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

Unique UN Postage Stamp Collection Sold for a Song
New York Sun - New York,NY,USA
... Under UN rules, the sale of the stamps was barred without the 
express
permission of the chief of the UN archives and records management 
section.
<http://www.nysun.com/article/31749>

Seoul Opens Diplomatic Archives
Korea Times - South Korea
... and National Security (IFANS), a government-funded think tank on the
nation's foreign policies, on Thursday opened the Diplomatic Archives
Building that will ...
<http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/nation/200604/kt2006042715312511990.htm>


Theft of back-up data a continuing danger
Cisco World Magazine - USA
... Bank of America suffered a similar fate when it lost tapes 
containing
federal workers' customer and account information, whilst in transit to
a back-up data ...
<http://www.enterprisenetworksandservers.com/opinionw/art.php?224>

Boston-based records storage company loses railroad workers' data
Boston Globe - United States
By Mark Jewell, AP Business Writer | April 27, 2006. BOSTON --A 
Boston-based
company that stores records for the Long Island Railroad ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/27/bosto
n_based_records_storage_company_loses_railroad_workers_data>

Efforts under way to create statewide electronic court information
Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal - Tupelo,MS,USA
... could have stored data in different places protecting it from 
destruction
in storms ... he cited a hypothetical person researching Monroe County
land records for a ...
<http://www.djournal.com/pages/story.asp?ID=218173&pub=1&div=News>

King of Bath letters come to city
BBC News - UK
... Colin Johnston, principal archivist at Bath Record Office, said: 
"These
letters are a fascinating and important historical archive and make a
major ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/somerset/4948948.s
tm>

Laptop Stolen With Information On 40,000 Aetna Members
Local6.com - Orlando,FL,USA
reported that a laptop computer containing personal information on about
40,000 of its members was stolen, according to a Local 6 News report.
...
<http://www.local6.com/news/9036062/detail.html>

National Archives Says Records Were Wrongly Classified
New York Times - United States
WASHINGTON, April 26 — An audit by the National Archives of more than
25,000 historical documents withdrawn from public access since 1999 
found
that more ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/27/washington/27archives.html>

The changing face of data protection
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... Similar to information life-cycle management (ILM), data-protection
life-cycle management (DPLM) matches backup technologies to the value
of the data during in ...
<http://www.infostor.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&ARTIC
LE_ID=253697&VERSION_NUM=2&p=23>

Rambus Wins in Lawsuit Against Hynix
Washington Post - United States
... claims against Infineon Technologies AG were dismissed after a 
federal
judge in Richmond, Va., learned that Rambus destroyed documents in 
anticipation
of the ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR200604
2400998.html>

Rambus wins $306.5 million verdict in patent suit against Hynix
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... federal judge in Richmond, Va. learned that Rambus destroyed 
documents
in anticipation of the case. The two companies settled a ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/breaking_news/14418280.h
tm>

Houston Chronicle, Thu, 20 Apr 2006 10:41 PM PDT
Digital museum aspires to make old documents more accessible
http://feeds.chron.com/houstonchronicle/local-state?m=6287
Without a local history museum, Houston has lacked a place to bring
together the


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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