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• Title: Confidentiality and Protection of Official Records in the Freedom of Information Era: Nigeria's Situation (Report)
• Author : Archives and Information Science African Journal of Library
• Release Date : January 01, 2010
• Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines,Books,Professional & Technical,Education,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 240 KB

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Introduction Records and information are interdependent concepts. The term 'information' has been defined as "knowledge that is communicated" (International Records Management Trust [IRMT], 1999). On the other hand, an often cited definition of a record provided by the same source is that it is "a document regardless of form or medium created, received, maintained and used by an organisation (public or private) or an individual in pursuance of legal obligations or in the transaction of business, of which it forms a part or provides evidence" ((IRMT, 1999). The documents mentioned in this definition clearly contain information; thus, the definition implies that records are recorded information regardless of form or medium. In other words, information becomes a record once it is recorded. Not all pieces of information are in recorded or permanent form (records), and that is why there is oral information, which is ephemeral in nature. Among the essential attributes of records are reliability and trustworthiness, uniqueness and authenticity (Azangweo, 2000). Also of importance in the context of this paper is the concept of 'official record', which is a record generated by an organisation (private or public) in the course of official transactions.

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