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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. All of these properties will enhance organizational efficiency in an enterprise records context—for example, refreshing stale corporate intranet content for currency.

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Archivists and Records Managers, part 13

The Schedule

In the September/October 2018 issue of Information Management , William LeFevre wrote a piece entitled “ Leveraging Legacy Historical Records to Create Organizational Value.” ” He explained that the “data explosion” has blurred the lines between active and inactive records that typically divided records managers from archivists. data mining. archivists) in identifying records.

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Archivists and Records Managers, part 12

The Schedule

With too many other things consuming time during RIM month, I took some time off from investigating the intersections between archivists and records managers. Stephens wrote an article in Information Management about the evolution and future of the records and information management (RIM) profession. But it’s time to return to this effort. A few years ago, ARMA International Fellow David O.

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Establishing Records Management at Brandeis—The First Eighteen Months

Brandeis Records Manager

George Despres, University Records Manager, Brandeis University. The Brandeis University Records Management (URM) program has much in front of it, but some solid foundational accomplishments behind it. As we know, developing and growing a records program is challenging: most people don’t get our objectives despite the fact that records, their mismanagement, and associated risks are ubiquitous—witness the daily news.

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NAGARA Webinar – Mining Our Past, Engineering Our Future – Registration and Fee Required – 5 Credits

IG Guru

NAGARA’s 2020 Summer Online Forum: Mining Our Past, Engineering Our Future is on Friday, July 31, 2020! The post NAGARA Webinar – Mining Our Past, Engineering Our Future – Registration and Fee Required – 5 Credits appeared first on IG GURU.

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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. The Records Lifecycle.

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Snapshot: College and University Retention Schedules

Brandeis Records Manager

University Records Manager, Brandeis University. Shortly after joining Brandeis to establish a records program, and being new to RIM as it applies to academia, I realized that it might be a good idea to review retention schedules from other colleges and universities (CUs) as part of my research. Some CUs have a records launch page with no schedule posted or linked. Record Categories. Athletics records are covered in only 35% of the schedules.

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“The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up.” Our Turf?

Brandeis Records Manager

University Records Manager, Brandeis University. This book passed under my radar until a kind colleague pointed out that, in one chapter, Kondo dispenses personal record retention and categorization guidance. Still, as a records professional, I’m left feeling like this “organizing consultant” is somehow stealing my (our) fire. Kondo’s personal record advice appears in a “Sorting Papers” section of a chapter titled, “Tidying by Category Works Like Magic.”

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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. I didn’t really even realize records management was a thing until I was already in the program. What made you want to switch from archives to records management? Again, both [FPOW] and City Records do both!

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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. When we consider that fixed, controlled records following recordkeeping principles and information governance are typical objectives in our programs, it’s not unreasonable to get a little scared by this. information governance records management records managers future of industr

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Uxpected Impacts of Europe’s GDPR on US Companies Both Over and Under Stated

Info Source

Virtually all websites employ third-party data analytic services, which often open the door to opaque gathering,mining, and trading of a person’s data in ways the website owner may not understand at all – and often conflicts with commitments made to customers and website visitors,” Cattanach says. Contributed News Records Management; GDPRRobert Cattanach is a partner at the international law firm Dorsey & Whitney.

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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.

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

ARMA International

If you are in the records space today, then you are standing at a similar crossroads. Hmmm … sounds a lot like records management, doesn’t it? all of which require the same disciplines we utilize when managing our records.

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Additional Background on DOI Records Schedule

National Archives Records Express

On October 26, we posted about the proposed big bucket records schedule submitted by the Department of the Interior (DOI). The post also included information on how to submit comments through the Federal Register process which all records schedules containing items proposed for temporary retention must follow. Given the amount of interest in this particular records schedule, we wanted to provide additional information about the appraisal process for these records.

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Digital Transformation: Exploring AI

Archives Blogs

As you would expect from the National Archives and Records Administration, we have focused on standards from the beginning of our existence. Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing) Plant Showing an Employee Working on one of the Products.

