Not to burst any pretty balloons, but we have thought about this for years.
ARMA did try, using Michael Pemberton's considerable skills to make the IMJ
into a peer-reviewed journal. During my time as president-elect and
president, I discussed this at length with many different individuals and we
all concluded that ARMA is not the place to do this. A peer-reviewed journal
is better created and nurtured in the academic environment. Part of the
problem we have is that records management has been the poor step-sister of
archives in academia. Most of the people who teach records management at the
graduate level are archivists, not records managers, many of us who are
records managers are not tenure-track faculty, so a journal is a long shot.

There is another trend in academia for journals to be less focused on
"discipline" or "profession" and to be sources of cross-pollination--one of
the reasons someone as talented as Luciana is so widely published. Records
management is both cursed and blessed to be an area that does not really fit
neatly into any academic or professional category. The fact that I deal
regularly with chief quality executives, legal counsel, and the CIO are good
examples of this issue. The diversity of the needs of records management is
also probably its strength in attracting and keeping many people whom I
consider the best and the brightest. 

I think we're gonna be fine!
Carol

Carol E.B. Choksy, Ph.D., CRM, PMP

CEO

IRAD Strategic Consulting, Inc.
(317) 294-8329

Adjunct Lecturer
School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, Bloomington

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