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  • Interesting point, and one that I think the answer depends on where your company is in it's growth or transition. My firm is in a transitional stage from paper to electronic, and what my team works on varies from office to office. Some offices have ...

  • Hello Earl , I have leaded a project team to help some local financial institutions to build their paperless working platform for more than 10 years . It seems not so easy to truly bypass some paper documents and it will depend on legal regulations ...

  • Hi Earl, Sounds like it was an interesting meeting. The Archivist probably doesn't talk to many Records Managers. The irony is that many people outside our industry would think that Archivists deal only with paper records... The transition from physical ...

  • The company I work for now is 100 percent digital, everything in the cloud. The company I worked for from 2008-2022 was already digitizing inbound paper when I joined it in 2008, so I must have just been lucky. They did have paper archives which the records ...

  • Hello all, I was on a virtual meeting today featuring an archivist talking about the similarities/differences between Archives vs. Records Management, when he said something that I'm not sure I agree with. He said that today's Records Manager focuses ...

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