Important New Book Identifies Key Issues

New York, NY (July 7, 2008) — In the Web 2.0 world new technology is continually changing the way information of every kind is created and used.

Like every other sphere, records managers must also fundamentally change their approach if they are to have a role to play in this new world.

Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World provocatively challenges records managers to find time amidst daily operational pressures to debate the larger issues thrown up by the new technological paradigm we are now entering and the threat it poses to established theory and practice. This important new book published by Facet Publishing in London and exclusively available in the United States through Neal-Schuman will be released on August 15, 2008.

A range of stimulating ideas is put up for discussion: why not, for instance, embrace folksonomies rather than classification schemes and metadata schemes as the main means of resource discovery for unstructured data? Adopt a ranking system that encourages users to rate how useful they found content as part of the appraisal process? Let the content creator decide whether there should be any access restrictions on the content they have created?

Author Steve Bailey has written a thought-provoking book which questions received wisdom and suggest radical new solutions to the very real issues records managers face.

Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World
ISBN 978-1-85604-641-1.
2008. 6 x 9. 224 pp. $115.00.

About the Author
Steve Bailey currently acts as senior advisor on records management issues for JISC infoNet in England. He is responsible for preparing and disseminating a range of guidance material and tools to help support the development of records management within the sector and is a well known speaker and writer on records management issues with over 60 papers and presentations to his credit. Based in Britain, he is a former Director of the Records Management Society and is currently a member of the Education & Skills FOI Sector Group, the UK Ministry of Justice’s Information Rights User Group and The National Archive’s s.46 Code of
Practice working group. Steve’s blog on the future of records management can be found at http://rmfuturewatch.blogspot.com/.

About Neal-Schuman Publishers andFacet Publishing
Facet Publishing titles are exclusively available in the United States through Neal-Schuman Publishers, a leading provider of library management, Internet, and information technology resources. Facet is the imprint of the prestigious Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (formerly the British Library Association). Founded in 1976, Neal-Schuman Publishers is based in New York City with offices in London, UK.

For More Information
Contact Yelena Perlin
(yelena@neal-schuman.com)