RAIN 20080310
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Fired employee: Easley's office ordered agencies to delete e-mail
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville,NC,USA
She later told The News & Observer of Raleigh that the governor's office
instructed state agencies to permanently delete e-mails to bypass public
records ...
<http://www.fayobserver.com/article_ap?id=118806>
Easley lawyer denies staff was told to delete e-mail
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
Such a directive would violate the state's public records law, which seeks
to assist the public in being informed about how its government operates....
<http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/984787.html>
State library's new wing slows aging of old documents
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
This is the new $7.2 million Rare Collections wing of the Pennsylvania
State Library. After two years of design and two years of construction, ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08069/863695-85.stm>
Nixon cries foul about Blunt's e-mail demands
Columbia Daily Tribune - Columbia,MO,USA
Last fall, Nixon appointed a three-person team to look into whether
Blunt's office was violating the state's open-records law or document
retention policies ...
<http://www.columbiatribune.com/2008/Mar/20080309News022.asp>
Utility workers' snooping continues to come to light
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
Computer records track which accounts call center employees do access, Brian
said. "It's monitored closely to make sure we're able to maintain the
privacy ...
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http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080309/BIZ/803090408/-1/BIZ
>
On stage for St. Patrick's Day
Boston Globe - United States
IN MEMORY OF ARCHIVIST - The family of Frances E. Malamy has given a $100000
gift to the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem in her memory. ...<
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/03/09/on_stage_for_st_patricks_day
>
Document scanners save paper, sanity
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
I recently turned to a new idea: scanning everything and shredding the
paper. The idea is pretty simple... my bills are more or less paid
automatically ...
<http://www.sunherald.com/business/story/420311.html>
Family Bibles preserve momentous moments
Knoxville News Sentinel - Knoxville,TN,USA
Some Bibles' record keepers were careful scribes, noting precious moments
in neat, cursive hands. Others kept history with more looping,
hard-to-decipher ...
<http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/mar/08/family-bibles-preserve/>
History Meets IT in New Hebrew Script Archive
Deutsche Welle - Germany
Historians, computer scientists and book specialists are working together
to index the collection in an archive that will also present historic and...
<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3177628,00.html>
National Archives to Release Hillary Clinton's White House Daily ...
PR-USA.net (press release) - Varna,Bulgaria
"The Clinton Presidential Library ('Library') completed its exacting
page-by-page, line-by-line review of approximately 10000 of the 30000 pages
of records ...
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http://www.pr-usa.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=82224&Itemid=9
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BMC suit alleged data departed with executive
Houston Chronicle - United States
A forensic analysis of his office computer found he moved about 150 files,
some consisting of confidential BMC documents, onto a removal storage
drive...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/5603328.html>
Court's pilot program chases paper into digital files
Grand Junction Sentinel - Grand Junction,CO,USA
"We don't want them to file the paper anymore," Roper said. "They
send us data, and we reconstruct (the documents) from a template. ...
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http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/03/08/030908_1B_JPOD.html
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Harrah's Demands Social Security Numbers
Forbes - NY,USA
Harrah's Entertainment is going to begin collecting social security numbers
and individual taxpayer identification numbers from participants in its
famous ...
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http://www.forbes.com/2008/03/09/harrahs-wsop-title31-face-markets-cx_lal_0305autofacescan03.html
>
Golfers' SS Nos. no longer displayed
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
31, unaware that some golfers' Social Security numbers were in the data
imported from the old system. Over the past decade, several thousand
holders of city ...
<http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/228682>
Carnahan says cost for e-mails is justified
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
Carnahan's staff also told state Republicans that they will need six months
to fulfill the party's open-records request. The time and costs reflect
"the ...
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http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/69ADD43460A052EE8625740700137027?OpenDocument
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McGreevey era e-mails routinely destroyed
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
State law makes it an indictable offense to destroy public records "with
malicious intent," but the statute predates the era of electronic purges....
