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Information Manangement

Information Management Gateway
http://infomgmt.homestead.com
Thousands of links to information management resources.

Records and Corporate Information

ARMA International
http://www.arma.org
Founded in 1975, ARMA International (Association of Records Managers and Administrators) is a professional association of some 10,000 members in 39 countries. It provides education, research, and networking opportunities for those working with corporate information resources. ARMA is an American National Standards (ANSI) standards developer and participate in the ISO standards program.

PRISM International
http://www.prismintl.org
PRISM International (Professional Records & Information Services Management) is the trade association for companies providing customers with protection, access, retention, storage and disposal of their information.

Society of American Archivists
http://www.archivists.org
The Society of American Archivists (SAA) is North America's oldest professional association for archivists. It provides educational and information services to some 3,400 members.

Special Libraries Association
http://www.sla.org
The corporate-sector membership of the Special Libraries Association (SLA) has become the predominant group in the association. Some, then, of SLA's members are not librarians per se but are corporate archivists, business intelligence specialists, records managers, and knowledge managers or may supervise a cluster of such services within their companies.

Association for Information Management
http://www.aslib.co.uk
The Association for Information Management (Aslib) is a professional association of 2,000 members from private and public sector companies and organizations. Aslib is concerned with managing information resources efficiently for small to large corporations and governments and on any of their issues and problems in information management

Certification

Institute of Certified Records Managers
http://www.icrm.org
The Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM) is an international certifying organization for professional records and information managers. The ICRM was incorporated in 1975 to meet the requirement to have a standard by which persons involved in records and information management could be measured, accredited and recognized according to criteria of experience and capability. Certification requires passage of a six-part examination and continuing certification through a certification maintainence program.

Academy of Certified Archivists
http://www.certifiedarchivists.org
The Academy of Certified Archivists (ACA) supports and promotes the standards of archival practice by defining the knowledge and abilities needed to be an archivist. Certification is via written examintion.

Standards in Information Management

International Organization for Standardization
http://www.iso.ch
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies from some 130 countries, one from each country. Information professionals are particularly interested in the information management aspects of ISO 9000, an international quality standard. The first broad-based international standard for records managment (ISO 15489) was published in September 2001.

National Information Standards Organization
http://www.niso.org
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) is a non-profit association accredited as a standards developer by the American National Standards Institute. To help achieve international consistency, NISO has developed standards for libraries, information retrieval, scientific and technical reports, and computer formats.

National Fire Protection Association
http://www.nfpa.org
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) issues standards for fire protection in many environments. Among them are NFPA 232, Standard for Protection of Records, NFPA 909, Code for the Protection of Cultural Resources, and NFPA 75, Standard for the Protection of Electronic Computer/Data Processing Equipment.