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Establishing and Managing Successful Records Management Programs

A six-day three-seminar professional development certificate course provided and sponsored by the Winnipeg chapter of ARMA International.

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Seminar One

Monday and Tuesday, October 15 & 16, 2007
Seminar Site in Winnipeg

Topics for October 15, 2007:

  • Introduction to the Profession of Records and Information Management (RIM)
  • Why Good Records Management is Now More Important Than Ever in Govt-Business History
  • Introduction to ISO 15489 -- the International Records Management Standard
  • Introduction to the Management of Electronic Records, Paper Records, and All Records Managing Records to Achieve Information Management Compliance
  • Recommended Scope and Components for Organization-Wide Records Management Programs
  • Essential Relationships with Management, IT, Legal, Administrative Services, and Archives
  • Successful Steps for Establishing/Strengthening Organization-Wide Records Management Programs Records Management Resources

Topics October 16, 2007:

  • Go Electronic (Digital) -- Why the Future of Records Management will be Primarily Electronic
  • Managing Electronic Records (E-Mail, Repositories, All Electronic Records)
  • Special Challenges of Electronic Records and Managing Them in Organization-Wide Environments
  • Introduction to ECM -- Enterprise Content Management
  • Current-to-the-Moment Approaches for Managing E-Mail
  • Selecting Software With ECM, Electronic Records, E-Mail, and Physical Records Functionalities
  • Designing and Implementing Effective E-Mail, Internet, and Intranet Policies
  • Managing Electronic Messages as Records
  • Resources About Managing Electronic Records

Seminar Two

Thursday and Friday, May 1 & 2, 2008
Seminar Site in Winnipeg

Topics May 1, 2008:

  • Records Management and the Law
  • Buried Alive (What Can Happen if Records Retention is Not Managed)
  • Why Every Organization Must Successfully Manage Records Retention
  • Records Retention Situation in Many Government and Business Organizations Today
  • Proven Strategies for Developing and Implementing Legally-Valid Records Retention Programs
  • FILELAW -- a Great Canadian Legal Resource for Managing Records Retention
  • Records Retention:  Statutes and Regulations and Records Retention:  Law and Practice
  • U. S. Legal Resources for Managing Records Retention (for Multinational Organizations)
  • Resources About Managing Records Retention

Topics for May 2, 2008:

  • Developing State-of-the-Art Filing Systems for Paper and Other Records
  • Evaluating the Adequacy and Determining the Cost of Existing Paper Filing Systems
  • Records Management Software for Augmenting Management of Paper Filing Systems
  • Simplifying, Developing, and Implementing Appropriate Indexing and Classification Systems
  • Tried-and-Proven Processes for Improving or Developing State-of-the-Art Filing Systems
  • The Potential of Shelf Filing Systems, Color Coding, Bar Coding, File Tracking, and RFID Systems
  • Managing Inactive Records, Vital Records, Records Centers, and the Potential of “Outsourcing”
  • Managing Archives and the Relationships Between Archives and Records Management
  • Resources About Filing Systems, Inactive Records, Vital Records, and Archives

Seminar Three

Thursday and Friday, October 2 & 3, 2008
Seminar Site in Winnipeg

Topics for October 2, 2008:

  • Introduction to “Imaging” and Applications of Imaging in Records Management
  • Electronic (Digital) Imaging and Film-Based Imaging (Microfilm) are Both Options
  • Film-Based (Microfilm) Imaging Fundamentals, Equipment, and Applications
  • Bridging Technologies Between Film-Based and Digital Imaging
  • Successful Strategies for Planning, Implementing, and Using Film-Based Imaging
  • Electronic (Digital) Imaging Fundamentals, Software, Technologies, and Applications
  • Successful Strategies for Planning, Implementing, and Using Digital Imaging in RIM
  • Legal Issues Associated with Film-Based Imaging and Digital Imaging
  • Resources about Digital Imaging and Film-Based Imaging

Topics for October 3, 2008:

  • Recent Developments and Trends in Records and Information Management (RIM)
  • International Records Management Standards
  • ANSI Standards for Records Management
  • A Look at Records Management in Winnipeg-Area Organizations
  • Records Management Services and Suppliers in Winnipeg Area
  • “Roundtable” Records Management Questions and Answers
  • Successfully Motivating and Managing Records Management Personnel
  • Qualities of “The Great Ones” (Most Successful Records Managers)
  • Recent and Emerging Resources for Records Managers

About This Winnipeg ARMA Professional Development Certificate Course

The Winnipeg Chapter of ARMA International (the Association of Records Managers and Administrators, International) has been meeting the needs of Winnipeg-area and Canadian records management professionals since the mid-1970s. A major goal of the Winnipeg Chapter of ARMA is to provide quality high-level current-to-the-moment professional records management education and training.

Are you new to the profession of records and information management (RIM)? Have you recently been asked to assume responsibilities for records and information management but only have minimal formal education or training to tackle that work? Or, are you an experienced records management veteran with a determination to stay as up-to-date as humanly possible in your knowledge of records and information management? Whatever your present circumstances, this comprehensive six-day three-seminar professional development certificate course will meet your needs. It will include an in-depth introduction to the profession of records and information management. Included will be tried-and-proven, practical approaches and strategies for developing and strengthening organization-wide records management programs.

Carefully review the extensive topics that will be included in the six full days of this three-seminar program. Attendees will learn about how to develop quality records management programs and how to manage electronic and paper and all records. Participants will learn how to develop and implement records retention programs, develop state-of-the-art filing systems, and manage inactive and vital records. A special focus will be on “imaging” and on how to capitalize on both digital imaging and film-based (microfilm) imaging technologies. Attendees will learn how to more effectively manage and motivate records management personnel. And, all participants will be introduced to a wide array of records management resources.

