Records management, archives and corporate memory…

Politicians, religious and corporate leaders, individuals involved in the media, educational administrators, parents, teachers, and students refer to both active and inactive educational records on a regular basis. Active records in the records management stream are vital for the day to day administration of activities that support teaching and learning processes, and educational archives at the end of the records management stream are vital for the preservation of corporate memory. In essence, educational records help to preserve information about organizational and social activities that individuals, a corporate body and society at large deem to be of ongoing value. The archives of an educational institution have a key role to play in the administration of the parent institution. These archives can supply knowledge of past and present interactions to present and future staff members, thereby supporting their activities as well as assisting the continuing development of the institution.