<do you think Mailroom functions should be part of our Records
Management Competencies?>  
Ideally?????.....Mailroom tasks and technical functions should NOT be a
RIM function. Courier tasks for storage box or file delivery should NOT.
Registry systems SHOULD because they are essentially a document tracking
system. Imaging (film-based and electronic) SHOULD because, again, they
involve document capture and tracking (usually into a repository of some
kind).  The trick is getting these functions separated from "Mailroom"
functionality in organizations that still lump them together.

< but if you seek to be a professional records manager, stop doing the
clerical duties.>
Absolutely, we should not be doing the "tasks."  The "management" in
records management means "to manage."  Even when I was in charge of the
mailroom, I never did the tasks.  I MANAGED the operation, just as I
MANAGE imaging functions, active records functions, inactive records
functions, etc.

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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