"A Knowledge Management system is one that provides the user with the explicit information required, in exactly the form required, at precisely the time the user needs it.” Or: “A Knowledge Management system is one that connects to all sources of knowledge.”

Survey of members and non-members on behalf of IIM WA Branch.

An observation on some of the implications of the converging disciplines of records management and information management.

The 2007 Cohasset ARMA AIIM Electronic Records Management Survey – Call for Collaboration is now available. The survey's conclusions are based on data compiled from more than 1600 respondents in 2007 and a total of more than 5500 in the survey's four prior years – 1999, 2001, 2003 and 2005.

I recently attended two presentations on 'taxonomies in the digital environment', presented by respected information management specialists. Both presenters viewed classification as practised by librarians as a quaint anachronism unsuited to the digital world. The tone was patronising. Their view is wrong, and an understanding of how library classification works will lead to an understanding of the relevance of library classification in the digital world.

After the conclusion of the litigation between British American Tobacco Australia Services Limited (BAT) and Mrs McCabe, the Victorian Attorney-General Robert Hulls MP, asked the Victorian Crown Counsel, Professor Sallmann, to examine the current law, procedures and practices of discovery in the conduct of civil litigation in Victoria.