Inactive Records Management

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These are records that are no longer in frequent use or do not require immediate access.

Definition of Inactive Records Management: An explanation of what inactive records management entails, its goals and objectives, and the importance of the process.
Record Retention Policy: A document outlining an organization's legal and regulatory obligations for retaining records, defining record categories, and establishing retention and destruction procedures.
Records Inventory: A process for identifying, locating, and documenting all records held by an organization, including both active and inactive records.
Records Appraisal: A process for determining the value of records by assessing their legal, administrative, and historical significance, and deciding which records should be retained or destroyed.
Records Storage: A process for storing inactive records in a secure, climate-controlled and easy to access environment.
Records Retrieval: A process for retrieving records when needed for legal, regulatory, or business purposes.
Records Destruction: A process for disposing of inactive records in a secure and legal manner, including shredding or incineration.
Preservation: The process of preserving records with historical or cultural value, including digitization, microfilming, or storing records in specialized facilities.
Legal and Regulatory Compliance: An overview of the laws and regulations that govern records management, including the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
Records Management Software: An overview of software options that support records management tasks, including records inventory, retention schedules and compliance management.
Physical Storage: This involves the storage of inactive records in a physical storage unit, such as a filing cabinet, vault, or off-site storage facility.
Electronic Storage: This involves the storage of inactive records in digital format, such as in a cloud-based storage system, on a server or on an external hard drive.
Destruction: This involves the secure destruction of inactive records according to an established retention schedule or policy.
Transfer: This involves the transfer of inactive records to another organization, department, or archive for long-term storage.
Archiving: This involves the storage of inactive records in a specialized facility or system for long-term preservation and access.
Off-Site Storage: This involves the storage of inactive records in a secure, off-site location to free up valuable office space.
Retrieval Services: This involves providing access to inactive records when needed, such as through a retrieval service or online system.
Digital Imaging: This involves the conversion of physical inactive records into a digital format for easier storage, retrieval, and sharing.
- "Records management, also known as records and information management, is an organizational function devoted to the management of information in an organization throughout its life cycle."
- "This includes identifying, classifying, storing, securing, retrieving, tracking and destroying or permanently preserving records."
- "The ISO 15489-1: 2001 standard defines records management as '[the] field of management responsible for the efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records.'"
- "An organization's records preserve aspects of institutional memory."
- "The purpose of records management is part of an organization's broader function of governance, risk management, and compliance and is primarily concerned with managing the evidence of an organization's activities."
- "In determining how long to retain records, their capacity for re-use is important."
- "Records management shows linkages between records management and accountability in governance."
- "Storing, securing, and retrieving records."
- "From the time of creation or receipt to its eventual disposition."
- "The reduction or mitigation of risk associated with managing the evidence."
- "Activities, transactions, and decisions."
- "The ISO 15489-1:2001 describes it as the process for capturing and maintaining evidence of and information about business activities and transactions in the form of records."
- "Records management is part of an organization's broader function of governance."
- "Records management is primarily concerned with managing the evidence of an organization's activities as well as the reduction or mitigation of risk associated with it."
- "Storing records is important for their eventual disposition."
- "Records management is part of an organization's broader function of governance, risk management, and compliance."
- "From the time of creation or receipt to its eventual disposition."
- "The efficient and systematic control of the creation, receipt, maintenance, use and disposition of records."
- "Recent research shows linkages between records management and accountability in governance."
- "Others document what happened and why."