Posts pertaining to Texas state agencies.
When facing the task of recertifying or amending a state agency or public university records retention schedule, whether it is annually, biennially, or most often, quinquennially, there are different metaphors Your Helpful Government Information Analyst may use to think about how the assignment can be approached. Some of the metaphors an analyst might consider are…
Last year, for Valentine’s Day, two analysts in the Records Management Assistance Unit wrote an article titled: 10 Things We Love About Records Management. We wanted to acknowledge ten things that made our hearts flutter as analysts. This year, however, in honor of all the broken hearts this Valentine’s Day, let’s discuss five things that…
There are two things I love most: the holidays and making personal remixes of songs that I love. In honor of both of them I have created a song that combines records and one of the most famous Christmas songs, “The Twelve Days of Christmas.” *In the tune of “The Twelve Days of Christmas“ On…
Thank you for tuning in for the third and final post recapping the e-Records 2023 sessions. Also see our other recap posts. Managing Odd Projects: Tools, Tricks, and Tips for Managing Projects That Don’t Fit a Mold by: Megan Carey Jenn Coast, Project Coordinator at University of Texas at Austin, has lived to tell the…
Thank you for tuning in for the second post recapping the e-Records 2023 sessions. Also see our previous post: e-Records 2023 Session Recap #1 Hiring, Retaining, and Reskilling Your Workforce by: Megan Carey The first session of the day was a panel discussion lead by the self-titled “future of HR” moderator Lisa Jammer (Texas Department…
On Friday, November 3, the annual e-Records Conference returned for the 23rd year with another record turnout. Co-sponsored by TSLAC and the Texas Department of Information Resources, this year we were able to add a third breakout session to the day’s events and increased vendor support with 33 vendors on-site, six more than the previous…
For those of you using shared drives and not advertising shortcuts as a great solution to staff member’s file path and collaboration problems, I would like to ask: Why not? Probably because you have a million other things going on, but shortcuts really are one of the best ways to help staff collaborate on the…
A risk assessment is the practice of evaluating the inherent threats to and weaknesses in a government entity’s records and information. It is a recommended practice to evaluate the protection of your entity’s records in order to mitigate the potential destruction, harm, or loss to the information. While it may seem daunting to conduct a…