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In Spring 2022, the Records Management office plan to completely overhaul the records retention schedules on their website. “We’ve been collaborating with our colleagues, Paige Hohmann and Michael Stewart on the Okanagan campus to produce a comprehensive set of schedules covering all the functions at the university,” says Barbara Towell, E-Records Manager at the university, […]
For the past couple of years the Email & Messaging Retention Working Group (EMRWG) have been investigating email retention and destruction. One of the first questions we looked into was how to initiate automated destruction, behind the scenes, without asking anything extra of end-users. Last year the Working Group found success in guiding policy for […]
Who is the Email and Messaging Retention Working Group (EMRWG)? For the past couple of years, I have had the honour of chairing the Email and Messaging Retention Working Group. This group is a cross-campus, multi-discipline collaboration, researching and making recommendations on automated destruction for Instant Messaging (Chat) in MS Teams and transitory information in […]
Special guest blogger Andy Resto talks about his role as a Work Learn student creating Best Practices documentation for the Records Management Office. Thanks Andy! This summer, as part of the records management team, I focused on the producing Best Practices for the university’s growing use of MS Teams as a collaborative workspace, which accelerated […]
Thanks to Devon Hayley Farrell, Records Management Student Assistant & Second Year UBC iSchool Student for this guest post. Working within a research-driven institution such as UBC and being in close proximity with the iSchool, the Records Management Office (RMO) has a unique position to be on the forefront of records management techniques. We’ve been […]
In 2019, Building Operations completed a project to modernize its aging Land and Building Files (LBS) file server. Staff copied what they required to the new server and left everything else on the LBS server for one year. The year acted as a cushion ensuring nothing crucial was left behind. Over the summer of 2020, the […]
Guest post by Rhiannon Wallace, 2nd year iSchool Student, UBC From July to October of 2020 I had the opportunity to complete a Professional Experience term with the UBC Development and Alumni Engagement Awards team and the UBC Records Management Office. I was excited to continue the work of Arika Keneko who undertook an Internship […]