John,

I agree, if you have it, can ,aintain it and meet compliance requirments why 
tap the budget. As our friend, the Records Manager formerly known as North 
Dakota Bill would probably say, f it ain't broke don't fix it. The scenario 
laid out in the posting was of a broken system. Given the choices I 
recommended not tring to attmept parsing th erecords by cutting and 
sleeving.

As far as microfilm being permanent....

Microfilm is part of an overall migration srategy. Once you have filmed the 
record and disposed of it, you are committed to the strategy developed. 
Regardless of how long you hold on to that version of the mocrofilm, at some 
point (usuall TBD) you will migrate the record. The original record is gone.

Chris Flynn


>From: "John James O'Brien, CRM, MALT"              <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Records Management Program <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: Old Microfilm
>Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2007 11:17:39 -0500
>
>Puzzled by the comment that "microfilm is not meant to last forever".  It's
>about the closest cost effective thing there is--and can be accesed even if
>there is a power failure.  Don't get me wrong, all for cost justifiable ERM
>where migration of electronic data in the context of authentic and reliable
>record keeping can be afforded.  But microfilm is an ideal medium for some
>purposes.  I am in favour of a blended media approach in which purpose
>drives storage media and, typically, multimedia RM is key.
>
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