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Re: Terminology - Working Files, Informal Records, Transitory Files...
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"Jones, Virginia" <[log in to unmask]>
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Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 26 Jan 2015 14:05:44 +0000
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<"Transitory records" is a term coined for unofficial documents that still need to be managed in an organization and may go through a much shorter disposition period.>

I also call these types of documents/files/data "transitory records."  This category was used quite a bit for "nonrecords" many years ago.  The word itself describes the nature of the information (from Dictionary.com):

adjective

1. not lasting, enduring, permanent, or eternal.

2. lasting only a short time; brief; short-lived; temporary



Ginny Jones

(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)

Records Manager

Information Technology Division

Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities

Newport News, VA

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