Dear RM listserv,
Next year will be the 25th anniversary of
the foundation of the Records Management Society.
To celebrate we are taking the 2008 annual conference
to Edinburgh.
We will be in the Edinburgh Sheraton, a stunning spa hotel in the centre of one
of the most scenic, historic and vibrant cities in Europe.
The conference runs from the evening of Sunday 20 April to Tuesday 22 April, so please put those dates in your
diary!
The theme for the conference will be:
Records
Management: The State of the Art
Indicative session titles and contents are:
The 21st
century records manager
- Spreading records
management literacy inside your organisation
- Managing networks of
records management champions
- Influencing skills
and managing change
EDRM and beyond:
- Practitioners’
experience in managing records with EDRM, and without EDRM
- The integration of
EDRM with other types of information system
- Where is EDRM going?
Learning from other
sectors
Your chance to learn what is going on with records
management in other sectors of the economy:
- Private Sector
(Financial Services, Pharmaceutical, Oil and Gas, Construction)
- Central Government,
- Local Government
- Higher Education
Key debates in
records management
- Is the jury still
out on EDRM?
- Will search do away
with the need for classification?
- How relevant and
useful is recent academic research into records management?
Being in Scotland’s capital will also
allow us the opportunity for site visits to see how some of the nation’s
most important institutions are tackling their records management challenges.
Keep the 19 to 21 April 2008 clear. And if
there is anyone you would particularly like to hear speak at Conference, or
burning topics you would like to hear discussed, then please let me know!
With best wishes
James
On behalf of the RMS Conference Committee
James Lappin,
Roger Gajadhar, Paul Dodgson, Robin Smith, Heather Jack, Alison North
