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*** APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING *** 1. Final AC+erm Colloquium - Witness Seminar Last Thursday (5th March), we held the last in our series of project colloquia as a Witness Seminar called Transforming Information & Records Management through Research & Development <http://acerm-colloquium.eventbrite.com/> . A group of 50 delegates and witnesses discussed and debated the links and synergies, actual and desired, between research and practice in the field of Records and Information Management. The event was structured around three sessions - two seminars led by panels of expert 'witnesses', and a forum for general discussion. Witnesses for the first seminar panel were drawn from the academic world, and for the second, from the practitioner world; each panel was introduced by chairs from the 'opposite' arena. After the witnesses delivered their statements in each seminar, the discussion was opened to delegates. The final session was devoted purely to discussion and thought about future directions of research in recordkeeping. The constitution of the panels was as follows: Seminar 1 - The transforming capacity of research & development: Academic perspectives Chair: Adrian Cunningham Witnesses: Steve Bailey; Sue Childs; Elizabeth Lomas; Dr Alison Pickard Seminar 2 - The transforming capacity of research & development: Practitioner perspectives Chair: Catherine Hare Witnesses: Dr David Bowen; Chris Campbell; Maria Luisa Di Biagio; Paul Dodgson; John McDonald; Andrew Snowden Discussion Chair - Prof Michael Moss We are in the process of preparing the formal proceedings of the colloquium for publication; in the meanwhile, we have now posted the speaker biographies and Witness Statements to our website. Access to the document is via the following link: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/static/5007/ceispdf/statements.pdf The audio files of the chairs' and witnesses' speeches will shortly be added to the website, and we are also in the process of producing transcripts of the discussions, which will be included in the published proceedings. 2. Vignettes We have also put up the final versions of the various vignettes developed in the course of the project on our website: http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/re/isrc/themes/rmarea/erm/ diss/vig_diss/ The purpose of the vignettes is not only to provide ready-made tools for use (though many of them can be treated in this manner), but also to suggest models or templates for building tools whose content can be tailored to suit a given context. The vignettes are of seven types: fridge magnets; phenomenological analyses; rich pictures; Snakes and Ladders game; narrative story; videos; mind maps; and word clouds. More detailed explanations of the tools, along with suggestions for use, are included in the documents on the website. Rachel Hardiman, BA (Hons), MSc On behalf of the AC+erm Project Team School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences Northumbria University Room 247 Pandon Building Camden Street Newcastle upon Tyne NE2 1XE Tel: 0191 243 7650 e-mail: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> AC+erm Project website: www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm AC+erm Project blog: http://www.acerm.blogspot.com/ <http://www.acerm.blogspot.com/> AC+erm Project on Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/Northumbria_RM <http://www.twitter.com/Northumbria_RM> For any technical queries re JISC please email [log in to unmask] For any content based queries, please email [log in to unmask]