Preface
This publication is one unit of a revised Guide to
Managing Public Records in Georgia. The Guide presents its readers, Georgia's key
government administrators and resource alocators, with introductory information that will
support their efforts to understand and implement proper administration of government
records. It can also be a useful training aid for records managers who have more advanced
technical training and experience.
Each part of the Guide highlights various concepts, techniques, and often the appropriate
technologies utilized in the management of government records. In order to best
communicate this information to those who have had direct experience in government records
management, the Guide intentionally avoids unnecessary technical terminology--the jargon
of the archives, data and image processing, and records and information management fields.
This part, like the others that make up the Guide, attempts to express concepts in a
manner which can be clearly understood and easily digested. This clarity is essential if
the Guide is to help these readers implement and carry out the life-cycle management of
Georgia's government records--as well as to support their staff with technical assignments
and experience in these fields.
The Guide has two primary themes. First, the legal responsibilities of government
agencies and personnel resulting from their empowerment with life-cycle management
authority for their records. Second, many of the cost-benefit issues related to
the practice of an ongoing and proactive records management program.
In a very real sense, these two subjects are meant to become identifiable thematic threads
woven into each part of the Guide--and into the other publications of the
Georgia Archives. It is hoped that they will remain part of a positive
and readily discernable pattern in the fabric of records management activity at every
level of Georgia government. << >>
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