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Records Management in the Open University


Liaison Officers

All units have appointed Liaison officers, or stated when officers will be in post - contact the Records Manager to find out who your liaison officer is.

If you have a query about records management, please contact your Liaison Officer who will help if possible, and if not will refer the query to the Records Manager

Presentation introducing the IRM policy 2010

Icon - Microsoft Power Point document IRM policy presentation November 2010

This initial training presentation introduces the Records Management programme within the OU.

Icon - Microsoft Power Point document Records Management Introduction for RMLOs (178 KB)

This presentation introduces the concepts of Information and Records management, and what people can do to implement best practice, and prepare for the Enterprise Content Management System.

Icon - Microsoft Power Point document Records Management - introduction and preparation

This presentation is an introduction for new Regional Records Management Liaison Officers

Icon - Microsoft Power Point document Regional introduction to Records Management

This is a recent presentation to Student Services ACA management team

Icon - Microsoft Power Point document Records management introduction for ACA

This is the induction paper for new staff in the University

Icon - Adobe Acrobat pdf document Information management induction paper (83 KB)

Email Forum

There is a Records Management email forum for Liaison Officers to discuss issues of common interest.

Events and Meetings

A CAU interest group for Records Management, Freedom of Information and Data protection has been set up. The papers are available from the link below

CAU interest groups

Unit Information

Some units have information on internal records management and document management available on their intranet sites.

Maths and Computing http://macudoc.open.ac.uk/

OUBS http://intranet.open.ac.uk/oubs/information/p2_1.shtml