Records Management Quarterly articles from January 1989

Records Management Quarterly archives from January 1989

Don't "Sell" Records Management - Give It Away
January 1, 1989... Don't "Sell" Records Management -- Give It Away Selling is a challenge whether in an open market or within the confines of our own organization. Before a sale takes place in the open market, the modern business management team engages in a great...

Automating a Records Index
January 1, 1989... Automating a Records Index This article outlines the steps taken, improvements made and problems encountered by a file center's operations through automating its records index using the BASIS Data Management System. The author examines the...

Standardizing PC file names using DOS directories.
January 1, 1989... Standardizing PC File Names Using DOS Directories As the number of personal computers (PCs) in business, industry, and government continues to climb, the need to organize and standardize the approach to naming files becomes critical. This...

Records Managers and Archivists: A Survey of Roles
January 1, 1989... Records Managers and Archivists: A survey of Roles Recent literature suggests that the occasional struggle between Records Managers and Archivist denotes a root conflict whose origin is at least 200 years old. This conflict, between...

Bringing the Paper Files into the Family
January 1, 1989... Bringing the Paper Files into the Family A popular assumption holds that paper file systems are obsolete, and will soon be replaced with computerized methods of recordkeeping. But experts say paper is here to stay for the foreseeable future....

Employee Complaints: Act Early and Be Concerned
January 1, 1989... Employee Complaints: Act Early and Be Concerned Unresolved employee complaints and concerns can become formal grievances, serious performance difficulties, or even legal disputes. In this article the author explains the nature of employee...

Law and Records Management: Toward a Greater Professionalism
January 1, 1989... Law and Records Management: Toward a Greater Professionalism Records management already encompasses a diverse group of concerns including forms design, filing systems, inactive storage, microfilm, and records retention. Particularly in recent...

Records Management Education in Britain: Groping in the Dusk
January 1, 1989... Records Management Education in Britain: Groping in the Dusk Those in Britain who want to study records management have a hard time of it. There are, essentially, no degree programmes in the field. There is no professional qualification for...

Recordkeeping Requirements.
January 1, 1989... Interdisciplinary Approaches Quoting a fragment of an old saying, "Jack of all trades, master of none," a reviewer would expect that a book written by an individual in one field about the intricacies of another field would be one of...

Telecommunication: Technology and Devices
January 1, 1989... Telecommunications: Technology and Devices In the physical sense, there are really only two ways to acquire information: go to where the information is or have the information come to where you are. There are dozens of examples of the...