Foreword:

The activities of the department of Records Management directly address Objective B of the Organization, Culture, and Climate Goal of the UI Strategic Plan: Sustain and enhance an organizational structure, policies, and procedures that enable the University to attain its other goals. Records Management is a basic aspect of institutional knowledge management, and properly practiced, ensures institutional compliance with relevant regulations and laws, allows us to respond to requests for information quickly and accurately, and mitigates some litigational risks.

Records Management exists to assist and coordinate the efforts of individual units, to allow them to better manage their records in a consistent and legally defensible manner, that is also consistent with the historical preservation interests on campus.  

That is to say, Records Management promotes the policies it does and provides the services that it does in order to help individual units, University Counsel, the UI Archivist, and the Board of Regents meet their records goals.