Indiana University, SLIS

L597 Records Management (IUB)

L543/C454 Strategic Intelligence (IUPUI)

Spring 2003

Instructor:           Carol E.B. Choksy, Ph.D., CRM

 

IUB

IUPUI

Phone

(812) 856-2323

(812) 856-2323

Office

LI 022

UL 0133

 

 

Every Tuesday except 2/4, 2/11, 2/18, 3/4 when I will be in UL 4115F

Office hours

Th 1:30-3:30 pm

Tu 2:30-4:30 pm

 

Or by appointment

Or by appointment

E-mail

cchoksy@indiana.edu

cchoksy@indiana.edu

Course times

Th 9:30-12:15 am

Tu 5:45-8:30 pm

 

 

 

Course description

This course is a general introduction to records management.  As a management discipline, records management focuses on how information is used within organizations as well as what best practices, statutes and other compliance factors are required to manage information as an asset, a resource, and as a potential source of risk.

 

Unlike the practice of archives in the United States, library science, or information science, records management is focused entirely on the business enterprise. Focusing internally on the business provides a very different view of many commonly-held concepts within records management’s sister disciplines including, freedom of speech, access to information, and risk management.

 


Grade definitions

The following definitions of letter grades have been defined by student and faculty members of the Curriculum Steering Committee and have been approved by the faculty as an aid in evaluation of academic performance and to assist students by giving them an understanding of the grading standards of the School of Library and Information Science.

A

4.0

Outstanding achievement. Student performance demonstrates full command of the course materials and evinces a high level of originality and/or creativity that far surpasses course expectations.

A-

3.7

Excellent achievement. Student performance demonstrates thorough knowledge of the course materials and exceeds course expectations by completing all requirements in a superior manner.

B+

3.3

Very good work. Student performance demonstrates above-average comprehension of the course materials and exceeds course expectations on all tasks as defined in the course syllabus.

B

3.0

Student performance meets designated course expectations and demonstrates understanding of the course materials at an acceptable level.

B-

2.7

Marginal work. Student performance demonstrates incomplete understanding of course materials.

C+
C

2.3
2.0

Unsatisfactory work. Student performance demonstrates incomplete and inadequate understanding of course materials.

C-
D+
D
D-

1.7
1.3
1.0
0.7

Unacceptable work. Coursework performed at this level will not count toward the MLS or MIS degree. For the course to count toward the degree, the student must repeat the course with a passing grade.

F

0.0

Failing. Student may continue in program only with permission of the Dean.

1.

 

No course in which a student receives a grade of C- or lower may be applied to the requirements for a SLIS degree. Such a course must be repeated with a grade of C or better. Both grades will be included in grade point average calculation.

2.

 

A student who has not achieved a B average (3.0), or higher, or has more than two grades in the C range, will review his/her program with the deans.

3.

 

A student who wishes to do so may request a review of a grade assignment by the deans.


Assignments

 

Assignment

Topic

Type

Due

Remarks

% final grade

Assignment 1

Week 1

What does it mean to manage information?

10 page paper

Week 4

Individual-- must include citations

20%

Assignment 2

Week 7

Legal research

Table

Week 9

Class

10%

Assignment 3

Week 10

Stakeholder interview write-up

Table

Week 11

Teams

10%

Assignment 4

Week 11

Information Inventory

Table

Week 12

Class

10%

Assignment 5

Week 12

Master Classification Plan

Table

Week 13

Team

10%

Assignment 6

Week 13

Vital records and business resumption plan

3-5 page paper

Week 14

Individual

20%

Assignment 7

Week 14

Records retention and disposition schedule

Table

Week 15

Class

20%

There are three basic assignments: the 10-page paper, the vital records and business resumption plan and the records retention and disposition schedule (RRDS).  The paper and the vital records plan are independent projects. The records retention and disposition schedule is the product of the legal research, interviews, inventory, and the master classification plan. Each part of the RRDS is a separate assignment that will receive an independent grade. The separate assignments will then be put together into the final schedule that will also receive a grade. The purpose of grading the parts separately is to give the students the same experience a records management practitioner would have in receiving feedback for each element of the final schedule as well as for the final schedule.


Statement of Academic Honesty

Plagiarism (the use of someone else's ideas, words, or opinions without attribution) or other types of academic dishonesty will result in an F for the course. See Indiana University's "Code of Student Rights, Responsibilities and Conduct" http://campuslife.indiana.edu/Code/Part_3all.html

 

 

Textbooks

Davenport, Thomas H., Information Ecology: Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.

