Document Management Technology

In this course, students will improve their understanding of office documents. They will learn about electronic records, images and microfilm; management storage and retrieval; as well as the difference between electronic records and image documents. Students will study the components of electronic records management systems; learn the difference between bi-tonal, greyscale, colour image, TIFF, JPEG and PDF file formats; and study past, present and possible future electronic storage medias, past and present tools used to retrieve and reproduce microfilm images and legal admissibility of electronic, image and microfilm documents.