Information
- College Unit
- School of Information Sciences
- Position
- Professor Emeritus
- Office
- 10515 Raven Court
- imainc(at)mindspring.com
- Phone
- 865-919-5878
- Web Page
- http://www.theimpros.com
- Education
Ph.D., English, 1973, University of Tennessee
M.L.S., Information Science, 1975, University of Tennessee
M.A., English, 1966, University of Tennessee
B.A., English, 1964, University of the South
- CV
- http://www.cci.utk.edu/files/u131/Pemberton_CV_2006_2007.doc
- Biography
J. Michael Pemberton, Ph.D., CRM, FAI, has been a faculty member in information management at two universities and has also served as a librarian, an archivist, a records manager, a professor, and a consultant. For the last 30 years, he has been a faculty member of the School of Information Sciences (SIS) at the University of Tennessee, the state's senior, public, Research I university. He holds the rank of professor and has offered 15 courses with an emphasis in records management, archives management, corporate librarianship, knowledge management, the nature of the information professions, and the management of information organizations. In recent years, his scholarly work has focused on issues related to professional advancement of the field of records management, ethics and information technology, and Aristotle and his school as the genesis for information science. In addition to his faculty roles, Pemberton has served as the Interim Records Manager at UT (1997-99), a campus service unit he developed from the ground up in the mid-1980s. The unit has saved the university some $20 million in direct and indirect costs. In 1989-90, he created the Center for Information Studies, a research and contracting arm of SIS which has brought more than $15 million into UT. His company, Information Management Associates, Inc., has had 18 consultancies. Pemberton is an internationally recognized writer, presenter and editor. He has authored 72 publications (books, articles, proceedings) and made 98 invited presentations on topics in information management. In addition, he has authored 65 reviews of books, videos, and Web sites. He is the first two-time winner (1990 and 1995) of the John F. X. Britt Literary Award for the best article appearing in the journal published by the Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA International), a professional association of 10,000 members in 37 countries. He is the executive editor (1998 - ) of the Information Management Journal, an international, interdisciplinary, journal which has twice won quality awards from the American Society of Association Executives and has been cited twice by ARMA members as "the most valuable benefit of membership." Pemberton serves on the editorial boards of two international journals. He has published in the Information Management Journal (formerly Records Management Quarterly), Forbes, InFOCUS (PRISM International), Xploration: Journal of the Electronic Document Systems (Xplor), Records Management Journal (UK), the International Records Management Journal, the Journal of Ethics, the RMS Bulletin (Records Management Society of Great Britain), and the Journal of Education for Library and Information Science Education. Pemberton has been interviewed on information and records management topics by newspapers such as The Washington Post, the Columbus (Ohio) Observer, The Los Angeles Times, and The Knoxville (Tennessee) News Sentinel. He was one of 55 Tennesseans invited by the Secretary of State to participate in an "archives summit" to develop strategic goals for an archives infrastructure in the state. For 26 years Pemberton has served in leadership roles with ARMA International. In 1993-95, he became the only academic ever elected to ARMA International's Board of Directors when he was named vice president for Region III (1993-95). He has chaired three of the association's standing committees: Education, Publications and Research Development, and the Professional Issues Committee. Pemberton is a past chair of the inter-association Joint Committee of ARMA and the Society of American Archivists (SAA). He chaired the committee that developed ARMA's most recent versions of the Code of Professional Responsibility. In 1998, Pemberton became a Certified Records Manager (CRM) through a six-part examination administered by the Institute of Certified Records Managers. Based on career contributions and achievements in the field, he was inducted into ARMA's prestigious Company of Fellows (October 1998), becoming only one of 21 persons then qualified to use the designation "FAI" (Fellow, ARMA International) and only the fourth academic so honored. He served on the first panel of experts in the Information and Records Management field, chosen internationally, to evaluate submissions for The Iron Mountain/ARMA International Award for Excellence in Information Management. He is a candidate for the Emmet J. Leahy award, the highest in the field of records management. Pemberton has competitively won contracts for consulting services at organizations such as the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Missouri, and Knox County (Tennessee) government. IMA consultants have undertaken consulting assignments at other organizations, such as Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Oak Ridge Schools, Sevier County (Tennessee), and national-level for-profit organizations such as King Business Forms, Jewelry Television, Johnson & Galyon, a contractor, and Lawler-Wood, a developer. A native of Nashville, Pemberton graduated from the University of the South (Sewanee) with a B.A. in 1964. He has an M.A., an M.L.S, and a Ph.D. He is married and has two adult children, one of whom, Anne, is an SIS graduate and the third family member in successive generations to become an information professional . His research focus is on the professional, or supra-technical, issues (e.g., education, certification, ethics, compensation) facing practitioners in records management and cognate areas. He has published 31 articles on this topic. A recent project is by Pemberton, Pemberton, Lounsbury, and Williamson, "RIM [records and information management] Professionals: A Distinct Personality?" The Information Management Journal, September/October 2005.
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