I have just one comment and that is that content is key to records
management, and so ideally there is overlap between the two practices.

Retention periods used by records managers to disposition depend on the
context and content of records, the function that records (information)
perform(s) in an agency. If the records'  content and context are
permanently valuable as carriers of certain administrative, legal, fiscal,
historical or cultural content they may be considered archival. The decision
making process in this instance is best left to an archivist, although many
records managers may find themselves making this call. So, in this sense
records managers and archivists may be considered content managers, but
content managers may also function in other ways to facilitate retrieval
while the records are active.  My 2 cents only, but I hope it is useful.

A.S.Elizabeth Fairfax, MA, CA
Island County Records and Information Management Program
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Subject: [RM] Student Questions

Good morning, everyone,

I have some questions I wanted to fire off to the list. I apologize if
any of these questions seem, well, dumb, but I figure if I never ask a
question, I'll never get an answer.

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