With over 260 participants, and led by the fabulous and insightful Trevor Owens and Chris Prom, this year’s SAA RMS Records Management Month Colloquium was a success! Thanks so much to everyone involved. You can access Trevor’s and Chris’s slides here ..read more

Join us for the annual Records Management Colloquium (virtual)! Register here. This year we will be highlighting two leaders in information management (and two wonderful humans) as they reflect on digital preservation and email archiving and their relationships to records management: Christopher Prom, author of The Future of Email Archives and Trevor Owens, author of The Theory and Craft of Digital Preservation. We look forward to your attendance ..read more

Join us Monday, March 11th, 2024, at 3 pm EST, for “Records Management and Institutional Change”.  Sophia McGuire, Records Management Analyst, City of Gahanna, Jennifer Motszko, Head of Archives at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater, and Autumn Oakey, Library Assistant at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater will share their experiences navigating institutional change. They will discuss staff turnover, training, and other strategies they have experimented with during times of change. They will then open the meeting to attendees so everyone can tackle questions and share persona ..read more

Join us February 5th, 2024, at 3pm EST, for “From Chaos to Control: Building a Strong Records Management Program From Scratch.”  Ryan Leimkuehler, University Archivist at Kansas State University, and Daria Labinsky, Records and Information Management Specialist for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, will share what they have learned from helping to start records management programs and will discuss how their organizations approached it. They will then open the meeting to attendees, so everyone can tackle questions and share personal experiences.   The discussion could go in many dir ..read more

With a delayed start, please welcome this year’s talented Society of American Archivists Records Management Committee. We have some wonderful upcoming events including: Coffee Chat: Starting a Records Management Program, Feb 5th 2024 3pm EST (information forthcoming) Coffee Chat: Records Management and Institutional Change, Mar 11th 2024 3pm EST (information forthcoming) Records Management Colloquium (Email Archiving, Digital Preservation, and AI & Records) April 2024 Stay tuned! The colloquium will highlight three of our favorite experts in the archives, records, and information fields ..read more

Please join the Records Management Section for their Annual business meeting and presentations on records management and AI! We will have Patricia Franks from San Jose State University School of Information and a prominent voice in the records management field and Stephanie Decker from the University of Birmingham whose work focuses on establishing archival and historical methods to study organizations. Please find the agenda below and registration link: Registration: https://connect.archivists.org/events/event-description?CalendarEventKey=59921212-414e-4fa4-9f58-01879f0a1f0d&Home=%2f ..read more

Good morning everyone, Are you seeking an opportunity to expand your network and get further involved in the records management community? If so, come join the RMS Steering Committee! Please consider nominating yourself or a colleague for one of these positions: Vice Chair/Chair-Elect Steering Committee (3-year term) Steering Committee (3-year term) Sorry for the tight turn around, but I would need to know the below information by June 1st. Candidate Name Job Title and Institution Headshot (high resolution)* Bio and Candidate Statement (1-2 paragraphs) You can find examples of bio/can ..read more

Thank you to all the presenters and attendees for the RIM Month Colloquium it was another successful year with great presentations and questions from the audience. We had on average 83 people in attendance and a good amount of questions and community building in the chat throughout. Please find the recordings and slides for the colloquium below: RMS RIM Month Colloquium 2023 Folder (for all the files in one place, chat log, transcript, slides): RMS_Colloquium_2023 Recording (direct link): GMT20230427-191046_Recording_1920x1080.mp4 Google Slides Presentations: RMSColloquium2023.pptx.pdf Black ..read more

Please join the SAA Records Management Section Steering Committee for its third annual Colloquium for Records and Information Management (RIM) Month! We will have 4 short presentations from the records management community highlighting current projects. There will also be time for Q&A and discussion. The RIM Colloquium will take place virtually on Zoom on Thursday, April 27 from 3-4:30 pm ET. https://ksu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUocOGrpzwuH9dO45ByCBp5wp_n36QgxYv- After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.  The event is ..read more

SAA RMS Coffee Chat – Building & Maintaining Relationships in your OrganizationFriday, March 24th at 2:00-3:00pm EST Register in advance for this meeting below: https://ksu.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkcu6grzkpGNU5JFrlViVdWQ5dHNL56E43 Please join the SAA Records Management section on Friday, March 24th at 2:00pm EST for a coffee chat on Building & Maintaining Relationships in your Organization. Presenters Jen Haney Conover and Tina Ratcliff are two experienced local government records managers in Ohio. While both hail from local government, this presentation will convey valuable inform ..read more