Hello All, I support the idea of a flagship RM peer-reviewed journal for
North America. As an untenured professor with a publish or perish mandate,
I do not seem to have an obvious community of academic peers to whom I can
submit my writing and a venue where the NA writing and discourse can unfold.
Rather, I have been finding that I need to submit my academic writing on RM
to other communities of peers and somehow read deeply enough in their
literature that I can morph my ideas on RM into something that speaks to
their community. This often broadens their field of vision, but does
nothing to strengthen the core RM discipline. So, I cannot emphasize enough
how important it is to create a journal dedicated to RM.
That being said, "there's more than one way to skin a cat" as they say, and
being pragmatic by nature, I'd recommend that members of this listserv
approach the editors of the key NA journals already mentioned in this em
chain to see if they might be willing to take up our call. That is,
journals that already exist could be co-opted to serve the purpose that we
need with a little support and a shift or broadening of focus from the
editors. If nothing else, the competition might place a little more
pressure on the ARMA board to step up to the plate. A special issue on RM
might be the place to start for any journal interested in responding to our
need - a call for papers could be issued to this very listserv. And judging
from the discussion, I'm sure it would be answered.
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From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
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Subject: Re: Professional RM journals
Well said, Luciana. I will gladly compile the comments related to this topic
and send them on to ARMA's board.
Jesse, as an ARMA Board Member, perhaps you can also bring this issue to the
Board for their consideration?
The journal would complement ARMA's renewed interest in higher education as
evidenced by GARP (principles for the profession), the renewal of the higher
ed. committee (formerly higher ed. task force) and the recent work of the
AIEF (ARMA International Education Foundation). The AIEF already has a
review process in place for grant applications. Perhaps this may be the
vehicle to oversee a peer-reviewed journal or at least a model for how we
might approach the task?
One of the most important points you made in my opinion, Luciana, is the
need for one "flagship scholarly journal." I am familiar with the other
publications mentioned, but there is still room for a scholarly records
management journal coming out of the US and Canada. If ARMA does not take
the lead on this, we may want to find another means to accomplish this task.
But it would be good to present this request to ARMA first.
Pat
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-----Original Message-----
From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Luciana Duranti
Sent: Sunday, November 29, 2009 11:43 AM
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Subject: Re: [RM] Professional RM journals
Dear Pat, Mike, Jesse, Carol, and all:
I would like to support Pat Frank's call for a peer-reviewed scholarly
records management journal and I would like to urge ARMA to take the
initiative. The need for such a journal can be easy established by carrying
out a survey of academics in the RM field. There are many scholars of
records management who would be eager to publish in such a journal, starting
with myself.
I disagree that the reason for the absence of a records management journal
is the lack of records management programs in academia.
Indeed, the journal Archivaria was created and had acquired a reputation as
a scholarly journal before any archival program ever existed in Canada, and
the discussion about the need for graduate archival education that occurred
in its pages, by getting the attention of academia, was one of the reasons
why the first autonomous graduate archival program was developed in Canada
in 1981. [Now we teach at least 4 courses focused on RM, in addition to
archival courses, and are on our way to creating a RM stream.]
Although RM scholars can and do publish in the peer-reviewed journals with a
complementary focus (mostly archival journals rather than information
science journal)--like Carol says--a journal that is primarily the scholarly
expression of the RM field makes its identity stronger, supports the
intellectual development of its professionals, fosters the growth of
dedicated graduate programs, and nurtures the development of new knowledge
by focusing the scholarly debate on RM theory and methods, concepts,
principles, ethical and legal issues, etc.
In other words, it is not a matter for us academics in RM of finding a
peer-refereed journal in which to publish (plenty of those...my stuff is all
over the place and nowhere in particular); it is a matter for RM
professionals of having a primary point of reference for the scholarly
debate in their field (one cannot expect every professional to have a
subscription to 10 journals in the hope of finding one relevant article in
each issue of each journal, or to search catalogues of book titles without
having the opportunity of reading a review written by a scholar in the RM
field); it is a matter for the RM discussion of being enhanced by its
concentration in one forum, and it is a matter for the RM field as a whole
of being represented to the world of academia and business as a distinctive
area of intellectual endeavor by a flagship scholarly journal.
Thanks Jesse for raising this issue once more. I hope ARMA will start
listening.
Luciana
Dr. Luciana Duranti
Chair and Professor, Archival Studies
Director, The InterPARES Project www.interpares.org Director, Digital
Records Forensics Project www.digitalrecordsforensics.org School of Library,
Archival and Information Studies www.slais.ubc.ca The University of British
Columbia The Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Suite 470, 1961 East Mall
Vancouver, British Columbia V6T 1Z1 CANADA
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