Sheila Taylor, MLIS, IGP, CRM has been appointed as a Sessional Lecturer at the University of Toronto’s iSchool (Faculty of Information) to teach the Managing Organizational Records I course in the winter 2015 term. Â This is a required course for students in two concentrations of the iSchool’s Master of Information program:Â archives and records management, and knowledge management and information management.
The course description reads as follows:Â “An introduction to principles, conceptual issues, and practical problems of managing organizational records, both paper-based and electronic. Â Reviews the legal, administrative, and technical environments that affect the creation, management and use of records. Â Discusses standards and policies that relate to organizational records and examines functional requirements for record-keeping. Â Identifies organizational and human factors that affect the creation and use of records. Â Finally, the course acquaints students with the strategies, techniques and tactics for ensuring that electronic records are captured, preserved and usable over time.”