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OM Unit 5
Arkansas Frameworks Glossary Terms for Office Managment Unit 5: Records Mgmt
Term | Definition |
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Accession log | a list of numbers assigned in a numeric filing system |
Alphabetic filing | filing records alphabetically according to letters and words (names, subjects, or geographic locations) that are used as captions on the guides and folders |
Archive | storage area that is dedicated to organizing and preserving records |
Chronological order | the filing of records according to date |
Coding | the process of marking a symbol or other identification on the record to indicate how it is indexed |
File | a collection of related information treated as a unit |
Filing | the process of storing office records in an orderly manner within an organized system |
Geographic filing | filing records according to geographic location |
Hard copy | a paper printout |
Indexing | the process of deciding how to identify a record to be filed |
Label | written or keyed captions used to identify folders, guides, or file drawers in a paper filing system |
Manual records management | a set of procedures used to organize, store, retrieve, remove, and dispose of paper records |
Micrographics | documents reduced in size and stored on film |
Middle-digit filing | method of numeric filing in which the middle two or three digits of each record number are used as the primary division under which each record is filed |
Numeric filing | arranging records by numbers |
Records management | management and control of all of a business’s records (paper and paperless) from receipt or creation, through processing, storage, retrieval, and disposal |
Sort | a preliminary step in filing that involves separating items into categories prior to the actual filing of documents into designated folders/files |
Subject filing | records arranged by topic |
Surname | the last name of an individual |
Terminal-digit filing | a kind of numeric filing in which the last two or three digits of each record number serve as the primary division under which a record is filed |