 

Davenport, Thomas H., Process Innovation: Reengineering Work through Information Technology. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.

 

Lev, Baruch, Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press, 2001.

 

Marchand, Donald A., Thomas H. Davenport, Tom Dickson, eds., Financial Times Mastering Information Management. London: Financial Times/Prentice Hall, 2000.


Class Schedule and Readings

Week 1

Jan 14 & 16

Week 2

Jan 21 & 23

Week 3

Jan 28 & 30

Week 4

Feb 4 & 6

Week 5

Feb 11 & 13

Week 6

Feb 18 & 20

Week 7

Feb 25 & 27

Week 8

Mar 4 & 6

Week 9

Mar 11 & 13

Week 10

Mar 25 & 27

Week 11

Apr 1 & 3

Week 12

Apr 8 & 10

Week 13

Apr 15 & 17

Week 14

Apr 22 & 24

Week 15

Apr 29 & May 1

Week 16

Exam week

 

Week 1 Organizing Information to Throw It Away

What is a record?

What is evidence?

          What is a document?

          What is information?

          What is an object?

What is knowledge?

 

Assignments

Assignment 1 What does it mean to manage information? 10-page paper due week 4

 

Required Readings

          Davenport, Information Ecology, Chapters 1-3, 7

 

Marchand, Mastering Information Management, pp. 5-22, 27-31, 333-337

Week 2 Strategy, Intangible Assets & Resources

          Strategic Planning

What is an asset?

          Are records/information assets?

          What are resources?

          Are records/information resources?

What is the role of records/information in the bottom line?

 

Assignments

None

 

Required Readings

Bontis, Nick. “Managing Organizational Knowledge by Diagnosing Intellectual Capital: Framing and Advancing the State of the Field,” in Nick Bontis, ed., World Congress on Intellectual Capital Readings. Boston: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2002. Online course reserve.

 

Lado, Augustine A., Nancy G. Boyd, & Peter Wright, “A Competency-based Model of Sustainable Competitive Advantage: Toward a Conceptual Integration,” Journal of Management 18(1): 77-91. In EBSCO

 

Lev, Baruch. Intangibles: Management, Measurement, and Reporting, Introduction-Chapter 6.

 

Marchand, Mastering Information Management, Chapters 2, 6

Week 3 Corporate Structure

          Corporate Structure

          De-verticalization

          Globalization

          Contracts

 

Assignments

None

 

Required Readings

ASP Industry Consortium and WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center, “Dispute Avoidance and Resolution Best Practices in the ASP Industry,” 2000, http://arbiter.wipo.int/asp/report/pdf/report.pdf

 

Lamoreaux, Naomi R., Daniel M.G. Raff, Peter Temin, Beyond Markets and Hierarchies: Toward a New Synthesis of American Business History. Cambridge, MA. : National Bureau of Economic Research, 2002.

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W9029.pdf

 

Laubacher, Robert J., Thomas W. Malone, and the MIT Scenario Working Group, “Two Scenarios for 21st Century Organizations: Shifting Networks of Small Firms or All-encompassing ‘Virtual Countries’?,” 21C Working Papers, No. 001, January, 1997, http://ccs.mit.edu/21c/21CWP001.html

 

Marchand, Mastering Information Management, Chapters 4, 5


Week 4 Corporate Information Use

Industry Requirements & Best practices

          Corporate Culture

          Globalization

          Corporate Use

          Privacy & Security

 

Assignments

Assignment 1 paper due

 

Required Readings

          Davenport, Information Ecology, Chapters 5-6, 10

 

IDEF0 Overview, http://www.idef.com/idef0.html

 

Marchand, Mastering Information Management, Chapter 8

Week 5 Processes & the Life Cycle

          Life Cycle

          Records continuum

          Business processes

          Information processes

          Mapping processes

 

Assignments

None

 

Required Readings

          Davenport, Process Innovation, Chapters 3-5, 7, 9

Upward, Frank, “Structuring the Records Continuum - Part One: Postcustodial Principles and Properties,” Archives and Manuscripts, 24 (2) 1996.
http://rcrg.dstc.edu.au/publications/recordscontinuum/fupp1.html

