Training Programmes in Records Management at the School of Librarianship and Information Sciences of the University of Montreal

Abstract

Based for more than fifteen years at the School of Librarianship and Information Sciences (hereinafter referred to as the EBSI) records management training has firm roots at the University of Montreal. Even when relations between librarianship and records management were at their lowest — I am thinking here of the “battle of the manuscripts” in 1973 — the EBSI continued to offer records management training. A tradition has been established and this is not to be sneezed at because, like Rome, university courses cannot be built in a day. Maurice Lebel, the famous Quebec academic, once said, “It takes 25 years of hard work to build up a quality department.” The EBSI celebrated its twenty fifth anniversary in 1987, and records management courses have now been running in the department for some fifteen years. We can therefore rightly claim that at the University of Montreal records management is able to develop within the framework of a well‐established school.

Citation

Couture, C. (1989), "Training Programmes in Records Management at the School of Librarianship and Information Sciences of the University of Montreal", Records Management Journal, Vol. 1 No. 3, pp. 97-112. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb027027