RAIN 070808
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

SNIA Releases 100 Year Archive Requirements Survey Report
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... must be addressed by developing standards and best practices 
consistent with the operating practice we call Information Lifecycle 
Management (ILM). ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20070806005811&newsLang=en>

Academy logs Library pact
Variety - USA
No method for digital storage approaches the longevity of current film 
stocks, which can last more than 100 years. In fact, film is still the 
preferred 
...<http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969734?categoryId=13&cs=1>

Clerk: Online access to records limited
Utica Observer Dispatch - Utica,NY,USA
By Jennifer Fusco UTICA -- More than six months after many Oneida 
County public records were taken off the county's Web site in a dispute 
over how much ...
<http://www.uticaod.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070806/NEWS/70806030
4/1001>

Cities' e-mail saving varies
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
Brookfield and Oconomowoc train staff and elected officials to 
recognize public records in e-mails, then trust that they'll keep them. 
...<http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=643095>

Take-it-home data backup a risky practice
Tribune Chronicle - Warren,OH,USA
According to David Barley, who is preparing to launch an off-site data 
storage company called Casdex in California, many small businesses use 
the same 
...<http://www.tribune-chronicle.com/News/articles.asp?articleID=21042>

Iron Mountain names new technology chief
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Engel, who has 30 years of corporate strategy and product development 
experience, will be responsible for the strategy and development of 
Iron Mountain 
...<http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2007/08/06/daily17.html>

Iron Mountain Hires Fred Engel as Chief Technology Officer of ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
Mr. Engel will be responsible for the strategy and development of Iron
Mountain Digital's comprehensive suite of data protection and e-records
management ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/prnewswire/NETU02407082007-
1.htm>

Iron Mountain names new technology chief
Bizjournals.com - Charlotte,NC,USA
Engel, who has 30 years of corporate strategy and product development
experience, will be responsible for the strategy and development of Iron
Mountain ...
<http://www.bizjournals.com/boston/stories/2007/08/06/daily17.html>

Hit 'Delete' to Prevent EDD Disaster
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
This article addresses key EDD issues and pitfalls in a particular case 
involving 44 million pages of electronic records and a jury verdict of 
approximately 
...<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1186412327
538>

Free the NYT's Archives!
Conde Nast Portfolio - New York,NY,USA
What's not clear is the fate of the NYT's archives. At the moment, 
sophisticated bloggers know that they can't just link to NYT stories: 
they have to go via 
...<http://www.portfolio.com/views/blogs/market-movers/2007/08/07/free-th
e-nyts-archives>

Texas AG Says Health Spa Chain Exposed Customer Records to ID Theft
Insurance Journal - San Diego,CA,USA
According to court documents filed by Abbott, Lifetime Fitness violated 
the law by repeatedly failing to protect customer records that contain 
sensitive 
...<http://www.insurancejournal.com/news/southcentral/2007/08/07/82474.ht
m>

Keeping documents safe during storm vital
Hattiesburg American - Hattiesburg,MS,USA
Though the roof caved in and much of her stock was destroyed, Albert 
got lucky on one front -documents. "We lost some of our computer 
files," she said, 
...<http://www.hattiesburgamerican.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2007080
7/NEWS01/708070314/1002>

From Data Management to Information Lifecycle Management:
SAP INFO - Mannheim,Germany
Information Lifecycle Management helps companies to better juggle TCO,
risk, and legal compliance as they manage their enterprise information. 
...
<http://www.sap.info/public/INT/int/index/Category-28943c61b1e60d84b-int/
0/articlesVersions-896446b1f61b79214>

This NPA is a Library
INQ7.net - Philippines
I visited the FANHS national office in Seattle and chatted with the 
NPA's founding archivist, Fred Cordova. Now 76, Fred established the 
National Pinoy 
...<http://globalnation.inquirer.net/mindfeeds/mindfeeds/view_article.php
?article_id=81097>

Internet archive puts flesh on the bones of first world war ...
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The documents are not new; they have long been available at the 
National Archives in Kew, but until now could only be consulted in 
person. ... 
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,2143859,00.html>

10 things you can do to make sure your data doesn't walk out the door
Builder.com - USA
... addressing a much more insidious problem: theft of company data for 
corporate espionage or other purposes. Yet the disclosure of your trade 
secrets to a ...<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=206>

The Dog Ate Our Ballots
Cleveland Free Times - Cleveland,OH,USA
Fitrakis doesn't buy it: "When coffee falls on public records, you have 
an obligation to clean them up. There's a thing called hair dryers, 
there's a thing 
...<http://www.freetimes.com/stories/15/14/the-dog-ate-our-ballots>

Los Alamos nuclear lab loses more data
Techworld.com - London,UK
... of confidence that the laptop stolen from a hotel room in Ireland 
did not contain any classified materials or any personally identifiable 
information. 
...<http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=9733&pagtype=s
amechan>

