Everyone has made excellent points about the history of records
management. I am currently an Information Studies student at the
University of Toronto and Records Management is more closely related
to the archives/IS stream rather than the library stream in our
program. But it is an excellent course to have regardless of which
area you may specialize.
Quoting "Nemchek, Lee R." <[log in to unmask]>:
> I agree with what Ginny and others have said regarding the historical
> relationship between RM and librarianship. In addition, though, it
> should be noted that one of the primary reasons why these two related
> but distinct professions are frequently linked is the common source of
> education and training for both. Currently, graduate-level education in
> records management is generally available via Library/Information
> schools/departments or business schools/departments. Courses in RM are
> taught out of these schools, as there generally is no university-level
> School of Records Management.
>
> --Lee
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Jones, Virginia
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 11:19 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [RM] records management and libraries
>
> Records management as a discipline grew out of at least two things -
> archive management and the federal Paperwork Reduction Act from the late
> 1930's/early 1940s. In fact, records managers as we know the profession
> in the U.S. are usually called archivists in Europe. The Paperwork
> Reduction Act spawned such RIM concepts as records retention and
> disposition, inactive (inexpensive) records storage, correspondence
> management, and forms management.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Records Management Program [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Ruth Duerr
> Sent: Friday, June 01, 2007 2:02 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [RM] records management and libraries
>
> But, I am not convinced about records management. I don't know the
> history of your field enough to know. Is there anyone on the list who
> is enough of a history buff to provide me an opinion one way or another?
>
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