Standards, technical reports, guidelines, and white papers create a professional environment of "best practice" procedures. They are designed to assist records and information management practitioners with daily business challenges. They enable organizations to confidently create systems, policies, and procedures to ensure high operational quality and exceptional performance.

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ARMA International Standards and Best Practices

• Contracted Destruction for Records and Information Media
• Controlled Language in Records and Information Management: An Introductory Guideline and Discussion
• Establishing Alphabetic, Numeric, and Subject Filing Systems
• Evaluating and Mitigating Records and Information Risks
• Glossary of Records and Information Management Terms
• Guideline for Evaluating Offsite Records Storage Facilities
• Guideline for Outsourcing Electronic Records Storage and Disposition
• Procedures and Issues for Managing Electronic Messages as Records
• Records and Information Management for IT Professionals
• Records Center Operations
• Records Management Responsibility in Litigation Support
• Requirements for Managing Electronic Messages as Records
• Retention Management for Records and Information
• Revised Framework for Integration of EDMS & ERMS
• The Digital Records Conversion Process: Program Planning, Requirements, Procedures
• Vital Records Programs: Identifying, Managing, and Recovering Business Critical Records
• Website Records Management
• Working Collaboratively in an Electronic World

• ISO 15489 Information Documentation – Records Management – Part 1: General
• ISO 15489 Information Documentation – Records Management – Part 2
• ISO/S 23081-1 – Information and Documentation

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