Current Committee Members

A. Blake Denton, Chair

University of Arkansas, Monticello

DentonA@uamont.edu

Liz DiPrince
University of Central Arkansas
ediprince@uca.edu

Elizabeth Parish

UA-Monticello

parishe@uamont.edu

Jean Waldrop
Harding University
jwaldrop@harding.edu

Mission & Responsibilities

The Arkansas Library Association Records Management Committee is charged with: developing standard best practices for managing and sharing association working documents; developing a records management policy, including guidance for archives, for ArLA and adding it to the Handbook; and supervising a clean-up and reorganization of the ArLA Dropbox as well as developing policies and procedures for future use and management of the Dropbox.

Duties of the Committee: 

• 1.      Draft and recommend best practices policy for managing association and committee documents.
• 2.      Work with liaisons from other committees and communities of interest to assist them in standardizing their record keeping.
• 3.      Prioritize and establish a system for maintaining the document lifecycle: including the creation, use, access, retrieval, storage and destruction of records.
• 4.      Determine which documents are vital to the association and which will not be accepted or kept.
• 5.      Draft policy for records retention schedule, and determine path for destruction of records at the end of lifecycle, or transfer to institution responsible for managing association's archives.