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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

When we talk about records management on this blog, we often use the “R.I.M.” ” or “RIM” acronym as a shorthand way to refer to the “records and information management” field. In a nutshell, this is information governance. Source: Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

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Documentation Theory for Information Governance

ARMA International

This article aims to consider what a documentary focus can offer to the practices and understandings of information governance. It instead provides a different, indeed overlooked, angle – a documentary focus – in which to situate discussions and practices with information. A Documentary Approach.

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e-Records 2017 – “Information Governance: Take Control and Succeed” Conference Recap

The Texas Record

The 2017 e-Records conference delivered on all fronts hosting a variety of vendors, local government and state agency representatives and, of course, plenty of staff from the two hosting state agencies: Department of Information Resources (DIR) and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC).

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Guest Blog: Kay Steed, State Agency RMO

The Texas Record

We are excited to launch a new blog series featuring records management personnel in Texas sharing their experiences in the field. 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.

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ESI, ROT, and LBJ – Thoughts on Data Management While Visiting the Lyndon Johnson Presidential Library: eDiscovery Trends

eDiscovery Daily

Editor’s Note: If you love to read blogs about eDiscovery, you’ve undoubtedly read posts and articles by Jim Gill. Jim’s post below highlights the importance of information governance and the need for data discovery to manage increasing volumes of data (as we discussed during this webcast last month).

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The Information Management Umbrella

Brandeis Records Manager

The content in this blog reflects the opinions of the author, and not of Brandeis University.). Your industry may dictate your relationship with your library people, if you even have a relationship with them. In academia, records management tends (not exclusively) to be grouped organizationally with library and archival units.

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Future Lawyers Week Recap: The Rise in Legal Ops, Taking on eDiscovery and Data Privacy Challenges and More

eDiscovery Daily

At 200-year-old Con Edison, associate general counsel Tayo Kinnane explained that there are still a lot of old paper documents, but with the increase in electronically stored data and types, they now have a robust data retention policy in place that is core to their information governance approach.