RAIN 060608 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. E-mail a factor in case against former Bush official By Anne Broache During opening of David Safavian's trial, prosecutors say messages will prove he lied about links to Jack Abramoff. <<http://news.com.com/E-mail+a+factor+in+case+against+former+Bush+officia l/2100-1028_3-6076292.html?tag=sas.email>> United States: Getting Nailed By E-mail 01 June 2006 Article by Eric J. Sinrod Reprinted with permission from CNET News When are people going to learn? Many folks act as if e-mail is akin to a verbal conversation that comes and goes in the wind. Yet e-mail has a degree of permanence that hardly ever dies. Recent history is crammed with examples of e-mails that later became the bane of their authors' existence. Once revealed, a poorly worded e-mail or an e-mail that should not have been sent in the first place can cause much embarrassment. That's the best-case scenario. The worst-case scenario? Try civil liability and even criminal prosecution. <http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=40162&product_id=9&company_i d=21358&friend=1>> Atlanta Journal Constitution Fragile digital data in danger of fading past history's reach Coral Davenport - Cox Washington Bureau Wednesday, June 7, 2006 Washington --- It is estimated that in the next three years, humanity will generate more data than it has in the past 1,000 years --- nearly all of it digital. Many of the records that once allowed historians to study a society's history --- from personal correspondence to government documents --- may be slipping, irretrievably, into the digital ether. <http://www.ajc.com/search/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/news_446806 c1e2a170f00064.html> Email Management and Sarbanes Oxley Compliance Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA ... At a large software publisher, company policy required the destruction of e-mail messages older than seven days and the storage/archival of e-mail messages ... <http://www.s-ox.com/feature/detail.cfm?articleID=913> Information Commissioner admits he failed to comply with Freedom ... eGov monitor - London,UK ... been forced to issue the first ever "Decision Notice" against himself for failure to comply with the requirements of the Freedom of Information Act - which he ... <http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/6264> Discarded records found Fayetteville Online - Fayetteville NC,USA ... returns are generated electronically, but we maintain old files.”. ... for the box of discarded records, Rwejuan said ... at his office today to shred the documents. ... <http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=234817> Newly Discovered Kennedy artifacts revealed Cape Cod Today - Cape Cod,MA,USA ... filed suit last fall on behalf of the National Archives against the ... a Secret Service agent, according to Allan Goodrich, the Kennedy Library's chief archivist. ... <http://www.capecodtoday.com/news195.htm> Commissioners approve contracts, grants Ridgway Record - Ridgway,PA,USA ... The Historical Record Storage Committee for Elk County has been seeking a system to transfer records to microfilm and ease public access for over a year and ... <http://www.ridgwayrecord.com/articles/2006/06/07/news/news03.txt> Protect Me, Protect My Data BusinessWeek - USA ... BAC), Boeing International (BA), ChoicePoint (CPS), LexisNexis, Time Warner (TWX), and ... be they Internet hackers, stolen laptops, lost tapes, or disgruntled ... <http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060608_894982 .htm> Records Bill heads for House Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji Cabinet has approved the tabling in Parliament of the Public Records (Amendment) Bill 2006. The Bill amends the Public Records Act, 1970. ... <http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=42899> New policy limits personal identifiers in public records Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA By Stephen Palkot. The County Clerk's Office of Fort Bend County is now asking lawyers and all others who file civil cases to keep ... <http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2006/06/08/news/news02.txt> Mayor apologizes after records denied again Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA ... The newspaper and city have been at odds over public records requests the past few weeks, leading to the paper filing a lawsuit against Melton, the city ... <http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060608/NEWS/60 6080382/1001/news> The Importance of Information Stewardship CIO India - Bangalore,Karnataka,India ... Stewardship means data-quality management, data security, auditable compliance with privacy and disclosure guidelines, information life-cycle management (ILM ... <http://www.cio.in/news/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=1538> Report Details Misdeeds by Dean at Medical School New York Times - United States ... In May, a whistleblower reported to the monitor that people in Mr. Wallace's office were shredding papers. The monitor found almost 1,700 files in Mr ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/nyregion/05cnd-hosp.html> Custer documents at archives Johnson County Sun - Overland Park,KS,USA Archives specialist Lori Cox-Paul said she did not realize materials transferred to Kansas City from the National Archives in Washington held a historical <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16753748&BRD=1459&PAG=461&dept _id=155725&rfi=6> Data Mismanagement National Review Online Blogs - New York,NY,USA ... Congress might reduce breaches by relaxing these document-retention requirements in