This course is a practical, operations-based examination of records management policies and procedures.  The areas covered will include records management, history, definition, scope, and role in different institutions;  policies and procedures; records inventories, retention schedules and indexes: practical controls for modern records in all institutions; filing methods for active, semi-active, and in-active records systems; automated records systems: electronic forms, computer assisted retrieval, and optical disk; purchasing procedures for records managers: getting the most from vendors, consultants, and contracts; records conversion, archives and the internet; general  security and destruction; vital records and disaster; management of a small records center, working toward a digital future: Building systems for current use and future adaptation; networks and towards a paperless office, the rise of the information specialist and the new roles for the records manager. Prerequisite INSY118.