Thanks, Sue -- feel free to send my posting to anyone you think would be interested or, for that matter, to repost anywhere. BTW, I enjoyed your book, and I have told the Society of American Archivists to carry it in its publications catalog; I have written a review of it for RIMR that will be out in the October issue. Interesting effort -- congrats.
--
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
Voice: 412-624-3245
FAX: 412-648-7001
e-mail: [log in to unmask]
homepage: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/%7Ercox/
> 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
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Richard Cox
> Sent: Wednesday, 13 July 2005 6:43 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 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
>
> Voice: 412-624-3245
>
> FAX: 412-648-7001
>
> e-mail: [log in to unmask]
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> homepage: http://www2.sis.pitt.edu/%7Ercox/
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