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A Paperless University ….
A Paperless University ….
Really?
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Really?
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Today’s Agenda
Paper vs. electronic today
Signs of the times
Benefits
Challenges
Solutions – Document management
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Past & Future
PAPER ELECTRONIC
NOW
Overflowing paperCreated electronicallyStored & managed in both
Multiple systemsMultiple copies
mail emailPhotocopiers Scanners
• Information swamp• Digital age workforce• “Green” thinking
• Technological improvements• Paper use declining
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Benefits
Multiple users
WorkflowCreator User User User
Automated destruction/archiving
Documents created, stored, used, and managed electronically
One copy
Collaboration
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Flexible retrieval
Challenges
Digital information explosion
ROT (redundant, outdated, trivial)
Fragile and fluid – and paradoxically persistent
Obsolescence
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Obsolete Media
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Making history out of nothing at all
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Information LifecycleCREATE USE DISPOSE
• Generate• Acquire• Capture
Inactive
Archive
Destroy
OrganizeClassify
SearchAccess
EditShare
ProtectStore
Document Management
Electronic Imaging
Collaboration &Workflow
RecordsManagement
Credit: Janet de Guzman, Faculty of Information Studies, University of TorontoWatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Conclusion
A Paperless University?
Paperless = (much) less paper, not paper free
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Questions
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Technology … is a queer thing. It brings you great gifts with one hand, and it stabs you in the back with the other.
C. P. Snow
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