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The new International Records Management Standard, ISO 15489-1 and ISO TR 15489-2 and, What is Records Management?



Dear Colleagues:

 

With the recent release of the new International Records Management Standard, ISO 15489-1 and ISO TR 15489-2 at the recent ARMA Conference and Expo in Montreal, Canada on September 30 - October 3, 2001 it may be time to readdress, what a record is.

 

I have, based on presentations made at the December 3 - 6, 2000 Australian RMAA Convention in Sydney “Bridging the Gap”, put pen to paper, or keyboard to screen and documented what I believe Records Management is.

 

The Toronto Chapter of ARMA International, published the article in their June 2001 Newsletter TORONTO HI-LITES which is available online at http://www.armatoronto.on.ca/docs/Newsletter_June_2001.pdf page 5. You may care to visit the site.

 

In a discussion with one of Australia’s providers of Records and Information Management software solutions in the past few days, their representative was of the opinion that greater funding and a higher exposure of the profile of Records Managers is evident to him and his Company out in the market.

 

WHY? Has RM suddenly become flavor of the month, OR ARE WE DREAMIING AGAIN?

 

The same person commented that the process, in his opinion, is still being driven by the IT section but due to past BLUNDERS, sorry, slight undershoots of the goals set by wholly IT driven initiatives, he is seeing RM types being brought in at the early pre-evaluation stage of the process. His comment was that it was all about Knowledge Management “KM” and that the core, or basis for KM was, GUESS WHAT? RM “Records Management”.

 

The Australian Standard, AS 4390 (1996) has been a great help here in Australia and the region and to a lesser extent, I am advised, overseas, in lifting the profile of RM in the eyes of our IT colleagues and to a lesser extent, Management.

 

Is the International Standard, ISO 15489-1 and ISO TR 15489-2 going to bring another level of sophistication to our profession and an enlightenment to the IT and Management masses so as to improve RM’s position to the betterment of all organizations Government or Private?

 

Time will tell, and I am an OPTIMIST.

 

Regards, Laurie

 

Mr Daniel Lawrance [Laurie] Varendorff, ARMA

 

Consultant/Trainer/Tutor/Presenter: Records and information Management

Imaging and Micrographic Specialist with 25 years experience

 

The Varendorff Consultancy

 

ABN: 77 836 801 165

27 Ronneby Rd, Lesmurdie, Western Australia 6076 - AUSTRALIA

 

PHONE: +61 8 9291 6925 - MOBILE: +61 0417 094 147

EMAIL: Laurie.Varendorff@Bigpond.com