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A Program for the Management of Business Records

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 July 2012

Irving P. Schiller
Affiliation:
Appraisal Officer, Archives Section, United Nations.

Extract

In this complex world little can be done without records. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, surveys, inventories, plans, charts, blueprints, fiscal records, legal records, and hundreds of other varieties are all needed so that modern society can function with some degree of control. Business records are accumulating at a staggering rate; for example, one insurance company has acquired over 800,000 cubic feet in a period of about 70 years. The war period with its increased production and added personnel has, of course, accentuated the entire problem.

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Copyright © The President and Fellows of Harvard College 1947

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