The management of records certainly improved with the establishment of the
National Archives and then the implementation of recommendations by the
Hoover Commission.  Those were necessary primarily because of the huge
bureaucracy created to deal with WWII, and the exponential explosion of
records created because of and for the war effort.  Military was just a
part of that effort.  Think what we now refer to as supply chain, martial
law and forced reorganization of industry to a war footing, rationing,
materials acquisition and recycling, espionage, population reassignment
(internment), etc., etc.  Records were managed on a large scale during the
war, but were managed much more effectively post-war with the development
of the profession of Records Management.  Our profession brought to bear
more effective filing and retrieval schema and tools, and retention
policies and disposition schedules.  Tools we still use today, albeit with
much more technology, automation, and sometimes different terminology for
the tools and methods.

Good discussion.


Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM, IGP


On Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 11:56 AM, David Gaynon <
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> Perhaps I am wrong but I always thought that records management in the USA
> began with the Hoover Commission.  See for example
> <snip>
>

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