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Calculating electronic records storage costs

The Schedule

Last week, I walked through the various considerations and costs of storing paper records. This post will do the same for electronic records and follows the same formula of not taking into account personnel or overhead costs or depreciation of equipment. On-Premise Storage. Cloud Storage.

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

ARMA International

In the field of records management, there are logistical and large-scale projects that can challenge and perplex RIM professionals. Some projects may require the advice of professionals who have managed a similar project in the past. The Office of Archives and Records (OAR) is the official repository for the records of the ANO.

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RIM-brain in Movies and TV

The Texas Record

K-2SO was then able to login to the computer system in the Scarif base. K-2SO opened the doors into the records vault for Erso and Andor, and then locked them in to protect them from Imperial guards. And who is the Records Management Officer? Dr. Who – Silence in the Library.

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Finding the treasure in governement information management

CILIP

Asked why he chose the Civil Service above other areas of librarianship, David says: “It is just so interesting… it puts you in the centre of constantly changing challenges while offering unparalleled opportunities to move between librarianship, records management, knowledge management, information governance throughout your career.”

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How Did We Get Here? Five Technologies that led to electronic records

Positively RIM

The RIM world still wrestles with the progression of paper records into electronic records, as well as the integration of the two. Until the mid-1980s, almost all business records were physical, that is, the medium that held the information was made up of atoms. Computer power. Paper or plastic? Local or remote?

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Building the Relationship Between RM and IT

The Texas Record

Whether it’s creating and securing electronic records or establishing a process to capture records from social media sites, records managers often find themselves working closely with their Information Technology (IT) Departments. One example was, archives to records management are records of enduring value.

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

The Schedule

The lack of input in the piece by any institutional archivist, records manager or content management administrator was frustrating. The expectation of action on the part of institutions such as the Library of Congress was frustrating. I think it would also behoove us to discuss “vital records” for a moment.