This survey has been designed for us by Cimtech Ltd, part of the University of Hertfordshire, who will also assist us with some of the analysis of the results obtained. The results will be used by JISC infoNet to ensure that we continue to devote our resources to providing tools and guidance of relevance to those working to address information and records management issues within colleges and universities. In particular, the results will help inform the agenda for a one day conference being hosted by JISC infoNet in March 2009 and the scope of a new online resource planned for the autumn of 2009.

We are also aware that the data collected via this survey is likely to be of considerable interest to records professionals working within the sector and will publish an anonymised version of the results on the JISC infoNet website shortly after the closing date.

The survey is available from www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/records-management/erm-survey and will be open until Friday 26th September.

All those submitting a survey response will automatically be entered into a free prize draw, with the first ten names selected at random receiving copies of Steve Bailey's new book: Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web2.0 world.