On Sat, 26 Jun 2010 12:21:15 -0400, Peter Kurilecz 
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>"Cindy Hepfer, ALA Representative to NISO, has brought to our attention a
>clutch of announcements on new ISO activities. "

I went on the NISO website yesterday, and didn't see anything about these 
drafts on it.  Under the 'International' tab, there was a section for TC46/SC11 
(that's the archives and records management sub-committee)...all it listed 
was that NISO participated in 14589 and 23081.  

2 things are really 'blowing my mind' about this.

1) NISO doesn't have anything on its own website about these standards, nor 
about any recent standards such as 16175, which was fasttracked through 
the process, bypassing the public comments stage (according to the LITA 
blog).  Did you want to comment on the new standard: Principles and 
functional requirements for records in electronic office environments?  You 
couldn't, unless you could get a draft from a representative.

2) The vast body of records management professionals (at least the US ones; 
I'd love to hear if any records mgmt people in other countries are better 
informed!) isn't hearing about internationals standards related to records 
management in a timely fashion from...well, from anyone apparently.

If LITA (which is a division of the American Library Association) allows their 
members to have input on records management standards, which are taken by 
the LITA representative to NISO, then we should have representation as well.  

> Natasha Khramtsovsky wrote: Actually, the news are regulary posted here: 
>http://litablog.org See, for example, http://litablog.org/2010/06/iso-approval-
>ballots/

I like librarians, and wanted to be one at one point...but it doesn't make sense 
that we wouldn't be able to be informed by someone in our own profession.  
We also shouldn't have to rely on the Public Comments section in order to 
make our voices heard.

I DO want to discuss these 2 standards as well and not just the lack of 
communication; that'll have to be a different post!

Kelly Hamilton, CRM
Records Analyst
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