Records Management Needs Standards

January 8, 2015 / Melody Smith / Comments Off on Records Management Needs Standards

The University of Ghana has launched a Records Management and Archives Policy to provide a framework for ensuring that accurate records of the business activities of the university are created, managed, and maintained effectively. This interesting news came to our attention from Spy Ghana in their article, “University of Ghana introduces Records Management and Archives Policy.”

This new policy establishes clear guidelines for retention of records, which like all good policies contain guidelines for creation and collection, records maintenance and use, and disposition of university records.

Mr Ernest Aryeetey, Vice-Chancellor of the University, who also inaugurated the University Archives Centre, said the non-existence of records management policy in the university since its inception in 1948 triggered the need for the development of the policy.

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Melody Smith

Melody K. Smith has provided organizational, social media and digital communication services to a large non-profit for the past twenty years. Prior to that she championed employee engagement and communications in the healthcare field. She holds a Bachelors degree in Marketing. When not wrangling and writing TaxoDiary content for your reading pleasure, Melody writes fiction, rescues dogs and throws legendary dinner parties.