RAIN 20080220
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
War Archives and mines maps delivered by France useless?
Elkhabar - Algeria
In this context, both National Archive Director and War-veterans Minister
have criticized the value of documents and mine maps being handed over by
France ...
<http://www.elkhabar.com/quotidienFrEn/lire.php?idc=129&ida=97971>
Privatise your PC before moving on - Feature
Earthtimes - London,UK
Once you locate those file, you can simply remove them from the system – or
use a file shredding program to get rid of them entirely. ...<
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/186658,privatise-your-pc-before-moving-on--feature.html
>
Challenging Indian Land Trusts
In These Times - Chicago,IL,USA
Not only are financial records inaccurate or missing, critics say, but many
landowners have little information on their lands and lease activities, ...<
http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/3531/challenging_indian_land_trusts/>
Governor's records bill clears House
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
The House approved legislation Monday to require the Governor's Office
comply with the state's public records laws. The Governor's Office and its
73 ...<http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/15756102.html>
HIPAA bars release of hospital burial records, Neb. judge rules
First Amendment Center - Nashville,TN,USA
... scorn, loss of employment and other harm" and that there is nothing in
the public-records laws "that limit the medical records exception to a
passage of ...<http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19691>
Open records: Stronger laws spread, preserve information
Ithaca Journal - Ithaca,NY,USA
She said that it is increasingly becoming hard for state government to file
documents in the state archives in the electronic age. ... <
http://www.theithacajournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080219/OPINION01/802190327
>
Rosenthal's swan song hits flat note
Houston Chronicle - United States
Was it the meds that made him click "delete" more than 2000 times on
subpoenaed documents? Or were Rosenthal's last words as district attorney
aimed at ...<
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/falkenberg/5550738.html>
Appalachian's University Archives receives grant to digitize ...
Appalachian State University - Boone,NC,USA
North Carolina ECHO (Exploring Cultural Heritage Online) grants are
administered through the North Carolina State Library and are supported by
the federal ...<http://www.news.appstate.edu/2008/02/18/archives/>
Long-Term Data Health
Information lifecycle management helps companies handle the data deluge by
providing a framework for classifying stored information, finding the right
storage technology, creating retention guidelines and managing costs.
http://ct.enews.baselinemag.com/rd/cts?d=189-717-1-15-244000-74011-0-0-0-1
ILM Draws Storage Giants and Upstarts
Storage is a key piece of the information lifecycle management (ILM) puzzle,
with several established companies in the space. Here are some of the names
to know, and their current claims to ILM fame.
http://ct.enews.baselinemag.com/rd/cts?d=189-717-1-15-244000-74008-0-0-0-1
Protecting your memories
News-Leader.com - Springfield,MO,USA
He made digital files of older photos by scanning the negatives and came up
with several digital storage solutions. Two 740-gig external hard drives
hold ...
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http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080219/LIFE/802190318/1093
>
Vanderbilt TV News Archive to Deliver NBC Video
InfoToday.com - USA
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive (http://tvnews.vanderbilt.edu) and
NBC Universal have formed a new partnership to provide streaming video
access for ...<http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/wndReader.asp?ArticleId=40955
>
World's greatest music collection goes on sale
Guardian Unlimited - UK
He is the owner of a music archive numbering more than three million records
and 300000 CDs, from "the first CD ever produced" to Elvis Presley's Sun
...<http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2257982,00.html>
Destructive Email Retention Policies Dangerous for Today's Businesses
Earthtimes - London,UK
"While destructive retention policies certainly help to address the
security/storage dilemma, the regularly scheduled destruction of emails
creates a ...<
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/destructive-email-retention-policies-dangerous-for-todays-businesses,284269.shtml
>
Swiss bank obtains injunction against whistleblower site
Director of Finance online - UK
The site has previously published confidential documents relating to the US
army's rules for engagement in Iraq, Guantanamo Bay, the Chinese government
and ...
