RAIN 060303 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. ARCHIVIST Urges US to Reopen Classified Files New York Times - United States ... numbers of documents are being classified, fewer historical ... is no justification for keeping such papers secret. ... reviewing a selection of documents presented by ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/03/politics/03archives.html?hp&ex=1141362 000&en=04496c2a369e1a84&ei=5094&partner=homepage> ARCHIVES facility opens today, but something's missing San Antonio Express (subscription) - San Antonio,TX,USA ... at the school's expense; that they would be classified, arranged and ... "They are extremely important papers and they ... are no plans to return the documents to the ... <http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA030306.01B.county_arc hives.1c96858d.html> YAHOO! wins restraining order aginst ex-workers over trade secrets Forbes - USA ... workers 'to systematically and illicitly acquire and misappropriate Yahoo!'s trade secrets and illegally raid Yahoo!'s employee base.'. ... <http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/afx/2006/03/02/afx2567245.html> MEDICAL records found in dustbin Salford Advertiser - Salford,England,UK A TOP doctor from Salford is being investigated after patients' private medical documents were found in a dustbin outside a block of flats. ... <http://www.salfordadvertiser.co.uk/news/s/210/210029_medical_records_fou nd_in_dustbin.html> RECORDS Removed From Town Hall Resident Files FOI Complaint Voices - Woodbury,CT,USA ... by registrars on both occasions that the records were not on ... deputy, Jill Karpovich, was keeping the documents at her ... to be accused of handling the files for a ... <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16209996&BRD=1380&PAG=461&dept _id=157533&rfi=6> GUATEMALA to open police archive to probe abuses Reuters AlertNet - London,England,UK ... painstaking process of scanning the most important files. The documents contain all the daily dealings of ... books with crumbling pages are records of everything ... <http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N026058.htm> COLUMBUS: Lawsuit filed against state Web site Middletown Journal - Middletown,OH,USA ... were posted, remove from the site files with the ... and remove the numbers from the documents before re ... of personal data available on public records posted on Web ... <http://www.middletownjournal.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/03/03/MJ 030306blackwell.html> THE space race BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA ... Wilson has moved some files -- old grand lists, blueprints ... In Stowe, Kaiser said the records escaped a third ... Now the documents are threatened by a mysterious ... <http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060303/N EWS02/603030305/1007&theme=> CHINA to compile archives documenting reforms Times of India - India ... most prominent historians, archaeologists, geographers, sociologists and economists and plans to build a computerised database of all the archival documents. ... <http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1436444.cms> AUTHORITIES: ID-theft ring mined county Web records Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA ... ability to surf the Web. Some 450,000 public documents containing Social Security numbers are blocked. In addition, 320,000 traffic ... <http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/114137919 957270.xml&coll=2> CIOS could keep companies out of hot water in court WTN News - Madison,WI,USA ... security and regulatory challenges far beyond passwords and firewalls -- including insider theft, lost data, and poor document retention, said panelists at ... <http://wistechnology.com/article.php?id=2739> Felix Lowe, Jason Burke in Paris and Barbara McMahon in Rome Sunday January 22, 2006 The Observer A series of legal actions has been launched by European governments to regain priceless works of art which they claim have been illegally smuggled to America to be sold off to wealthy collectors and museums. <http://arts.guardian.co.uk/arttheft/story/0,,1700476,00.html> RECORDS Removed From Town Hall Resident Files FOI Complaint Voices - Woodbury,CT,USA ... that her deputy, Jill Karpovich, was keeping the documents at her residence because she, Mrs. Crowe, did not want to be accused of handling the files for a ... <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16209996&BRD=1380&PAG=461&dept _id=157533&rfi=6> SPY Files Available At Public Library cbs4denver.com - Denver,CO,USA ... spy files stored at the Denver Public Library are now open to the public. People can make a request and within 30 days get free copies of documents detailing ... <http://cbs4denver.com/crime/local_story_062102200.html> ENTERPRISE Data Management Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA ... Unnecessary data retention is an expense today's governments can't afford, yet ineffective data management often forces agencies to store information they don ... <http://www.govtech.net/govcenter/solcenter/index.php?id=98560> HISTORY gathers dust here Hindu - Chennai,India ... Asked why few research scholars come here, Assistant Archivist, R.Ranjana explains that it is because of ... She adds that the State Archives is badly understaffed ... <http://www.hindu.com/2006/03/03/stories/2006030316060200.htm> FORGOTTEN vault found in English building basement Wesleyan Argus - Middletown,CT,USA ... have a vault in the English Department," said University Archivist and Head ... the smell transfer to everything else in the University Archives and construction ... <http://www.wesleyanargus.com/article.php?article_id=2939> STUDENTS to document university's ?birthday' Diamondback Online - College Park,MD,USA ... in the Student Union. Also, Anne Turkos, the university archivist, has agreed to preserve the photos in the university archives. ... <http://www.diamondbackonline.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/03/03/44082d7c 74fa7> DON'T Let Thieves Steal Your Institution's Future Inside INdiana Business (press release) - Indianapolis,IN,USA ... Monitor and restrict record storage areas to employees who need access to them to do their jobs, and consider securing such areas during nonbusiness hours. ... <http://www.insideindianabusiness.com/contributors.asp?ID=636> BBC'S wildlife archives released BBC News - UK ... The scheme, which already released the BBC's news archives earlier this year, allows the material to be used for non-profit programme-making in the UK. ... <http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4772212.stm> HISTORICAL Society gets grant to protect old ads Portsmouth Herald News - Portsmouth,NH,USA By Associated Press. CONCORD - The New Hampshire Historical Society has won a federal grant to protect some important pieces of state history. <http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/03042006/news/90912.htm> Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask] A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. 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