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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Grant to help probate court preserve estate papers
Florence Morning News - Florence,SC,USA
"They get a lot of wear and tear because they're public documents —
people can come and open them up," he said of the original paper files.
...
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Eerie discovery in old vault
Malvern Gazette - Worcester,UK
The county archivist, Mr Jan Roberts, who was called to the scene, tried to
read the family name on the one remaining coffin plate, but it
disintegrated ...
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Methodists reject SMU Bush Presidential Library 844-20
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
Andrew J, Weaver, Ph.D., who has been spearheading the efforts to prevent
the George W. Bush presidential library to be located on the campus of
Southern ...
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_mikael___080501_methodists_reject_sm.htm
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State Investigation Requested for Contracts Found in Dumpster
KRGV - Weslaco,TX,USA
... records containing sensitive personal information within the business'
custody or control that are not to be retained by the business by shredding
or ...
<http://www.newschannel5.tv/2008/5/1/990640/>
BP Memo Warns Of "Catastrophic" Risk Of Information Leaks
EasyBourse.com - Paris,France
In another case, "highly confidential documents, alleging BP is trying to
deceive the buyer of their retail fuel businesses and evade local
taxes...brought ...
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http://www.easybourse.com/bourse-actualite/bp/bp-memo-warns-of-catastrophic-risk-of-information-leaks-GB0007980591-446481
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August Sander's Portraits of Ordinary Germans Between the Two Wars
Wall Street Journal - USA
He shot to large glass negatives rather than to film, a process that
required his subjects to remain unusually still. He thus captures people
not by ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120976653109863627.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
Town Hall bins home records
Camden New Journal - London,UK
A HOME owner has been told that a vital property document has been
destroyed by the Town Hall as part of a de-cluttering exercise. ...
<http://www.thecnj.co.uk/islington/2008/050208/news050208_20.html>
Fears over Catholic archive fate
BBC News - UK
Peter Kearney, a spokesman for the church, denied the archive was being
split. He said: "The historic collection will remain as a collection, ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7380046.stm>
UK police find Himmler/Churchill archive forgeries
Reuters India - Mumbai,India
By John Joseph LONDON (Reuters) - British police have discovered forged
documents were planted in the National Archives alleging top Nazi Heinrich
Himmler ...
<http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-33383120080503>
Gramophone's archive going online
BBC News - UK
The classical music magazine Gramophone is putting its entire archive
online, offering access to "every single word" it has published in the past
85 years. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7380447.stm>
Church's plans to re-site history has critics crying foul
Scotsman - United Kingdom
Scotland's Roman Catholic bishops have agreed the oldest material in the
Scottish Catholic Archives, based at Drummond Place in the New Town, ...
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http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Church39s-plans-to-resite-history.4048633.jp
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Collaborative look at Canadian history borrows page from US past
Ottawa Citizen - Ontario, Canada
The woman, a conservator from the US National Archives and Records
Administration (NARA), was carrying one of the most important documents
from American ...
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=bd482a8e-9ed4-4aa7-aba7-ad654b754a85
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Council chooses site for archives building
The Express Times - Easton,PA,USA
By SARAH CASSI EASTON | Northampton County Council agreed to stick to the
original plan for a new archives building and called on the administration
to ...
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Our angel has left us
Searchlight Newspaper (subscription) - Kingstown,St. Vincent and the
Grenadines
She was back on the library team this time as the Archivist. Her goal was
to ensure that our heritage was preserved. The National Archives was
started on ...
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Newly released LBJ tapes encompass MLK assassination
UT The Daily Texan - Austin,TX,USA
"This release is a particularly exciting release, because the first four
months of 1968 there was so much happening," said supervisory library
archivist ...
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http://www.dailytexanonline.com/news/2008/05/02/TopStories/Newly.Released.Lbj.Tapes.Encompass.Mlk.Assassination-3362568.shtml
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Down To Business: Let Go Of The Past And Embrace Change
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... the proliferation of open source software and consumer devices and
applications, IT and business process outsourcing, information life-cycle
management, ...
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http://www.informationweek.com/news/management/careers/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=207404263
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Vivaldi's 'Argippo' returns to Prague after 278 years
The Associated Press -
But Macek, who is more of a musician than archivist, went one step further
and decided to reintroduce the opera in Prague. First, it was necessary
to...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hYkzZniNfYLsjkzxwHTSceIcKT4AD90DLKIG0>
Freedom Of Information: Britain trails behind America in right-to ...