VeriSign Worker Fired After Laptop, Employee Info Are Stolen
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
When she went out the next morning, she found that her car had been 
broken into and the laptop had been stolen. Japic said the worker 
contacted police and 
...<http://www.informationweek.com/management/showArticle.jhtml?articleID
=201203456>

Laptop of VeriSign employee stolen
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
What do you get when you take an already fine laptop and give it a 
faster processor, faster front-side bus, a better video card and a 
7200-rpm hard drive? ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyId=17&articleId=9029379&intsrc=hm_topic>

Telcos could pass EU storage directive pain on to users
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
Under the Data Retention EC Directive Regulations 2007, fixed and 
mobile telephony companies will have to retain a variety of information 
about each of the ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/08/06/226046/telcos-could-pa
ss-eu-storage-directive-pain-on-to-users.htm>

RFID Strategy -- RFID Applications In Professional Services
IndustryWeek - USA
The reasons for the continued importance of paper-based files include 
human-factors considerations and records-retention laws. ... 
<http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=14729&SectionID=2
>

Knecht pens pictoral book
Towson Jeffersonian - Towson,MD,USA
Such information, combined with more than 16000 photographs Knecht 
found while working as an archivist at the convent since 2001, inspired 
her to tell the ...
<http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=811&NewsI
D=828025&CategoryID=9045&on=1>

A peek at donors for Bush's library
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
Congress has sent Mr. Bush legislation that would force lobbyists to 
report donations of at least $200 to his or any other presidential 
library. ... 
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/national/stori
es/DN-bushlibrary_08met.ART.State.Edition1.420922c.html>

Green Bay City Council votes for resale shops to keep electronic ...
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
By Paul Srubas Pawnbrokers and resale shops will be required to record 
their purchases electronically and submit those records to Green Bay 
police under a 
...<http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200708
08/GPG0101/708080592/1207/GPGnews>

New York Times
Timbuktu Hopes Ancient Texts Spark a Revival
By LYDIA POLGREEN
Correction Appended
TIMBUKTU, Mali — Ismaël Diadié Haïdara held a treasure in his slender 
fingers that has somehow endured through 11 generations — a square of 
battered leather enclosing a history of the two branches of his family, 
one side reaching back to the Visigoths in Spain and the other to the 
ancient origins of the Songhai emperors who ruled this city at its 
zenith.
“This is our family’s story,” he said, carefully leafing through the 
unbound pages. “It was written in 1519.”
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/world/africa/07mali.html?ex=1187236800
&en=16d81058cc4ad583&ei=5070&emc=eta1>

Black marks for lost records
York Press - York,UK
... regard for what it is he is destroying? They should have passed the 
relevant records to the city archives at the very least. Black marks to 
all concerned.
<http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/news/readersletters/display.var.1603221.0.bl
ack_marks_for_lost_records.php>


Minster blaze details binned
By Gavin Aitchison
IT was one of York's worst ever fires.
But today The Press can reveal that fire chiefs binned all 
documentation surrounding the massive 1984 blaze at York Minster.
We submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to North Yorkshire 
Fire & Rescue Service, asking for all original documents and files 
relating to the fire.
<http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1597253.mostviewed.minster_bl
aze_details_binned.php>

Smithsonian: Giving Enron A Run for Their Money
DCist.com - Washington,DC,USA
A fairly common procedure in any investigation, document retention 
requires that no person destroy even benign documents. The Post notes 
that as of yet, ... <http://dcist.com/2007/08/08/giving_enron_a.php>

Wire archive yields rare Hiroshima aftermath negatives
The Japan Times - Japan
After Domei's photo archive was taken over by Kyodo News, no one knew 
about Nakata's negatives. He quit as a reporter when Domei was 
disbanded in October 
...<http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20070808f2.html>

HFPA funds Bergman archive
Variety - USA
By ELSA BERTET The Hollywood Foreign Press Assn. has donated $10000 to 
the Ingmar Bergman archive following news that some of the filmmaker's 
papers might 
...<http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117969861?categoryId=13&cs=1>

Poland rejects call to return German artworks
International Herald Tribune - France
Last week, the leading German daily Frankfurter Allegemeine Zeitung 
criticized Poland for not returning treasures from the so-called 
Prussian State Library, 
...<http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/08/europe/poland.php>

Smithsonian Official Quits After Records Destroyed
Hobbins Had Key Role In Hiring and Upkeep Of Ex-Secretary Small
By James V. Grimaldi
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, August 8, 2007; C01
A top Smithsonian official has resigned after he destroyed records from 
a key Smithsonian Board of Regents meeting.
James M. Hobbins, 64, executive assistant to the secretary of the 
Smithsonian, has acknowledged destroying transcripts from a meeting in 
January when regents discussed then-Secretary Lawrence M. Small's 
compensation, housing allowance and travel expenses among other things, 
according to people who insisted on remaining anonymous because of the 
sensitivity of the case.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/07/AR200708
0701843.html>





Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA

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