RAIN 060612
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Paper documents turn to pulp
MLive.com - MI,USA
By Cami Reister. It wasn't that long ago that a company's options for 
long-term
record storage were few: stacks of bankers boxes, data tapes and 
microfilm.
<http://www.mlive.com/business/grpress/index.ssf?/base/business-3/1150123
732210580.xml&coll=6>

Arabic files seized in Iraq posted online
Kansas.com - KS,USA
... is that thousands of eyes on open records will do a ... will be able
to examine these documents to sort ... Audio, video and text files are
available and searchable by ...
<http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/state/14796363.htm>

EMC Helps With JFK Library
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
Senator Kennedy will be joined by Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the 
United
States ... The initiative announced today to digitize, index and archive
millions of ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=96891&WT.svl=wire1_1>

Goldwater memorabilia is being lost to time
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... Funding to preserve and archive the Goldwater Papers is included in
the Senate's version of the state ... "When he's angry, it shows," 
archivist
Linda Whitaker says ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/local/articles/0612goldwaterpap
ers0612.html>

E-mail on the job is risky biz
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... employers striving to guard themselves against violations of 
corporate
governance rules, harassment suits and theft of intellectual property
or trade secrets. ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_3926632>

The Problem of Keeping, Producing Electronic Records Grows
CCH Wall Street - New York,NY,USA
... Regulators are very serious about prompt production of electronic 
records,
agreed Ivan Knauer, a partner at Bingham McCutchen, who often finds 
himself
sitting ...
<http://www1.cchwallstreet.com/ws-portal/content/news/container.jsp?fn=06
-12-06>

Is data retention secure?
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Information and national security issues need much more attention while
the government decides whether to require data retention by Internet 
service
providers. ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article94772-06-12-06-Print>

JFK's personal archives to go online
Computerworld - USA
... The library is administered by the US government's National Archives
and Records Administration. ... company is the world's largest maker of
data storage equipment ...
<http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxo
nomyName=hardware&articleId=9001099&taxonomyId=12>

Lest We Regret Our Digital Breadcrumbs
New York Times - United States
... as their computer equipment was seized and the ability to delete 
accounts,
remove ... to fail to appreciate that their activities — the call 
records
and the ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/12/technology/12link.html>

Local businesses doing best secure personal data
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
... Before that, someone gained unauthorized access to records on more
than 300,000 people and ... through a Baltimore hotel computer and then
failed to delete the file ...
<http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=291227&Category=5>

Voters Advised To Implement Fraud Alert After Records Theft
TheDenverChannel.com - Denver,CO,USA
... are 13 databases to consider -- everything from medical and 
insurance
to criminal files. ... Remember that the records were missing in a move
that was accomplished ...
<http://www.thedenverchannel.com/call7forhelp/9359135/detail.html>

Memorabilia of Barry Goldwater could be victim of time
KVOA.com - Tucson,AZ,USA
... has yet to be cataloged and preserved, and the enemies of 
preservation
_ air, humidity and time _ are slowly eroding history, said archivist
Linda Whitaker of ...
<http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5017663&nav=HMO6HMaW>


Getting in the money line
Daily Mining Gazette - Houghton,MI,USA
... Erik Nordberg, MTU archivist and Michigan Humanities Council board
member, said the council is sponsoring the workshop, and although it’s
been five or six ...
<http://www.mininggazette.com/stories/articles.asp?articleID=2333>

Tobacco firm must produce legal records
Legalbrief (subscription) - Durban,South Africa
In a blow to tobacco companies, an Australian judge has found that 
British
American Tobacco's controversial document retention policy was intended
to conceal ...
<http://www.legalbrief.co.za/article.php?story=20060612082610255>

Civil War diary's release ends decadelong task
Shreveport Times - Shreveport,LA,USA
... King's hand-penned document has been available to researchers since
1943, when it was purchased from a private owner by the Texas State 
Archives.
<http://www.shreveporttimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060612/NEWS0
1/606120311/1002/NEWS>

FDC secret files stolen
New Vision - Kampala,Uganda
By Jude Etyang and Adam Alagiah. FDC is in shock from the alleged theft
of confidential documents carrying minutes of the party’s secret 
meeting.
<http://www.newvision.co.ug/D/8/12/503561>

Dealing with data deluge
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
... If documents are to be saved as text files (thus enabling text 
search
and editing), optical character recognition software should be bundled
into the system ...
<http://www.gcn.com/print/25_15/40982-1.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
[log in to unmask]

________________________________________________________________________
Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email 
and IM. All on demand. Always Free.

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]>