Introduction
While records management has traditionally focused on physical assets (paper, microfilm/fiche, etc.), today’s business realities have driven a renewed focus on the management of enterprise records. Even so, as technology and services to manage electronic records are now available and maturing, the process and strategy for enterprise-level records management requires preparation, planning and an approach that includes active participation from several areas of the organization.

The Challenge
Pupils producing paper. Lots of it. That was getting to be an expensive problem for the University of Notre Dame, which was seeing its costs skyrocket as students printed out reams of themes, dissertations and reports. A key issue was lack of oversight; there was no way to monitor, much less control, paper output or its costs. 

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