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A Paperless University …. Really?. Really?. Today’s Agenda. Paper vs. electronic today Signs of the times Benefits Challenges Solutions – Document management. Past & Future. Overflowing paper. Created electronically. Stored & managed in both. PAPER. NOW. ELECTRONIC. Multiple copies.
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Really? WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Really? WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Today’s Agenda • Paper vs. electronic today • Signs of the times • Benefits • Challenges • Solutions – Document management WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Past & Future Overflowing paper Created electronically Stored & managed in both PAPER NOW ELECTRONIC Multiple copies Multiple systems mail email Photocopiers Scanners • Information swamp • Technological improvements • Paper use declining • Digital age workforce • “Green” thinking WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Benefits Documents created, stored, used, and managed electronically One copy Flexible retrieval Collaboration Multiple users Workflow Creator User User User Automated destruction/archiving WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Challenges • Digital information explosion • ROT (redundant, outdated, trivial) • Fragile and fluid – and paradoxically persistent • Obsolescence WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Obsolete Media WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Making history out of nothing at all WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Information Lifecycle CREATE USE DISPOSE Organize Classify Search Access • Generate • Acquire • Capture Archive Inactive Destroy Protect Store Edit Share Document Management Records Management Electronic Imaging Collaboration & Workflow Credit: Janet de Guzman, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Conclusion A Paperless University? Paperless = (much) less paper, not paper free WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....
Questions ? 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 WatITis | Making the Future | December 2, 2008 | A Paperless University ....