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