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http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/index.ssf?/base/news-13/1205127436154160.xml&coll=1
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Reading Stalin's Secret Police Files of the Executed
History News Network - Seattle,WA,USA
Perusing the case files, I realized the best way to make sense of the
"confessions" was to compare the raw interrogation records (written
longhand) with the ...
<http://hnn.us/articles/47625.html>
Health files are sold as scrap paper to Utahn
Deseret News - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Officials said they were unsure how the box made its way to Utah, though
the package containing the records also had a document indicating it was...
<http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695260327,00.html>
Public can get a lesson in preserving history
San Luis Obispo Tribune - San Luis Obispo,CA,USA
Documents needing preservation range from land records to century-old City
Council minutes. The effort will be expanded to police and fire
department...
<http://www.sanluisobispo.com/news/local/story/300201.html>
2008 AIIM Survey Reveals Downturn in Email Archiving Confidence
SourceWire (press release) - London,UK
Over 35 suppliers will demonstrate document, email and records management
software along with document scanning and forms recognition systems. ...
<http://www.sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=37429&hilite=>
AIIM Survey Shows Companies Starting to Wrestle with Document Chaos
IT Jungle - New York,NY,USA
Only 30 percent of those surveyed said that they were deploying an
enterprise-scale document and records management capability, and another 20
percent said ...
<http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh031008-story09.html>
Action on securing archives' future 'too slow'
York Press - York,UK
By Gavin Aitchison ONE of York's longest-serving councillors says action on
securing a future for the city's archives has been too slow. ...
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PDFzone
IT is Not Responsible for Records Retention
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STATEHOUSE NOTES: Declarations, ducks, surveys, artwork and more
Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA
State Archivist David Cheever said the state will appeal a Feb. 22 ruling
by a Virginia judge who said a private collector can keep a copy of the ...
<http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/4841970.html>
Bankrupt lenders throwing away your privacy
The mortgage crisis is causing a double hardship for borrowers who are
exposed to identity theft as their lenders toss out sensitive financial
records when they go belly up.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23505497/from/ET/
Lubbock community members gather to share photos, family history
LubbockOnline.com - Lubbock,TX,USA
Researchers with the collection brought scanners and video equipment to
archive materials and interviews with people who have stories to tell about
the days ...
<http://lubbockonline.com/stories/031008/loc_255439175.shtml>
Fla. Medical Records Sold As Scrap
The Associated Press -
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- The medical records of 28 Central Florida Regional
Hospital patients were sold last month at a Salt Lake City surplus store
for about ...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gzKXqpvef7Uts5pYrVQ2V1m8bwdgD8VAMPK00>
2 minutes on....Data breach law expands
SC Magazine US - USA
Prior to passage of AB1298, which took effect in January, organizations
that lost medical records weren't required to notify victims if the lost
records ...
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http://www.scmagazineus.com/2-minutes-onData-breach-law-expands/article/107778/
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Wayward Medical Records Sold as Scrap Paper for $20
Wall Street Journal - USA
But this much is known: Central Florida Regional Hospital shipped three
boxes of medical records in December via UPS to a Las Vegas auditor, ...
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http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2008/03/10/wayward-medical-records-sold-as-scrap-paper-for-20/?mod=googlenews_wsj
>
E-mail archive program gathers Gmail account information as well
CNET News.com <http://news.com/> - San Francisco,CA,USA
Over the weekend, Brooks said in an e-mail to CodingHorrror.com that he was
looking for a program that would archive his Gmail account onto his local
hard ...
<http://www.news.com/8301-10789_3-9889847-57.html>
Austrian National Library Picture Archive Now at http://www ...
PR Newswire UK (press release) - London,UK
With over 1.6 million objects in the inventory of the Austrian National
Library (ÖNB) picture archive, the largest picture documentation center in
Austria ...
<http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/cgi/news/release?id=221809>
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