Cary F. McGovern

By David Roe | Pub­lished Jan 25, 2010
With the grow­ing impor­tance of com­pli­ance and eDis­cov­ery issues for many com­pa­nies, it might be time to con­sider deploy­ing a records man­age­ment sys­tem. Chances are that your com­pany already uses some kind of doc­u­ment man­age­ment sys­tem. The ques­tion is, will your doc­u­ment man­age­ment sys­tem also sup­port records man­age­ment?
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http://www.epa.gov/records/what/quest6.htm
A Records Sched­ule (sched­ule) con­sti­tutes the EPA’s offi­cial pol­icy for records and infor­ma­tion reten­tion and dis­posal. The sched­ule pro­vides manda­tory instruc­tions for what to do with records (and non­record mate­ri­als) no longer needed for cur­rent Agency busi­ness. Records reten­tion and dis­posal should occur at reg­u­lar inter­vals in the nor­mal course of busi­ness of the Agency.
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http://www.epa.gov/records/what/quest5.htm
A series is the basic unit for orga­niz­ing and con­trol­ling your files. Series are those file units or doc­u­ments kept together because they relate to a par­tic­u­lar sub­ject or func­tion, result from the same activ­ity, doc­u­ment a spe­cific type of trans­ac­tion, take a par­tic­u­lar phys­i­cal form, or have some other rela­tion­ship aris­ing out of their […]

Source US Envi­ron­men­tal Pro­tec­tion Agency
http://www.epa.gov/records/what/quest2.htm
Records include all books, papers, maps, pho­tographs, machine read­able mate­ri­als, or other doc­u­men­tary mate­ri­als, regard­less of phys­i­cal form or char­ac­ter­is­tics, made or received by an agency of the United States Gov­ern­ment under Fed­eral law or in con­nec­tion with the trans­ac­tion of pub­lic busi­ness and pre­served or appropriate […]

Why Records Man­age­ment? Ten Busi­ness Rea­sons
http://www.epa.gov/records/what/quest1.htm
Every busi­ness or pro­gram must address well-defined objec­tives which will add value, either directly to the bot­tom line or toward the achieve­ment of the organization’s goals and objec­tives. Records man­age­ment (RM) objec­tives usu­ally fall into one of three cat­e­gories:
* Ser­vice (effec­tive and effi­cient),
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