Management of Electronic Records

Instructor: Bekir Kemal Ataman

Objectives

In our age of infomania increasing amounts of records and information are created in an electronic environment. This has reached such an extent that computers have become the major means of document creation in modern day offices. Some of these documents continue their life in hard copy form whereas more and more of them cease to be transformed onto a more durable format and carry on their existence in electronic form only.

We save and keep our records and information with the aim to use them again in the future. However, doing this in an electronic environment is not as easy as we are used to doing in traditional media. E-recs pose special problems of maintenance and preservation, some which still await to be solved

This course aims to highlight the special issues and problems associated with the accessibility, maintenance and preservation of information and records created and kept in an electronic environment.

Organization of the course

This course lasts for one semester and consists of 3 credit hours. It has got two main parts. The first part looks at issues surrounding the management of electronic records and information whereas the second parts concentrates more on issues relating to accessibility of recorded information, by analyzing methods and techniques used in increasing its dissemination.

Textbook

No textbook will be used for this course, but a lot of reading will be required. Almost all of the reading material will be available on the Internet. Please refer to the course syllabus for the topics to be covered and the source list for reading assignments related to each topic.