Publisher's Synopsis
The development of office automation has focused attention on many ways of handling information in the office environment. A central aim is to replace traditional paper-based methods with computer-based facilities. Archiving, traditionally involving the storage and retrieval of hard copy materials, is now being explored in the context of electronic systems.;This book considers the archiving concept (indicating difficulties in current practice), discusses the various storage media (paper, microform, disks, mass storage systems, etc), examines archiving in practice, and considers computer applications in the archiving context.
