☛ Records management is a process for the systematic management of all records and the information or data that they contain. Traditionally these were held on paper, or more recently on microfilm or fiche, but are now held increasingly within electronic systems.

☛ The core concept is the life cycle of information, which sees information having a series of phases from creation to final disposition either through a controlled destruction process or being added to the long-term or permanent record (the archive) of the University.

☛ Records Management incorporates the practice of identifying, classifying, providing access to, archiving, and sometimes the controlled destruction of records.