RAIN 20080430
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Holographic storage, 150GB discs finally coming to market
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
The unit appears to only hold (and write) to one disc at a time, which
could make major archival procedures tedious—swapping holographic discs
in 2008 isn't ...
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080428-holographic-storage-150gb-discs-finally-coming-to-market.html
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White House Emails and The Case of the Missing BlackBerrys
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
David Gewirtz, an IT expert who publishes two of the top magazines for
email professionals, writes that the government's lax information security
measures ...
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http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/04/8082_stolen_blackber.html
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Ensuring that history isn't history
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
But our premier record-keeping institutions, State Records NSW and the
State Library of NSW, sustained significant cuts in last year's state
budget. ...
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/ensuring-that-history-isnt-history/2008/04/27/1209234649892.html
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NJ court upholds $1900 fee for public records
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
Lawyers spent 52.5 hours to search thousands of e-mails and numerous files
to locate the documents, according to the attorney general's office. ...
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http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newjersey/ny-bc-nj--publicrecords-fee0428apr28,0,4689972.story
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SMU officials, other educators diverge on how Bush policy center ...
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
At issue, most detractors say, is not the library, to be operated by
National Archives and Records Administration, but a planned independent
policy ...
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/042708dnmetbushliblegacy.3526b33.html
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Freedom of Information Foundation needs home
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
The foundation also filed more than 20 legal briefs supporting open
records. It pushed for stronger open government laws and fought against
legislation that ...
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http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-citwatch_29met.ART.State.Edition1.460d07c.html
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Archives plans system to store agencies' electronic records
Federal Times - USA
The National Archives and Records Administration hopes to have a
governmentwide electronic records system online by 2015, a senior official
says. ...
<http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=3502888>
E-Discovery: Texas Ahead of the Game
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
... and that is to look at how we are managing electronic records, to be
responsive to our public record retention schedules, and being responsive
to ...
<http://www.govtech.com/gt/302244?topic=117688>
Wall St Journal
Are Your Medical Records at Risk?
Amid Spate of Security Lapses,
Health-Care Industry Weighs
Privacy Against Quality Care
http://tinyurl.com/5xwmnu
Hours cut at City Archives
York Press - York,UK
By Mark Casci THE impact of the cutbacks being brought in to help plug the
£1 million gap in the city's budget will begin to be seen from next week....
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Poet Laureate's archive placed with Lewis & Clark
Media Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
The William Stafford Archive is a collection of 40 years of daily journals
and papers representing the poet's methodical and disciplined writing
process, ...
<http://media-newswire.com/release_1065199.html>
UC Santa Cruz Library Will Be Grateful Dead Central
Relix - New York,NY,USA
Then they will be able to request material from the full-time Grateful Dead
archivist (a position the University is looking to raise one million
dollars to ...
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http://www.relix.com/Features/Daily_News/UC_Santa_Cruz_Library_Will_Be_Grateful_Dead_Central_200804282873.html
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City's film archive goes online
BBC News - UK
It is believed the city becomes the first to have its own archive section
on a new website called Screenonline. The resource includes contemporary as
well ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7374322.stm>
Barracuda Launches E-Mail Archive Product
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
An archive simplifies the process by providing a single store of messages.
Without one, companies will find themselves digging through backup media,
...
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/04/barracuda_launc.html
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`Old Bailey' Criminal Historians Crash London Web Site Archive
Bloomberg - USA
... which has records from about 200000 trials dating back to 1674, logged
700000 hits on April 27, the first day the Old Bailey publicized the
archive. ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=aYltXE_cmk3g&refer=uk>
Digitized Archive of European Dance Established by U. of Utah Scholars
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
Called Dramatis Personae Archive, the site includes rare digitized books,
maps, newspapers, and journals from the university's J. Willard Marriott
Library. ...
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http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2946/digitized-archive-of-european-dance-established-by-u-of-utah-scholars
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Push on for KHS archive at Carnegie
Kingston Daily Freeman - Kingston,NY,USA
"I just think that it would be important enough to have a 100-year archive,
I honestly do," Powers said. "(The high school) has played such a vital part
of ...
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http://www.dailyfreeman.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19525760&BRD=1769&PAG=461&dept_id=74969&rfi=6
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Unite-TGWU join forces to set of Trade Union Archives Section
gibfocus.gi - Gibraltar
The Unite-TGWU Unions are working in partnership with the Gibraltar archives
and its chief archivist Denis Beiso, to set up a Trade Union archives
section. ...
<http://www.gibfocus.gi/details_todaysnews.php?id=3495>
Archives collection opens to public today
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
Hudson's Bay maps and Bugs Bunny cartoons are among the treasures that
will open to the public this afternoon at the University of Manitoba's
new Archives ...
<http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4166744p-4754504c.html>
Minister inaugurates archives, monuments review committee
The Tide - Port Harcourt,Niger Delta,Nigeria
Kayode said the committee would make appropriate recommendations for the
rehabilitation of the archives. "Our visit to the National Archives
revealed that ...
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http://www.thetidenews.com/article.aspx?qrDate=04/29/2008&qrTitle=Minister%20inaugurates%20archives,%20monuments%20review%20committee&qrColumn=NATION
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Kenya works on training information security managers
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
To safeguard client information and protect themselves from corporate
espionage, companies are forced to adopt information security management
systems ...
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9080919&intsrc=hm_list
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Grateful Dead says UC Santa Cruz proposed sweetest deal to store ...
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
UCSC hopes to raise $2 million to preserve and maintain the collection and
fund an endowment for an archivist. Lieberman said one of the other schools
...<http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_9050818>
The E-Discovery Conundrum: Proving the Authenticity of your ...
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) that require companies to know
where electronically stored information (ESI) including e-mails,
spreadsheets, ...
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http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4092&Itemid=44
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Analysis of Electronic Data
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which
address all aspects of discovery of Electronically Stored Information (ESI)
evidence. ...
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http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4085&Itemid=44
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Berks clerk of courts shreds 7000 files as ordered
Reading Eagle - Reading,PA,USA
With the crunch of the shredder, the files of 7000 criminal offenders —
and the controversy surrounding storing their records — were destroyed
Tuesday. ...
<http://www.readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=90228>
MIKE WENDLAND Recovered computer files played key role in big cases
Detroit Free Press - United States
Because Craigslist records computer addresses, police searched the
couple's home computer. They had deleted the record of the post. But
experts recovered it ...
<http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080429/COL11/80429081>
Defunct mortgage company dumps financial records in trash
cw2.com - Denver,CO,USA
Hundreds of files, full of names, addresses, social security numbers and
sensitive financial information were trashed in a dumpster in an office
park in the ...
<http://cw2.trb.com/news/kwgn-fiancial-records-dumped,0,7980645.story>
Wired
After Records Reveal E-Voting Glitches, Election Official Jokes She'll Stop
Keeping Records
<http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/04/florida-electio.html#more>
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