laws like Sarbanes-Oxley. At the very least, Congress ... <http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmRjZmVhMGIyMDc3ZmNjNWMxMzkwZDA2ZTM 3NDAzZjc=> JFK papers, photos to be put on Internet Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA The late president's papers will be digitized first, and could be available on the Internet in 18 months, said Allan B. Goodrich, the library's chief archivist ... <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_BRF_JFK_Library_Online.htm l> New law guides privacy protection on campus Western News - London,Ontario,Canada ... staff members will need to become aware of what the Act entails and be prepared to handle requests for information, says university Archivist Robin Keirstead ... <http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/story.html?listing_id=21450> Sudbury: Dad's voice from Somme heart-rending 90 years on Sudbury Today - UK ... 1960. Anthony Wheeler, the association's archivist, remembers the portrait from when he was at the school in the 1930s and 40s. ... <http://www.sudburytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1579&ArticleID =1552797> Archivist aids parish history work Catholic Sentinel - Portland,OR,USA As archivist for the state of Oregon, she oversees all public records — keeping them organized, protected and available to the public in a safe, supervised ... <http://www.sentinel.org/articles/2006-23/14755.html> The way we were: Old films record Knoxville's history WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA ... came out with the 16 mm film gage, meaning that the average guy on the street would have access to the motion picture cameras and film," archivist Brad Reeves ... <http://www.wbir.com/life/programming/local/liveatfive/story.aspx?storyid =35075> Historic Audiotape Discovered of President Kennedy's Dedication ... All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden ... King was surprised to learn that the State Archives only had a printed copy of the speech, and local television stations had unceremoniously and ... <http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+storyid-15080.html> Storage fit for a king, or a Kennedy Boston Herald - United States By Beth Teitell. So there’s going to be a $22 million addition to the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library to house Sen. Ted Kennedy ... <http://theedge.bostonherald.com/lifeNews/view.bg?articleid=142623> Giving online world a link to JFK Boston Globe - United States ... The project is an unprecedented effort to replicate the entire collection of a presidential library and post much of it on the Internet. ... <http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/06/08/giving_online_world _a_link_to_jfk> A Little More Clinton At Clinton Library Washington Post - United States ... thought I was right about an issue but they were determined not to let anything happen," Clinton says in a new audio tour of his presidential library. ... <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR200606 0501123.html> Companies offer free data backup in hurricanes Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA ... 2004, many northwestern Florida businesses lost all of their computer systems, and replacing the lost spreadsheets, employee files and other records became a ... <http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/business/14781508.htm> Grids make archiving tools more responsive IT Week - London,UK ... "We used to find that we could archive files but searching them ... asking for specific emails from an archive holding millions of different records, for example ... <http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2158001/grids-archiving-tools> San Diego Union-Tribune, Thu, 08 Jun 2006 4:06 AM PDT Audit finds problems with MiraCosta College records http://www.uniontrib.com/news/education/20060608-9999-1mi8audit.html OCEANSIDE, June 8 (UNION-TRIBUNE): An audit of cash transactions at MiraCosta College found shoddy recordkeeping, minimal training and poor security for cash boxes. RedNova, Thu, 08 Jun 2006 8:35 AM PDT Mass. Relaxes Open-Format Mandate http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/531879/mass_relaxes_openformat_ma ndate/index.html?source=r_technology By Sternstein, Aliya CIO says state pol Washington City Paper, Wed, 07 Jun 2006 9:14 PM PDT Bridge and Tunnel Crowd http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/districtline/2006/records0609.html?nav CenterTop City historical records find homes in odd places. Just because you’re in charge of the city’s bridges and tunnels doesn’t mean you have to keep your irreplaceable historical documents in the city’s bridges and tunnels. Market Watch, Thu, 08 Jun 2006 2:29 PM PDT Firms base bonuses on clean records http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/newsarticle.asp?guid=%7BB569CD10- 3CC4-44D7-AC11-009DA927335C%7D&dist=rss&siteid=mktw NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- For branch managers at many brokerage firms, good compliance is more than just a feel-good aspiration; it can affect their paycheck. <http://tinyurl.com/negds> The Oregonian, Fri, 09 Jun 2006 0:29 AM PDT Officials clear Saif of wrongdoing http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/11498217292 63810.xml&coll=7 SALEM -- Saif Corp. and its employees did not engage in criminal activity during a long-running legal battle over access to the company's records, the Marion County district attorney's office said Thursday after a two-year investigation. <http://tinyurl.com/pp2wa> Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. 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