Records and Information Management: Fundamentals of Professional
Practice, Fourth Edition presents principles and practices for
systematic management of recorded information. It is
anauthoritative resource for newly appointed records managers and
information governance specialists as well as for experienced
records management and information governance professionals who
want a review of specific topics. It is also a textbook for
undergraduate and graduate students of records management or allied
disciplines-such as library science, archives management,
information systems, and office administration-that are concerned
with the storage, organization, retrieval, retention, or protection
of recorded information. The fourth edition has been thoroughly
updated and expanded to: Set the professional discipline of RIM in
the context of information governance, risk mitigation, and
compliance andindicate how it contributes to those initiatives in
government agencies, businesses, and not-for-profit organizations
Provide a global perspective, with international examples and a
discussion of the differences in records management issuesin
different parts of the world. Its seven chapters are practical,
rather than theoretical, and reflect the scope andresponsibilities
of RIM programs in all types of organizations. Emphasize best
practices and relevant standards. The book is organized into seven
chapters that reflect the scope and responsibilities of records and
information management programs in companies, government agencies,
universities, cultural and philanthropic institutions, professional
services firms, and other organizations. Topics covered include the
conceptual foundations of systematic records management, the role
of records management as a business discipline, fundamentals of
record retention, management of active and inactive paper records,
document imaging technologies and methods, concepts and
technologies for organization and retrieval of digital documents,
and protection ofmission-critical records. In every chapter, the
treatment is practical rather than theoretical. Drawing on the
author's extensiveexperience supplemented by insights from records
management publications, the book emphasizes key concepts and
proven methods that readers can use to manage electronic and
physical records.
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