ARMReN: ARCHIVES AND
RECORDS MANAGEMENT
RESEARCH NETWORK
Roles and functioning of the Management Board
Following the first meeting of the Management Board, 21 June 2006, it was agreed that:
Functioning
1. The Board will meet twice during the project, once at the start (June 2006) to set the
agenda and agree the activities and themes, and once near the end of the project
(September 2007) to review progress and propose outcomes and future actions.
2. Between meetings, the Board will communicate by e-mail, using ‘reply to all’, and
through a password controlled discussion space on the ARMReN website.
3. The Principal Investigator will communicate progress regularly (at least six monthly)
to Board members.
Roles
1. The principal roles of the Board will be to offer expert guidance on the shape and
progress of the project, to provide suggestions for workshop themes and contacts for
expert speakers who might participate in ARMReN activities, and to disseminate
information about ARMReN to other domains.
2. In addition, the Board will help the project to focus on outcomes, identifying changes
in the research environment for archives and records management and the factors that
have made a difference. The Board considers that interdisciplinary and multiple
perspectives are essential to the success of the project and will seek to promote these.
The Board will help to identify professional problems and questions which might be
addressed through research. It will consider ways in which the ARMReN project
benefits can be embedded.
3. Board members undertake to identify policy led, practice based and theoretical
research projects and resources and make this information available to the community,
for example by contributing content to the ARMReN and FARMER websites (both
under construction, 06/06).
EJS 06/06