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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 […]
Guest post by Melissa Lasko, Development and Alumni Engagement, Awards The Development and Alumni Engagement (DAE) Awards team has a long history of creating physical files for storing donor information. As these files accumulated over the years, the Awards team began to wonder new physical files needed to be created, or if it was possible […]
Guest post by Arika Keneko, iSchool Student, UBC Over the summer of 2019, I embarked on a three-month internship with the Records Management Office (RMO) here at UBC. I chose an internship because I wanted hands-on experience in policy development and I hoped to increase my electronic records management know-how. One of my key tasks […]
Guest Post by: Elizabeth Kukely, Communications and Learning Administrator, Financial Operations “The accumulated past is life’s best resource for innovation” The Clock of the Long Now On March 2016 Financial Operations started a learning journey on digital records management. What’s that you ask? Why do you need to learn about managing digital records? You […]
In October 2018, Building Operations embarked on a two-part odyssey to modernize its aging file-server and produce governance documentation supporting records management. While this sort of work is regularly carried out across the university, this particular file-server was special; it had successfully annihilated two previous attempts at modernization. “It had a very bad reputation for […]
In 2017, UBC’s Financial Operations collaborated with the Records Management Office and the iSchool to secure, structure, and manage information stored on their shared drives (see blog here). “The completion of the shared drive project in 2017 was a major step forward for us,” says the project initiator, Elizabeth Kukely who, along with her colleagues, […]