Records Management Journal: Volume 7 Issue 1

Records management as a strategic business function

LESLEY A. KING

After having read Julie McLeod's opinion piece on the lifecycle of records concept, I felt compelled to commit my own opinions to paper. Strange really, I never thought of myself…

What price information?

CHRIS LINDESAY

Many people are trying to tackle the cost and value issues arising from the information age in which we now live, including the profession of information and records managers, who…

Introducing charges for records management: the Cumbrian system

JIM GRISENTHWAITE

This article outlines the process leading to the introduction of a charging system for records management services in a local authority context. It examines the circumstances…

More than diplomatic: functional requirements for evidence in recordkeeping

RICHARD J COX

In the 1990s, North American archivists and records managers shifted some of their concern with electronic records and record keeping systems to conducting research about the…

The records and information management training course: a partnership between business and education

VICKI WILKINSON

This article describes the Records and Information Management Training Course run for the first time at the University of Glasgow in autumn 1996. Developed as a joint initiative…

The records management challenge of a large construction project: experiences of the Hong Kong airport railway project

DIANA EDMONDS, RINGO LO

Projects often present specific difficulties for the Records Manager. Records are created in a manner which is fast and furious — with many records being generated in a short…