The following was excerpted from the US Department of Labor site and it provides their response to the proposal for creating Records Management Classifications.
"Docket No. 08-0903 requested a new detailed occupation for "Records and Information Managers." The SOCPC did not accept this recommendation, based on Classification Principle 9 on collectability. The number of workers performing records and information management tasks as their primary activity is not substantial enough to support a new detailed occupation. These workers are so dispersed throughout the economy that it would be difficult to reliably collect and report data. The SOCPC recommended modifying the definition for 11-3011 Administrative Services Managers to clarify the inclusion of records and information management. (See also Docket No. 08-0938)."
Docket No. 08-0938 requested a new detailed occupation for "Records and Information Managers." The SOCPC did not accept this recommendation, based on Classification Principle 9 on collectability. The number of workers performing records and information management tasks as their primary activity is not substantial enough to support a new detailed occupation. These workers are so dispersed throughout the economy that it would be difficult to reliably collect and report data. The SOCPC recommended modifying the definition for 11-3011 Administrative Services Managers to clarify the inclusion of records and information management. (See also Docket No. 08-0903).
For full text in context see http://www.bls.gov/soc/soc2010responses.htm
For a description of administrative service managers see http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos002.htm The government estimates that 247,000 individuals work in this field
By the way according to this same site there are about 27,000 individuals working in the category or archivists, curators and museum technicians. For a full write up of this see http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos065.htm
David Gaynon
Huntington Beach CA USA
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Dear Peter:
On Friday, Peter wrote:
"I would be curious too, since archivist is listed in the OOC and yet there can't be that many people actually employed as an archivist."
Oh, there are one or two of us, Peter. ;-)
William
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