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Information Literacy and Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

Program Director for University Records Management, Brandeis University. A keen sense of info literacy is required to execute records management and info governance functions with ethical outcomes. Like records management , info literacy has considerable social justice implications. George Despres, CRM.

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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. But how is information governance any different than records management? Collaboration.

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A Record Center is Not an Archives: Some thoughts from an interview

The Schedule

A recent assignment for one of her classes was to interview a practicing Archivist and/or Records Manager about the “qualified practices” of the profession and write up a paper/presentation/something else summarizing and analyzing it. What made you want to switch from archives to records management?

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Do You Have the Right Stuff to Transition to Information Governance?

ARMA International

In my stuffier moments, I define IG as being “the application of formal and informal controls to ensure information is managed according to your organization’s legal, operational, and technical requirements.” [1]. Hmmm … sounds a lot like records management, doesn’t it? Here’s how one organization pulled this off.

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The State of Content Management in 2020 [Expert Tips & Research]

AIIM

But for years AIIM has defined ECM as: “Neither a single technology nor a methodology nor a process, it is a dynamic combination of strategies, methods, and tools used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver information supporting key organizational processes through its entire lifecycle.”.

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What Is Our Professional Future?

Brandeis Records Manager

Program Director for University Records Management, Brandeis University. At the risk of sounding alarmist, I have concerns about the records management profession’s long-range future. Reading through Kelly’s book as a records manager or archivist is an exercise in marathon squirming. George Despres, CRM.

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Digital sobriety

Everteam

Analyzing , Information Governance , Records Management. However, it is now common knowledge that their production, especially in Africa, destroys the soil in open-pit mines, where all ecological considerations are absent, and which favors exploitation of local poverty. Digital sobriety. Anne-Claire Girard. 25 November 2021.