Talk:Records Management
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I dont know how american use the term record management. But my lecturer said that record management has almost the same meaning with the term corporate memory in wikipedia. Can the admin of this site talk more about it?
[edit] Records management is a reflection of corporate memory
Yes, the two terms are highly related, but not precisely congruent. For example, in a law firm, client fields are certainly records, but the records are legally the property of the client, even though they are housed at the law firm. On the other hand, the true corporate memory of a law firm is often ignored by the records management department; items such as awards and certifications of the partners are not indexed and maintained by the records manager.
Think of this way: The corporate memory is the total, shared experience of all of the directors, employees, suppliers, and customers of the corporation. Records management is any reasonable attempt to capture, index, manage, and properly hold or dispose of any of these assets. Reasonable because though we may wish to spend time indexing and tracking trophies and interesting artifacts, there may not be a profitable payoff or regulatory obligation to do so.
[edit] Electronic records
Can I ask why the section on electronic records has been removed from this page (it was here the last time I looked!). My job is primarily electronic records management, and although I spend a great deal of my time encouraging people to manage their emails and electronic records in the same way as they manage their paper records, I still believe that a separate section on electronic records management would be useful.
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