records management

That area of general administrative management concerned with achieving economy and efficiency in the creation, use and maintenance, and disposition of records. Includes fulfilling archival requirements and ensuring effective documentation. See also paperwork management.

the application of management techniques to the creation, use, maintenance, retention, preservation, and disposal of records in order to reduce costs and improve efficiency of record-keeping and in order to assure the survival and protection of vital, essential, and permanent records for public inspection, and it is the orderly, systematic, accountable, creation, processing, communication, storage, retrieval, and authorized disposition of public records. Records management includes design, analysis, and management of records retention schedules, files and information retrieval systems, microfilm information systems, correspondence and word processing systems, records centers, forms, reports, and publications.

The application of management techniques to the creation, utilization, maintenance, retention, preservation, and disposition of records, undertaken to reduce costs and improve efficiency in record keeping. Includes management of filing and microfilming equipment and supplies: filing and information retrieval systems; files, correspondence, reports, and forms management; historical documentation; micrographics; systems applications; retention scheduling; and vital records protection.

Records Management is the planning, controlling, directing, organizing, training, promoting and other managerial activities involving the lifecycle of information, including creation,