Absolutely correct Virginia.  I stand corrected.

On 5/22/07, Jones, Virginia <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> "Consignment" is the term I learned in 1976 when I started at the New
> Mexico State Records Center.  Our State Records Administrator was a
> Federal old-timer and he always claimed "accession" was a term for
> disposition to an archive, while "consignment" was used for a group
> placed in inactive storage.  The difference being - an archive "owns"
> the records it accessions while a record center provides a storage (and
> disposition) service for records "owned" by the agencies/businesses that
> send them there.
>
> Since I had a good and forceful mentor at the NMSRC&A, other uses and
> definitions of these terms in RIM always confused me. Yes - you only
> need 70% to pass each CRM exam. 8-)
>
> 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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