MANAGING INFORMATION RESOURCES AT THE UNITED-STATES FEDERAL-GOVERNMENT

The costs of information storage, retrieval and management to both government and industry are tremendous. Data processing has not eliminated paper; it has probably created more. While the use of technology may save time in the generation and manipulation of data, the product of the technology-more data and information-may require still more resources for its management. This is one of the reasons the concept of IRM was developed. U.S. federal government agencies have established organizations to bring together the entire range of information-related activities. An agency's organization chart or titles of employees may not contain obvious IRM terms, but somewhere in the organization these functions are performed.