Office Procedures Records Management Key Terms

Office Procedures for the 21st Century Key Terms

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Front Back
Shows the next number available for a record
Accession register
Uses the alphbet to sequence personal, business, and government names.
Alphabetic filing system
Grouping names in A to Z sequence.
Alphabetizing
Process of transferring inactive records into storage
Archiving
Professional organization that focuses on records and information management and standardized the first rules for alphabetic filing.
Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA)
Type of technology that allows files to be maintained electonically and requires software, a label printer, and a scanning device.
Bar code technology
A key word under which a document is filed.
Caption
System in which files are placed in one convenient location for a group of people who must work with the same information.
Centralized filing system
Used to track paper files that have been borrowed form an area and are to be returned
Charge-out method
Indicated the entire span of the contents of either a file drawer or section of files
Closed notation
Marking the indexing caption on the record.
Coding
Task of referencing a record by two different names.
Cross-referencing
Describes a location where individuals or small groups of employees maintain files at their workstations
Decentralized filing system
Also known as the Dewey Decimal System, a method that works with subject filing to permit more expansion than a basic numeric system.
Decimal-numeric filing
A section on a company's network system that is alloted to cetain people for their files; on a personal computer hard drive, adirectory serves as a location for folders.
Directory