Upward, Frank, “Structuring the Records Continuum, Part Two: Structuration Theory and Recordkeeping,” Archives and Manuscripts, 25 (1) 1997.  http://rcrg.dstc.edu.au/publications/recordscontinuum/fupp2.html


Week 6 Compliance & Litigation

          Statutes, Regulations and Agency Memoranda

          FOIA

          Standards

          Audits

          Discovery, Production, Trial

 

Assignments

None

 

Required Readings

Withers, Kenneth J., “Computer-based Discovery in Federal Civil Litigation,” and Caroll, John L., “Discovery Disputes and Electronic Media,” in Glasser LegalWorks, 5th Annual Electronic Discovery and Records Management Seminar, Little Falls, NJ: Glasser LegalWorks, 2002. Online Course Reserve

Week 7 Research in Law Library (meet in Law Library)

 

Assignments

Assignment 2 Legal research

 

Required Readings

Indiana Rules of Court, Rules of Evidence, Article VIII Hearsay, Article IX Authentication, Article X Contents, http://www.in.gov/judiciary/rules/evidence/evidence.pdf

Handout--U.S. and international legal selections to be given out Week 6


Week 8 Requirements Definitions

Business Requirements

Functional Requirements

Technical Requirements

Vendor Requirements

 

Assignments

None

 

Required Readings

IEEE Guide for Developing System Requirements Specifications, IEEE Std 1233, 1998 IEEE, New York, 1998 in “Chapter 3.  Software Requirements Analysis and Specifications,” Software Requirements Engineering, Second Edition, edited by Merlin Dorfman and Richard H. Thayer, Los Alamitos, CA: IEEE Computer Society Press, 1997. Online Course Reserve


Week 9 Information Inventory

          Sources & types of information

          Records Series

          Metadata

Objects

 

In class work

Create questionnaire for stakeholder interviews

 

Assignments

Assignment 2 legal research due

Assignment 3 Stakeholder interviews

 

Required Readings

Reed, Barbara, “Metadata: Core record or core business?” Archives and Manuscripts, 25 (2) 1997.
http://rcrg.dstc.edu.au/publications/recordscontinuum/brep1.html

 

Rumbaugh, James, Ivar Jacobson & Grady Booch, The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1999.

Chapter 4 Static View pp. 41-52; Chapter 13 Encyclopedia of Terms “class” pp. 185-6; “classifier,” “classifier role,” “collaboration,” pp. 193-6; “object,” pp. 360-1. Online class reserve

Shear, Kenneth, “Retaining Computer Data in Original Format v. Conversion of Data into Images,” White paper Electronic Evidence Discovery, Inc.

http://www.eedinc.com/whitePapers.aspx?iWhitePaperId=14 this web site will ask you for your name and e-mail in order to download the paper


Week 10 Object Source Control

Process management

Document management

Content management

Correspondence control

Reports management

Directives management

Copy control

Mail management

 

Assignments

Assignment 3 Stakeholder interview write-up

 

Required Readings

None


Week 11 Classification

Taxonomies and Typologies

 

Assignments

Assignment 3 Stakeholder interview write-up due

Assignment 4 Information inventory

 

Required Readings

Bailey, Kenneth D., Typologies and taxonomies: an introduction to classification techniques. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994. Reserve

Bailey, Kenneth D., “Typologies,” in Encyclopedia of Sociology, v. 4, New York, MacMillan Publishing Company, 1991. Online Course Reserve

 

Lazarsfeld, Paul, “Some Remarks on the Typological Procedures in Social Research,” in Zeitscrhift fűr sozialforschung, edited by Max Horkheimer, Munich: Kösel-Verlag, 1937. Online Course Reserve

 

Parsons, Jeffrey, “An Information Model Based on Classification Theory,” Management Science 42(10): 1437-1453. In EBSCO

 

Starr, Paul, “Social Categories and Claims in the Liberal State,” in How Classification Works: Nelson Goodman among the Social Sciences, edited by Mary Douglas and David Hull. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992. Online Course Reserve

 

Tiryakian, Edward A., “Typologies,” in International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, v. 16, New York: Macmillan Company, date? Online Course Reserve


Week 12 Vital Records, Business Resumption & Auditing

 

Assignments

Assignment 4 Information inventory due

Assignment 5 Master Classification Plan

 

