Last Friday the Australian Public Service Commission released a report 
on recordkeeping in the APS (Australian Public Service). I will not go 
into the history of the report or how long it took to actually get 
published but list members (even those not in a Government agency) 
might find it of interest including...

the definition of a record (on page 2 of the body of the report)
the definition of what sort of records people should be capturing 
(useful: records required to do business and important: records 
required to meet obligations e.g. legal obligations)
and the case studies of 8 Government agency (a link on the page)

The information can be found at www.apsc.gov.au/mac  (look for Mac 
Report no 8 or NOTE FOR FILE)


Regards

John Dowling


PS to head off the debate re the term recordkeeping/records management 
I offer the following quotes (No correspondence to be entered into...ok 
if it irritates you to that extent send me an e-mail I can organise a 
junk mail rule....in case the Australian humour loses itself in 
translation "that's a joke Joyce" )

Recordkeeping
  The making and maintaining of complete, accurate and reliable evidence 
of business transactions in the form of recorded information.

Records Management
  The discipline and organisational function of managing records to meet 
operational business needs, accountability requirements and community 
expectations.

from
www.records.curtin.edu.au/recordkeeping_manual/glossary.html

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