RAIN 20080318
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Opening The Vault
MEDIAWEEK - USA
At launch, the online archive will feature 150000 articles, 500000 images
and 2800 covers--creating a site that is three times as large as SI.com,
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Dusting Off the Archive for the Web
New York Times - United States
Publications are rediscovering their archives, like a person learning thata
hand-me-down coffee table is a valuable antique. For magazines andnewspapers
...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/17/business/media/17mags.html?ref=technology
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UK firms report jump in spend on e-discovery systems
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
The US eDiscovery Amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure(FRCP),
effective December 2006, put a focus on an organisation's abilityto ...
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Gmail archiving program is actually spyware
Yahoo! Tech - Sunnyvale,CA,USA
He accessed that account and found thousands of records of usernames and
passwords inside, including, of course, his own. (Brooks also deleted
allthose ...
<http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/null/86943>
Digging digitally for those Dutch roots
Radio Netherlands - Netherlands
Everything is in the national, provincial and city archives. What's more,
it's completely free of charge in the Netherlands. A lot of data has
beenarchived ...
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Precious South Australian legal books damaged in Supreme Court flood
Adelaidenow - Australia
Advice was being sought from the State Library and a specialist book
treating company on how to best dry and preserve the damaged collection....
<http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,23389970-2682,00.html>
Librarian and Archivist of Canada , Ian E. Wilson, Elected ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
OTTAWA, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - March 17, 2008) - Library and Archives Canada
is very proud to announce that Ian E. Wilson, Librarian and Archivist of
Canada ...
<http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=833164>
Mining the 'Afro-American' Archives
Johns Hopkins Gazette - Baltimore,MD,USA
... resides in stacks of boxes in the "morgue" of its Baltimore
headquarters, located at 2519 N. Charles St. How vast is the archive's
historical wealth? ...
<http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2008/17mar08/17afro.html<http://www.jhu.edu/%7Egazette/2008/17mar08/17afro.html>
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CBC expands digital archive offerings
Digital Home - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
The CBC recently announced a major update to its award winning Digital
Archives website. The site, which launched in 2002, combines a new look
with over ...
<http://www.digitalhome.ca/content/view/2379/206/>
Arts archive boasts new look
Examiner.com <http://examiner.com/> - USA
In addition to exhibits, the museum offers collections, archives and a
library containing more than 3 million items having to do with The City's
artistic ...
<http://www.examiner.com/a-1284778~Arts_archive_boasts_new_look.html<http://www.examiner.com/a-1284778%7EArts_archive_boasts_new_look.html>
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Judicial Watch Obtains Official Pardon Application for Fugitive ...
Market Wire (press release) - USA
In other news related to Judicial Watch's investigation of Clinton
Presidential Library records, Judicial Watch expects to receive 10000 pages
of former ...
<http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=833243>
Case study: The National Archives - Harnessing the knowledge of ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
'Your Archives' "'Your Archives' is a wiki established to allow the public
to publish information they have found in archival records to benefit other
...
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http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=14768
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Where history lives
Baltimore Examiner - Baltimore,MD,USA
Reference librarian Francis O'Neill stands amongst the stacks of books in
the library at the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore. ...
<http://www.examiner.com/a-1285094~Where_history_lives.html<http://www.examiner.com/a-1285094%7EWhere_history_lives.html>
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Historical society reluctantly gives up photos for auction
The Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA
Few Newark residents are familiar with the man who began his prolific
photography career in their own hometown, Licking County Historical Society
curator ...
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Benton County puts new facilities on hold
Yakima Herald-Republic - Yakima,WA,USA
But records storage is what stalled expansion plans Monday. State laws
require counties to store some documents on paper or microfilm forever. ...
<http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2436>
Kilgore council OKs new Crim Theatre roof
News Journal - Longview,TX,USA
In other business, council members voted against placing a $26225 waterless
fire suppression system in the city?s records storage building that is
under ...
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Official denies destroying death files
Vancouver Sun - British Columbia, Canada
In correspondence that forms part of the inquiry's exhibits, Murphy is
accused of shredding documents and ordering electronic files to be deleted
by two ...
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Museum wants to make history
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
Once built, the Museum of Mississippi History will be the heart of a state
history center that will include the Old Capitol, state archives, the GM&O
Depot, ...
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Medical Records Go Digital
TIME - USA
... and privacy concerns, doctors often cite this lack of connectivity as a
major reason they haven't made the move from paper to digital
record-keeping. ...
<http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1723130,00.html>
Corporate espionage: Not if, but when
ZDNet Asia - Asia
By Sally Whittle, ZDNet UK Corporate espionage is defined as the theft of
commercially valuable information. This may be the secret formulation of a
new ...
