BY NAME Documents are filed by name of firms or individuals in alphabetical order. Documents are requested by name. Easy to use.
Keeps records together that pretain to the same individual or project.
No manual or index required for effective classification or retrieval of records. However it might be useful if records are voluminous. Vendor Records Valve Operators Erickson Shafer 2. Documents are requested by subject. Direct filing and retrieval Information retrieval is fast because all related information is together.