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						Abstract

Innovations mean new opportunities

Jóhanna Gunnlaugsdóttir defended her doctoral disserta-

tion at the University of Tampere in Finland on November

25, 2006. She became then the first Icelander to finish

such a degree in records and information management.

In  the interview Jóhanna  discusses  her studies,  what

inspired her to undertake this challenge and her diverse

career experience. Her dissertation carries the title: "The

Implementation and Use of ERMS: A Study in Icelandic

Organizations".

The aim of the research was to discover why organiza-

tions invested in electronic records management systems

(ERMS), how ERMS were being implemented and to

find out whether and how employees were actually using

ERMS. The research aimed to discover the relationship

between the implementation methods and the use of

ERMS. The study discovered that there was a strong rela-

tionship between the most important input factors and the

outcomes that they influenced. There were mainly three

implementation factors that appeared to be most impor-

tant for the success of the implementation. These were (1)

support by top management, (2) the participation of the

users in the project, and (3) the training of the users who

should receive both basic training in records management

and training in the use of the system. Other findings of

the research revealed (1) how employees in fact used the

ERMS, and (2) how the employees actually felt working in

the system.

Jóhanna was born in 1949. She finished her matricu-

lation examination in 1970. She completed a BA degree

in library science and history in 1985, and a year later,

she, along with a few other librarians, founded the firm

Gangskör sf. that provides consulting and service in the

field of records and information management. Jóhanna

and her closest colleague worked full time in the firm for

twenty years and organized records and library material

in over 100 organizations in Iceland during that period.

Jóhanna also worked as a librarian at Gardabær Municipal

and School Library 1984-1986 and trained students in the

use of the library.

Jóhanna's interest in records management prompted

her to obtain an MSc Econ degree from the University of

Wales, Aberystwyth in 1998, but she had started to teach

courses in records management at the University of Iceland

in the year before. Jóhanna has since 1997 devoted her time

to research and teaching. She wants to strengthen the field

of records and information management in Iceland and to

offer doctoral studies at the University of Iceland in co-

operation with universities abroad.

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