Julia Caruso’s talk, “Pitfalls and Positives of eWorkflows, eSignatures, and eStoarage,” was a treasure trove of the do’s and don’ts for implementing a new electronic database system. Her program was one of the longest programs for a reason — the materialization of a new database must be well thought out and it is imperative that…
Commvault’s Senior Director of Engineering, David Langley, presented “Data Protection and Information Governance Across Data Silos” at the e-Records 2019 Conference on November 15, 2019. Check out a few highlights from this presentation below, view the slides, and explore some of the other topics that were covered during this year’s conference. Commvault’s Main Takeaways Use data management…
The National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators held their annual conference in St. Paul, Minnesota July 18-20. SLRM was fortunate to be able to send four staff this year. In addition to myself, Senior Government Information Analysts Megan Carey, Bonnie Zuber and Erica Wilson-Lang attended as well. The opening night reception was held…
If you are looking to enter the field or make a transition into records and information management, the State and Local Records Management (SLRM) division is looking to fill positions for three government information analysts and one administrative assistant. Check out the formal job descriptions for these opportunities and links to apply on our agency’s…
This is a guest post by Reference Librarian Mackenzie Ryan from TSLAC’s ARIS division. As part of a wider effort to reorganize and manage the Archives and Information Services (ARIS) division’s shared drive, a committee was formed, and department representatives were assigned to create and implement plans to reorganize and clean up their department’s shared…
You don’t have to – and probably shouldn’t! – use the trendy KonMari method of cleaning and organizing when it comes to managing government records. We can’t exactly apply the principle of whether or not a record ‘sparks joy’, because if that were the case, the public would be very upset about how much we…
At the eRecords Conference, a diverse group of RMOs and records managers from the State Agency Coordinating Committee (SACC) Records Management Subcommittee joined up to have a conversation about how they are tackling records management issues and preservation in their respective agencies. Moderator Christi Brisky from the Department of Information Resources was joined by panelists…
At this year’s e-Records conference, we hosted Access Science’s Lisa Cromwell and Amelia Johnson who showed us how to use assessments to engage our organizations. Both stressed the need to continually reassess business operations in an open empathetic way. Assessments are more than just surveys – those can be helpful – but what is really…