State and national grants are available for reformatting records, adding personnel, conducting records surveys, publishing technical manuals, and sponsoring workshops. A program that can subsidize its operations and special projects will always be ahead. Initiatives Technological advancements are playing a growing and important role in records management. Many see optical imaging and converting records to an electronic format as a cure-all for information management and storage problems. The expense of converting to an optical imaging system often outweighs benefits in storage space reduction or file accessibility that will be achieved.
Careful planning is needed before committing to such systems.
Microfilm records qualifying for long term retention and destroy the original documents in order to conserve space. Microfilm is both durable and legally admissible in court. The Bulletin was edited by IIMC members and staff, and Grace Lessner and Pete Schinkel of the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators.