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"Carol E.B. Choksy, Ph.D., CRM" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 29 May 2006 12:18:26 -0400
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This is a great discussion and one that is very timely. As the person in charge of strategic planning for 2006-07, I am particularly interested.

I have heard a lot of different things from members: 
we are records managers, 
ARMA is the nexus for the profession of records management, 
we want to see records management be considered a valuable and indisposable tool in every organization.

Do you have any more suggestions? 

My own opinions:
We don't manage all forms of information because we don't create and administer databases and we are not responsible for getting what is in people's heads into databases or on paper. We manage documents in the broad sense (see Michael Buckland's excellent articles on this--a database can be considered a document). The term "administrator" is a holdover from about 50 to 60 years ago when government managers were called "administrators" to distinguish them from managers (problems with that concept as well). However, we are not listed as a job title by the government, even as records administrators, we are a subset of "analysts" according to government classifications. 

I do believe ARMA is and should be the starting point for any inquiry into records management--we are the nexus, after all (please note that Lexis-Nexis is spelled differently--I have no idea what a "nexis" is).  

Please let me know what you think either through the listserv, through the forum or through a private email.

Best wishes,
Carol

Carol E.B. Choksy, Ph.D., CRM
CEO
IRAD Strategic Consulting, Inc.
(317)294-8329

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

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