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=3331&context=mulr I did find a history of records management in Canada http://www.armacanada.org/index.php?option=com_docman&view=download&alias=43-the-history-of-records-management-in-canada&category_slug=canadian-rim&Itemid=458 And here is an article from the American Archivist that lays out some of this historical background of records management in the USA http://americanarchivist.org/doi/pdf/10.17723/aarc.21.4.011x2534w16n2p61 David Gaynon Huntington Beach CA List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]