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Records management

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General

British Standards Institute
BSI’s pages giving details of the records management standard and related documents.

The National Archives
The National Archives webpages for records managers provide a wealth of standards, guidance and assessment tools which are required reading for the public sector and very useful for non-public sector organisations.

JISC (Joint Information Systems Committee)
JISC provides Higher Education Institutions with advice and guidance on records management, as well as conducting research in areas such as the preservation of digital records.

UN Archives and Records Management
This is a toolkit developed for UN Peacekeeping Missions which gives step by step guidance on how to set up a records management programme.

The National Archives
This is a set of Implementation guides (written by Margaret Crockett of the Archive-Skills Consultancy) designed to support implementation of records management under the Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice.

Records Management Toolkit for Schools
Produced by the Records Management Society, this kit is designed to help schools attain compliance with the Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice under Section 46 of the Freedom of Information Act 2000.