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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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Corps focuses on private-information safety
MarineTimes.com - Springfield,VA,USA
... a student at the Monterey school and was doing a thesis project on
retention. ... Corps’ use of Social Security numbers on just about every
document, roster and ...
<http://www.marinetimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-1958649.php>
Internationally Known Archivist to Head Up the Martin Luther King ...
Yahoo! News (press release) - USA
... As a US representative to the international archival community,
Banks
served four years on the International Council of Archives' Disaster
Prevention
Committee ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060718/cltu059.html?.v=51>
Email, information and virtual tape
SME IT Guide - Singapore
The proper archival of email is now an issue of regulatory concern, as
much of today’s business correspondence takes place electronically.
...
<http://smeit.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=3944&pubid=3&tab=
Home&issueid=93>
County Government Slashes Retrieval Times For Digital Records
ECM Connection (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
... When Behringer became Director in 1984, the Records Management
Office
was called The ... They microfilmed all documents (organized in files
ranging in ...
<http://www.ecmconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7BD1A7234C-
D4A4-456E-908D-A37D2D2E04AE%7D&Bucket=Supplier+News>
Gov’t ready to continue after disaster
Cay Compass - Grand Cayman,Cayman Islands
... “We have been full here for a number of years,” he said. Mr. Craig
explained that the National Archive can only store about 5,000 records.
...
<http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1014836>
Meeting On Archives, Museums Underway In Windhoek
NBC - Windhoek,Namibia
About 40 representatives of national archives and museums in Sub-Saharan
Africa are gathered in Windhoek for a month-long course on Rock Art
Conservation.
...
<http://www.nbc.com.na/news/today.php?newsid=467>
Computerworld Singapore, Tue, 18 Jul 2006 9:01 AM PDT
Managing unstructured data
http://www.computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=3937&p
ubid=3&tab=Home&issueid=93
Compliance issues lurk in every corner of the business IT world these
days, so it is hardly surprising that they figure prominently in
discussions on enterprise content management (ECM) as well.
Autonomy wins contract to modernise UK's national archives
Life Style Extra - UK
LONDON (AFX) - Software company Autonomy Corporation PLC said it has
been
chosen to modernise the National Archives of the UK, improving the
online
archive's ...
<http://www.lse.co.uk/FinanceNews.asp?shareprice=&ArticleRef=19836&Articl
eHeadline=Autonomy_wins_contract_to_modernise_UKs_national_archives>
Unplugging the iPods
Toronto Sun - Canada
... workplaces as firms ban MP3 use to prevent the theft of sensitive
...
to quickly and discreetly download sensitive information such as trade
secrets or customer ...
<http://torontosun.com/Money/2006/07/18/1689973-sun.html>
Stores good vs. ID theft, poll says
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
... data are securing information in a safe or making it accessible only
with a password, shredding or otherwise destroying sensitive documents,
installing new ...
<http://wvgazette.com/section/News/Today/2006071722>
VC’s Email Key in Napster Case
Red Herring - CA,USA
... at the highest level destroyed evidence pursuant to an affirmative
policy of destruction, for the ... s tech group, who sent a similar, but
fateful, email to staff ...
<http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=17626&hed=VC%E2%80%99s+Email+Ke
y+in+Napster+Case§or=Capital&subsector=EconomyAndPolicy>
Archivist will get early look at MLK's papers
Online Athens (subscription) - Athens,GA,USA
... Staff at the Atlanta University Center's Robert W. Woodruff Library
have tapped UGA's head archivist to help prepare for the upcoming
arrival
of Martin Luther ...
<http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/071806/uganews_20060718020.shtml>
Ohio State's library puts rare books in warehouse
Cleveland Plain Dealer - Cleveland,OH,USA
Columbus- Students who want to read Ohio State University's original
edition
of "The Scarlet Letter" are going to need a forklift. ...
<http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/115321152
151350.xml&coll=2>
Virginia Department Of Motor Vehicles Implements Document Imaging ...
ECM Connection (press release) - Erie,PA,USA
... Prior to implementing its document imaging solution, the VA DMV
microfilmed
8-10 million ... The VA state library requires a retention period of
8-23
years on ...
<http://www.ecmconnection.com/content/news/article.asp?DocID=%7B0AD26337-
1D1B-4A63-9BB2-378EE8105130%7D&Bucket=Supplier+News>
Gloucester Daily Times, Tue, 18 Jul 2006 9:12 AM PDT
Map found in trash a priceless record of city's early days
http://www.gloucestertimes.com/lifestyle/local_story_199143337?keyword=to
pstory
The earliest known dated map of the city - made when Gloucester was
still a town and Fitz Henry Lane was beginning to paint it, when Main
Street was still Front Street and mackerel, not cod, was the leading
catch - has been donated to the City Archives by an anonymous collector.
Hundreds of Texas documents missing
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... them. The state archives commission says that the documents are
official
records and that they belong to the people of Texas. In ...
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/state/15072035.htm>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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