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Beyond the Box: Penn Archive Shows Businesses What They Can Do with Records Storage
If you ask the average business manager what they can get out of records storage and management, they may not know what you are talking about. Some will look at it as a hassle, that much is for sure, while others will generally see it as a necessary evil that needs to be dealt with [...]
Be Excellent to Each Other: Sharing the Joy of Shredding with Your Employees
You hire someone to work for you. They do things that you tell them to do, and you give them money. Pretty simple. And while there was often more to it than that in the past, after a few decades of downturn-inspired rightsizing, it often doesn’t go much further. Lifetime employment is a thing of [...]
Federal Records Management: The Agency Self-Assessment
On May 1st, NARA (National Association of Records Archives) posted their agency self -assessment report. This is where all of the federal agencies self-report how they are performing against the statutory and regulatory records management requirements. Interestingly, this self-assessment was conducted before the Obama administrations memorandum about records management. Not surprising, is that agencies do [...]
Courts Often Face a Records Management Quagmire
A quagmire is a swamp. A bog. A soft, mushy, messy patch of earth that is half land, half water and not enough of either to give it clear definition. If you live in New England, you can probably imagine the cranberry bogs that are famously spread throughout the region as a prime example of [...]
Shred Alert: Confidential Records Thrown Out Like Yesterday’s Garbage
The last time we checked in with a Shred Alert, a hospital’s records were found blowing in the breeze in the field of a Boston neighborhood. This time, the records didn’t get quite so far. Unfortunately they still ended up somewhere they should never be: a trash can. Throwing away records with confidential information simply [...]
