RAIN 20080804
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Obama Campaign Launches Document Archive On Scribd
Washington Post - United States
Barack Obama's campaign has posted a blog post announcing the launch of its
official account on Scribd, the online document repository. ...
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UW shares aerial photo archive
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada
Staff at the university's library have spent the past few months scanning
and digitizing a collection of hundreds of black and white aerial photos of
<http://news.therecord.com/News/Local/article/393460>
FBI seizes library computers
Frederick News Post (subscription) - Frederick,MD,USA
By Comfort Dorn and Adam Behsudi The FBI removed computer records from the
C. Burr Artz Library this week, a library official confirmed Saturday. ...
<http://www.fredericknewspost.com/sections/news/display.htm?StoryID=78337>
Orem seeks to preserve its past in photos
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
The city is creating a digital archive of such historical photos. After
tackling three collections of historic images, Wallace is turning to a
relatively ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_10082834>
California Upgrades State Archives Collections
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
Researchers now have easier and faster access to information about four
California State Archives collections, Secretary of State Debra Bowen
announced. ...
<http://www.govtech.com/gt/articles/383702>
Police confirm body found in Lake Ontario is missing
Metro Canada - Toronto - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
TORONTO - Toronto police say a body found at the foot of the city in Lake
Ontario is that of a missing 70-year-old man. Police were called to the
city's ...
<http://www.metronews.ca/toronto/article/92761>
Autopsy confirms body is that of Wychwood activist
National Post - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
Police have confirmed that the body found floating in Lake Ontario
yesterday was that of Albert Fulton, a 70-year-old volunteer activist who
had been ...
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NASA archive project puts historic images online
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
The first implementation of the online archive, jointly developed with the
nonprofit Internet Archive, includes more than 140000 digitized
high-resolution ...
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Sunday Times
Captains' logs yield climate clues Records kept by Nelson and Cook are
shedding light on climate change
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4449527.ece?print=yes&randnum=1217852177312
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An end to rank records storage
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
By Linda Bock TELEGRAM & GAZETTE STAFF UXBRIDGE— The basement in Town
Hall — home of the former police station — used to flood after the
winter snow melt ...
<http://www.telegram.com/article/20080804/NEWS/808040525/1005/NEWS06>
Supreme Court tosses media records appeal
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
... described the unanimous decision as "a valid argument" but worried that
the court might have raised the bar too high for access to public
records....
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Historian sees progress in way city preserves past with an eye on future
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On the case
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
... and artifacts -- including the homemade ladder used to snatch the child
from the second-floor nursery -- in the museum's Lindbergh Kidnapping
Archive. ...
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http://www.nj.com/life/ledger/index.ssf?/base/living-1/1217738203123640.xml&coll=1
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Palm leaf manuscripts now on silicon wafers
Newindpress - Chennai,Tamil Nadu,India
Data archivists have always been worried about storing document-based
knowledge in formats that are vulnerable to get deteriorated. ...
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http://newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IE120080803230919&Page=1&Title=Bangalore&Topic=0
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Deloitte Poll Sees Litigation Data Panic
CFO.com Magazine - New York,NY,USA
The FRCP are regulations that specify procedures for civil legal suits
within the federal courts. The rules were established in 1938, and have
been revised ...
<http://www.cfo.com/article.cfm/11875637/c_11872418?f=home_todayinfinance>
Historic site chief to retire this year
Rutland Herald - Rutland,VT,USA
... a modest "presidential library," which would allow scholars to review
Coolidge archives digitally from all over the country, as well as
classrooms, ...
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Data, data everywhere: Companies struggle with e-discovery mandates
FinancialWeek (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... have any policy in place to share clear guidance with their information
technology departments or other employees on document retention and
destruction. ...
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http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080804/REG/235143653/1036
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Water leaks through Ankeny City Hall's rooftop
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
The bottoms of some boxes containing documents to be scanned for the city's
archives had gotten wet, but city spokeswoman Deb Dyar said all of the
papers ...
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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
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