Based on the results of their implementation and on feedback requested from ERC members the File Management Working Group is revising the Draft File Management Guidelines. 12 June 2001 Report to the ERC File management is especially important in the electronic environment. However, establishing guidelines for file management should be based on the administrative, computing, records management, and functional environments of an office or agency. Given these variables, creating useful file management guidelines that would apply to all state agencies is fairly difficult. The File Management Working Group should be combined with the Records Management Application Working Group.
File management is an important subset of a recordkeeping system.
The guidelines should discuss the relationship between file management and recordkeeping, the differences between them and the importance of both.