Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Editorial note
- Introduction
- 1 Understanding records management
- 2 Analysing the context for records management
- 3 Classifying records and documenting their context
- 4 Creating and capturing records
- 5 Managing appraisal, retention and disposition
- 6 Maintaining records and assuring their integrity
- 7 Providing access
- 8 Implementing records management: practical and managerial issues
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Bibliography and sources of further information
- Appendix B Select list of national and international standards
- Appendix C Professional organizations for records managers in English-speaking countries
- Index
Appendix A - Bibliography and sources of further information
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 09 June 2018
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Editorial note
- Introduction
- 1 Understanding records management
- 2 Analysing the context for records management
- 3 Classifying records and documenting their context
- 4 Creating and capturing records
- 5 Managing appraisal, retention and disposition
- 6 Maintaining records and assuring their integrity
- 7 Providing access
- 8 Implementing records management: practical and managerial issues
- Conclusion
- Appendix A Bibliography and sources of further information
- Appendix B Select list of national and international standards
- Appendix C Professional organizations for records managers in English-speaking countries
- Index
Summary
Records management websites
The following websites are particularly useful for the breadth of their coverage of records management issues. Most of them provide information about both paper and electronic records. Some of their content focuses on the needs of public sector organizations in particular countries, but most is of considerably wider relevance.
International Records Management Trust
www.irmt.org/.
National Archives and Records Administration, USA
www.archives.gov/.
National Archives of Australia
www.naa.gov.au/.
National Archives of Canada
www.archives.ca/.
New York State Archives and Records Administration, USA
www.archives.nysed.gov/.
Public Record Office, UK
www.pro.gov.uk/.
In 2003 the name of the UK Public Record Office is expected to change to the National Archives, and its web address may also change.
State Records Authority of New South Wales, Australia
www.records.nsw.gov.au/.
Further information about developments in electronic records management can be found on the following websites.
Digital Longevity (Digitale Duurzaamheid)
www.digitaleduurzaamheid.nl/.
DLM-Forum on Electronic Records
www.dlmforum.eu.org/.
e-TERM (European Training in Electronic Records Management)
www.ucl.ac.uk/e-term/.
Interpares Project
www.interpares.org/.
Persistent Archives and Electronic Records Management
www.sdsc.edu/NARA/.
Records Continuum Research Group
http://rcrg.dstc.edu.au/.
VERS (Victorian Electronic Records Strategy)
www.prov.vic.gov.au/vers/.
General works in print
Recent works that provide coverage of electronic as well as paper records
Kennedy, J. and Schauder, C. (1998) Records management: a guide to corporate record keeping, 2nd edn, Addison Wesley Longman Australia. Widely used Australian text, revised in 1998 to conform with the Australian records management standard AS 4390.
Parker, E. (1999) Managing your organization's records, Library Association Publishing.
Practical manual in an informal style.
Short introductions to records management
Hare, C. and McLeod, J. (1997) Developing a records management programme, Aslib. Succinct account of the components of a records management programme.
McLeod, J. and Hare, C. (2001) Records management. In Scammell, A. (ed.) Handbook of information management, 8th edn, Aslib IMI. Overview of records management principles, approaches and trends.
Saffady, W. (1999) The value of records management: a manager's briefing, ARMA International. Brief explanation of records management, emphasizing the value that it can deliver to an organization.
Works focusing mainly or wholly on the management of electronic records
Bearman, D. (1994) Electronic evidence: strategies for managing records in contemporary organizations, Archives and Museum Informatics. Seminal work including reprints of articles by a leading theorist.
Dearstyne, B. (ed.) (2002) Effective approaches for managing electronic records and archives, Scarecrow Press. Collection of essays, mainly by US authors.
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