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An International Standard on Records Management: An Opportunity for Librarians

Published/Copyright: December 10, 2007
Libri
From the journal Volume 52 Issue 4

The first International Standard on Records Management – ISO 15489: 2001: Information and Documentation – Records Management and the accompanying guidelines on how to use and implement the standard were officially launched at the Annual Conference of ARMA International in October 2001. These two publications are a collection of best practices in the field of records management and should be welcomed by all those who are responsible for records management and all those who create and keep records. This article traces first the origin of the standard. The standard, which is wide in scope, covers records management in all organisations, large or small, public or private. It applies to records in any format and on any media. It offers guidance on the design and implementation of records management systems and is a benchmark for best practices in the field. The article discusses the benefits of records management, the principles of records management programmes, what is involved in the design and implementation of a records system and as the longest part of the standard and the guidelines is the discussion of records management processes and controls, the article devotes similarly much space to the discussion of these topics.

Johanna Gunnlaugsdottir is Assistant Professor at the Department of Library and Information Sciences, University of Iceland. Oddi v/Sturlugotu. IS-101 Reykjavik, Iceland. Tel.: +354 525 4201. E-mail:
Received: 2002-02-13
Received: 2002-06-19
Accepted: 2002-06-26
Published Online: 2007-12-10
Published in Print: 2002-December

© 2002 by K. G. Saur Verlag GmbH, Federal Republic of Germany

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https://doi.org/10.1515/LIBR.2002.231

Articles in the same Issue

  1. Editorial: Driving Change in the Profession: Papers presented at the Section on Education and Training Workshop during IFLA 2002, Glasgow, Scotland, August 2002
  2. The Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) and Subject Review: The Viewpoint of the Assessor
  3. Going for Gold
  4. The UK Research Assessment Exercise 2001
  5. Driving Change in the Profession: Subject Benchmarking in UK Library and Information Management
  6. The Role of Professional Body Accreditation in Library & Information Science Education in the UK
  7. Web Logs as Indices of Electronic Journal Use: Tools for Identifying a “Classic” Article
  8. An International Standard on Records Management: An Opportunity for Librarians
  9. Private Archives in China
  10. Macroenvironmental Analysis for Strategic Management: Stakeholders' View of Ghana's University Libraries
  11. 2003 Annual Award for the Best Libri Student Paper
  12. Table of Contents: Vol. 52, No. 1–4
  13. Author Index: Vol. 52, No. 1–4
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