RAIN 060809 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. BBC News, Wed, 09 Aug 2006 1:53 AM PDT Steel town's past to be archived http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/cumbria/5258854.stm A new project is to preserve the steelmaking heritage of Workington in Cumbria. KVOA Tucson, Tue, 08 Aug 2006 4:50 PM PDT New view of WWII Japanese relocation center uncovered at ASU http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5254464 The history of the U.S.' relocation centers, where more than 100,000 people of Japanese ancestry were forced to live during World War II, has been documented in government reports, newspaper clippings and black-and-white photographs. The portal's lapse tells a lot about the state of Web search ... TIME - USA ... the company (which, like Time.com, is owned by Time Warner) released information ... The breaches include lost bank backup tapes, hacking losses, stolen laptops ... <http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1224405,00.html> Employees get the message: no private life on office chat EastDay.com - Shanghai,China ... The head said his department monitored employees' MSN to prevent them from revealing the company's confidential documents to outsiders. ... <http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/features/userobject1ai 2241423.html> ILLINOIS STYLE: Archivist facing daunting task at SIU-Carbondale Belleville News-Democrat - Belleville,IL,USA ... from both the SIUC chancellor's office, which created the archivist position as ... system of regional political history at SIUC, with the archive collection as a ... <http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/politics/15231376.htm> Encryption: The Next Step in Protecting Information on Laptops AACRAO Transcript - Washington,DC,USA An information director’s nightmare: A laptop containing information on 98,000 people was stolen from the Berkeley campus of the University of California ... <http://www.aacrao.org/transcript/index.cfm?fuseaction=show_view&doc_id=3 285> Judge unseals 110 pages of governor's e-mails Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA ... In June 2005, a reporter for The Courier-Journal of Louisville filed an open records request with the governor's office, seeking "any and all e-mails" sent to ... <http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/15232951.htm> Opinion: Twelve questions to answer before buying email archiving Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA August 09, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Over the past few years, awareness of the impact of long-term data retention on storage management has grown dramatically ... <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic& taxonomyId=19&articleId=9002294> Museums Establish Guidelines for Treatment of Sacred Objects New York Times - United States ... group of archivists and librarians began working with a committee of indigenous leaders to establish Protocols for Native American Archival Materials, sweeping ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/10/arts/design/10sacr.html> Fireproof Files WTAP-TV - Parkersburg,WV,USA ... Local courthouse officials in other counties say most of their documents not only are kept on tape and in computers, copies of those records are kept in ... <http://www.wtap.com/news/headlines/3536136.html> Charleston City Paper, Wed, 09 Aug 2006 1:05 AM PDT Charleston's little-visited Karpeles Manuscript Museum refuses to be ignored http://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid:16062 What does the humble son of a Minnesota bus driver do if he finds himself with more money than he knows what to do with? Many records saved in courthouse fire WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA ... loss. Steiner says they were able to save three quarters of the county records, although voter registration lists were destroyed. ... <http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=5259602&nav=23ii> Dead disks yield live information Guardian Unlimited - UK ... was recovered as part of an investigation by BT and data destruction specialists Life ... personal details such as his date of birth and credit card records on the ... <http://technology.guardian.co.uk/weekly/story/0,,1840396,00.html> A year after hurricanes, Southern dioceses still trying to recover Catholic News Service - USA ... and school officials have been advised to take school records with them ... Although Rita was overshadowed by Katrina, its destruction can't be dismissed by local ... <http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0604528.htm> State records are being tossed Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA ... disposal. And the State Records Committee's three members approved getting rid of evidence of earlier-approved destruction of records. ... <http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060809/OPINION 02/608090307/1009/OPINION> Judge makes records available online to public The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA ... If you need information from the office, you don't have to go there to get it. Public records kept in that office are now online. ... <http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/060809/records.shtml> Court ruling: Officials' personal e-mails not public records Tucson Citizen - Tucson,AZ,USA Government officials' personal e-mails don't have to be disclosed under Arizona's public records law even if kept on a taxpayer-supported computer, a state ... <http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/21980.php> Grant County considers selling online access to public records WISH - Indianapolis,IN,USA MARION, Ind. Grant County commissioners are considering a plan to sell online access to public records from the county recorder's office. ... <http://www.wishtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5262742&nav=0Ra7> Bank records stolen from state official's car Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - Minneapolis,MN,USA Two boxes containing confidential bank records were stolen from a ... banks, which is why the files were in ... It did not appear that the documents were specifically ... <http://www.startribune.com/535/story/605518.html> Historic Morgan County Courthouse burns Daily Mail - Charleston - Charleston,WV,USA ... including birth certificates dating back to the 1800s, marriage licenses, deeds, county maps ... could not be saved, along with any other county documents that it ... <http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2006080927/> Government under fire over 'hidden documents' The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia ... "Unless this is resolved Victoria will be known as the secret state, where access to public documents is restricted, a place where those who speak out are ... <http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/government-under-fire-over-hidden -documents/2006/08/09/1154802966164.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. 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