*RAIN 20090828*
*Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related
to records and archives management.*
*City and museum settle
YourHub.com
(The MLDAR case was settled in May) The big sticking point remains the
location of historic photographs dating back to Golden's early days in the
1800s. ...<
http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/News/General-News/Story~648627.aspx<http://denver.yourhub.com/Golden/Stories/News/General-News/Story%7E648627.aspx>
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*Va. liquor-agency files offer a taste of history
Richmond Times Dispatch - Richmond,VA,USA
"I had to resist the temptation to say that these minutes are awfully dry,"
quipped Conley L. Edwards III, the state archivist. ...<
http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/news/state_regional/article/ABCS22_20090821-215007/287607/
>*
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*Marriage records go missing
Kentucky.com
Whoever is taking the records might be trying to return them. Eads said one
marriage record from Fayette County was found in his Bourbon County files.
...<http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/904415.html?storylink=omni_popular>*
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*Presidential libraries serve as time capsules
Salt Lake Tribune
... 2002 -- a project that prompted The Dallas Morning News to call it the
best presidential library -- resulted in more interactive displays for
children. ...<http://www.sltrib.com/travel/ci_13179987>*
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*Official ordered Easley files deleted
CharlotteObserver.com
NC public records law generally requires state employees to retain paper and
electronic records. It is not clear from the report whether any information
...<http://www.charlotteobserver.com/local/story/902332.html>*
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*Company evolved into digital documents
Kansas.com
Such as voice files for police departments. Galaxie has about 20 Kansas
cities as customers, including Wichita, Derby and Newton. ...<
http://www.kansas.com/business/story/940346.html> *
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*How to destroy old backups
Search Storage
Another option is to send your tapes to a company that offers tape
destruction services. According to a June 2009 research report by the
Enterprise Strategy ...<
http://searchstorage.techtarget.com.au/articles/34964-How-to-destroy-old-backups
>*
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*Solomon Islands** archivists hoping to make some improvements back home
Radio New Zealand International
A Solomon Islands archivist is hoping training he's receiving in New Zealand
will lead to better record keeping in his country. The New Zealand Archives
is ...<http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=48646>*
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*Anne Jansen Donates Papers to UCA Archives
UCA Today
Anne Jansen, former news anchor at Little Rock television station KTHV
Channel 11, has donated her collection of materials to the UCA Archives.
...<http://www.uca.edu/news/index.php?itemid=2226>*
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*Creamery archives moved to new storage space
CNYLink from Eagle Newspapers
The new archive room is 12-by-30 feet and the gently downward sloping
ceiling is 11 feet at its tallest. The new space is the first part of the
Creamery*
*<http://www.cnylink.com/cnynews/view_news.php?news_id=1251131242>*
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*Psystar Tells Judge it Did Not Destroy Evidence
OS News
Last week, we left off when Apple was accusing Psystar of destroying
evidence, and even though we had a blunt response to El Reg in which the
clone maker ...
<
http://www.osnews.com/story/22054/Psystar_Tells_Judge_it_Did_Not_Destroy_Evidence
>*
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*Edmonton Archives Department Offers 25000 Photos Online
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
In the archives department of virtually any big city is a photographic ...
in the history of the city," explained Michael Payne, archivist for
Edmonton. ...<http://www.govtech.com/gt/713112>*
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*Sir William Arthur collection inscribed on World Register
The Star Online - Castries,St. Lucia
Margot Thomas, St Lucia's national archivist says the papers are significant
because they ... that's where the National Archives in St Lucia came in.
...<http://stluciastar.com/content/archives/6459>*
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*State archives show pages of history
Times of India
The credit for unveiling this face goes to state archives, which has
exhibited some precious manuscripts of the bygone times. ... <
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4930693.cms>*
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*Souter donating papers to NH Historical Society
WCAX
... NH (AP) - Retired US Supreme Court Justice David Souter is donating his
personal and professional papers to the New Hampshire Historical Society.
...<http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=10982338>*
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*Senate to review e-mail policies after suit
Chicago Tribune
Smyrski testified she did not know records from that account would be
considered public and subject to the open records law because they were
created at ...<
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-wi-senatee-mail,0,1503963.story>*
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*A High-Tech Home for Multimillion-Dollar Works of Art
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
That could be a charter school, back offices and record storage for a law
firm or some sort of industrial distribution center, he said. ...<
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/nyregion/25christies.html>*
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*Fed Courts Wary of Document-Sharing Plugin
Wired News
... who gets a fee waiver from a judge shouldn't use RECAP since the waiver
comes with the requirement that you not share the public records with
anyone. ...<
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/08/fed-courts-wary-of-document-sharing-plugin/
>*
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*City of Wilmington changing e-mail policy after violating public ...
