RAIN 060819 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. Ukraine spy agency opens secret archives on Soviet-era famines Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK ... It was the first time any former Soviet republic had released to the public archival information concerning the mass starvations, said Vasyl Danielenko, an SBU ... <http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1191722.php/Ukraine_sp y_agency_opens_secret_archives_on_Soviet-era_famines> DHS launches project to digitize immigration records GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA ... Datatrac said its work would include physical and electronic records management, document scanning, metadata capture and creation of information to integrate ... <http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/41735-1.html> Supercomputer Staff Help Nation's Archivists with Digital ... YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA In the Digital Age, there is an urgent need to preserve vital electronic records to capture our nation's history, which can vanish in an instant with the crash ... <http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_40881.shtml> Mellon settles with US over destroyed tax returns Reuters - USA ... According to the settlement agreement, workers at Mellon's understaffed Pittsburgh "lockbox" processing unit in April 2001 destroyed documents after feeling ... <http://today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=businessNews&storyID =2006-08-18T152101Z_01_N18365207_RTRUKOC_0_US-FINANCIAL-MELLON-SETTLEMENT .xml&archived=False> Judge Finds That City of Detroit Intentionally Shredded Documents ... Yahoo! News (press release) - USA ... intentionally shredded many of these documents after the City received the request. In the courtroom, in reference to the City's shredding campaign, Chief ... <http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060818/def016.html?.v=53> Gearing Up for New Rules' EDD Nuances Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA ... What is the schedule for complete and incremental backups? Do you offer long-term storage for electronic-document retention? Are ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1155892474945 > The tobacco conspiracy The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia ... incrimination. On the face of it, the questions about his company's document retention policy weren't all that tricky. What was its purpose? <http://www.theage.com.au/news/opinion/the-tobacco-conspiracy/2006/08/19/ 1155408067963.html> Trail Dust, 08/19/2006 - 17th-century records offer look into ... Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA ... other day, I ran across several documents that had been buried in my files for many years. They were copies of 17th century New Mexico church records found at ... <http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/48091.html> Personnel file practices under review East Valley Tribune - Mesa,AZ,USA ... original file, potentially in violation of state law, public records experts say ... policies on censoring certain portions of its personnel files, specifically the ... <http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/index.php?sty=72041> Making sure steel heritage lives on Times & Star - Workington,Lake District,UK ... Ruth is busy wading through deeds and documents donated by Corus and hopes to gain access to even more information after the closure. <http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=402117> Ukraine Opens Up Files On Stalin-Era Famines RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty - Prague,Czech Republic ... national intelligence agency, the SBU, today declassified 130 state archive files on the ... is the first former Soviet country to open up secret documents on the ... <http://www.rferl.org/featuresarticle/2006/08/9DA72B32-F86B-450D-B540-025 45B3AFC80.html> The Archives Sleuth Had a Secret Washington Post - United States ... Rona Lerner, now retired, said she learned of Aid's case more than 20 years ago while working in an NSA office that handled FOIA and classification matters. ... <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR200608 1701352.html>> Google's tracking records fueling privacy concerns Taipei Times - Taiwan ... One answer is to delete the cookies that Google and other search engines (which are mostly as bad, or worse) put on your hard drive, and do searches via an ... <http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2006/08/18/2003323680> Retention Rules Set to Change Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA ... failing to produce records if the company made a "good faith" effort to set a retention/deletion policy. This means a company can usually delete data according ... <http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=101745&WT.svl=news2_2> QUATTRONE NEARS VICTORY San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA ... mail endorsing a colleague's advice to ``clean up those files'' -- an action prosecutors later portrayed as an effort to obstruct justice by destroying evidence ... <http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/15312828.htm> Beaverton slams Nike 'smoking gun' public records claim; asks ... Beaverton Valley Times - Portland,Oregon,USA ... the city is asking to be declared the winner and that Nike bear all costs associated with the city’s response to Nike’s extensive public records request. ... <http://www.beavertonvalleytimes.com/news/story.php?story_id=115593337432 987000> The FBI's Upgrade That Wasn't By Dan Eggen and Griff Witte As far as Zalmai Azmi was concerned, the FBI's technological revolution was only weeks away. Even before the Sept. 11 attacks, the FBI had developed a plan, Trilogy, to address its chronic technology problems. The program was made up of three main components: a new computer network, thousands of...... <<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/17/AR20060 81701485.html?referrer=emailarticle>> Ann Arbor News, Sun, 20 Aug 2006 3:30 AM PDT Historical maps preserve past http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1156068683314220. xml&coll=2 In the Fletcher-White Archives of the Ypsilanti Historical Museum, there's an original edition of Burch & Polk's 1873-1874 Ypsilanti City Directory. 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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