Educational Resources

Generally Accepted Recordkeeping Principles

Records and recordkeeping are inextricably linked with any organized activity. It is only through the information an organization records in the normal course of business that it can know what it has done and effectively plan what it will do in the future. As a key resource in the operation of any organization, records must be created, organized, secured, maintained, and used in a way that effectively supports the activity of that organization, including:

Facilitating and sustaining day-to-day operations
Supporting predictive activities such as budgeting and planning
Assisting in answering questions about past decisions and activities
Demonstrating and documenting compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and standards

Download the full GARP manual here.

Records Management for Local Government

Nov 09, 2009 - Vancouver Island Conference Centre - Nanaimo

Customizing Your Classification - Jon Weston

Overview of a Municipal RIM Implementation Project (including City of Colwood case study) - Jon Weston

File Tracking and Color Labeling - Jon Weston

Sustainability in RIM Programs - Sandie Bradley

RIM As Cost Savings - Sandie Bradley

2009 ARMA International Conference Sessions

In economic times like these, travel budgets can be difficult to come by. But the education available at the ARMA International Conference & Expo is second to none, helping information management professionals to overcome difficult challenges quickly. Some of the most popular sessions have been captured and are available for purchase. More titles will be added to this link as they become available. You can purchase each of these available titles for the member price of $125. For more information on multiple session purchase discounts, please click here.

Here is a listing of sessions available for purchase to date:

Implementing an Electronic Document and Records Management Project - Margaret Anderson, CRM
From Records Management to Information Risk Management - Patrick Cunningham, CRM, FAI
Business Processes for the Facebook Generation - Andrew Hoffman
Legal Developments Since the Revised Federal Rules in a Web 2.0 World - John Isaza
Protecting Your Hosted Records: Third Party Due Diligence - Sheri Nystedt, CRM
Law Firm Records Management - Andrew J. SanAgustin
Marketing Your RIM Program - Jason Stearns, CRM
Measuring the Performance of Your RIM Strategy - Sheila Taylor, CRM
EDM Reference Model: Improving Document Storage and Sharing - Gordon Workman

Introductory Records and Information Management (RIM) 1/2-Day Seminar materials

File Tracking and Metadata - Jon Weston

Colwood Case Study - Jon Weston

Main RM Training presentation - Ann Cummings & Ken Oldenburger

Future Evidence, Past Record 2008 Conference materials

AR1 (Michael O'Shea): Records & Archives

AR2 (Stuart Rennie): RIM & Local Governments

AR4 (Ken Oldenburger): Classification Samples

AR4 (Ken Oldenburger): Classifications

AR5 (Vigi Gurushanta): eRecords as Evidence

AR6 (Ann Cummings): Gauging the Health of Your RM Program - Handout

AR6 (Ann Cummings): Gauging the Health of Your RM Program - Slides

AR7 (James Findlay): Introduction to URM

Misc Whitepapers and such

Everything is Miscellaneous - 60 minute Google TechTalk with David Weinberger David Weinberger, whose book covers the breakdown of the established order of ordering. He explains how methods of categorization designed for physical objects fail when we can instead put things in multiple categories at once, and search them in many ways. This is no dry book on taxonomy, but has the insight and wit you'd expect from the author of The Cluetrain Manifesto, Small Pieces Loosely Joined, and a former writer for Woody Allen. David Weinberger was the opening speaker at the 2008 ARMA International Conference.

Links

ARMA International Educational Foundation
ARMA's RIM Core Competency Self-Assessment Tool