SLA Division Cabinet Chairs (Past Division Cabinet Chair Tom Rink, Division Cabinet Chair-Elect Mary Ellen Bates, and Division Cabinet Chair Ann Sweeney) announce the approved formation of the Records Management Section of the Knowledge Management Division. The SLA Board of Directors was informed of this action during its August 12 monthly conference call.
The Knowledge Management Division Chair Karen Huffman coordinated the creation of this new section with the Division Cabinet and presented the petition with more than the required number of division members' signatures to the Division Cabinet Chairs.
The new section, to be chaired by Judy Field, has this scope note: The Records Management Section focuses on the characteristics and processes through which organizations manage the full knowledge cycle of records in all formats including the creation, organization, sharing, storing and either preservation or disposal.
If you are currently a member of the Knowledge Management Division, you may add the section at no charge. To add the Knowledge Management Division to your existing membership, go to the Change/Add Units Form. If you are not currently an SLA member, please join.
Thank you for the guidance and framework you all gave for working through this process for our division.
Posted by: Karen Huffman | 21 August 2010 at 05:42 PM
Thank you for recognizing that Records Management is the first cousin to Library work. I was a Librarian for 15 years and have been a federal government Records Manager for 17 years. The work requires the same skill set applied to different disciplines. On the whole, if done correctly, I have found that Records Management is much more compicated than Library work.
Posted by: Bonnie Capito | 24 August 2010 at 04:48 PM