Discusses the features of automated information systems (AIS) in local governments. Examines three perspectives of the use and impact of automated information. These perspectives consider AIS as a rationalizing force, as controlled both by a self-serving technological elite and by its own technological imperatives, and as not qualitatively…

In Illinois, local governments need to know how to comply with the Open Meetings Act and the Freedom of Information Act when using teleconferencing, electronic record keeping, and e-mail. Examines the application of existing provisions in these acts and outlines questions regarding electronic records and e-mail that can not be answered under…

This publication provides local governments in New York with guidelines and suggestions for three major records management undertakings: (1) writing an ordinance, resolution, or local law to establish a records management program; (2) defining the role of the Records Management Officer in developing, organizing, and directing a records management…

This package of modules comprises a portion of the National Training and Development Service Urban Management Curriculum Development Program. The four modules included in the package contain instructional materials covering a broad range of statistical and data analytic procedures chosen on the basis of their probable utility to public managers…

Discussion of the interrelationship of information technology, managers, and users, and the structure of public sector organizations focuses on a case study that examined the organizational changes in the information services department of a large, urban county government as a result of the use of sophisticated information technologies. (11…

A description is provided of the implementation and operation of a Regional Data Processing Center. The Center services the county government, the community college, and the school districts of Burlington County, New Jersey. Topics which are discussed include: 1) the planning study which indicated the feasibility of a regional center; 2) the…

This reports provides local governments with guidelines and suggestions for selecting a Records Management Officer to develop, organize, and direct a records management program. Such a program is described as an over-arching, continuing, administrative effort that manages recorded information from its initial creation to its final disposition.…

This publication discusses optical storage, a term encompassing technologies that use laser-produced light to record and store information in digital form. The booklet also discusses how optical storage systems relate to records management, in particular to the management of local government records in New York State. It describes components of…