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Article: Records managers in the global business environment: the role of the records manager has evolved over time along with the technologies used to collect, manage, and preserve records.
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- Information Management Journal
- Article date:
- March 1, 2005
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The records manager's role has evolved from the Stone Age to the Digital Age, driven by changes in information technology, storage media, recordkeeping regulations, and the globalization of business practices.
Records have existed since the first human found a way to record an activity or event by scratching a symbol on a piece of stone or daubing ochre on cave walls. The first records managers may have been the owners, authors, or custodians of such ancient works as Sumerian clay tablets, the Rosetta stone, the pyramids' hieroglyphs papyrus, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the Domesday Book.
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