RE: Sector representation - first steps?
As a recruiter working across all the various 'domains' of
information management work, including archives, records, information
management, libraries and KM, it has been striking to see the amount of 'navel
gazing' across all of the areas in the past couple of months on exactly this
topic - does 'the information profession' have a voice in the 'outside world'? -
who would the public/government/employers think of (if anyone) as our
representative? - what is the definitive qualification to show someone is
capable and credible in these roles?
For example, last week at the LMLAG conference (a group for
Librarians & Archivists working in Museums in case you were scratching your
head!) the topic of the day, for around 250 delegates, was all about
collaboration and convergence and the comment was made by more than one speaker
that 'users can't tell the difference' between a curator, archivist or
librarian. I'm sure the same applies in government or corporate
organisations where users can't see the point of separating information
governance/security, records management, management information systems,
information management, content/web/intranet management or knowledge
management!
Apart from discussion on lists like this one, or at
conferences, I think we need to get this issue onto the agendas of the
various Committees, Exectutive bodies, CEO's, Presidents (or other organising
groups or people!!), and push for them to start talking to each other about how
to 'collaborate or converge' - so those who are members of AIIM, SoA, CILIP,
RMS, ARMA, etc, etc could perhaps alert their respective managing people to this
thread or others like it and ask them to take action?
Nicola
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All
Well, we've talked at length, we've argued and in
some cases we have done our pitch. The question is have we really got anywhere?
The answer, I think, is probably no. I suppose this reflects, at least in GB,
the Educational, Local Authority and Central Government bias of the list, we all
do good meetings. I expect we will have the same discussion in 2010.
It's
good to see the archivists getting some sort of act together with the memorandum
of understanding between their various organisations. I like to think of myself
as a modern Records Manager not an archivist. My main involvement with the
archives is to pass them the stuff that the organisation no longer needs to
keep, but retains some sort of historical value. This may be a bit of a "one
eyed" view, but as a previous person said modern RM leans towards ICT and
Corporate/Information Governance. I take my lead from them. I am not part of the
archival function.
This list is a records management list, I think
the archive people have their own list, do they have the same type of
discussions? Neither am I a library person (although I absolutely love
libraries) do they have the same discussions? Is it just us doing the navel
gazing?
Chris Tinsley MSc
Wiltshire Council
Records,
Information, Knowledge
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Just to clarify re AIIM: we have been established in Europe
for 10 years, have 350 UK/European Professional Members, 12,000 Associate
Members and 90 Trade Members, all involved in Information Management. We offer
training programmes in ECM, Electronic Records Management, Business Process
Management, Email Management, Enterprise 2.0 and Findability. We run members
meetings, monthly webinars and our annual AIIM Roadshow. More UK/European
information at www.aiim.org.uk.
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