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1. Administrative areas
This space enables personnel to perform tasks required of them. Office to be equipped appropriately with computers, desks etc.
2. Receiving/processing areas
Provides temporary storage for records as they are received in the record center. The area should be suited near the loading desk.
It may also act as a processing room where records are accounted for and assigned a permanent address for placement in the staff area.
3. Staging area
It must be adjacent to receiving area. It act as intermediate storage area where boxes are stored after being processed.
4. Reference area
Provides users with a mini library with tables, chairs, copiers, microfilm, printers and readers for viewing the records.
5. Destruction/Disposition area
It’s where records which have reached the end of their lifecycle according to the retention schedule as kept.
If the destruction is in-house a shredder and bailer may be situated in the area.
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