Proudly ITS: documenting the history of ITS @ UNB

It's definitely happening - the old guard is moving on, being replaced by fresh, young faces that have no idea of the journey the department has taken and contribution it has made to the University of New Brunswick (UNB) over the past 50 years. Over the past few years a number of long time employees of Integrated Technology Services (ITS) have retired. With them they take the knowledge of the past - how we got to where we are today and how we have assisted UNB move forward with its mission of education and research. With this in mind, ITS hired a student to complete a timeline of the Integrated Technology Services (ITS) department at UNB. The project included many interviews, research through old documentation, identifying the historical information that we had posted around the department and lots of good memories. We also explored other possible applications of the collected information with UNB's Department of History. We intend to make the information available to the UNB Department of Communications and Marketing for possible use in recruitment and marketing of UNB. The deliverables included web posting of comprehensive and thematic timelines beginning with the creation of The Computing Centre in 1964 through to the present, presentations on the project to our internal staff, a display for our bulletin boards and documentation of the information we have posted from our 25th anniversary. The leadership has decided that this information should be kept up-to-date and a strategy is being developed to determine what information should be included and how to incorporate this work in to the annual workflow.