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http://dofonline.co.uk/governance/swiss-bank-obtains-injunction-against-whistleblower-site5352.html
>
Expert Available: New Ways to Handle Records Management Electronically
PR-Inside.com (Pressemitteilung) - Wien,Austria
... electronic records management vs. physical records management -- Storing
both physical and electronic assets -- Addressing security and compliance
needs ...<
http://www.pr-inside.com/expert-available-new-ways-to-handle-r444819.htm>
Missing records stall cheques
Northern News Services (subscription) - Yellowknife,Northwest
Territories,Canada
"I can't understand why there's no record of me - I was there in the era of
electronic records," she said. "There are people who were there in the 1960s
and ...<
http://nnsl.com/northern-news-services/stories/papers/feb18_08stc.html>
Irish blood donor records stolen in New York
RTE.ie - Ireland
A computer containing over 171000 confidential blood donor records and other
files from the Irish Blood Transfusion Service has been stolen. ... <
http://www.rte.ie/news/2008/0219/blood.html>
JFK library features rare notes from Adams, Lincoln, Washington
MetroWest Daily News - Framingham,MA,USA
James Roth of Milton is the new deputy director of the John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library & Museum in Dorchester. By Sue Scheible Then-former
President ...<http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/state/x774164559>
Detroit mayor asks Mich. high court to rule on secret documents
First Amendment Center - Nashville,TN,USA
"I absolutely believe if you use public dollars to resolve a legal matter,
the documents involved in that are public documents," she said. ... <
http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=19694>
Wall St Journal
A Modern Conundrum: When Work's Invisible,
So Are Its Satisfactions
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http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB120338000214975633-lMyQjAxMDI4MDEzOTMxODkwWj.html
>
Cloud Computing's Stormy Side
Forbes - NY,USA
Say, for instance, that an investment bank worker uses Google Spreadsheets
to organize a list of employee Social Security numbers. If that file gets
hacked, ...
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http://www.forbes.com/technology/2008/02/17/web-application-cloud-tech-intel-cx_ag_0219cloud.html
>
Records show gravel rights are Glacier NW's
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
Through a public records request they've dug up Department of Natural
Resources records from 1907 and 1923 (note the red highlighting of the
documents was ...
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http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/environment/archives/132234.asp?from=blog_last3
>
Documents Secretly Removed from Tiller Abortion Clinic
Christian News Wire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
We also documented shredding trucks at Tiller's destroying documents just
days before a Supreme Court ruling on a different records request. ... <
http://christiannewswire.com/news/168545734.html>
Archives Captures National Award for FolkLife Web site
Valdosta State University - Valdosta,GA,USA
VALDOSTA - The Archives Department at Valdosta State University was recently
named the 2007 Brenda McCallum Prize winner by the American Folklore Society
...<http://www.valdosta.edu/news/releases/archivesaward.02192008/>
UI develops free, easy-to-use web tool kit for archivists
PhysOrg.com - Evergreen,VA,USA
"But what really makes it special is that it makes an archives' holdings
much more accessible to its users," Prom said. "The program automatically
creates ...<http://www.physorg.com/news122661104.html>
Museum archivist in federal court on theft, fraud charges
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
Weber was a museum archivist from 2000 to 2006, when he was promoted to
archives director, giving him oversight of a variety of nautical materials,
...<
http://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-local_museumtheft_0220feb20,0,2823929.story
>
ILM Business Rules at Work
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
Information Lifecycle Management is the key to ensuring that electronic data
is stored in the right place, on the right media, at the right time. ...<
http://www.infostor.com/whitepapers/wp.cfm?id=1093>
Plea Entered in China Secrets Case
The Associated Press -
The government alleges Chung stole trade secrets on the space shuttle, C-17
military transport plane and the Delta IV rocket during his decades of ...<
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iY1y9I8_m4fzLGxBhU-5NMleIUxQD8UTL31G0>
Top Data Protection Issues For HR Managers
Mondaq News Alerts (subscription) - London,UK
Formal assurances should be sought from the potential buyers and/or their
advisers that information should be returned or destroyed by the shredding
of ...<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=57448>
Found at last: the world's oldest missing page
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/found-at-last-the-worlds-oldest-missing-page-783378.html
A year after the Romans packed up their shields in AD410 and left Britain to
the mercy of the Anglo-Saxons, a scribe in Edessa, in what is modern day
Turkey, was preparing a list of martyrs who had perished in defence of the
relatively new Christian faith in Persia.
Facebook can ruin your life. And so can MySpace, Bebo...
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/facebook-can-ruin-your-life-and-so-can-myspace-bebo-780521.html
In the judicial backwater of a New Jersey federal court, a case is being
heard that nominally affects two families but should also make millions of
Britons think twice about something they do every day: put highly personal
information on Facebook, MySpace or Bebo.
Petrobas theft 'espionage'
Times Online - UK
Brazilian police said they believed that the theft of important information
from Petrobras, the state oil company, was probably corporate espionage. .<
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/article3399533.ece
>
Confidential files found dumped in housing office
Tottenham, Wood Green and Edmonton Journal - London,England,UK
... other premises they have vacated is revisited to ensure that no
documents remain." A council spokesman said: "The council takes the
retention of records ...
