In the September/October 2018 issue of Information Management, William LeFevre wrote a piece entitled “Leveraging Legacy Historical Records to Create Organizational Value.” He explained that the “data explosion” has blurred the lines between active and inactive records that typically divided records managers from archivists. He encouraged information management professionals to consider additional uses of records …
With too many other things consuming time during RIM month, I took some time off from investigating the intersections between archivists and records managers. But it’s time to return to this effort. A few years ago, ARMA International Fellow David O. Stephens wrote an article in Information Management about the evolution and future of the …
At the 1965 annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, SAA Fellow and National Archives director Frank Evans delivered a paper about the relationship of archivists and records managers. He recapped the literature of the previous two decades (much of which has already been cited in this series) and provided this conclusion about the …
Charles M. Dollar worked as the electronic records program manager for NARA from 1974-1994, and during this time, he delivered a number of lectures and papers that coalesced into an article published in the Fall 1993 issue of Archivaria entitled “Archivists and Records Managers in the Information Age.” He put forward the simple argument that …
Jay Atherton was a long-time archivist at the Public Archives of Canada. In the Winter 1985-86 issue of Archivaria, he published “From Life Cycle to Continuum: Some Thoughts on the Records Management – Archives Relationship.” Atherton emphasized the necessity of cooperative work between records managers and archivists to accomplish certain goals: “- ensure the creation …
In 2005, two people working in Records and Archives at the World Health Organisation — Ineke Deserno and Donna Kynaston — had this to say about the intersection of records management and archival work: “A records management program is indispensable for an archives program. It ensures the identification of records of long-term historical value and …
In his presidential address at the 1965 SAA annual meeting, W. Kaye Lamb spoke about “The Changing Role of the Archivist.” He spoke at length about the importance of good records management, including this praise: “Our debt to the records managers is very great, in at least two respects. In the first place, it is …
The fourth chapter in T.R. Schellenberg’s Modern Archives: Principles & Techniques (first published in 1956) is entitled “Archival Interests in Records Management.” He approached the topic from the viewpoint of public records and had this to say about the intersections between records management and archival records: “Public records are the grist of the archivist’s mill. …
At the 1958 annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, LeRoy DuPuy read a paper entitled “Archivists and Records Managers – A Partnership.” While acknowledging disagreements between the professionals, he asserted each could be made better through cooperation. “If this emphasis on differences is pursued with vigor, the entire profession will be the loser; …
Last week, we looked at a paper presented by Philip C. Brooks at the 1942 Society of American Archivists annual meeting. The third paper presented in that series was by Robert H. Bahmer, who also worked at the National Archives and would go on in the 1960s to be both SAA president and Archivist of …
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