Even the smallest business needs to promote the value of records management as a way to save money and improve the bottom line. Proper records management also helps you keep control of important ...

Compliance is made up of many key functions, each of which vary in importance. But two areas that are often underdiscussed—perhaps due to a perceived lack of glamour—are maintenance and record-keeping ...

The best data in the world won't do your business any good if you can't find the information you want when you need it. A records inventory is an organizing system for tracking files, both hard copy ...

The Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 (SOX) can be considered the most significant compliance standard of our time. Since the passing of the legislation 7 years ago, companies have had to rethink the way ...

The University at Buffalo is required to maintain a reasonably detailed current list of records by subject matter. UB maintains records by subject in accordance with the SUNY Records Retention and ...

In the very dry world of the people who deal with public records it’s not usual for them to speak extemporaneously, so I think that the fact that the Archivist of the United States has his own blog is ...

Smarsh, which sells electronic records management services, is moving deeper into the state and local government market via the creation of a public-sector division. The new unit will serve what the ...

National archivist David Ferriero gets credit for starting his own blog, but he ought to loosen up a little, writes blogger Brian Robinson. NARA Social Media In the very dry world of the people who ...