Dr David Reeve, Dorset County Council
Dr David Reeve qualified as an archivist and records manager at the University of North Wales in 1990 and became an archivist for the Dorset Archive Service.
In 2002 he was appointed the Operational Records Manager for Dorset County Council, in charge of the day to day running of the Records Management Unit and the 3 members of staff dealing with the transfer retrieval and destruction processes for authority’s paper records. He has been leading the records management element of the EDRM project which has been described as best practice by the Records Advisory Service for The National Archive, London and the project has won one and been short-listed for a further two industry awards. He is involved in deploying the system corporately, developing a corporate file plan, managing 2 EDRM staff, implementing retention policies, defining metadata requirements, and giving papers on EDRM at numerous National and European events such as the CIMTECH-TNA Conference, Ark Conferences, Open Text European Summits and the Catalan Municipal Archive Bi-annual Conference, Barcelona.
In April 2009 he was appointed the Corporate Information Manager for DCC to lead and co-ordinate the development of a whole-authority approach to the corporate information management agenda, ensuring all key stakeholders across the county council and partners are engaged in defining and delivering the information vision.
He received his History and Sociology degree from Bedford College and went onto to gain a MA in Local History from Leicester University. He completed a part-time PhD on 17th century Wimborne Minster, Dorset in 2002.
Conference sessions featuring Dr David Reeve
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