Developing and Operating a Records Retention Program.

• Position: Book Review

ARMA International's Standards Records Retention Task Force

Program principles, staff and management structure, and program development strategies are highlighted in this records retention guidebook. Further attention is given to

* determining records retention periods and obtaining approval for retention schedules and procedures

* establishing a records retention program in litigation

* determining a record's value and developing appropriate destruction procedures

Eight appendices contain samples of policy statements, inventory forms, retention worksheets...