Why Is It Important To Post WWII?

Records management and documentation has always been a issues and it wasn’t until the early 20th century, there had not been any standards for record keeping in the United States. The government and private businesses would only keep what they thought was important to them and in the formats these were in varied from paper to film. These government agencies and private companies would retain these documents for as long as possible until the costs became too great, that is if they even did this since they might have not even kept a record of anything. It wasn’t until the mid 1930’s did the government start a national archive to start cataloging and storing this constantly growing source of information. Post WWII is when the nation really saw a increase of records management, this is because most of these storage facilities were from moving companies since they posses …show more content…
These moving agencies pretty much worked with a few local customers and one main facility. During the 1970’s is records management hit an all new high and exploded because of the development of the computer, this created a whole new set of problems and a lot more information. This is also when we begin to see the government set regulations and standards on what companies should be keeping for their records for a certain period of time. So with that said you can imagine the exponential growth of digital data and physical paper documents that were generated from this era. As the decades passed more and more information was generated, the 1980’s brought us the barcode which would be attached to boxes and a unique id and the