I hauled off and pulled out a textbook...; 4th Edition of Information
and Records Management; Robek, Brown,  and Stephens (Madke is an older
edition).  I keep this around to help in training new staff.

"Accession    A shipment of records received into the Records Center or
archives for storage and retrieval."   

Unless Bill Benedon CRM sheds new light, or old whale-oil lamplight,
for a better term describing the antiquated media at that particular
point, then "accession" is it! 

Back in the day, many, many moons ago, when we dealt with paper files a
lot, "file series" were records of a common file sequence and the same
record series in offices; accessions were file series belonging to the
same record series when transferred to offsite storage at the records
center.

I cannot believe I am spending this much effort on an old term for an
outdated, inefficient, and totally worthless dinosaur media.

I hate paper.   Further, I darn near forgot some of these older terms. 
 Is this a low-down scheme?  Larry Funky Cold Medina trying to drag me
back into the paper world?



Best regards, Steve
Steven D. Whitaker, CRM
Records Systems Manager; City of Reno

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I used to give an accession number to each group of records, as well.
So, that could be 1+ boxes and not necessarily one specific record
series or different record series with same retention periods.

Steve Morgan
C.J. Segerstrom & Sons, Records Manager
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