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Tomorrow is the last day to register for the 2012 Utah State Archives Electronic Records Conference on April 26, 2012. This year’s agenda includes four speakers representing federal and private records management strategies, legal issues in records management, and an industry professional speaking about managing unstructured data (Word documents, spreadsheets, etc). Additionally, several local companies are sponsoring this year’s event.

Registration for the Utah State Archives Electronic Records Management Conference will be closing Friday, March 23th. The conference will be held on April 26th, 2012 at the State Office Building Auditorium at the Utah State Capitol Campus. For registration and more information please see the 2012 RIMM Event tab on this blog. The conference will focus on electronic records with presentations on discovery, technological judgement, information

Records Keepers in now on Facebook! Visit our new timeline to view recent Utah State Archives and records management related events, view photos of our records center move, and to browse through articles we find and post about records management, electronic records, email management, social media and all things records. To visit our Facebook page, select the link on the

The use of social media is increasing at a phenomenal rate. For example, people are watching 3 billion YouTube videos every day and Twitter search engines are indexing an average of 2,200 Tweets per second. Social media is popular because it enables collaboration and because it makes mass communication in real time possible. Social media is changing the way we

The Utah State Archives is pleased to announce Philip Favro as session speaker for our 2012 RIMM Conference. Mr. Favro is a Discovery Attorney for Symantec Corporation.  During his eleven-year litigation practice, he advised technology companies and other clients regarding complex discovery issues.  Phil’s expertise has been enhanced by his legal scholarship.  His line of research addresses the changes and

The Archives is pleased to announce its morning keynote speaker for the Utah State Archives Electronic Records Management Conference 2012 will be Kenneth Thibodeau. Ken Thibodeau is a records and information management professional recognized around the world as a leading expert on electronic records and digital preservation. He has spoken at more than 150 conferences, published over 30 articles and

Information professionals have centuries of experience working with records on paper, and have developed effective practices for controlling these records. Yet, we have only a couple of decades of experience actively managing electronic records. As a profession records managers are engaging the unique challenges of this radically new format and are developing approaches to efficiently manage e-records.     In