Whatever!

Graham Kitchen
Corporate Records Manager
Unified Western Grocers
5200 Sheila Street
Commerce, California 90040
Telephone:  (323)264-5200 Extension 4560
Cell:  (323)243-1865
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Records Management Program 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nolene Sherman
> Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 9:44 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Should Mail be Part of Records Management?
> 
>  
> What do those organizations who don't have records managers 
> or even know
> what ARMA is do? They manage just fine, I'm sure. If the 
> logic for mail
> management being part of RIM is that information should be captured at
> point of origin to ensure that it IS properly captured and filed, then
> why don't we have all the company's email come to RIM first? 
> The nature
> of documents and information flow has changed and we are pushing
> classification of these out to each employee (this kind of 
> relates back
> to the discussion we had on "minions" a few weeks back). Because some
> companies, likely for administrative reasons more than because it's
> functionally logical, keep mail and RIM together does not necessarily
> mean it should be a RIM competency. As it has been pointed out good
> mailroom management has more to do with a lot of non-rim 
> technicalities.
> I say let's stick with just focusing on where the two truly intersect
> rather than taking on the whole function.
> 
> Nolene Sherman
> Director of Records Management
> Standard Pacific Homes
> (949) 789-1668
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> Subject: Re: [RM] Should Mail be Part of Records Management?
> 
> Sorry to belabor this point, but if it is removed from our literature
> and training, then what are those smaller organizations to do?  Where
> will they get the information to do a job that has been "dumped" on
> them.  After all.... Who chose to be a Records Manager?  For 
> most of us,
> it was a job that needed doing, so we did it.  And we were 
> happy to get
> information wherever we could.  Are we now to cut that off from the
> people that follow?  ARMA is an association that was originally formed
> to educate.
> 
> Yes... "the times they are a changing" and we have to keep up, but the
> education should not be replaced.... It should be added to.
> 
> GT
> 
> Graham Kitchen
> 
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