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http://www.tottenhamjournal.co.uk/content/haringey/tottenhamjournal/news/story.aspx?brand=HCEJOnline&category=news&tBrand=northlondon24&tCategory=newstwgj&itemid=WeED20%20Feb%202008%2011%3A54%3A43%3A480
>
Deal in data
What PC? - UK
consolidation namely data processing, records management, exploiting
structured information, knowledge management and information quality. A
business, <
http://www.whatpc.co.uk/computing-business/analysis/2210056/deal-3768303>
New York Courts Add Weight to E-Discovery Law
Law.com <http://law.com/> (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
2007), the court permitted extensive discovery by a party who sought to
demonstrate spoliation of evidence. The Second Department held that a trial
court ...<
http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1203430078372>
Stolen laptop had data of over 171000 Irish blood donors
Irish Times - Ireland
The blood service said yesterday it was very concerned at the theft of the
laptop on February 7th and while records were securely encrypted on the
computer, ...<
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/frontpage/2008/0220/1203371241270.html?via=me
>
Data protection body concerned about IBTS theft
Belfast Telegraph - United Kingdom
The IBTS had sent the disc to the US to have its software updated, but the
worker involved was mugged and had his laptop stolen. <
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/breaking-news/ireland/article3447853.ece>
Alert as 170000 blood donor files are stolen
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
By Breda Heffernan and Edel Kennedy A LAPTOP with the confidential records
of more than 170000 Irish blood donors and 3200 patients has been stolen in
New ...<
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/alert-as-170000-blood-donor-files-are-stolen-1294079.html
>
Gibson-Roles takes advantage of new technology, gives genealogists ...
Franklin Press - Franklin,NC,USA
Here are some suggestions: Early Macon County deeds and records of
marriages, births and deaths, as well as other information are kept in the
Courthouse by ...<
http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2008/02/20/living_in_macon/living21.txt
>
Law firm's clients find doors locked
Blackpool Gazette - Blackpool,England,UK
"They will ensure all deeds and other documents held are accounted for and
returned. "We would urge people not to call the agents. ...<
http://www.blackpoolgazette.co.uk/blackpoolnews/Law-firm39s-clients-find-doors.3793825.jp
>
ASU to create digital copies of university photos
Winston-Salem Journal - Winston-Salem,NC,USA
... part of ASU's Belk Library, has received a $38100 grant from NC
Exploring Cultural Heritage Online, which is offered through the NC State
Library and ...<
http://www.journalnow.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSJ%2FMGArticle%2FWSJ_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1173354674192
>
Former archivist faces 20 years for theft
Daily Press - Newport News,VA,USA
By JENNIFER LATSON | 247-4731 February 20, 2008 NEWPORT NEWS - The former
chief archivist for The Mariners' Museum made his first appearance in
federal ...<
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/newport_news/dp-local_museumtheft_0220.1feb20,0,6066295.story
>
Chance to delve into town history
ic Coventry - Coventry,UK
A SENIOR archivist is to help the public delve into the records of one of
Warwickshire's most historically significant families. ... <
http://iccoventry.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0150swarksnews/tm_headline=chance-to-delve-into-town-history&method=full&objectid=20499097&siteid=92746-name_page.html
>
North Hills treasure trove of music goes up for sale on eBay
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Mr. Mawhinney's rare combination as collector, retailer and archivist is
mind-blowing to colleagues such as Jerry Webber of Jerry's Records in
Squirrel Hill ...<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08051/858776-85.stm>
Land offered for nuclear archive
BBC News - UK
A council is proposing to offer land it owns for the site of a £20m National
Nuclear Archive on the condition that the building showcases local history.
...<
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7251373.stm
>
Health data storage sites might not be secure
San Francisco Chronicle - CA, USA
The World Privacy Forum is warning consumers about the potential pitfalls of
using newly popular services that consolidate personal health records ...<
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/02/19/BU9UV5405.DTL&type=tech
>
Exclusive: Specifics of President Bush library at SMU detailed in ...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
... a presidential library and policy center on the campus, newly hired
foundation president Mark Langdale said in a court deposition earlier this
month. ...
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/022108dnmetbushlibrary.fc06345.html
>
Wikileaks and Free Speech
MediaRights - USA
The site allows people to anonymously post classified documents in hopes of
discouraging unethical and illegal behavior of corporations and governments.
...<
http://www.mediarights.org/engine_feed/2008/02/wikileaks_and_free_speech.php
>
iPaper: a Simple Way to View and Share Documents on the Web
Wired News - USA
The company's new iPaper tool allows you to embed document files in
webpages, enabling your site's visitors to browse through them using a
Flash-based ...<
http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2008/02/ipaper-a-simple.html>
Music memories don't have to die
MSNBC - USA
And both are subject to natural wear and tear over the years, or worse,
susceptible to destruction when disaster strikes. As a reporter, I covered
the ...<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23242879/>
Privacy watchdog orders pawnshop database destroyed
Canada.com <http://canada.com/> - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
The city has long required pawn shops to keep detailed records of the people
who sell and buy merchandise from their stores, and to make the data
available ...<
http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/story.html?id=f2974f23-f259-4963-8ca1-0da37350e9bb&k=15746
>
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