I think that what distinguished records management from archives
management was the invention of the retention schedule -- for most,
records management is management of records with a distinct shelf-life.
James Gregory Brasher's great paper on the subject, "An Administrative
History of the Disposal of Federal Records, 1789-1949"
(http://digitalcommons.kennesaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1307&context=provenance)
goes into the development of the retention schedule concept in the
United States.
According to Mr. Brasher, as printing technology became inexpensive to
justify printing documents without permanent value, the government
started to have significant storage issues resulting from keeping
"worthless papers" beyond their useful life. This lead to the first
rules authorizing the destruction of records in the early 1880s.
Jonah Cummings
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonahc
> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 15:56:00 +0000
> From: David Gaynon <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Beginning of Records Management
>
> Perhaps I am wrong but I always thought that records management in the USA =
> began with the Hoover Commission. See for example
>
> http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3D3331&con=
> text=3Dmulr
>
> I did find a history of records management in Canada http://www.armacanada=
> .org/index.php?option=3Dcom_docman&view=3Ddownload&alias=3D43-the-history-o=
> f-records-management-in-canada&category_slug=3Dcanadian-rim&Itemid=3D458
>
> And here is an article from the American Archivist that lays out some of th=
> is historical background of records management in the USA
>
> http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.21.4.011x2534w16n2p61
>
>
>
> David Gaynon
> Huntington Beach CA
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> Date: Wed, 24 Aug 2016 19:55:18 -0400
> From: Steve Whitaker <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: Beginning of Records Management
>
> 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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