Links between educational archives and records management...

Archivists are involved in the process of identifying the development of existing patterns of client access to records, as well as appraising, selecting, preserving and disposing of records at the end of the information management cycle. In order to complete these tasks as successfully as possible, the in-house archivist must attempt to become acquainted with the earliest stages of the life of the records produced within the educational institution. Archivists working in small to medium sized educational institutions need to be keenly aware of the circumstances surrounding the creation of records within the organisation, records usage in the early stages of records cycle, as well as any computer hardware and software associated with the early stages of records management.