Guest editorial

摘要

In 1988 I was contacted by ASLIB about a project to start a records management publication in the UK. At that time, I had recently published, with others, The Records Management Handbook (which many consider to be the definitive text on the subject), and I also was writing a regular column in the ARMA Records Management Quarterly. The Records Management Society had formed only a few years earlier, in 1983, and I was fortunate to have been the first Secretary of the Society, and one of the early editors of its newsletter. ASLIB told me they were hoping to create a publication that would be more British, European and international than the narrowly focused ARMA Records Management Quarterly, which was the only significant journal at the time. They gave me, essentially, a carte blanche.