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Courtyard of Tranquility, Lan Su Chinese Garden, Portland, Oregon, 26 July 2017. What follows is a quick stab at outlining a few ideas t...

Last November, President Obama issued a memorandum that marked the start of a sweeping effort to reform federal records management practice...

A few things you might have missed: Late last month, President Obama issued a memorandum directing each federal government agency to perfor...

If you're searching for low-cost professional development opportunities, trying to figure out how to manage and preserve social media co...

As you know, on 12 January 2010, an earthquake wreaked havoc on Haiti. Approximately a quarter of a million people died, countless others s...

If your employer's records management directives start looking like this, polish your resume and start looking for a new job: you need...

Market Street Bridge over the Susquehanna River, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 12 November 2010. The Ionic columns at the entrance of the bridg...

Last week, David Ferriero, the new Archivist of the United States, delivered his first State of the Archives address. I was particularly ch...

Yesterday afternoon, I attended the “Security: Protecting All That Data” session, in which Simon Hunt of McAfee outlined how to implement ...

Last year, the New York State Archives co-sponsored a series of electronic records symposia that highlighted how local governments and stat...

Earlier today, Computerworld posted an interesting piece speculating that requests for information about the lending practices of failed ...

Today, I attended Taming the Wild Frontier: EDMS Implementations for State and Local Government , one of an ongoing series of electronic re...