This Winnipeg ARMA professional development certificate course will be conducted by Dr. Mark Langemo, CRM, FAI. Dr. Langemo has a long history of involvement in records and information management within Canada and is one of the profession’s most well-known personalities, authors, consultants, and seminar leaders.

Key Benefits of Your Attending and Participating in This Course

  • Learn and understand professional records and information management (RIM).
  • Learn how to establish, strengthen, and manage records management programs.
  • Protect yourself—by learning the legalities of how long records should be retained. 
  • Acquire an additional base for enhancing your career and income potential.
  • Discover why every organization now needs an appropriate records management program.
  • Learn how to spot and diagnose common records management problems.
  • Learn and understand the principles of organization-wide records management.
  • Learn to recognize current records management deficiencies in your organization.
  • Learn when to “go electronic” to maximize computer applications and electronic records.
  • Learn how to achieve COMPLIANCE requirements for managing organizations’ records.
  • Reinforce the importance of records managers and IT managers working together. 
  • Learn how electronic (digital) imaging and film-based (microfilm) imaging can be used.
  • Discover how to identify and protect vital records on all records media.
  • Learn how to develop state-of-the-art filing systems for paper and other physical records.
  • Learn how to find, clean out, clean up, and manage inactive records.
  • Understand the excellent potential of “outsourcing” the management of inactive records.
  • Understand the roles of “archives” and the relationship to records management.
  • Learn about enterprise content management and uses of records management software.
  • Receive a current-to-the-moment update about available records management technologies.
  • Learn how to become a more effective manager and motivator of people.
  • Become aware of the myriad of great resources now available for records managers.
  • See the potential in records and information management consulting.
  • Expand your background and knowledge as a records management professional.

Who Should Attend and Participate in this Course

  • All individuals who have any responsibilities for records management in their organizations!
  • Business owners, executives, and managers with “records management” in their portfolios!
  • Government administrators at all levels with responsibilities for records management!
  • Records managers, records analysts, records coordinators, or jobs in records management!
  • IT managers and systems personnel who have records management responsibilities!
  • Attorneys—especially those who have roles as legal counsels to organizations! 
  • Individuals responsible for records management in hospitals, clinics, and healthcare!
  • Individuals responsible for records management in law firms, banks, and businesses!
  • Individuals responsible for records management in law enforcement organizations!
  • Federal, provincial, and local government leaders and employees!
  • Vendors and suppliers of software, imaging technologies, records centers, or filing systems!
  • Providers of imaging systems technologies and services!
  • Business consultants seeking to expand their services to include records management!
  • Anyone who wants to learn how records management programs can be established!

Mark LangemoDr. Mark Langemo, CRM, FAI

Professor Emeritus
Information Systems and Business Education
College of Business and Public Administration
University of North Dakota
Grand Forks, North Dakota

DR. MARK LANGEMO, CRM, is a Professor Emeritus in the College of Business and Public  Administration at the University of North Dakota.  He has over 39 years of experience as a professor of Records Management, IT, Office Systems Management, and related information management courses.

Dr. Langemo has maintained an active involvement in business and professional development work himself.  He has been a records management seminar leader, consultant, or speaker in 45 of the Continental United States, Alaska, Hawaii, several Canadian provinces, Iceland, New Zealand, Trinidad, and in Europe.  His over 600 records management seminars and his consulting has involved work for the U. S. and Canadian governments, state and provincial governments, city and county governments, major corporations such as Microsoft and 3M, health care organizations, energy and power companies, accounting firms, banks, educational institutions, law firms, ARMA and other professional associations, small businesses, and the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

In Canada, Dr. Langemo has conducted records management seminars since the late 1970s for ARMA chapters in Calgary, Edmonton, Montreal, Ottawa, Regina, Saskatoon, Toronto, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.  He has conducted three highly successful six-day Records Management Certificate Course programs under the sponsorship of the Winnipeg Chapter of ARMA since the early 1980s.  While on a one-semester six-month sabbatical from UND in the early 1980s, Dr. Langemo lived in Calgary and consulted for a records management company positioning records management programs primarily within the oil and gas industry.  He has conducted records management training for the Alberta Provincial Government and for the Records Management Federation of the Canadian Government.

Mark Langemo is a prolific writer who has published over 60 magazine and journal articles.  He is the author of the new CD-ROM video training series Establishing and Managing Successful Records Management Programs published in late 2003 and the book Winning Strategies for Successful Records Management Programs published in September of 2002 by Information Requirements Clearinghouse, Inc. Canadian records management pioneer Donald T. Barber from Toronto and Dr. Langemo co-authored the book Filing Dynamics in 1987.

Dr. Langemo has been the University of North Dakota’s “Teacher of the Year,” and he recently received a national award for “excellence in continuing education seminars.”  He is a Certified Records Manager (CRM) who has earned ARMA International’s coveted “Award of Merit” for “distinguished contributions to the profession of records management.”  Dr. Langemo was inducted into ARMA International’s “Company of Fellows” in 1991 -- ARMA’s highest award to an individual.  In 1993, Mark Langemo was given the prestigious Emmett Leahy Award by the Institute of Certified Records Managers.  The Leahy Award is the highest award internationally in the profession of records and information management.  Dr. Langemo is a dynamic speaker who presents content-filled, current-to-the-moment, media-illustrated, dynamic, and entertaining seminars.

For additional information contact Peggy Neal at pneal@mlcc.mb.ca

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