Information Management Journal back issues from September 2005:
Staying on top of trends, techniques leads to business success.(IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editors)
Sep 01, 2005 ... How's business? In today's global business environment, that seemingly innocuous phrase can elicit panic, pride, or a litany of complaints. For RIM professionals, an accurate answer is "Business is on the move!" Standards, new legislation and other compliance issues, and new ...
Correction.(IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editors)(Correction Notice)
Sep 01, 2005 ... The article "The World Moves Toward Freedom of Information" in the November/December 2004 issue incorrectly identified Thomas Blanton as ...
U.S. Senate, House pass bills to extend patriot act.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act)(United States. Congress. Senate)(United States. Congress. House)
Sep 01, 2005; ... The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in July voted to extend 14 of the 16 provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act that were set to expire December 31. The House and Senate bills are different, but the differences are small enough that officials said they could work out a compromise. ...
New website offers government reports.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(www.opencrs.com)(Congressional Research Service)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2005 ... A new website--www.opencrs.com--aims to make widely available to the public certain government reports dealing with topics ranging from terrorism to Social Security that congressional researchers now prepare and distribute only to lawmakers. The site links more than a half-dozen ...
ALA: government asks about patrons.(UP FRONT)(American Library Association)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Last June, a library user in Whatcom County, Washington, checked out Bin Laden: The Man Who Declared War on America and noticed a handwritten note in the margin: "Hostility toward America is a religious duty and we hope to be rewarded by God." The user reported it to the Federal Bureau of ...
Audit: homeland security unprepared.(UP FRONT)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2005 ... An internal audit released in June revealed that the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)--the office in charge of preparing the nation for disaster--is not ready for one itself. The audit found that IT operations within the DHS are generally unprepared to recover from a ...
War on terror targets ISPs in Europe.(UP FRONT)(Internet service providers)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Several European countries are working to pass controversial legislation that would require telephone companies and Internet service providers (ISPs) to retain substantial amounts of customer data, despite the European Parliament's rejection of the proposed bill. The legislation is part of ...
FTC: subject-line labeling ineffective against spam.(UP FRONT)
Sep 01, 2005 ... The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) submitted a report to Congress in June recommending that senders of unsolicited commercial e-mail should not be required to include a label on the subject line of e-mails indicating that the e-mail is an advertisement. The FTC created the report and ...
New HIPAA security guidance papers released.(UP FRONT)(Health +Insurance Portability and Accountability Act)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Three new papers are now available from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services in its series of Health +Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Education Papers. The guidance papers are designed to give HIPAA-covered entities insight into security ...
NARA releases military records.(UP FRONT)
Sep 01, 2005 ... The military records of more than 1 million Americans, including famous entertainers, politicians, athletes, and military personnel, are now available to the public for the first time. The National Personnel Records Center in Overland, Missouri, recently unsealed the first batch ...
Breaches spur data encryption.(UP FRONT)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2005 ... With reports of security breaches and data losses occurring on an almost weekly basis, companies are increasingly adopting data encryption technology that many previously avoided, according to Enterprise Strategy Group, a storage market research firm. In the past, companies ...
Government secrecy reaches historic levels.(UP FRONT)
Sep 01, 2005 ... The U.S. government currently classifies documents at the rate of 125 a minute, using vague labels such as "sensitive security information," according to The New York Times. Driven in part by fears of terrorism, government secrecy has reached a historic high. For example, a ...
Despite complaints, U.K. complies with FOI levels.(UP FRONT)(Freedom of Information Act)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2005 ... A U.K. government watchdog commission has received more than 1,000 complaints since January about authorities failing to comply with the country's new Freedom of Information (FOI) Act, but it says public bodies are taking the requests seriously. The U.K.'s FOI Act, introduced ...
Study reveals consumers' data worries.(UP FRONT)(analysis on data security)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Consumers, inundated with bad news each day about data breaches, say the government isn't doing enough to protect them, according to a Gartner Inc. study. In an extensive study on consumer attitudes toward identity theft, Gartner found that about half those polled either were ...
Politicians promote FOIA compliance.(UP FRONT)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas) have joined to crack down on government offices that ignore public requests for information and to widen the public's access to government documents. Leahy and Cornyn are promoting several legislative proposals that ...
