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Fact Denial and the Record Under Threat

Brandeis Records Manager

has embraced the acceptance of non-truths and the repudiation of facts in the record. But how do you teach when, even when they reach college, students are not expected to have basic knowledge of our history, our culture, our government?”. As if we don’t have enough challenges, controlling information today.

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Information Literacy and Records Management

Brandeis Records Manager

A keen sense of info literacy is required to execute records management and info governance functions with ethical outcomes. With little, if any, coverage of this topic in our professional discourse, I only recently made this connection myself thanks to a librarian’s presentation on expanding info literacy. I don’t think so.

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The Power of the Record

Brandeis Records Manager

After some recent gloom and doom posts about future challenges to the profession and fact denial and fake news , it’s probably time to take a slightly more glass half-full perspective of our job. (The content in this blog reflects the opinions of the author, and not of Brandeis University.). Just a matter of upping our efforts.