Records management future watch is a blog of Steve Bailey, the author of "Managing the crowd: Rethinking records management for the Web 2.0 world."
I chose this book for the book review assignment because I am interested in records management. I haven't finished it but based on what I've read, it seems like he is supporting "save all" theory. He keeps saying that traditional methods of records management will not work with the volume of information we have... I think it is true that the volume of information has long exceeded the level that can be processed by humans... so how are we to distinguish what is a record and what is not... and if we cannot even pick out the records from the vast amount of content that's out there, how does records management begin?
Hopefully, this book will provide some answers but based on the foreword and intro, it sounds like this book won't provide any answers... in which case it will be kind of a disappointment...
I chose this book for the book review assignment because I am interested in records management. I haven't finished it but based on what I've read, it seems like he is supporting "save all" theory. He keeps saying that traditional methods of records management will not work with the volume of information we have... I think it is true that the volume of information has long exceeded the level that can be processed by humans... so how are we to distinguish what is a record and what is not... and if we cannot even pick out the records from the vast amount of content that's out there, how does records management begin?
Hopefully, this book will provide some answers but based on the foreword and intro, it sounds like this book won't provide any answers... in which case it will be kind of a disappointment...
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