Britain warns of Trojan horse computer attacks.(UP FRONT)(Computer Viruses threatens worldwide)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Computer experts are warning of an increase in targeted computer attacks worldwide. In such attacks, virus writers craft Trojan horse programs to sneak into computers and steal documents. Recently, Great Britain's central government computers were targeted by these widespread ...
Most U.S. libraries offer free web access.(UP FRONT)(American Library Association)(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2005 ... According to an American Library Association (ALA) study, nearly all U.S. libraries offer free public Internet access, and an increasing number are offering wireless connections. The study, conducted by researchers at Florida State University, found that 98.9 percent of ...
NARA enters new "ERA" of electronic records management: National Archives' initiatives focus on preserving and providing access to electronic records.(ARCHIVIST VIEW)(National Archives and Records Administration)
Sep 01, 2005; ... For many years the primary focus of the National Archives was preserving pieces of parchment and paper that had been created during more than two centuries of America's government. In that environment, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) could be content to watch change ...
Software helps enforce retention policies.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Trusted Edge has released RM Edge[TM] 2.5 for Microsoft Exchange, a program which enables companies to establish, administer, and enforce retention and records management policies for all ...
Program allows web interface for databases.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Universal Data Solutions has released ASPRunner Professional 3.2, an enterprise solution that web-enables corporate databases. It creates ...
Improved web services marks new editor.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Belus Technology has released Version 1.6 of XStandard, a standards-compliant WYSIWYG editor for Windows desktop- and browser-based content management systems. The new version of XStandard focuses on improvements ...
New system simplifies e-doc management.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
Sep 01, 2005 ... DocuLex has introduced ArchiveStudio, a simplified electronic document management system enabling small- and mid-size businesses ease of information organization and access. ArchiveStudio's complete system comprises two programs--Goby Capture and WebSearch. Using a digital copier or ...
New storage solution features compact packaging, speed.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
Sep 01, 2005 ... SATABoy[TM] has joined Nexsan Technologies' line of data storage devices. The highly scalable SATABoy cost-effectively stores large amounts of ...
New utility groups files by probing names and attributes.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Punspace has launched FileCategorizer v 1.0, a Windows utility that categorizes and groups files automatically based on intelligent probing of the files' names and attributes. FileCategorizer uses intelligent ...
Software provides disk encryption.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Dekart has released version 1.22 of Dekart Private Disk Multifactor, its disk encryption software. Private Disk protects confidential information by creating virtual encrypted partitions (drive letters). The encrypted information ...
IRISPdf aids conversion of scanned documents to electronic data.(MARKET PLACE: New Products & Industry Announcements)
Sep 01, 2005 ... I.R.I.S. Group has released IRISPdf 4.0, an advanced OCR production tool that enables the conversion of scanned documents into electronic data and supplies document management systems with appropriate file formats. IRISPdf4.0 is available in three versions, ...
The why and how of international records retention.
Sep 01, 2005; ... For a multinational organization with global business operations, records retention for its overseas business units is just as important as it is for its domestic operations. Unless the overseas units have well-developed and aggressively implemented records retention programs, they cannot ...
Blogs: the new information revolution? RIM professionals have an opportunity to provide leadership and guidance in the development of policies to ensure that blogs are managed as records.(Records and Information Management)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Weblogs, or blogs, constitute a significant new development in the information world. They're taking the business world by storm. From the perspective of records and information management (RIM) professionals, they present unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Leadership and policies ...
Mining for information gold: data mining offers the RIM professional an opportunity to contribute to knowledge discovery in databases in a substantial way.
Sep 01, 2005; ... During the late 1980s, several trends in computing, including the emergence of client-server technology, the growing popularity of structured query language (SQL), the gravity of "the islands of information" problem, and the inaccessibility of much of the structured information "hidden ...
RIM professionals: a distinct personality? A study reveals that records and information management (RIM) professionals exhibit particular personality traits, which should aid those making hiring and career decisions.(Career Path)
Sep 01, 2005; ... As a discipline, records and information management (RIM) professionals are not much given to introspection. "Why do I like doing records-related work?" "What makes someone attracted to records management or archives management?" "What personal characteristics should one look for when ...
