Content-Type: text/html I have to agree it is a lack of understanding about RM. My position requires a degree, a GED. Yet, the position is required to act as the central Records Manger for a State Wide agency. Currently my employer is benefiting from my twenty years of experience and I believe all the graduate level courses in Library Science, Archives and Museum studies. If nothing else, the course work gave me a body of knowledge to fall back on. I have been able to learn from others mistakes and their successes. Maybe that is the benefit of education, the knowledge of what has been tried before. For what it’s worth, my 11¢ Felicia L. Moss Records Manager Department of Corrections [log in to unmask] On Fri, 8 Jun 2007 15:04:40 -0400, Robert Soutar <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >Is it a lack of understanding of the RM field by those that do not know >much about it? Is it because of the lack of a truly recognized RM or IM Profession? > >A combination of all of the above? > >Bob. > List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance