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Your New Neighborhood Library

Information Governance Perspectives

Library science is an interdisciplinary field incorporating the humanities, law, and applied science that studies topics related to libraries, the collection, organization, preservation, and dissemination of information resources, and the political economy of information. What’s it like to work in this field?

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e-Records 2019: Early Bird discount expires soon!

The Texas Record

Today, our partners inside and outside of government, especially the public, increasingly expect to interact with us electronically. Government is transforming to meet its partners in this brave new digital world. The transformation yields numerous benefits but also poses challenges.

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Supporting the Future of Scholarly Communication

CILIP

Having worked in academic libraries for nearly twenty years I?ve ve lived through Pinterest, library services offered via Second Life, social tagging in cataloguing and more 23 Things programmes than I want to think about. s hard to deny that it is becoming increasingly more common in academic libraries. However, in this time I?ve

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Guest Blog: Kay Steed, State Agency RMO

The Texas Record

As the Office Manager at Library Development Division at TSLAC, I was told that I needed to do a records inventory. We have started developing plans for an Information Governance Initiative. With the ever-changing workforce, educating new employees is a big challenge. How did you get involved with Records Management?

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URLs Aren’t Archives ¯_(?)_/¯, and Other Stories

The Schedule

The expectation of action on the part of institutions such as the Library of Congress was frustrating. Within the context of archives and records management, archives can refer to: verb, “to transfer records from the individual or office of creation to a repository authorized to appraise, preserve, and provide access to those records”.

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Chronicle of a Records Manager: Controlling the Chaos of Disaster Response and Recovery

ARMA International

My responsibilities include creating and maintaining RIM policies and procedures concerning access, maintenance, retention, preservation, and arrangement of all business and archival records. These floors contain offices, a record center, a library and researcher area, a processing area, and the archives. Hurricane Ida Preparations.

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Two years earlier, Vannevar Bush put forth the idea of an information system device he called ‘memex.’ The memex was a hypothetical information-centric hypertext device that would permit people to access any information, regardless of where it was stored. This data can be structured, semi-structured, and unstructured.