Risk analysis and control: vital to records protection: identifying and preventing risk is smart business practice. This excerpt from Records and Information Management: Fundamentals of Professional Practice gives the fundamentals of assessing risk in your records operations, putting a prevention plan in place, and auditing that plan for compliance.(ManagementWise)
Sep 01, 2005; ... Risk analysis determines and evaluates the exposure of vital records to specific risks. Its outcome provides the basis for protection planning and other records management decisions. A thorough risk analysis begins with the identification of threats and vulnerabilities to which vital ...
Seeking information warriors.(Information Nation Warrior: Information Management Compliance Boot Camp)(Book Review)
Sep 01, 2005; ... TITLE: Information Nation Warrior: Information Management Compliance Boot Camp AUTHOR: Randolph A. Kahn and Barclay T. Blair ISBN: 0-89258-408-4 PUBLISHER: Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM International) PUBLICATION DATE: ...
50th Annual Conference and Expo * Navy Pier * Chicago * September 18-21, 2005.(special section)(Association of Records Managers and Administrators)
Sep 01, 2005 ... arma'05:chicago celebrating 50 years focusing on the business and technology of managing records and information arma'05: chicago feel the excitement! Chicago is the place to be September 18-21, as ARMA International comes to town ...
ARMA International Expo * Navy Pier Festival Hall * Chicago * September 18-20, 2005.(expo guide)(Association of Records Managers and Administrators)
Sep 01, 2005 ... arma'05: expo showcasing the business and technology of managing records and information. 50th annual conference & exposition September 18-21, 2005 focusing on the business and technology of managing records and information The ARMA 2005 Expo ...
ARMA'05: conference schedule: all events located at the Navy Pier Festival Hall unless otherwise noted.
Sep 01, 2005 ... <Pre> Friday, 9/16 Pre-conference Seminars (Hyatt Regency) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Saturday, 9/17 Pre-conference Seminars (Hyatt Regency) 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Region Meetings (Hyatt Regency) 1:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. International Meeting and Networking ...
Industry intelligence sessions on the show floor, aisle 200.
Sep 01, 2005 ... Brought directly to you, on the show floor (aisle 200) and free-of-charge, these sessions will answer the most critical and specific questions you have about managing information and records. Get real answers from the vendors who know what the current industry trends are and what they will ...
Technology application briefings on the show floor, aisle 200.(Calendar)
Sep 01, 2005 ... The Technology Application Briefings are presented by leading vendors of records and information management technology exhibiting at the ARMA 2005 Expo. These 50-minute briefings provide a great opportunity to discover the most hands-on, practical product information available for records ...
Prizes & giveaways.(Celebrate 50 Years Chicago Style)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Prize Drawings at the ARMA International booth (1027) Enter to win by completing the prize drawing entry form (included in your attendee bag). Prize drawings will be held at the ARMA booth (1027) during the program breaks on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday. Drop your ...
Program sponsors.(Brief Article)
Sep 01, 2005 ... Anacomp * Co-sponsor, Grand Opening Welcome Luncheon in the Expo Hall ArchivesOne * Co-sponsor, Grand Opening Welcome Luncheon in the Expo Hall * Conference Handout Book * Travel Sewing Kits for attendee bags BookFactory ...
ARMA '05: exhibitor profile.(Directory)(Illustration)
Sep 01, 2005 ... <Pre> 3M RFID Tracking Solutions1529 Contact: Shelly Niebur 3M Center, Bldg 225-4N-14 St. Paul, MN 55144 Phone: 651.733.8141 The 3M RFID Tracking System gives you the tools and technology to systematically track, locate, and manage your ...
Arma'05: exhibitor list.(Illustration)
Sep 01, 2005 ... <Pre> 3M RFID Tracking Solutions1529 A.S.R.S, of America/Elecompak 608 ABBYY USA Software House Inc. 1331 Access Sciences Corp. (formerly Access Information Associates) ...
Arma'05:product category.(Illustration)
Sep 01, 2005 ... <Pre> Affiliate Groups/Associations Access Sciences Corp. (formerly Access Information Associates) 1420 ARMA International1027 CENSA/GERA1600 ...