<Dwight Wallis wrote: Its been a part of North American practice as long as I have been involved in it, and that's going on thirty years.>

Dwight is absolutely correct. In fact, there are U.S. management textbooks from the 'aughts, and teens of the last century that recommend tying file and transfer (read, life cycle) activities to business activities is the best way to do so. This is primarily because records management in the U.S. at least was the adaptation of late 19th Century Scientific Management created in factories to offices. Library science was aware of records management from its inception, but contributed only cabinet design to our understanding. The archivists didn't catch up to us until right before WWII, but their contribution was to systematize what was called "transferring" into retention and disposition schedules.

Best wishes,
Carol



Carol E.B. Choksy, Ph.D., CRM, PMP
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IRAD Strategic Consulting, Inc.
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School of Library and Information Science
Indiana University, Bloomington

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