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Records Management Seminar

Date: Thursday, 26 February 2004
Venue: The Meeting Place, 153 Drummond Street, London NW1 2PB
Cost: £129.25 per participant (incl. VAT at 17.5%)  

This training course is intended for records management practitioners who are seeking to deepen their knowledge of specific key elements of the records management function. It also provides an opportunity to network with other professionals in the field. It builds on the Introduction to Records Management session in the Basic Archive Skills Training Day and on the Records Management and Digital Records training course. It assumes reasonable knowledge and experience of organizational records management programmes.

The seminar examines four key areas of records management:

• Legal issues, focusing on Data Protection and Freedom of Information but including other legislation affecting records management.
• Records Management standards, covered in a practical exercise designed to develop audit tools for RM programmes.
• Appraisal and retention scheduling, examined in a workshop; to ensure maximum benefit participants should bring examples of lists of file series or record survey documentation.
• Vital records management and business continuity planning.

The seminar advocates managing all records according to the same principles regardless of media so there is no separate coverage of digital records. Therefore a short info-byte highlighting the main considerations in managing records series across media is also included.

The course trainers are Janet Foster and Margaret Crockett of the Archive-Skills Consultancy, who will lead and facilitate a mixture of presentations and workshops in a highly participative course.

The course fee of £129.25 (incl. VAT) includes course notes and useful sources for further information. The fee also includes lunch (with vegetarian option; please let the directors know if you have any other special dietary needs) and tea and coffee.