• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.26
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• pp.3-32
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• 2010

NGO called the third sector is one of the major party of the modern society. Therefore documentation of the various NGOs' activities is the way of recording our society fully. This paper identifies the value of NGOs' records, verifies the needs for NGOs' records management, examines two case of consulting projects on NGOs in Korea which has been conducted by the author and graduate students, and offers a consulting methodology of building records management scheme for the small scale NGOs. The cases are related to small-scale NGOs operated by under 10 full-time activists. One case is related to the NGO based on the locality and the other case is related to the NGO based on the special subject matter. The methodology contains four stages such as defining direction stage, AS-IS analysis stage, TO-BE modelling stage and transition & closing stage. Standard records management guideline for NGOs should be developed using this methodology in the future.

• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.73
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• pp.81-123
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• 2022

NGOs(Non-Governmental Organizations) are organization based on the 'voluntary participation' of citizens. Citizens' participation and support are essential for the existence and sustainable growth of the organization. The records of NGOs are produced, received, collected, and left behind in the course of their activities. Systematically managed records are used as information for business performance to increase operational efficiency. In addition, it plays a role in proving the legitimacy of the group and its activities to internal and external stakeholders of the NGO, such as whether the group's activities were performed legally and whether the group is actually working to realize the goal it stands for. Therefore record management of NGOs is required to improve accountability. In other words, NGOs can be gain the trust of civil society based on accountability through records and secure internal and external resources necessary for the existence of the group. In this study, after confirming the general record management status of NGOs in Busan, improvement measures were examined in terms of record management in order to increase the accountability of NGOs.