I am a records management consultant and trainer, with my own company (Thinking Records Ltd).
I am an accredited trainer for the European Commission, for whom I provide records management training. I also provide training courses in records management for TFPL, and undertake consultancy and training projects for a variety of different clients.
I was elected Conference Director of the Records Management Society in 2007 and organised the 2008 Records Management Society Conference in Edinburgh. I was chair of the London Group of the Records Management Society between 2006 and 2009.
After obtaining my MA in Archives and Records Management at UCL in 1994, I held records management roles at The National Archives, the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham, and the Wellcome Trust.
I spent four years as a consultant, trainer and blogger for TFPL, during which time I worked with many different organisations and teams to help them adapt to the challenges of managing records in today’s world of very diverse and fragmented electronic systems.
In January 2009 I founded Thinking Records Ltd. I was lead researcher in Northumbria University’s ‘Investigation into the use of SharePoint in Higher Education‘. I also make regular appearances on the Records Management Today podcast series
Hi James
Do you realise you have a typo in the second sentence of your blog’s “About” page; (Thinking Reocrds)!
Regards
Frank
Comment by Frank McCall — April 1, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
Thanks for pointing this out Frank, I’ve corrected this now. I remember your training courses from the old PRO days, I think you were the person who first introduced me to the records life cycle!
Comment by James Lappin — April 2, 2009 @ 6:21 am
Oh dear. What did I set in motion? Thanks for the link to the Dorset Experience paper; very interesting.
Comment by Frank McCall — April 3, 2009 @ 12:05 pm