Vital records program in the United States and the National Records Management Council

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  • 米国におけるバイタル記録保護の歴史的展開:NAREMCOを中心に
  • ベイコク ニ オケル バイタル キロク ホゴ ノ レキシテキ テンカイ : NAREMCO オ チュウシン ニ

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<p>  National Records Management Council (NAREMCO) was one of the most significant players in developing and expanding records management systems in the United States. This article explores activities of NAREMCO, focusing on vital records program in the 1950s. Based on the analysis of primary materials in the U.S. National Archives and Library of Congress, it reviews how NAREMCO stated about the values and roles of records management.</p><p>  The implications of NAREMCO in records management were to foster the industry‒academia‒government collaboration, to meet the demands of the society at the time, and to train the personnel of records management. In the beginning, vital records program was developed in the areas of disaster prevention and emergency management in wartime. After heightening of consciousness of civil defense during the cold war, it became one of the essential components of records management. NAREMCO absorbed and combined some new ideas and best practices on records management and disseminate them as new methodologies. Vital records program was typical in this regard.</p>

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  • Records Management

    Records Management 75 (0), 32-47, 2018

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