Records management glossary: July 1967.

• Position: 50TH YEAR

ARMA's first glossary, which was part of its first records management correspondence course, included terms that are no longer familiar to most records management professionals. Even a few of the subject areas represented by the terms (and noted in parentheses after each term) may be unfamiliar:

CFM--Correspondence and Files Management; FM--Forms Management; GRM--General Records Management; M--Microfilm Systems; RC--Records Center Operations; RM--Reports Management; RP Records Protection; and RS--Retention Scheduling.

How many of these terms do you know?

Can t Finds: (RC-CFM): Materials which have been searched but not located.

Card-Tabulating (RS-FM): Heavy, stiff paper of uniform size and shape, adapted for being punched in an intelligent array of holes. The punched holes are sensed electrically by wire brushes, mechanically by metal feeders or by electronic circuitry.

Cushion Sheet (FM): A plastic sheet placed between the stencil and backing sheet when preparing a stencil master on a typewriter. The cushion sheet insures a clean, sharp copy.

Duo (M): Recording of images on only one-half of the film width during one passage of the film. Film is then turned end-for-end and rerun to...