Dear Richard
I hope you are keeping well. I have read your call with interest, and I
would like to suggest that there are several RIM professionals who do
not subscribe to this list who would be able to make an interesting
contribution, particularly from the international perspective. Ineke
Deserno, in particular, has done some very interesting work on merging
these three programs in her work at the WHO in Geneva. Her email is:
[log in to unmask] . In addition, there are many RIM
professionals and consultants here in Australia who would be able to
write up such case studies. Two who spring immediately to mind are
Helen Onopko ([log in to unmask]) and Jan Fisher
([log in to unmask]). I think it would be very useful
to ask ARMA if they can send out your request to all their members,
which they could do via their newsletter, and post this information on
their webpage. You might also like to send this information to the RMAA
and RMS, as well as all the archivist associations with which you are
already familiar.
I am sure you have already considered combining all such contributions
into a book. Perhaps ARMA would publish it - it would provide an
invaluable resource for practitioners and students, in my view.
All the best
Sue
Sue Myburgh
University of South Australia
Adelaide
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Subject: A Call for Case Studies
In undertaking a study for the ARMA International Educational
Foundation, I have found that the case study literature on the
establishing and sustaining of archives, records, and information
management programs is sparse in coverage, uneven in quality, and in
need of vast improvement. I will be making a report on my work at the
forthcoming ARMA conference in Chicago. My own report will be published
electronically, pending review and acceptance, at a later date by the
Foundation.
In my capacity as Editor of the Records & Information Management Report,
a technical report published 10 times a year by M.E. Sharpe, I am
issuing a call to individuals or teams interested in writing such case
studies for this publication. Authors are well compensated for essays
in the 7 to 9,000-word range (25-35 double-spaced pages). I am issuing
this call to archivists, records, and information managers who may have
an interest in writing a case study about their own program; consultants
who either can make anonymous a report or who have permission to publish
an institutional study; faculty who have been engaged in research about
particular institutional cases; and graduate students who have prepared
case studies as part of course research assignments. I am hoping to
publish not just substantial studies but to feature good stories that
can serve as models and guides for the developing and strengthening of
archives, records, and information management programs.
I am looking for essays describing the origins and subsequent
development of archives, records management, and information management
programs that provide details of the successes, failures, challenges,
issues, obstacles, and lessons learned about the nature of these
programs and their contributions to their organizations and society.
Case studies about these programs in a variety of organizational
settings - corporations, universities and colleges, cultural
institutions, all levels of governments - are welcome and encouraged.
The aim should be to contribute to advancing the profession's knowledge
about why they are established, how they evolve, and what factors play a
role in their success or failure. Ideally, I am looking for assessments
done by individuals on the outside of these programs, but I am open to
balanced accounts by individuals associated with these programs as well.
I am not interested in essays merely promoting a program or
organization.
Authors can explore these topics using any methodology they believe is
appropriate (such as historical case study), as long as the program is
described in a manner enabling the field to discern factors affecting
these programs' origins and subsequent development. Each case study
should describe a real situation, possess a solid methodological
approach, include appropriate citations, and draw on real data (ranging
from archival documentation to interviews). My short-term aim is to
strengthen the field's understanding of how archives, records, and
information management programs are established, what affects their
evolution, and what influences their success and failure. My long-term
aim is to draw together these essays into a single volume that can be
used to advance our understanding of the nature of these programs,
teasing out principles and developing a working set of factors that
provides a stronger theoretical or conceptual base for predicting
success in these program!
s.
Anyone interested in proposing a case study should feel free to contact
me. I will be happy to provide comment on any proposal or to review an
existing manuscript. Individuals should follow the most recent edition
of the Chicago Manual of Style in preparing citations and
bibliographies. I also will be happy to send a sample issue of the
Records & Information Management Report to anyone contemplating
preparing a case study.
--
Richard J. Cox
Professor
Department of Library and Information Sciences
School of Information Sciences
University of Pittsburgh
Editor, Records & Information Management Report
Society of American Archivists Publications Editor
Pittsburgh, PA 15260
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