Records Management is the design and implementation of an economic, efficient, life cycle for records. It provides for their creation or receipt, use, storage, retrieval, preservation, and disposition (either destruction or transfer to an archive).<\/p>\n
The process ensures that unnecessary records are destroyed while valuable records are maintained. The\u00a0NAU\u00a0Cline Library and University Archives houses the 3\u20135% of\u00a0NAU’s records which must be maintained in perpetuity for legal, administrative, or historical purposes.<\/p>\n
A properly implemented records management program can assist a department or unit to function more smoothly and efficiently.<\/p>\n
The Records Management Wayfinder can help you determine the appropriate schedule number, how long to keep the record, and what to do with it when its retention period ends.<\/p>\n