Definitions for "Records Management"
The planning, controlling, directing, organizing, training, promoting, and other managerial activities related to the creation, maintenance and use, and disposition of records to achieve adequate and proper documentation of Federal policies and transactions and effective and economical management of agency operations. Also called records administration. See also DATA ADMINISTRATION, FILES MANAGEMENT, INFORMATION RESOURCES MANAGEMENT, RECORDKEEPING.
In general, the creation, the maintenance, and the destruction of an organizations records (traditionally on paper).
Information system that captures manages and provides access to records through time.