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Records Management and Knowledge Mobilisation: A Handbook for Regulation, Innovation and Transformation, by Stephen Harries. Chandos Publishing (Oxford) Ltd / Woodhead Publishing -- Distributed in the US by Neil-Schuman Publishers (2011). ISBN-10: 1843346532
About the Book:

Over the last 15 years, records managers have tackled problems of electronic information and built a strong case for information governance based on a model of regulation and management control. The public sector environment is now changing rapidly, with more emphasis on efficiency, flexibility, loosening regulation, and cutting budgets. This book shows how records management can continue to contribute to public sector reform and transformation in this new climate. By linking practical ideas about the use and management of knowledge, Harries draws on insights from the study of policy-making and program delivery to show how managing the relationship between records and knowledge and their creation and use can thrive and reconcile the demands of regulation through a wider concept of the governance of knowledge and information.

CONTENTS:

Managing records and growing knowledge: an interactive strategy

Records management in a turbulent world

The turbulent world of records management

What is knowledge mobilisation?

Connecting records management and knowledge mobilisation
PART 1: PRINCIPLES

The changing role of government: transformation

Concepts, codes and meanings: bridging knowledge and records

Records, knowledge and action: an interacting design model

Regulation and institutions: rules, roles and frames

Innovation and change: ideas, networks and communities
PART 2: PRACTICES

Bridging policy and delivery with knowledge: the case for intervention

Achieving added value: efficiency, effectiveness and public value

Planning a knowledge-based intervention: strategy, tools, analysis

Fomenting knowledge development: plans, techniques, architecture

Reframing records management: towards knowledge governance

Structural change in the public sector

A strategic role for knowledge governance