What Do Records Management and Archival Programs Do?
Records management programs are not one-time cleanups of problem situations, but are part of an ongoing, coherent program to manage the information needs of an organization. Records management programs clear working spaces of inactive records and allow the orderly and timely disposition of obsolete records. This maximizes existing space and makes it easier to provide a secure, climate-controlled environment for permanent records. Most importantly, records management provides ready access to recods with administrative, legal and fiscal uses, the first part of a record’s “life cycle.
