RAIN 20090212
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Blagojevich papers could offer insight, eventually
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
Illinois State Archives Director Dave Jones said 98 percent of the
state’s routine documents eventually go through the shredder. ...
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150 years of Queensland history from the Archives
Australia.TO - Sydney,NSW,Australia
Queensland State Archives will connect with the past and explore the future
during an exciting program of events and exhibitions to commemorate
Queensland's ...
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Nearly Half the Hard Drives on EBay Hold Personal Data
PC World - USA
Kessler International broke down the kind of data it retrieved this way:
Personal and confidential documents, including financial information,
(36%); ...
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http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/159320/nearly_half_the_hard_drives_on_ebay_hold_personal_data.html
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Digital Information Saved For Future Generations
Science Daily (press release) - USA
Britain’s National Archive holds the equivalent of 580000 encyclopaedias
of information in file formats that are no longer commercially available;...
<http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/02/090211122410.htm>
‘Text message’ love letter from the 1800s
WalesOnline - Cardiff,UK
And staff in the archives department were surprised to discover the letter
is written in a code that shares many of the features of text messaging....
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http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/02/12/text-message-love-letter-from-the-1800s-91466-22911027/
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URA pledges support for Butte library digital archive
Montana's News Station - Missoula,MT,USA
The Butte Free Public Library's Director Lee Phillips presented plans to
create a digital archive of historically significant books and other
material. ...
<http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=9830348>
Computerisation of archives costs P32 million
Botswana Press Agency - Gaborone,Botswana
GABORONE - The computerization of archives and records management processes
dubbed National Archives and Records Management System (NARMS) by Ministry
of ...
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'Lost treasures' to be unearthed by archivists
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
Following the recent funding success, he will work closely with the
University during the archival process, which is expected may take several
years. ...
<http://media-newswire.com/release_1086053.html>
67 computers missing from nuclear weapons lab
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090212/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/los_alamos_computers
"Congress takes first step to impose limits on Obama's executive power"
Leading members of Congress -- mostly Democrats -- introduce legislation to
ban the exact use of the State Secrets privilege which the Obama DOJ this
week endorsed.
Glenn Greenwald
http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2009/02/12/state_secrets/index.html
Survey: 40% of hard drives bought on eBay hold personal, corporate ...
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Kessler International offered this breakdown of the kind of data it
retrieved: Personal and confidential documents, including financial
information, 36%; ...
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http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9127717
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Records Management
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
Records Destruction Legal Hold Process -- The document lifecycle process
must include a legal hold process for suspending the destruction of
records. ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/dsp_getFeaturesDetails.cfm?CID=2455>
Conserving heritage in the digital age
Cordis News - Brussels,Belgium
Latest data show that the National Archive in the UK holds the equivalent
of 580000 encyclopaedias of information in file formats that are no longer
on the ...
<http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=30459>
Government Orders Clean-Up in Its Archives
STA - Slovenska Tiskovna Agencija - Ljubljana,Slovenia
Ljubljana, 12 February (STA) - The government revised on Thursday a report
on transferring of files from the government archives to the National
Archives ...
<http://www.sta.si/en/vest.php?s=a&id=1363454>
Dutch city fears loss of pornography archive
The Associated Press
AMSTERDAM (AP) — Officials in the Dutch city of Leeuwarden say the
municipal pornography archive is missing and they fear it may be lost for
good or stolen. ...
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Keeping Lincoln's memory alive
SI.com - USA
After the war, families were so upset and outraged by photography that they
were destroying glass negatives, using them to build greenhouses. ...
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http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/cnn/2009/POLITICS/02/11/kunhardt.lincoln.memorabilia/
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Local man’s historic photos of Lincoln in demand
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
In 1881, Ayres used those glass negatives to print and sell a thousand sets
of the portraits. A few of those sepia-toned prints are occasionally
offered in ...
<http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/local/local_story_042200310.html>
AP: GOP takes e-mail case to NJ court
The Associated Press
Katz, in court papers, however, argued that the e-mails should remain
private because they involve contract talks, which are exempt from Open
Public Records ...
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EU court rules data retention directive is legal
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
The judgement is a sequel to an objection by Ireland and Slovakia that the
grounds on which the directive was based did not concern the workings of
the ...
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http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2009/02/12/234786/eu-court-rules-data-retention-directive-is-legal.htm
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