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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Nigeria: National Archives to get autonomy
African News Dimension - Johannesburg,South Africa
... to reposition it to carry out its statutory functions, the Nigerian
Government has concluded plans to grant autonomy to the Department of
National Archives. ...
<http://www.andnetwork.com/app?service=direct/1/Home/$StorySummary$0.$Dir
ectLink$1&sp=l29194>

Court Records Reveal Adware Firm's Hardball Tactics
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... Direct Revenue show that the company hired a private investigator to
track down an anti-spyware researcher, developed software to delete 
competing
adware ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=18443031
8>

Plans to decipher manuscripts in limbo
Newindpress (subscription) - Chennai,India
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The State Archives Department has ambitious plans to
decipher old and rare manuscripts in the state and put them on the 
internet.
...
<http://www.newindpress.com/NewsItems.asp?ID=IER20060411020049&Page=R&Tit
le=Kerala&Topic=0>

The Future of Destruction
Scure Destruction Business - Cleveland,OH,USA
... Electronics recycling firms can also be willing to reach out for an
ally on the paper documents side. ... "Most [document shredding firms]
don’t want to get into ...
<http://www.sdbmagazine.com/articles/article.asp?MagID=4&ID=5586&IssueID=
238>

Archives OK'd Removing Records, Kept Quiet
Houston Chronicle - United States
... records and to keep silent about US intelligence's role in the 
reclassification,
according to an agreement released under the Freedom of Information Act.
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3787336.html>

Nixon library gets first federal director
OCRegister - Orange County,CA,USA
... doubled the library's size. The library is now renovating the 
center's
basement to add archival quality shelving. A new, $8.9 million ...
<http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/homepage/abox/article_1096513.php>


Case Studies: Content-addressed storage (CAS)
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... CAS systems are secure disk-based archival repositories that store
data as individual objects with unique identifiers for long-term 
retention
and retrieval. ...
<http://www.infostor.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?ARTICLE_ID=252499&p
=23>

Machen appoints curator and archivist as official UF historian
University of Florida - Gainesville,Florida,USA
— University of Florida archivist Carl Van Ness has been named the 
university’s
official historian, UF President Bernie Machen announced today. ...
<http://news.ufl.edu/2006/04/11/new-historian/>

Nixon center announces new director
Contra Costa Times - CA,USA
Cold War scholar to take helm Oct. 16, when presidential library joins
the National Archive after years as private institution. By Erica 
Werner.
<http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/state/14314814.htm>

EMC says ILM means tiered networks too
Techworld.com - London,UK
Information lifecycle management (ILM) is based on data having different
value over time and then storing it on different types of disk: costly
and fast for ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureID=2423&pagty
pe=samecatsamechan>

Can storage keep the boss out of prison?
ITBusiness.ca - Canada
... of Stamford, Conn., last August, the top three issues for people 
responsible
for data storage are compliance, information lifecycle management and
security. ...
<http://www.itbusiness.ca/it/client/en/home/News.asp?id=39015&cid=8>

Archives Kept a Secrecy Secret
Washington Post - United States
... Weinstein, the archivist of the United States, suspended the program
last month pending an audit of the removed material by the Archives' 
Information
Security ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/11/AR200604
1101475.html>


Exhibit explores impact on valley
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... of little quiet acts of heroism,'' said Jim Reed, archivist for 
History
... collection for this exhibit comes from History San Jose's archives,
private donations ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14315015.h
tm>

International Association Challenges Corporations to Review ...
DMReview.com - New York,NY,USA
... As a professional, not-for-profit organization, ARMA International
is dedicated to helping companies understand today's records management
issues and leverage ...
<http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1052626>

First Federal Nixon Library Head Is Named
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Since the Nixon foundation opened the library with private funds in
1990, it has been the only presidential library not part of the National
Archives system. ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-nixon11apr11,1
,6873580.story?coll=la-headlines-pe-california>

Classified Hydro papers found in subway
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
MONTREAL -- Highly classified documents detailing new security measures
at ... The documents discovered in the subway ... The papers also reveal
temporary passwords to ...
<http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=0908a5f0-020c-4
a45-94da-a7705b3eb166&k=13310>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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