Records Management Journal: Volume 28 Issue 1

Public Information Directive (PSI) implementation in two Swedish municipalities

Proscovia Svärd

This paper examines the implementation of the Public Sector Information (PSI) directive in two Swedish municipalities amidst a changing information management landscape impacted…

Voices in the cloud: social media and trust in Canadian and US local governments

Lois Evans, Patricia Franks, Hsuanwei Michelle Chen

This study aims to examine how 20 local governments in Canada and the USA operationalize the government–citizen trust relationship through the administration of social media by…

Managing university records in the world of governance

Mathews J. Phiri, Alistair George Tough

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the relationship between corporate governance and records management in the context of higher education in Sub-Saharan Africa.

A review of digital curation professional competencies: theory and current practices

Yuanyuan Feng, Lorraine Richards

The purpose of this paper is to examine the concept of professional competency in current digital curation literature through the lens of competency theories in management science…

The missing link in information and records management: personal knowledge registration

Ragna Kemp Haraldsdottir, Johanna Gunnlaugsdottir

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings of a research on collaborative personal knowledge registration (PKR). It seeks to explain the interrelationship between…

Recordkeeping in an outsourcing public agency

Ann-Sofie Klareld

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the implications of an outsourcing policy for public recordkeeping. The research question addressed is as follows: What are the current…

Post-records survey inspections in Zimbabwe: Reflections on compliance and non-compliance with records survey recommendations

Samson Mutsagondo

This paper aims to establish public departments’ compliance with National Archives of Zimbabwe (NAZ)’s records survey recommendations as well as to find out reasons for compliance…