In keeping with ARMA International’s mission for records management, to educate, advocate and provide resources that enable professionals to manage information as a critical element of the organizational operations and governance, the Capitol Chapter has a proposed schedule of educational events for the 2011-12 fiscal year. The Capitol Chapter will host presentations by expert speakers to present and discuss Records and Information Management (RIM) topics. In addition, we will periodically host networking events for sharing and gaining knowledge on topics of your choosing. Please keep checking back for future events, get on our contact list by registering on this site, or join us on Linked-In.

See below for information about the upcoming meeting, and view the Calendar for future meetings and networking events.

Nitza Medina-Garcia is a Certified Records Manager who works as Senior Consultant of Records Management for Autonomy an HP company. Ms. Medina-Garcia works with organizations around the world to implement records management, document management and electronic discovery software.

Prior to Ms. Medina-Garcia’s work with Autonomy, she worked as a corporate records manager for the Episcopal Church headquarters in New York City and as an archivist with Hunter College of New York. Ms. Medina-Garcia obtained her Masters in Library and Information Science from Pratt Institute, one of the oldest library schools in the nation. She was also a former president of the Greater Sacramento ARMA chapter.

Ms. Medina-Garcia will be presenting our May seminar on eDiscovery: What Records Managers Need to Know. Organizations are transacting more and more of their business via electronic methods. It is imperative that Records Managers understand what is eDisovery and how their legal hold process can be translated from a paper world to an electronic one. Ms. Medina-Garcia will cover the basics of eDiscovery:

• What is eDiscovery?

• What is a legal hold?

• What does a records manager need to know about the eDiscovery process?

• What is the best practice in implementing a legal hold?