Independent - London,England,UK
The ACLU obtained the documents – unredacted data from what is known as the
Church Report – in connection with a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit
filed in ...
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/freedom-of-information-britain-trails-behind-america-in-righttoknow-culture-819671.html
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Iron Mountain Leases 45000 SF in Greer
CoStar Group - Bethesda,MD,USA
Iron Mountain leased 45000 square feet at the Caliber Ridge Industrial Park
at 125 Caliber Ridge Drive in Greer, SC. The 126000-square-foot building,
...
<http://www.costar.com/News/Article.aspx?id=CB66AE1BF0DE2218AD6EEED407C6B5D0
>
Iron Mountain mines gold
Blocks & Files - London,UK
Iron Mountain is steadily booming, if that's possible, posting its
77thconsecutive quarterly increase in storage revenues. Net revenue in
its Q1
fy08 ...<http://blocksandfiles.com/article/5017>
The IT manager as pack rat: e-discovery advice
Computerworld - Oslo,Oslo,Norway
He said that writing overly specific rules on what types of e-records
should be kept can actually cause trouble down the line. "If someone has
something ...
<http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=AC07513B-17A4-0F78-319DBD26BF12B021>
Bradenton man accused of stealing trade secrets
Sarasota Herald-Tribune - Sarasota,FL,USA
By Michael A. Scarcella BRADENTON — The owner of a computer company is
accused of stealing trade secrets from a business he was working for,
according to ...
<http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080502/BREAKING02/982961765>
Historical society helps state keep its history
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
The public should be aware of the issues facing the Ohio Historical
Society, which is having major problems responding to the mandates placed
on it by the ...
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CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Seattle Times - United States
Captain Evans holding the body of Lazarus Averbuch. Historical photographs
and several taken by Aleksandar Hemon's friend Velibor Bozovic are an
important ...
<http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/books/2004386000_lazarus02.html>
KCS railroad helping ECMH modernize records
El Campo Leader News - El Campo,TX,USA
Eliminating the films will not only save ECMH dollars in the long run, it
will also help eliminate the space needed for records storage. ...
<http://www.leader-news.com/news/2008/0503/front_page/004.html>
Panel: NC needs public records primer
News & Observer - Raleigh,NC,USA
Under the administration's policy, each employee can decide which e-mails
to delete and which to save because they have lasting administrative value.
...
<http://www.newsobserver.com/politics/story/1055706.html>
White House 'loses' five million emails
VNUNet.com - UK
"If nothing is done soon not only could the emails disappear for good, but
the federal records that are commingled with the presidential records could
get ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2215789/white-house-loses-five-million>
Keeping up with the files explosion
Sunday Business Post - Dublin,Ireland
Records Management is the traditional filing and archiving area, and is
important for financial sectors and, of course, in government, where
records need to ...
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France ready to provide Algeria Revolution War archival records to ...
Elkhabar - Algeria
By next 2012, both Algerian and French historians will have access to the
archival records related to the Algerian Revolution, while the period
allowed to ...
<http://www.elkhabar.com/quotidienFrEn/?ida=108190&idc=158>
Dubya archives White House email by hand
Register - London,England,UK
... when they tossed out Bill Clinton's Lotus Notes-based email system in
favor of Microsoft Exchange. When Notes got the boot, the White House moved
to an ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/30/white_house_email_archive_madness/>
5 Million E-Mail Messages -- How the White House Lost Them...
Switched - New York,NY,USA
Now, in response to a lawsuit, a federal magistrate judge has ordered the
White House to find all the missing email. We feel sorry for the poor IT
guys who ...
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http://www.switched.com/2008/05/03/5-million-e-mail-messages-how-the-white-house-lost-them/
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Forgeries revealed in the National Archives
Times Online - UK
... said its reputation had been compromised by the discovery that 29
documents from 12 separate files were all forgeries inserted into its
records. ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3867853.ece>
Bates Stamps' Days May Be Numbered
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
(See Diagram 2 below) Another example of this is eCapture from IPRO Tech
Inc. It helps users load large sets of documents, files and materials
rapidly and ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=900005634749>
UK Prosecutors Will Not Pursue Himmler Forgeries, FT Reports
Bloomberg - USA
The forgeries were placed in 12 archived files in the National Archive
between 1999 and 2005, the FT said. Forensic examination revealed that
documents ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=a1O7lZyyM22M&refer=uk
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