Reinventing archival methods: reconceptualising electronic records management as a wicked problem
Abstract
Paradigms are powerful because they create the lens through which we see the world. The power of a paradigm shift is the essential power of quantum change, whether that shift is an instantaneous or a slow and deliberate process.1
Although the renowned writer, speaker and academic Dr Stephen Covey focused on personal development, his ideas are relevant to the challenges we face in managing records as I believe we need to look at them through a different lens, or lenses, in reinventing our methods. And, although the Recordkeeping Roundtablers may not use the word ‘lens’, it seems that it is precisely what they are doing when they propose different approaches to appraisal and access.
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