Coincidentally with recent comments on KM/knowledge services and archives management (SMR Int’l posts for September 18, 19, and 20), Paul Morris in New York (p.morris54@gmail.com) has prepared a thoughtful essay on an enforceable code of ethics for archives and archivists. Morris introduces his paper – An Enforceable Code of Ethics: Why Archivists Should be Demanding One …
What to Archive? How Do You Deal with Content That Goes Out-of-Date Fast?
While professional knowledge workers in the archives and records-management community have retention schedules and (presumably) guidelines for dealing with content, others working in strategic knowledge services do not necessarily have that expertise and background. Yet archival questions come up frequently, and with today’s fast-moving management demands, much of the issue has to do with archiving …