StarNewsOnline.com
City officials have acknowledged their e-mail procedures led to potential
violations of public records laws and have vowed to change them. ...<
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090825/ARTICLES/908259977/1155?Title=City-of-Wilmington-changing-e-mail-policy-after-violating-public-records-laws
>*
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*Can Google really protect and serve Los Angeles
Los Angeles Daily News
... Google's data retention system, the city of Los Angeles must consider
whether it will be able to meet both its state and federal compliance
demands. ...<http://www.dailynews.com/opinions/ci_13201986>*
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*Dealing with the data explosion
InfoWorld
New compliance regulations in the wake of the global financial meltdown will
likely mandate even more data retention, while the imperative to digitize
...<http://www.infoworld.com/d/storage/dealing-data-explosion-690>*
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*David Lemieux: The Dead Archivist Abides - Part II
jambands.com
I'm working on a masters thesis on film archiving in Canada, the history of
Canadian film archives and I would love to see how GDP, which is primarily a
...<http://www.jambands.com/Features/content_2009_08_26.04.phtml>*
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*Was Twitter Document Theft and Publication by TechCrunch Legal?
MediaShift
Most states have enacted some version of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act
(UTSA), which defines the term very broadly to include not only a secret
process or ...
<
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2009/08/was-twitter-document-theft-and-publication-by-techcrunch-legal237.html
>*
*Internet Archive Requests Your Help in Preserving geocities Materials
ResourceShelf
We have been archiving geocities sites for years in our crawls, but, as goes
with the territory of being web archivists, we want to make sure to gather
as ...<
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/25/internet-archive-requests-your-help-in-preserving-geocities-materials/
>*
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*Southern District of Ohio Denies Sanctions Against EchoStar et al For
Printing But Not Electronically Preserving Images Linked in Emails*
*<http://www.bricker.com/LegalServices/Practice/Litigation/ediscotech/eblog/
>*
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*Officials get training in record-keeping
SunHerald.com (registration)
By EMILY WAGSTER PETTUS AP JACKSON — Mississippi Auditor Stacey Pickering
said he's not waiting for state and local officials to get in trouble for
failing ...<http://www.sunherald.com/218/story/1561068.html>*
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*Online archives to save cultures
The Press Association
Since January, they have been working to create a digital archive of vocal
expressions from some of the most obscure cultures on the planet. ...<
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5iBH0eLR-rhv2JU4YGxXu4TN32KGg
>*
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*Labeling Library Archives Is a Game at Dartmouth College
ResourceShelf
Ms. Flanagan, a digital-humanities professor at Dartmouth College, is
creating an Internet-based game in which users create descriptive tags for
library ...<
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2009/08/26/labeling-library-archives-is-a-game-at-dartmouth-college/
>*
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*Google Opens Up Its EPUB Archive: Download 1 Million Books for Free
ReadWriteWeb
Google had already made this archive available to some of its partners,
including Sony and Barnes and Noble, but until today users weren't able to
download ...<
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_opens_up_its_epub_archive_download_1_million_books_for_free.php
>*
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*Pacific help sought in identifying WWII photos
Radio Australia
An Australian archivist is hoping Pacific islands communities may be able to
help add to an archive she is compiling of a New Zealand Air Force flying
boat ...<
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/pacbeat/stories/200908/s2668112.htm>*
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*Lost Beach Boys tapes surface in SLO County
New Times SLO
Independent offers were considered, but Robison truly wanted the tapes to
return to Brian Wilson and the Beach Boys' archive. By holding firm in his
request ...<http://www.newtimesslo.com/cover/3164/the-reel-deal/>*
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*CNE to digitalize 90 year film collection
IT World Canada Blogs - Scarborough,Ontario,Canada
The Toronto-based CNE Archives, responsible for preserving the public
records ... sound and moving image archivist at CNE Archives, said the
exhibition has ...
<
http://www.itworldcanada.com/a/Daily-News/9a2eb22c-d019-40ec-a69f-582e8d6e764c.html
>*
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*The lost voyage: First English-led expedition to North America
University of Bristol - Bristol,Avon,UK
... miscataloged among a bundle of Chancery files in what is now The
National Archives. The archivist who found the letter, Miss Margaret Condon,
...<http://bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6515.html>*
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*ACLU Files Lawsuit on Border Laptop Searches
CIO - Framingham,MA,USA
... and other printed material, as well as computers, disks, hard drives and
other electronic or digital storage devices," without suspicion of a crime.
