RAIN 060409
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Secretary spied dumping agency files
Quad City Times - Davenport,IA,USA
... We’re quite confident that no records were shredded. ... Meyer said
laws prohibit the destruction of public documents but did not 
immediately
know whether those ...
<http://www.qctimes.net/articles/2006/04/06/news/local/doc443551f20014b32
1075913.txt>

Auction Surprises Some Collectors
Washington Post - United States
... "I think it's unfortunate," said Mimi Calver, director of 
exhibitions
and artistic property at the Maryland State Archives, who said she 
received
secondhand ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/07/AR200604
0701901.html>

State colleges face criticism for handling of information in ...
BurlingtonFreePress.com - Burlington,VT,USA
... You can feel it in the air.". The laptop, stolen Feb. ... "This was
10 times worse than having the laptop stolen," Clarke said. "This was
done with willful intent.". ...
<http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060409/N
EWS01/604090316/1009/NEWS05>

Gateway Inc. sanctioned for destroying evidence
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
In a stern warning to the Irvine, Calif., company, US District Judge Ted
Stewart also said if more critical evidence turns up missing "for any
reason," he will ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_3657798>

100 years of Power
Montgomery Advertiser - Montgomery,AL,USA
... According to Bill Tharpe, the resident archivist for the utility 
company,
Martin even saved the company from bankruptcy shortly after its first
dam was ...
<http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060409/
BUSINESS/604080320/1003>

Records policy still in dispute
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
... Henceforth, the GRC declared all requests for public records under
OPRA must be submitted "on an agency's official OPRA records request 
form.".
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060409/NEW
S01/604090357/1006>


FileData Classifier / FileData Manager
Enterprise IT Planet - Darien,CT,USA
... the product to look inside MS Office and Adobe PDF files for the ...
document formats ("hundreds") to extract target metadata and classify
documents based on ...
<http://products.enterpriseitplanet.com/dms/im/1144422541.html>

Tech had big plans for library
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
Texas Tech University planned to spare no expense in constructing the 
George
W. Bush Presidential Library, as the school and its partners pledged to
raise $500 ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/
040906dntexlibrarybucks.396656b.html>

City, county make open records easy to access
Savannah Morning News - Savannah,GA,USA
... She looked at payroll records and read her salary, as well as those
of ... Patrice Morris said the information would be drawn from personnel
files, which contain ...
<http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/040806/3775998.shtml>

Private medical files dumped in rubbish
Irish Examiner - Cork,Ireland
... The files contained names of patients and individual care needs, 
including
their toilet and sanitary needs, medical history, hygiene and medical
records. ...
<http://www.irishexaminer.com/pport/web/ireland/Full_Story/did-sgq1me0YD4
weYsglO-LCk0lQvU.asp>

Calif. company took secrets from Silicon Labs, judge says
Austin Business Journal - Austin,TX,USA
A federal court in Austin Apr. 7 found that Orage, Calif.-based Axiom 
Microdevices
Inc. misappropriated trade secrets from Austin's Silicon Laboratories
Inc. ...
<http://austin.bizjournals.com/austin/stories/2006/04/10/daily11.html?jst
=b_ln_hl>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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