ARMA Records Management Quarterly

If you think about it, the people who should most likely be suffering from cumulative trauma disorder, low back pain, respiratory difficulty, and work-related stress are professional basketball players. The cumulative trauma would result from the constant...

After 25 years of what has amounted essentially to inaction, electronic records management finally appears to have been rediscovered. Thus far, it has become a serious issue only within US Government agencies, but this concern can be expected to spread...

Most intelligent people recognize that ignoring serious medical, financial, or emotional problems won't make them "just go away"; action is needed. But judging by the lack of open discussion about image and status in records management, there seem to...

In the previous edition of "The World of Records Management" we introduced readers to records management in the United Kingdom by outlining the historical developments that color the complexion of records management in this country. We continue our discussion...

Surveys seem to be everywhere. Unsolicited surveys arrive in the mail (both postal mail and electronic mail), are broadcast on television (as "viewer polls"), and even invade our personal homes as telephone intrusions ("Sir, we noticed that you have...

In October 1993, the Canadian province of British Columbia proclaimed its Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (FOI), legislation which has been hailed as being among the best of its kind anywhere in the world. It is legislation which...