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Even Paper Tigers Need Technological Taming
Steven Perry
Thursday, July 13, 2006
In the legal industry, it's very clear that paper is here to stay.
Whether it's pleadings, filings, evidence, exhibits or other documents,
paper formats are still a dominant factor in many law firms today. As
much as we want to reduce its presence for numerous reasons, that tide
of paper isn't going away. In fact, for some firms, it continues to
rise. That's why law firms of all sizes need nondisruptive strategies
that support efficient "coexistence" of paper and electronic documents
and records.
<http://www.law.com/jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1152695126551>
Ottawa Sun
Municipal records go up in flames
City officials won't know until early next week just how many records
were damaged or destroyed after fire yesterday ripped through the
east-end warehouse where they're stored.
<http://ottsun.canoe.ca/News/OttawaAndRegion/2006/07/13/1681945-sun.html>
Cape Girardeau County Archive Center presents evolution of the ...
Southeast Missourian - Cape Girardeau,MO,USA
Almost two centuries of marriage licenses are displayed at the Cape
Girardeau
County Archive Center in Jackson. The exhibit starts with the Aug. ...
<http://www.semissourian.com/story/1160093.html>
E-mail is the end of history
Times Online - UK
... Civil servants rush to destroy documents, their fondness for the
shredding
machine heightened by the certainty that ministers will blame them for
errors that ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,6-2269379,00.html>
Data housekeeping measures critical
Shanghai Daily - Shanghai,China
... US-based EMC Corp, a data storage firm, plans to invest US$500
million
... AXS-One Inc, another US-based provider of high performance records
compliance management ...
<http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/07/14/286107/Data_housekeeping_mea
sures_critical.htm>
Paper warehouse destroyed in fire
BBC News - UK
... itself out. The data storage unit is owned by Iron Mountain, which
said it held "archived, inactive business records". It is thought ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5175568.stm>
Several records destroyed in fire at Kanpur RTO
Lucknow Newsline - Lucknow,India
Kannauj, July 13: HUNDREDS of files in the Light Motor Vehicle record
room
were burnt to ... The records, that could be saved from fire, were
destroyed
by water. ...
<http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=192717>
Work starts on Records Centre - 13.07.06
Seychelles Nation - Victoria,Seychelles
... Once complete the Records Centre will house government files which
have been closed or are only occasionally referred to, before they are
either archived or ...
<http://www.nation.sc/index1024.php?art=6628>
Massive Project To Protect County Documents
State Journal - Charleston,WV,USA
... records. Workers are scanning deeds, liens and other documents to
make
copies of them on microfilm and digital disks. County administrators ...
<http://www.statejournal.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=12250>
Group preserves keys to city’s past
Beverly Citizen - MA, United States
By BobGates/ [log in to unmask] Preserving the city’s history continues
to receive a helping hand from a professional archivist. Kris ...
<http://www2.townonline.com/beverly/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=53662
4>
Lincoln family memorabilia finds a new home
Burlington Hawk Eye - IA, United States
... But Iowa Wesleyan archivist Lynn Ellsworth admitted the museum's
small
collection contained almost no writings by Harlan about his friend the
president. ...
<http://www.thehawkeye.com/daily/stories/ln6_0713.html>
SBC Denied Access to Conn. Senator's Home Computer
New York Law Journal - New York,NY,USA
Richard C. Rowlenson, vice president and corporate counsel of
Hartford-based
Gemini, alleged violations of the Freedom of Information Act by Fonfara,
co ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1152695127989>
Sea of paper ~~ Officials survey damage
News Leader - Fernandina Beach,FL,USA
... "They all had things stored here," he said. Freeman found
administrative
files, apparently fire-rescue grant documents. All documents ...
<http://www.fbnewsleader.com/articles/2006/07/12/news/04newsseaofpaper.tx
t>
Spain prepares to lay bare its darkest era
Independent - London,England,UK
... with its past by rescuing - and making public - millions of
documents
from around ... reports, personal letters, documentary films and secret
police files held in ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1174342.ece>
Confidential files dumped in Lambeth garden
ic SouthLondon.co.uk - United Kingdom
By Robert Dex. PERSONAL documents including death certificates, bank
account
details and confidential files were dumped in a Lambeth garden outside
an office. ...
<http://icsouthlondon.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0400lambeth/tm_objectid=17
371633&method=full&siteid=50100&headline=confidential-files-dumped-in-lam
beth-garden-name_page.html>
'Soon I'll be fed up with the relativity'
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
... According to Barbara Wolff, an archivist at the university's
Einstein
Archives, who read all 3,500 ... Einstein willed his entire archive to
the Hebrew University. ...
<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/736819.html>
BBC
Blue plaque award for founder of the A-Z
A woman who literally put London on the map by designing the
world-famous A-Z is being honoured with a blue plaque.
<http://www.bbc.co.uk/london/content/articles/2006/07/12/a_to_z_feature.s
html>
Doctors concerned over e-records
BBC News - UK
... system. The database containing medical records for up to 50m
patients
in England is part of the £6.8bn NHS IT upgrade. Doctors ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/5177662.stm>
Apollo 11 TV Tapes Go Missing
Slashdot - USA
... of Parkes Observatory Australia reports that 698 of the 700 boxes of
original tapes have gone missing [warning: large PDF] from the US
National
Archives. ...
<http://science.slashdot.org/science/06/07/13/1654200.shtml>
New Yosemite Museum Exhibit Showcases 19th Century Mammoth-Plate ...
Yosemite National Park (press release) - El Portal,CA,USA
... in the museum's collection. The large cameras were used to produce
18 x 22 inch "mammoth" format glass negatives. The huge camera ...
<http://www.nps.gov/yose/news/2006/muse0711.htm>
Walter, Walter everywhere
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... "There are 2000 photographs, 500 negatives including glass negatives
and 250 drawings; perspective drawings, plans and presentations
drawings."
Over the next ...
<http://www.smh.com.au/news/property/walter-walter-everywhere/2006/07/11/
1152383743178.html>
Coke worker to fight charge
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA, USA
... after the hearing. Prosecutors said the three tried to sell
confidential
documents and sample test drinks to Pepsi. Instead, Dimson ...
<http://www.ajc.com/business/content/business/coke/stories/0712bizcoke.ht
ml?imw=Y>
EDITORIAL ~~ Records mess
News Leader - Fernandina Beach,FL,USA
... the city of Fernandina Beach and Nassau County to pay closer
attention
to their legally mandated responsibilities to collect and store public
records and make ...
<http://www.fbnewsleader.com/articles/2006/07/12/opinion/00editeditorial.
txt>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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