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Records Management - A structure used for classifying materials into a hierarchy of categories and subcategories
See also classification system, file classification system, and subject classification system.
ARMA - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: chain index, classification system, file classification system, functional classification system, main heading, primary subject, secondary subject, structured-functional filing system, subheading, subject classification system, tertiary subject
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Records Management - A set of specifications about a type of documentary material or a set of documentary material.
NARA - Cite This Source - This Definition - See boilerplate.
ARMA - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: content (of documentary material), context (of documentary material), destruction, documentary material, hierarchical description, mediated search, nonrecord material, preservation and access plan, preservation assessment, record type, Reference, retrieval (of documentary material), set of documentary material, structure (of documentary material)
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Records Management - a record that may be disposed of in a short period of time because it is of limited, short-term value in documenting the accountable functions of an agency and that may be authorized for disposal by approved records disposition schedules after completing its useful retention term without unduly debasing or depleting the collective evidential value of the public archives.
Tennessee State Library and Archives - Cite This Source - This Definition - A record approved by the appropriate authority for disposal, either immediately or after a specified retention period.
NARA - Cite This Source - This Definition - A record of short-term value that can be destroyed immediately or after a specified time period
ARMA - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: cutoff, disposal period, dispose, disposition period, fiscal year, payback period, retention period, retention program, Statute of limitations
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Records Management - subdivision of a secondary subject in a hierarchal file classification system
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Records Management - As a verb, the processes supporting the moving of documentary material from one location to another. Usually used to refer to transfer of materials from the creator or custodian to NARA (including Federal records centers). As a noun, the body of documentary material for which physical custody is so transferred.
NARA - Cite This Source - This Definition - The movement of records out of office space and equipment to a records center.
State of California - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: accessions, deed of gift, deposit agreement, disposition instruction, donated material, records lifecycle data, records lifecycle transaction, RTS (Records Transfer Sheet), transferring entity
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Records Management - Change of custody, ownership, and/or responsibility for records
ARMA - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: Chain of Custody, Custody, expunge material, Legal custody, material integrity, Physical custody, remove material, Replevin, transmittal list
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Records Management - A record that has little or no documentary or evidential value and that need not be set aside for future use
ARMA - Cite This Source - This Definition - Browse Related Terms: administrative value, archival value, commercial value, enduring value, evidential value, fiscal value, historical value, Information, informational value, Intrinsic value, legal value, long-term record, market value, monetary value, oral history, permanent record, permanent value, research value, shelf life, Value