Good afternoon, dear colleagues!

 

I wanted to report to you about an experiment I did in my records management
class this semester. In the past the records management class at the School
of Library and Information Science (soon to merge with the School of
Informatics) at Indiana University, Bloomington focused on retention
schedules. Because I was able to separate the legal research and taxonomy
into two other classes, that meant I could teach a very different
introductory course. I decided to use The PrinciplesR and the Information
Governance Maturity Matrix as the basis for the class. The results have been
wonderful. Each student had to choose a small organization, at least 10
employees, and perform an assessment over the course of the semester using
The PrinciplesR and the Information Governance Maturity Matrix. I just
finished grading the second set of papers they did on the assessment and I
am happy to say that I believe they learned a great deal more than with the
previous syllabus. I also had the students create a disaster recovery plan
for their organizations using Ginny Jones latest revision of her fabulous
book, Emergency Management. Again, the students did a great job. The reason
we use real world examples is two-fold, they get real-world experience, and
we give back to a part of the community, small companies and non-profits
that would not be able to afford such expertise.

 

To ensure the students get a well-rounded picture, I also have them read ISO
15489 and then they have to write a paper comparing The PrinciplesR with ISO
15489. I have yet to grade those papers.

 

I know we are not all happy with The PrinciplesR and I do not teach them as
if they had no problems. For example, if your company is really at a Level
3, you are in deep guano because you have a lot of the materials to make you
great, but for the most part you have not executed against it-is it better
to have a retention schedule and not follow it or to have no retention
schedule at all? The PrinciplesR provide a high-level framework for records
management for students the same way they do for executives, but do not
substitute for a lot of the detailed analyses, recommendations, and
implementations we do.

 

Happy whatever holiday you celebrate-for us it's Mithra's birthday, and a
Happy New Year!!!!!!

Carol

 

Carol E.B. Choksy, PhD CRM PMP

CEO

IRAD Strategic Consulting, Inc.

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Adjunct Lecturer

School of Library and Information Science

Indiana University, Bloomington

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