Organizations and individuals need records that are available, understandable, and usable. This session will examine how electronic records are used in organizations and present methods for identifying and evaluating user’s needs.
O Orlikowski, Wanda J. “Using Technology and Constituting Structures: A Practice Lens for Studying Technology in Organizations,” Organization Science 11 (July-August 2000): 404-428. Go to http://lib.umich.edu/ and then select “Electronic Journals and Newspapers” then search for the journal title “Organization Science.”
C Margaret Hedstrom, "How Do Archivists Make Electronic Archives
Usable and
Accessible?" Archives and Manuscripts 26, no. 1 (May 1998): 6-22.
O "Eye in the Keyhole." Three part series on privacy and data warehouses that appeared in The Washington Post, March 8-10, 1998. Read all three parts. <www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/frompost/march98/privacy8.htm>
CASE STUDY ONE: Electronic Evidence and Discovery
O John C. Montaña, Legal Obstacles to E-Mail Message Destruction (October 19, 2003, ARMA International Education Foundation). <www.armaedfoundation.org/images/LegalObstaclesToEmailDestructionV634.pdf>
O John Jessen, “Special Issues Involving Electronic Discovery,” The Kansas Journal of Law & Public Policy 9 (Spring, 2000): 425-443. <www.si.umich.edu/Classes/655/Jessen.htm>
O James A. Snyder and Angela Morelock, “Electronic Data Discovery: Litigation Gold Mine or Nightmare?” Journal of the Missouri Bar 58 (No. 1, January-February 2002). <www.mobar.org/journal/2002/janfeb/snyder.htm>
O Discovery Resources <www.discoveryresources.org/>
O Will Yancey, “Electronic Evidence in Litigation” <www.willyancey.com/electronic_evidence.htm#Litigation>
O Harvard Law School, Berkman Center for Internet and Society, “Library – Digital Discovery” <cyber.law.harvard.edu/digitaldiscovery/library.html>
O Rehman Technology Services, Inc., “Electronic Discovery Case Law” <www.surveil.com/case_law.htm>
O Richard E. Best, “Discovery of Electronic Data” <californiadiscovery.findlaw.com/electronic_data_discovery.htm>
Group one: Prepare a response to questions raised by electronic
evidence and discovery and lead discussion.