The Gaithersburg Chapter of ARMA International provides monthly meetings and
other events that expand the knowledge base of all Records and Information
Management Professionals. The planned schedule of events is listed below.
Program: As the watchdog of the federal government, the Government Accountability Office often
describes itself as “living in a glass house.” Identifying issues and providing recommendations
to other agencies means that GAO has to be a model agency and practice what it preaches.
Catherine Teti, Managing Director of Knowledge Services and the Chief Agency Privacy
Officer, will talk about life in the glass house and GAO’s approach to knowledge management
that strives to integrate information management functions, such as records management,
information services (ranging from libraries to social media), and privacy, and to ensure their
coordination with other business and mission functions.
Speaker: Catherine Teti, Managing Director for Knowledge Services, Chief Agency Privacy
Officer, US Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Catherine has over three decades of experience in developing and directing information
management programs that bring together and build upon the disciplines of public information,
reference and library services, records management and archiving, and traditional and electronic
content management. At GAO, Catherine has led agency-wide initiatives to leverage the
retention and sharing of organizational knowledge by maximizing the way GAO collects, uses,
disseminates, protects, and preserves its institutional information assets. These initiatives have
included implementing an agency-wide electronic records management system, developing
a corporate taxonomy to strengthen the foundation for classifying and reusing organizational
knowledge collections, and implementing GAO’s privacy program. Before her tenure at GAO,
Catherine managed major systems design and analysis projects for two private sector consulting
firms and directed information management and public disclosure programs at three federal
agencies and a government corporation.
Catherine has served on federal working groups charged with reviewing policies and practices
to effectively capture and retain electronic information assets. She has co-chaired the Electronic
Records Management Working Group, an inter-agency working group for practitioners in
the disciplines of records management, telecommunications, and information systems and
technology. She has served as an advisory member of the Federal Information and Records
Managers Council (FIRM). She is also a member of ARMA and AIIM, serving as a member of
AIIM’s Emerging Technology Advisory Group (EmTAG).
Menu: Dinner buffet consists of Lentil Soup, Artesian Dinner Rolls, Baby Field Greens w/
Condiments & Dressings, Cucumbers & Tomatoes, Marinated Mushroom Salad, Broccoli &
Cheese Stuffed Chicken Breast w/Couscous, Vegetable Lasagna, Carrot Cake & Apple Pie
Freshly Brewed Coffee; Decaffeinated Coffee; Tea (Hot & Iced). Cash bar will be available.
Cost: Online payment with credit card, available until reservation
closing time, $35 @
Online Reservations; payment at the door is cash or check only: $30 for
members, $35 non-members, $15 students (Student ID required).
Reservations: Please RSVP by 12:00 PM Friday, September 10, 2010, by responding to your E-vite or by sending an e-mail to
gburgarma@yahoo.com. No shows and cancellations after 12:00
PM Friday, September 10th, 2009, will be billed. If you have questions, contact Betsy Christie
at 301-651-9026.
Directions: Additional information and directions are located at
www.sheraton.com/rockville
and select Local Area.
If you have any suggestions for the types of programs you would like to see
presented, please contact the board at
gburgarma@yahoo.com
Visit MapQuest for additional direction information.
For Ride-on maps, routes and timetables refer to the following sites:
www.dpwt.com
; rideguide.wmata.com

NCC-AIIM Events
"Inside the Records Room," a talk radio show with Ray Davis, Liberty Bell Chapter, airs every Tuesday at 8 PM EST. Listen over the internet
and get details at
http://www.insidetherecordsroom.com