RAIN 060818 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. NARA’s archives project needs more specifics, GAO says GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA ... NARA must give Congress more details on its Electronic Records Archives project, so ... Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States, told GAO that he agreed ... <http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/41734-1.html> Supercomputer Staff Help Nation’s Archivists with Digital ... Newswise (press release) - USA ... Digital Library), and for state archives (eg the Persistent Archives Testbed). ... Archivist Mark Conrad, chair of the NAGARA Committee on Electronic Records and ... <http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/522887/> GAO calls for more detailed electronic records expenditure plan GovExec.com - USA The Government Accountability Office has given the National Archives and Records ... GAO recommends that the US archivist ensure that future expenditure plans ... <http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0806/081806tdpm1.htm> Houston Chronicle, Thu, 17 Aug 2006 10:44 PM PDT 160 workers, 200 million pages http://feeds.chron.com/~r/houstonchronicle/local-state/~3/14115825/412532 7.html Let the record reflect that it's a big job. About 160 temporary employees are scanning 200 million pages of Harris County court documents dating to 1837 and filing them in an electronic database. The New York Sun, Thu, 17 Aug 2006 11:23 PM PDT Silicosis Judge Erupts in Fury In Case of the Missing X-Rays http://www.nysun.com/article/38133 Evidence key to ongoing investigations of alleged fraud in silicosis-related litigation has gone missing from a repository in Texas, fueling a bitter row between a federal judge and the state's attorney general. Judge Janis Jack excoriated the office of Texas's top lawman, Greg Abbott, for sending four armed agents to seize thousands of X-rays last month from a private company in Corpus Christi Gunning For Security CIO Asia - Singapore ... And while identity theft affects the average consumer, the compromise of trade secrets (like plans, confidential notes, financial information, customer lists ... <http://cio-asia.com/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=4028&pubid=5&issu eid=98> Apollo tapes' value is clear to pioneer Huntsville Times - Huntsville,AL,USA ... The boxes had been sent to the National Archives in Suitland, Md., in the 1970s but were not there when officials went to look. ... <http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/115580633816 7120.xml&coll=1> End of the line for Moss Bay steelworks The North West Enquirer - Manchester,UK ... National Archives awarded the office almost £19,000 to catalogue former owner British Steel Corporation’s records of the Workington plant, along with those ... <http://www.nw-enquirer.co.uk/news/employment/end_of_the_line_for_moss_ba y_steelworks_200608181387.html> Houston, you have a problem Guardian Unlimited - UK ... missing. They were originally stored at the Goddard Space Flight Centre in Maryland, then moved to the US National Archives. In ... <http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1851022,00.html> Ethiopia holds national digital preservation workshop UNESCO (Communiqués de presse) - Paris,France ... consultation workshop on Digital Materials Preservation in Addis Ababa co-organized by UNESCO’s Addis Ababa Office and the National Archives and Libraries of ... <http://portal.unesco.org/ci/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=22682&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_S ECTION=201.html> Police to probe heritage items auction Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa ... Arts and Culture minister Pallo Jordan said on Thursday that, through their National Archives branch and in conjunction with the police, they had "successfully ... <http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=6&art_id=vn200608180240 27118C143270> Prosecutors seeking to force Clark County recorder out of office KESQ - Palm Desert,CA,USA LAS VEGAS Clark County prosecutors are asking a judge to immediately remove county Recorder Frances Deane from office for malfeasance. ... <http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5295979&nav=9qrx> Attempts to sell public records foiled The Mercury (subscription) - Durban,South Africa CAPE TOWN: The government had thwarted an attempt to auction off two visitors' books from the president's official residence, Mahlamba Ndlopfu, according to ... <http://www.themercury.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=3399244> Delaware loses bid to shield public records from nonresidents Penn Live - Harrisburg,PA,USA PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Delaware must open its public records to nonresidents, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday, siding with a New York City consumer ... <http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-41/11557580501 33420.xml&storylist=penn> Peter A. 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