For those who find the concept of records management, recommends that you read or read two articles that have been well documented disseminated in 1989 in the journal Records Management Quarterly of ARMA by Luciana Duranti, Ph. D. under the title The Odyssey of Records Management . The first part ( From the The Dawn of Civilization To The Fall of the Roman Empire ) was published in the July issue (pp. 3-11) while the sequence ( From the Middle Ages to Modern Times ) can be found in the October issue (pp. 3-11). The author sets out, inter alia, that the occupation of custodian of records has existed since the first were formed social groups that have felt the need to build and protect their collective memory. She then traces the evolution of function records management "and shows that no matter the time, good practices have remained the same: to collect and preserve information relating to activities and transactions and recorded on a support by those who created it. The means have changed, but concerns have always and always the same. She also recalls that the modern principles of Records Management are born in America, the U.S. administration after the Second World War and then spread across all sectors.
Obviously, this historical journey ends at the end 80s. The last 30 years that followed were those who most changed the business and how to practice with the integration of new information technologies. But we continue the same movements as the keepers of the records of ancient Egypt: to ensure that the final documents, complete, and relevant officials in decisions and actions are identified, sorted, stored, preserved, retrievable, searchable and usable.
Like what the oldest profession in the world is perhaps not what you thought of you rushing to read this ticket!
Michel Roberge
