When: March 3 – April 13, 2025 (6 weeks)
Where: Online, asynchronous (see more info)
Cost: $275 (10% discount if you register 2 weeks in advance!)
CE Credit: 2.0 CEUs / 20 LEUs
Program #: 315425
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Records and information management (RIM) can seem intimidating to many archivists and other information professionals, who may not have worked on active or semi-active records on an organizational scale. However, RIM principles are increasingly useful in a world where early intervention in records creation and management can make all the difference in creating usable collections—or potentially any at all. This course will introduce learners to the principles of records management and give them the tools they need to develop and implement effective records management policies at their own libraries.
Learners will be able to:
- Understand the principles and practices of records management
- Establish or continue a records management program
- Connect a records management program to other information work, even in non institutional sessions
- Develop policies, schedules, and tools that can be put to use in real-life records management practice
Course Audience: Archivists, Librarians, and other Information Professionals with no or minimal experience with applying records management in an institutional environment. Because of the instructor’s work experience, there will be a heavy focus on public-sector records management, but private-sector will be addressed as well.
Instructor
Brad Houston is Document Services Manager and City Records Officer for the City of Milwaukee, where he manages the City’s records management program, its physical inactive records storage facility, and its imaging and electronic document preservation systems. Before coming to the City in 2017, he worked as records manager and university records officer for the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee for a decade, where he initiated the university archives’ electronic records program. He has been performing records management work or consulting at various other institutions, including the federal Executive Office of the President, for 17 years this September. He is past chair of the Society of American Archivists’ (SAA) Record Management Roundtable, current chair of the SAA Committee on Public Policy, and is active within the Midwest Archives Conference (MAC) and National Association of Government Archivists and Records Administrators (NAGARA). Brad lives in Milwaukee with his wife, son, and cocker spaniel mix.