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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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Melton Changes Story, Plays Semantics Game
WLBT-TV - Jackson,MS,USA
... Melton now admits he destroyed public records requests made by the
Clarion-Ledger, but he says he wasn't lying. The difference between
shredding
and tearing is ...
<http://www.wlbt.com/Global/story.asp?S=4962332&nav=2CSf>
Judge tells tobacco giant to hand over documents
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... preliminary finding that British American Tobacco's controversial
document
retention policy was intended to conceal the destruction of legally
potent
records. ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/judge-tells-tobacco-giant-to-hand-ov
er-documents/2006/05/30/1148956346933.html>
Managed Storage Comes of Age
NewsFactor Network - Woodland Hills,CA,USA
... Plus, Hay Group has begun a true information life-cycle management
program. "IPR gives me a tool to help implement a data management
policy,"
Butler says. ...
<http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=1320002A0IYO>
Tender: The National Archives offers massive document & data ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
TNA has a statutory duty to make the 1911 Census readily available from
the date of opening (currently January 2012). To this purpose ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=ar
ticle&sid=5075>
Lawyers' Misfeasance May Cause Judge to Open Privileged Papers
Mary P. Gallagher
A federal judge in Newark, N.J., is deciding whether to order a health
insurer to disclose privileged materials, finding its lawyers may have
misled regulators and the court and allowed e-mail spoliation.
The evidence "sets forth a prima facie showing sufficient to warrant in
camera review" of documents under the crime-fraud exception to the
attorney-client and work-product privileges, U.S. District Judge Faith
Hochberg held on May 5 in Wachtel/McCoy v. Health Net.
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1148634333616>
‘Preserve archive records’
Deccan Herald - Bangalore,India
... RCL Scientist in-charge Dr Kharbade, Deputy Director (Heritage) Dr
JV Gayathri, Dr Gavisiddaiah, archivist, Department of Archives, and
others
were present. ...
<http://www.deccanherald.com/deccanherald/may312006/district1938522006530
.asp>
Records paint a 'colorful picture' of county's past
News of Delaware County - Havertown,PA,USA
... Delaware County Archivist Robert Plowman of Haverford helped to
organize
the archives so they will be accessible to the public. ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16710189&BRD=1725&PAG=461&dept
_id=45529&rfi=6>
Front Page: Celebrating 100 years Of British Newspaper (1906 ...
Managing Information - UK
... The UK's national archival collection of newspapers occupies about
twenty miles of shelving and comprises some 664,000 volumes and parcels,
with 370,000 reels ...
<http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=4936>
Katrina Prompts Next Debate: Digital Records vs. Privacy
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
... with deep issues about a burgeoning industry that puts a person's
entire
history -- birth certificate, family photos, wills, medical records --
in computers ...
<http://www.theledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060530/NEWS/605300
330/1039>
Warrick record system is complex
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription) - Evansville,IN,USA
... While it would be simple to delete confidential information from an
affidavit in a theft or drug-possession case ... Both sets of records
were extremely detailed. ...
<http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/news/article/0,1626,ECP_734_4736267,00.h
tml>
Electronic Filing System Mimics Human Behaviour
Hardware Zone - USA
... as well as reconciles conflicting instructions each time it files
new
documents. ... Management System to capture and manage all its
electronic
records in an ...
<http://www.hardwarezone.com/news/view.php?id=4643&cid=11>
Cost of getting court papers worrisome for Ontario journalists
NorthernLife.ca - Sudbury,ON,Canada
... s fees for accessing public court files are the ... Quebec and
Prince
Edward Island, viewing court documents is free ... The Toronto Star to
obtain the records from the ...
<http://www.northernlife.ca/News/PoliceandCourt/2006/05-28-06-reports.asp
?NLStory=05-28-06-reports>
History of rock 'n' roll in one fan's treasure
International Herald Tribune - France
... wider-ranging photography houses, but none documents 20th-century
...
All these files - from an obscure '80s group ... the jackets on his
treasured
records often had ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/05/30/news/stars.php>
Duke Receives Grant to Restore Depression-Era Films
Duke University - Durham,NC,USA
... buy tickets when he came back to town two weeks later to project the
film in the local movie theater,” said Karen Glynn, Duke’s visual
materials archivist. ...
<http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/05/waters.html>
Survey: Business Executives Say Current Information Disposal Law ...
TMCnet - USA
... June 1, 2005, requires most businesses to first destroy documents
containing
consumer ... with the remaining 37% relying on outside security
shredding
companies. ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-survey-business-executives-say-current-in
formation-disposal-law-/2006/05/30/1662311.htm>
Data classification is end users' job
Search Storage - USA
By Alex Barrett, Trends Editor, Storage. Forget about automated
information
lifecycle management (ILM). Before one Fortune 500 biosciences ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci119
1006,00.html>
Staggering £20 billion cost of NHS records revealed
Daily Mail - UK - UK
PLANS to provide electronic records to NHS patients are running way
behind
schedule and over budget, it has emerged. Major delays ...
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/dmstandard/article.html?in_article_id=3
88279&in_page_id=1766>
VA official steps down over theft of veterans' computer records
WTVM - Columbus,GA,USA
WASHINGTON A top Veteran Affairs official says he'll step down because
a "very serious and tragic event" happened on his watch. ...
<http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=4965740&nav=8fap>
Police fined over database misuse
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Eight police officers have been fined and two have been placed on good
behaviour bonds for misusing Victoria Police's computer records. ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/police-fined-over-database-misuse
/2006/05/30/1148956339441.html>
Mob steals criminal files from 1999 bloodshed
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... filing cabinets containing documents allegedly implicating Indonesia
in the bloodshed that followed the independence vote in 1999. The lost
files include ones ...
<http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,19311676-2,00.html>
Tape encryption not a security cure-all
By Kevin Komiega
Thanks to a few high-profile incidents of lost backup tapes in 2005,
data security has been boiled down to a simple solution by many
vendors: tape encryption. However, the storage security problem can’t
be solved so easily. It’s about the process. . .
<http://infostor.com/articles/article_display.cfm?Section=ARCHI&C=Newst&A
RTICLE_ID=246318>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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