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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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Information Governance and the Records Lifecycle

The Texas Record

In a nutshell, this is information governance. ARMA defines “information governance” as “the overarching and coordinating strategy for all organizational information. But how is information governance any different than records management? ” That sounds great!

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Documentation Theory for Information Governance

ARMA International

This focus on information, or as some scholars describe as a privileging of information, [vii]. Information is treated as though it is indifferent to its documentation. There are often various related, but different, terms conflated with “documentation,” including “information,” “record,” “file,” and in some cases “database.”

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Information Governance Innovations in 2019

Everteam

If 2018 showed us anything, it’s that information governance has captured the attention of organizations of all sizes. Maybe they don’t all refer to the work they do on ensuring their information is well governed as “information governance,” but they are thinking about what’s needed and doing the work to make it happen.

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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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Apprenticeship Stories: Tom Saye

CILIP

Apprenticeship Stories: Tom Saye Tom Saye As we celebrate National Apprentice Week, Tom Saye, Library Assistant, East Suffolk and North Essex Foundation Trust, shares his experience of how an apprenticeship opened the door to a new career. The more I looked into it, the more I came to realise that a job within a library would suit me.

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[Podcast] The Universal Translator – Not Just for Star Trek Anymore

AIIM

Get a little taste of the knowledge sharing going on at the conference and hear a great discussion on how the industry is broadening its focus from one that’s solely concerned about information governance and reducing risk, to one that’s also looking to Intelligent Information Management (IIM) as a vehicle to improve organizational performance.