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- Description
- Table of Contents
- About the authors
This book explores how an understanding of organizational information culture provides the insight necessary for the development and promotion of sound recordkeeping practices. It details an innovative framework for analyzing and assessing information culture that can be used to develop recordkeeping practices aligned with the specific characteristics of any workplace. LIS students taking archives and records management courses will benefit from the application of theory into practice, while records management and information management educators will find the ideas and approaches discussed in this book useful to add an information culture perspective to their curricula.
1. Background and context
The concept of information culture
Underlying theory
The information culture assessment framework
Why information culture?
Summary and conclusions
Notes
References
2. The value accorded to records
Cultural influences
Attitudes and behaviours
Records management infrastructure
IT usage: The EDRMS challenge
Assessment techniques
Next steps
Summary and conclusions
Note
References
3. Information preferences
Words or pictures?
Sharing information
Assessment techniques
Next steps
Summary and conclusions
References
4. Language considerations and regional technological infrastructure
Language as a social fact
Dealing with your organization’s broader technological context
Assessment techniques
Next steps
Summary and conclusions
Note
References
5. Information-related competencies
The training imperative
Information-related competencies
Assessment techniques
Next steps
Summary and conclusions
References
6. Awareness of environmental requirements relating to records
Researching recordkeeping requirements
Other requirements
How to do it
Organizational policy
Assessment techniques
Next steps
Summary and conclusions
Notes
References
7. Corporate information technology governance
Information governance
Information architecture
Security
Cloud computing
Assessment techniques
Next steps
Summary and conclusions
References
8. Trust in recordkeeping systems
Trust and trustworthiness
Audit
Mistrust
Ethical practice
Assessment techniques
Next steps
Summary and conclusions
References
9. Bringing it all together
Soft systems methodology
The genre approach
Assessment techniques
Next steps
Summary and conclusions
Note
References.