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Common file format initiatives – an industry model for scientific archiving?

Preservica

Looking at the different focuses when x = Clinical, Manufacturing, Laboratory, Pharma CoVigilance, or Drug Safety, how to develop risk based approach to records management, how to get senior management buy-in to improve RM/Archiving Service and, how business value is projected from archived material. They also constitute an opportunity for mining as the often raw experimental data from, the past to be used in the present.

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

AIIM

Few announcements in information management have been bigger than Gartner’s article heard round the world that announced the death of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) as we knew it. What does content management look like in 2020, years after ECM died?

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Part 1: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about understanding the business drivers?

ARMA International

Part 2 will discuss the critical factors for a successful DT journey, because organizations need to do a “mind-shift” from traditional records and information management (RIM) practices to content services (CS). Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. Abstract.

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31 Letters to Santa from ECM Users

AIIM

So for those of you who are hanging in there and thinking about content management in the shrinking shopping days before the holidays, here is your reward – a few nuggets that pop up in the “funny letters to Santa” search stream. I want a new football game and football because my little brother always tries to steal mine. Information Governance resides with Records management personnel who have not moved with the times and upgraded their skills.”. “It

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

Here, Part 2 discusses the critical factors for a successful DT journey, because organizations need to do a “mind-shift” from traditional records and information management (RIM) practices to content services (CS). Part 3 will discuss how to manage the various DT risks. Abstract.

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The Fenway Library Organization provides affordable digital preservation to its members

Preservica

The member libraries needed a way to preserve, store, and provide access to important digital objects such as archival materials, special collections, theses and dissertations, institutional materials (such as course catalogs, images, records), and more. The solution is affordable and manageable, plus the Preservica package includes some records management features around compliance and retention, which help us enforce retention policies.”.

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"In Search of Objectivity" or "Listening to Those We Often Ignore"

Positively RIM

Last week, an unexpected overlap “slapped me upside the face”: A prime challenge of corporate Records & Information Management matched current events, political opinion and social tumult. First the RIM part: The Records Director of a large financial services corporation called to ask for help implementing an enterprise RIM program. Clearly, top officers and directors need their records managed, but so do the mail clerks, couriers, and temp workers.

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Managing Records with Technology

Positively RIM

In 1989, companies called their computer departments MIS – Management Information Systems. In the same way, Management Information Systems were tools. Under MIS, data warehouses and data mining extracted useful, perceptive reports. Managers still guided their businesses at a very granular, tactical level. Whenever there was severe economic pressure, such as the recession of 1992, the middle managers responsible for tactical decisions got pink slips.

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Extending intranets to hard-to-reach staff: Controlled documents kiosk example

ChiefTech

This Intranet Benchmarking Forum (IBF) post about meeting the needs of hard-to-reach staff reminded me of a kiosk system that was developed on top of an electronic document and records management system at Illawarra Coal (part of BHPB Billiton ) – I was part of the team that helped to implement the system and came up with the conceptual design of the intranet publishing architecture from this system.

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Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server: a next generation of deeper, wider content silos? | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Enterprise software Linux Microsoft Office Open source Software as a service Virtualization Web browsers Windows 7 4G Android BlackBerry iPhone Smartphones Malware Patches Vulnerabilities McAfee Symantec Zero Day Blog Forrester Galleries IT Failures TechRepublic Pro Reviews White Papers Videos Podcasts Special Reports Apple WWDC 10 Apples top-notch security has managed to keep its new gear out of bars and the contents of. However, archiving and managing mature content is one thing.

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Office 2.0 Conference September 3-5 | ZDNet

Collaboration 2.0

Enterprise software Linux Microsoft Office Open source Software as a service Virtualization Web browsers Windows 7 4G Android BlackBerry iPhone Smartphones Malware Patches Vulnerabilities McAfee Symantec Zero Day Blog Forrester Galleries IT Failures TechRepublic Pro Reviews White Papers Videos Podcasts Special Reports Apple WWDC 10 Apples top-notch security has managed to keep its new gear out of bars and the contents of.