Queensland Government Recordkeeping
Today’s blog post is about what you keep and what you don’t. Previously, we wanted agencies to do two things: keep records for as long needed AND not dispose of anything without authorisation. While you still need to do these two things, our focus needs to shift. Agencies are producing more records than ever before,... Continue Reading →
Today, we have released our Records Management Challenge Training. The Records Management Challenge Training is part of the Recordkeeping Transformation Program, which aims to improve the standard of records and information management across government. The Challenge is a step up from Recordkeeping and You training, released in June. This new learning tool allows public service... Continue Reading →
We believe that we don’t keep records just to keep them; we keep them so we can use them. We like to think of it as ‘recordusing’ rather than recordkeeping. We know we use records for the routine, day-to-day, known activities like making decisions, providing evidence and informing our work but we want to be... Continue Reading →
Today’s blog post is about priorities. The Records Governance Policy has some thoughts about what records should get more of your attention and we’re going to talk about why that is. In the past, we’ve tended to look at records in a black and white way. If something was a record, you had to treat... Continue Reading →
Here at QSA we chat a lot about the notion of creation in records management. Is the act of creating something still relevant in a digital-by-default environment? Is everything created automatically by virtue of how we work these days? Not quite. We still have to consciously create records of what we do before we can... Continue Reading →
Don’t leave it up to luck! If you aren’t managing your records systematically, you aren’t getting the most out of them. Today we’re talking about Policy Requirement 2, in our series where we delve into the what and why of the Records Governance Policy. Just like Policy Requirement 1, this requirement is about the structure... Continue Reading →
In most traditional records management policies and standards, the first principle or requirement that you’ll usually find is something along the lines of “…manage records systematically…”. We’ve always believed that this is the most crucial elements of records management because its sets up a records management program and establishes policies and other governance practices. For... Continue Reading →
Today, we have released our Recordkeeping and You Awareness Training. The Recordkeeping and You Awareness Training is part of the Recordkeeping Transformation Program, which aims to improve the standard of records and information management across government. It is everyone’s responsibility to make and keep records of their business activities. This interactive training is designed to... Continue Reading →
On 29 June 2018, we launched our brand new and shiny Records Governance Policy. We know that you all would have spent hours upon hours reading it (and its good friend, the Records Governance Implementation Guide) because what’s more exciting than a new policy about records management! Despite this, you may still be wondering –... Continue Reading →
