eservation. [Archives] 
n., The application of systematic and scientific control to the creation, use, maintenance, storage, retrieval, dispositi
on, and
preservation of all form of recorded information produced by an organization in the conduct of its operations. [Archives] 
n., That area of general administrative management concerned with achieving economy and efficiency in the creation,
maintenance, use and disposal of records, i.e. during their entire life cycle. [Archives] 
n., The systematic control o