<http://www.zdnetasia.com/insight/security/0,39044829,62039063,00.htm>
Taking the paper out of paperwork
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
Using $15346 in grant money from the state Division of Archives and Records
Management's Public Archives and Records Infrastructure Support program, ...
<http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080318<http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080318/NEWS02/803180417/1070/NEWS02>
Easley creates panel to review administration's e-mail policy
Fort Mills Times - Fort Mill,SC,USA
... employees they can delete e-mails in certain situations. The North
Carolina Press Association said the policy means public records can be
destroyed. ...
<http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/105659.html>
E-discovery management: How IT should interact with the legal team
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
It turns out that discovery rules offer a green light for IT to continue
normal information life cycle practices. That is, courts expect data to be
...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid14_gci1305870,00.html>
Consumers Fail to Properly Back Up Large Digital Libraries, Says CEA
Earthtimes - London,UK
Results of the study, Amassing Digital Fortunes: A Digital Storage Study,
show that nearly one in three consumers don't see the need to back up
their files, ...
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New FOIA Archives Promote Transparency
UConn Daily Campus (subscription) - Storrs,CT,USA
The importance of computer records can be exemplified by the significant
role they played in the 2004 impeachment of Gov. John G. Rowland. ...
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http://www.dailycampus.com/news/2008/03/18/Commentary/New-Foia.Archives.Promote.Transparency-3273248.shtml
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County worker accused of stealing $12000 in traffic ticket fines
Sun-Sentinel.com - Fort Lauderdale,FL,USA
Authorities say she also falsified computer records to make it look as
though a judge had waived all fines. In a handful of cases drivers' icenses
were ...
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http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/palmbeach/sfl-318clerktheft,0,7910715.story
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Judge orders White House to show cause in email case
Austin American-Statesman - Austin,TX,USA
Federal law prohibits the destruction of e-mails and other presidential
records. "The court's order may bring us closer to protecting the missing
e-mails," ...
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http://www.statesman.com/blogs/content/shared-blogs/washington/secrecy/entries/2008/03/18/judge_orders_white_house_to_sh.html
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11000 pages detailing Hillary Clinton's White House years set for ...
Guardian - UK
The National Archives and the Clinton presidential library are scheduled to
release more than 11000 pages of records on Wednesday from Hillary Clinton's
...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/18/hillaryclinton.uselections2008>
Opening Up the Clinton Archives
Washington Post - United States
By Peter Baker After months of controversy, the William J. Clinton
Presidential Library plans to make public tomorrow more than 11000 pages of
records from ...
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http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2008/03/18/opening_up_the_clinton_archive_1.html
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Lottery boost for ship's archive
BBC News - UK
The money will allow the trust to open the Brunel Institute Conservation
Learning Centre, including a national archive devoted to Brunel. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/7303484.stm>
Clips of film archive go online
BBC News - UK
The Scottish Screen Archive believes the 1000 pieces of footage will prove
a valuable public resource. Among the clips are economic changes in
Caithness ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7303304.stm>
Court orders White House to explain missing e-mail
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Since the White House did away with the Clinton-era Automated Records
Management System, the administration has been relying on journaling, a
manual process ...
<http://www.fcw.com/online/news/151951-1.html>
Look into McGreevey e-mails
New Brunswick Home News Tribune - New Brunswick,NJ,USA
Jon S. Corzine needs to investigate if electronic records from the
McGreevey administration are still around. It also needs to clarify or ask
for ...
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Clinton's First Lady Papers to Go Public
The Associated Press -
20, 1993, are closed to the public under the Presidential Records Act. The
archives also said schedules for 32 days were not included in Doyle's
files, ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hxnlsfHTMhtEwXkKQ4jh42Km2ctQD8VG4PBO0>
E-Mail: When to Keep? When to Throw?
Law.com <http://law.com/> (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Attorney General Gary King says "we in the state continue to struggle a
little bit with determining what e-mails are public documents. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1205875369911>
Boot These Five Dumb Office Practices
Law.com <http://law.com/> (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Opposing counsel e-files a lengthy brief and appendix with the court.
Instantly, my lawyer and I receive an e-mail containing a link to the filed
document, ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1205848851000>
Azizan Satisfied With Mahdzir's Explanation Over Missing Files
Bernama - Kuala Lumpur,Malaysia
Azizan said that while he was not accusing anyone, he was nevertheless,
shocked when neither documents nor files were found in his office. ...
<http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/state_news/news.php?id=321391&cat=nt>
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