...<
http://www.cio.com/article/500627/ACLU_Files_Lawsuit_on_Border_Laptop_Searches
>*
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*Quick action, luck save waterlogged archives
Juneau Empire
The roof of the State Archives building on Willoughby Avenue is seen
Wednesday. The third floor roof is finished and the contractor is waiting
for better ...<
http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/082709/loc_486592194.shtml>*
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*National Archives recording 10000 army PoWs held by Nazis go online
guardian.co.uk
Until now only available to those who laboriously flicked through dusty
volumes at the National Archives in Kew, south-west London, records
detailing 100000 ...<
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/27/pow-archive-war-online-escapes>*
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*Benjamin Netanyahu - Israeli Prime Minister given original ...
Bild.com - Germany
"Much was said of giving [the plans] to the State Archive here in Berlin.
But it was my personal wish to give the documents to the Yad Vashem memorial
...<
http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/bild-english/world-news/2009/08/27/israeli-prime-minister-in-berlin/benjamin-netanyahu-given-auschwitz-plans-at-bild.html
>*
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*Books saved from Ill. university libraries
Daily Vidette
The bill amended the State Library Act and the State Property Control Act;
both limited the ability for university libraries to make space on their
shelves ...
<
http://www.dailyvidette.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=201:books-saved-from-ill-university-libraries&catid=35:newscampus&Itemid=53
>*
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*Lincoln Museum Collection Goes To State Museum & County Library In ...
Civil War News
... the Indiana State Historical Society, the Indiana State Library and
Archives, and a reconstituted Friends of The Lincoln Museum Board. ..<
http://www.civilwarnews.com/archive/articles/09/september/lincolncollection_090901.html
>*
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*A Data Deluge Swamps Science Historians
Wall Street Journal
The problem is forcing historians to become scientists, and scientists to
become archivists and curators. Digital records, unlike laboratory
notebooks, ...<
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125139942345664387.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>*
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*States step up to the electronic challenge
KMWorld Magazine - Medford,NJ,USA
And according to Oregon state archivist Mary Beth Herkert, the change is
long overdue if state agencies are going to respond effectively to
electronic ...<
http://www.kmworld.com/Articles/Editorial/Feature/States-step-up-to-the-electronic-challenge-55795.aspx
>*
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*Historical gems must be protected
Columbia City Paper - Columbia,SC,USA
“Our state archives are a priceless record and historical treasure of South
... Charles Lesser, senior archivist at the Department, says the historical
...<
http://columbiacitypaper.com/index.php/News-Commentary/Commentary/Historical-gems-must-be-protected.html
>*
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*The lost voyage: First English-led expedition to North America
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
A personal letter - now in The National Archives - written by Henry VII to
his ... The archivist who found the letter, Miss Margaret Condon, passed on
the ...<http://www.physorg.com/news170605684.html>*
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*Water agency gets handle on mountain of paperwork
Orlando Sentinel
The solution came from Ricoh, which makes, among other things, copiers, and
doculex Archive Studio, which made the archival software. ... <
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-lklake-paperwork-water-<http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/local/lake/orl-lklake-paperwork-water-authori082809aug28,0,4185227.story>
*
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*Thousands of Stafford County photos to be restored
Newsday
Their part of the project requires taking each negative from its archival
envelope, placing it on a flat bed scanner with an overhead transparency
light and ...<
http://www.newsday.com/travel/thousands-of-stafford-county-photos-to-be-restored-1.1401292
>*
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*A Variety of New Orleans and Louisiana Map Sources - Tourism ...
Examiner.com - USA
The City Archives of the Louisiana Division of New Orleans Public Library
states that its collection “includes original, blueprint, and published
maps, ...
<
http://www.examiner.com/x-17348-New-Orleans-City-Guide-Examiner~y2009m8d27-A-Variety-of-New-Orleans-and-Louisiana-Map-Sources--Tourism-History-Education-and-Science<http://www.examiner.com/x-17348-New-Orleans-City-Guide-Examiner%7Ey2009m8d27-A-Variety-of-New-Orleans-and-Louisiana-Map-Sources--Tourism-History-Education-and-Science>
>*
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*Spoliation Leads to Severe Sanctions
Law.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
Given the sheer number of cases that now involve large amounts of ESI, the
escalating trend of asserting and defending claims of spoliation should come
as ...
<
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202433397476&Spoliation_Leads_to_Severe_Sanctions
>*
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*Official documents degrade in messy piles
The News International
“Presently, we have racks in the record rooms to put all the files and other
documents, but their main drawback is the lack of secrecy of any record,
...<http://www.thenews.com.pk/print1.asp?id=195392>*
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