Required Readings

http://libwww.syr.edu/information/preservation/manual.htm

http://libwww.syr.edu/information/preservation/photo.htm

http://libwww.syr.edu/information/preservation/audio.htm

Week 13 Records Retention and Disposition Schedule

Office of record

Organization

Training

Auditing

 

Assignments

Assignment 5 Create Master Classification Plan due

Assignment 6 Vital records and business resumption plan

 

Required Readings

From FindLaw.com under Enron—Arthur Andersen LLP

http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/enron/#documents  

·        Government's Memorandum Of Law In Opposition To Media Petitioners' Petition For The Release Of Grand Jury Document (US v. Arthur Andersen, LLP) (May 2, 2002)

·        Order Denying Andersen's Motion to Quash Subpoenas (US v. Arthur Andersen, LLP) (April 9, 2002)

·        Information and Notice of Related Cases (U.S. v. Duncan) (April 9, 2002)

·        Cooperation Agreement (U.S. v. Duncan) (April 6, 2002)

·        Indictment (U.S. v. Arthur Andersen, LLP) (March 14, 2002)

·        Petition (Samson Investment Co. v. Arthur Andersen, LLP) (Jan. 15, 2002)

·        E-mail from Andersen attorney Nancy A. Temple to Enron Engagement Team re: "Enron -- Procedures for Responding to Subpoenas and litigation (Nov. 10, 2001)

·        E-mail from Mina M. Trujillo re: Andersen Core Consultation Team Conference Call (Oct. 23, 2001)

·        Enron announcement on behalf of Jim Derrick re: Important announcement regarding document preservation (Oct. 25, 2001)

·        Notes from Andersen attorney Nancy Temple re: Oct. 23, 2001 Enron consultation group meeting (Oct. 23, 2001)

·        Andersen auditor David Duncan's calendar (Oct. 22 - 28, 2001)

·        Andersen E-mail from Richard Corgel to David Duncan re: Enron press release draft (Oct. 17, 2001)

·        Andersen E-mail from Nancy A. Temple to David B. Duncan re: press release draft (Oct. 16, 2001)

·        Andersen's auditor David B. Duncan's "Memo To The Files" Re: Enron press release discussions (Oct. 15, 2001)

·        "Memo To The Files" From Andersen's James A. Hecker re: accounting inquiry from Enron employee Sherron Watkins (Aug. 21, 2001)

·        E-mail From David B. Duncan to Michael D. Jones re: Enron Retention Meeting (Feb. 6, 2001)

·        Policy Statement: Client Engagement Information - Organization, Retention and Destruction, Statement No. 760 (Feb. 2000)

·        Policy Statement: Notification of Threatened or Actual Litigation, Governmental or Professional Investigations, Receipt of a Subpoena, or Other Requests for Documents or Testimony (Formal or Informal), Statement No. 780 (Oct. 1999)

Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, Public Law 107-204, 107th Congress, http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=107_cong_public_laws&docid=f:publ204.107.pdf

U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Proposed Rule: Retention of Records Relevant to Audits and Reviews (regulatory rule generated by Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002) http://www.sec.gov/rules/proposed/33-8151.htm s

Week 14 Information Retrieval

          Unitization

          Indices

          Thesauri

          Efficient Searching

 

Assignments

Assignment 6 Vital records and business resumption plan due

Assignment 7 Records retention and disposition schedule

 

Required Readings

Goodman, Nelson, “Seven Strictures on Similarity,” Problems and Projects. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1972. pp. 437-47 Online course reserve

 

Goodman, Nelson, “Words, Works, Worlds,” Erkenntnis, 9 (1975). Online course reserve

 

Mitchell, W. J. T., “Pictures and Paragraphs: Nelson Goodman and the Grammar of Difference,” Iconology: Image, Text, Ideology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. Online course reserve

 

Smith, Jonathan Z., “Adde Parvum Parvo Magnus Acervus Erit,” Map is Not Territory, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1978, pp. 240-264. Online course reserve

Week 15 Repository Management & Destruction

          E-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging, web sites

Migration

Conversion

Destruction, business espionage, copies

 

Assignments

Assignment 7 Records Retention and Disposition Schedule due

 

Required Readings

Hockeimer, Henry E., Jr., “The Post-Andersen World: Dead If You Shred? Case Against Andersen Document Retention Policies Verdict and Implications,” Business Law, 227(11): 7 In Lexis-Nexis enter “Arthur Andersen shredding”

Week 16 Final Exam Week