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Theo H.P.M. Thomassen, Arhivisti i records manageri: ista struka, različite odgovornosti, Arh. vjesn., god. 43 (2000), str. 7-18 also for records management activities. More than ever before, records managers and archivists share the same scientific discipline, due to the integration of the two concepts of archives and records in one integrated notion of process bound information, i.e.: information generated by business processes and structured in such a way that it can be retrieved in the context of those business processes. Archival education and training is a key success factor. The archival world must make serious efforts to provide for a broad continuing education program aimed at records managers and archivists together, in order to give records managers and archivists who are already part of the system a good knowledge and understanding of modern developments in the fields of records management, electronic records etc., to transfer to them new methods and techniques and, last but not least, to have them change their professional attitudes. At the same time it must design and establish programs for initial archival education which meet the needs of the record handling community for broad and flexible professionals who could be employed both by a record office and by an archives. Archivists and records managers: same profession, different responsibilities. An archivist must refrain from interfering in the records manager's duties; he must avoid any involvement in implementing and controlling record keeping requirements in business applications. Whether records are in electronic form or not, whether records managers and archivists are integrating or not, the primary duty of the records manager always will be to help his organisation accomplishing its aims and goals by means of records. The archivist must always stay impartial and independent from the records creating body. Key Words: archivists, records managers, records management, reprofesionalisation (of archival science) Članak preveo i sažetke izradio Jozo Ivanović 18