RAIN 060426 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Police documents found blowing in the Winnipeg wind CBC News - Canada Winnipeg police are investigating how confidential documents were found blowing in the wind outside the city's main police station. ... <http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/04/26/blowing-wind060426.ht ml> Shred of doubt AZ Central.com - AZ,USA ... Paniagua cited the fact that employees must work at the center one year before they are allowed to sort confidential documents and if they are caught even ... <http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0426biz-shred0426.html> Computer records on 197,000 people breached at UT Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA Computerized records on nearly 200,000 people with ties to the University of Texas' McCombs School of Business have been accessed without authorization by ... <http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/04/24utcomputer s.html> Archivists urge disaster planning Disaster News Network - USA ... next crisis strikes. "The state archives may have not have had relationships with emergency management folks in a state. Those are ... <http://www.disasternews.net/news/news.php?articleid=3139> Archives: 1 in 3 Records Wrongly Resealed Houston Chronicle - United States ... Hill, and the agreement was even disowned by a former head of the archives. John Carlin, a former Kansas governor who served as chief archivist from 1995 to ... <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/3822157.html> EU data retention law could harm free press EUobserver.com - Brussels,Belgium EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - The EU's new data retention law risks helping governments snoop on reporters' contacts in the name of combating terror, leading <http://euobserver.com/9/21443> WorkCover denies files lost in IT failure ABC Online - Australia The chief executive officer of WorkCover, Jon Blackwell, says archival material was lost in the information technology failure. ... <http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200604/s1623934.htm> United Nations Probes Sale of Irreplaceable Stamp Archive FOX News - USA ... Official consent forms required under Secretariat rules for the disposal of archival material have not been found in archival records, according to sources ... <http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,193181,00.html> 'We tried' to secure patient records: Breig Carmi Times - IL, United States ... Ayers, identified as members of Cornerstones's board of directors, and seeks to compel the defendants to preserve the confidential patient medical records. ... <http://www.carmitimes.com/articles/2006/04/26/news/news2.txt> Putting paper in its place Marshall Independent - Marshall,MN,USA ... government to scan paper documents into electronic files. ... developmentally disabled works to scan documents in August 2005, and the 2004-2005 records have been ... <http://www.marshallindependent.com/News/articles.asp?articleID=2479> LIRR loses records Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA ... Iron Mountain, Inc., a Boston company employed by the railroad to warehouse and secure information at an undisclosed storage site in the metropolitan area ... <http://www.newsday.com/news/local/longisland/ny-lilirr0427,0,6367534.sto ry?coll=ny-top-headlines> Helping Others: Troves of history to highlight fundraiser Sacramento Bee - CA, USA ... In 1964, the collection was closed to the public and state funding for archival work ceased. In the last two years, the collection ... <http://www.sacbee.com/content/lifestyle/story/14248249p-15065604c.html> UW American Heritage Center Director to Head Archive Association University of Wyoming News - Laramie,WY,USA ... 1989-March 2000 Greene was curator of manuscripts acquisitions for the Minnesota Historical Society, and from 1985-89 was college archivist for Carleton College ... <http://www.uwyo.edu/news/showrelease.asp?id=8000> 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. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>