About Us

What is Records Management?

'The process by which a company manages all the elements of records whether externally or internally generated and in any format or media type, from their inception/receipt, all the way through to their disposal.'

What is the Records Management Society?

The Records Management Society is the foremost professional association for all those who work in or are concerned with records or information management, regardless of their professional or organisational status or qualifications.

Our Mission

To provide leadership in records and information management with the twin aims of:

• Improving the status of records management and records managers through representation, external liaison and promotion.
• Supporting professional development through sharing knowledge and expertise.

About us

The Records Management Society, launched in 1983, recognised the ever-increasing number of people working in the fields of records and information management. All those concerned with records and information, regardless of their professional or organisational status or qualifications, can join the Society. Organisations wishing to develop records or information systems and those that provide services in these fields are also welcome.

Through close and regular contact with its own members and with related professions, the Records Management Society encourages the highest professional standards.

Regular meetings are held to hear guest speakers or to hold discussions on topics as wide-ranging as office technology, organisation of records services, legal aspects of records management and the role of service companies.

The Society is also facilitating its training programmes and extending its range of technical and information publications.

Constitution and Roles & Responsibilities

An updated version of the RMS Constitution is being prepared.

RMS Roles and Responsibilities.pdf

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