
A massive, decade-long effort to convert microfilm rolls to digital files is
underway at the huge underground storage facility owned by The Church of
Jesus ...http://bit.ly/9BdWbd
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