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Rhiannon Wallace talks about her work with Development and Alumni Engagement, Awards teams

Rhiannon Wallace talks about her work with Development and Alumni Engagement, Awards teams

By barbara towell on October 20, 2020

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 […]

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Rhiannon Wallace, Melissa Lasko, Devon Farrell (2020 Work Learn student), Barbara Towell

What’s in a name? The Records Management Office supports DAE awards team in digital readiness

By barbara towell on October 20, 2020

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 […]

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Stephanie Friesen, Records Management Specialist and Pearle Lundeen, Functional Analyst, Building Operations

Building Operations vs file-server

By barbara towell on July 31, 2019

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 […]

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Financial Operations embarks on an assessment for continuous improvement

Financial Operations embarks on an assessment for continuous improvement

By barbara towell on March 20, 2019

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, […]

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Interview with co-op student Stephanie Friesen

By barbara towell on November 20, 2018

In this blog post we asked Stephanie Friesen, second year iSchool student specializing in Archival Studies to tell us about her experience undertaking a Records Management Co-op with Building Operations here on campus. What are your responsibilities for this Co-op? I’m involved in two projects with Building Operations. One is the EAD (enterprise active directory) […]

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Records Management Office holds the first Community of Practice on Vancouver campus

Records Management Office holds the first Community of Practice on Vancouver campus

By michelle blackwell on March 1, 2018

A few courageous souls braved the deteriorating weather conditions on Friday February 23 in order to attend the first Records Management office’s Community of Practice.

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UBC Records Management Office supports Financial Operations in securing its information

UBC Records Management Office supports Financial Operations in securing its information

By michelle blackwell on January 11, 2018

UBC’s Financial Operations partners with the Records Management Office and the Co-op program to improve records management governance of shared drives and in doing so, reduces risk for the university

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Barbara Towell receives Innovation Award

By Jessica Woolman on June 29, 2017

e-Records Manager Barbara Towell has just been awarded the 2017 UBC Library Innovation Award.

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Store your information with Records Management at UBC

Store your information with Records Management at UBC

By Jasmine Devonshire on January 26, 2017

The UBC contract with commercial storage provider Iron Mountain ends October 31, 2017.

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Alan Doyle receives Excellence Award 2015

Alan Doyle receives Excellence Award 2015

By Ana Lorenti on July 7, 2015

Alan Doyle received the Employee Excellence Award in recognition of his valuable leadership in expanding the Records Management program across campus.

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