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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
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Court clears antique dealer who saved historical records
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
... more than 200 boxes of historical records -- including notes on a
notorious murder trial and on a Protestant-Catholic riot -- from a
shredding company ...
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/newsbriefs/story.html?id=78d9dc11-dd88-4393-8693-e4a26c405c11
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Former convention center director pleads guilty
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
A grand jury indicted Hodge in December on 16 counts of tampering with a
government record, noting multiple occasions between 2005 and 2007 when he
changed ...
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http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/05/24/0524hodge.html
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Bank of New York Mellon loses data on 4.5 million
SC Magazine US - USA
Archive Systems, a New Jersey-based records storage company, successfully
delivered nine other tapes. A company spokesman could not be reached for
comment ...
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http://www.scmagazineus.com/Bank-of-New-York-Mellon-loses-data-on-45-million/article/110469/
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Analysis: Blunt retaliating with records requests
Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA
Following a confidential tip that Blunt's administration had tried
unsuccessfully to tape over the state's backup e-mail files, Democratic
Attorney General ...
<http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/174838.html>
Everyone's a historian now
Boston Globe - United States
Footnote hopes that by providing scaffolding on which visitors might hang
historical information, an elaborate interconnected archive will emerge....
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http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/05/25/everyones_a_historian_now
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Standard photo archive at the museum makes history available to ...
St. Catharines Standard - St. Catharines,Ontario,Canada
Congratulations to St. Catharines Museum curator Arden Phair, who since
1982 never gave up in his pursuit of the St. Catharines Standard's
collection of ...
<http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1041620>
Boyer: Records useless without access
Auburn Citizen - Auburn,NY,USA
We've already seen examples of electronic records essentially being useless
to the average resident because they do not have some piece of
specialized...
<http://www.auburnpub.com/articles/2008/05/24/opinion/jeremy_boyer.txt>
USA Archives publishes trove of Mobile images
Press-Register - al.com - Mobile,AL,USA
The University of South Alabama Archives contains a treasure trove of
historic photographs — by a recent count at least one million. ...
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http://www.al.com/books/mobileregister/jsledge.ssf?/base/entertainment/1211707003253550.xml&coll=3
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As e-mail use soars, legal issues also rise
New Orleans CityBusiness - New Orleans,LA,USA
Only 21 percent of agencies post on their Web sites the four categories of
information required by amendments to FOIA a decade after they became
law....
<http://www.neworleanscitybusiness.com/viewStory.cfm?recID=30900>
Shredding case sheds light on Atlantic City's lax document security
Press of Atlantic City - Atlantic City,NJ,USA
... Marisol Rosario would face consequences for shredding public documents,
but said the incident underlines a problem of records maintenance at City
Hall. ...
<http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/186/story/167334.html>
Court set to decide on National Library pilferage of historical ...
ABS CBN News - Philippines
She vowed not to press charges if the documents would be returned
voluntarily. Around 8183 documents, mostly classified as Philippine
Revolutionary Papers, ...
<http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=119536>
New Titanic secret uncovered
Southern Daily Echo - Southampton,England,UK
"It was as though it had been put through a shredding machine. There was a
long debris trail." n The story will be told in a TV documentary called
Titanic: ...
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http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/latest/display.var.2296267.0.new_titanic_secret_uncovered.php
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Clean-out turns up unsatisfactory state of FOI affairs
Brisbane Times - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
There is nothing preventing former office-bearers taking the documents and
storing them in their shed, or shredding them. And you can't FOI a former
...
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http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/news/opinion/cleanout-turns-up-unsatisfactory-state-of-foi-affairs/2008/05/26/1211653937366.html
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Ex-councilman's wife says she shredded city documents
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Unauthorized destruction of public records is a misdemeanor. Marisol
Rosario hasn't been charged with a crime. Ramon Rosario received a 10-month
sentence ...
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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--ac-documentshredd0526may26,0,6365177.story
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