Principles of Records Management

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Principles of Records Management

Catalog Description
        Application of systematic and scientific controls to recorded information; life-cycle concepts, legal requirements, and implication of technology, as well as records invetnory, appraisal, classification, retention, and protection.

Course Objectives
        By the end of the course, the student will be able to

        Distinguish between a document, a database, or knowledge in employees heads as it relates to records management
        Describe how information technology relates to documents creation and retention,
        Describe how employee work habits can undermine the best organization of information or search tools
        Discuss business processes, business continuity, and storage architecture as they relate to records creation and management
        Discuss statutes, regulations, the litigation process, disaster recovery as they relate to records retention

Topics Covered
        Definition and history of records management
        Media, Readability, Durability, Conversions, Authenticity
        Preservation, Conversion, Destruction, Definition of a document and a record
        Document architecture, Metadata, Indexing/Tagging
        Organizing information, Security and privacy, Classification and taxonomies
        Life cycles, Copies, Business processes, Records in networks, EIA and UML
        Statutes, regulations, the rules of evidence, court cases and eDiscovery
        Electronic records in records management