2007 Spring Newsletter – Words to Keep: Assessing When and When Not to Purge Saved Documents

March 23, 2007

Whether, and how long, to retain documents is a question plaguing businesses and individuals alike. The question of whether to keep original documents and letters (either sent or received), drafts, working copies, notes, memos, minutes of meetings, and now e-mails and all sorts of other digital/electronic documents (records” or “documents”) is constantly in conflict with the desire to clean out files and storage areas.”