archival records

  • 1Archival processing — is a term used in the United States of America to refer to the act of arranging and describing the papers of an individual or family or the records of an organization. A person who is engaged in this is known as an archival processor or archivist …

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  • 2Archival science — is the theory and study of the safe storage, cataloguing and retrieval of documents and items. [cite web |url=http://www.archivists.org/glossary/term details.asp?DefinitionKey=1814|title=A Glossary of Archival and Records… …

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  • 3Records management — Records management, or RM, is the practice of maintaining the records of an organization from the time they are created up to their eventual disposal. This may include classifying, storing, securing, and destruction (or in some cases, archival… …

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  • 4Archival — Ar chi*val, a. Pertaining to, or contained in, archives or records. Tooke. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 5Archival appraisal — In the archival sense, appraisal is a process usually conducted by a member of the record holding institution (often a professional archivist) in which a body of records are examined to determine which records need to be captured and how long the …

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  • 6Archival Sound Recordings — Background information= Archival Sound Recordings is a British Library service, funded by the JISC, which provides free online access to spoken word, music and environmental sounds from the British Library Sound Archive. Anyone with web access… …

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  • 7Records Life Cycle — Traditional Definition = Traditionally, Records Life Cycle refers to the following stages of a records life span: from its creation to its preservation (in an Archives) or disposal:The records management phase, which consists of* creation or… …

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  • 8Records manager — The Records Manager for an organization is the person responsible for the management of records in the organization. This role has evolved over time and takes many forms, with many related areas of knowledge required for professional… …

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  • 9archival — archive ► NOUN ▪ a collection of historical documents or records. ► VERB 1) place in an archive. 2) Computing transfer (data) to a less frequently used storage medium. DERIVATIVES archival adjective. ORIGIN French archives (plural), from Greek a …

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  • 10archival — /ahr kuy veuhl/, adj. of or pertaining to archives or valuable records; contained in or comprising such archives or records. [1840 50; ARCHIVE + AL1] * * * …

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