Digital records lifecycle: Challenges and possibilities of the AUC recordkeeping practices through the digital transformation of the university records management program

The digital age led to a shift in the records management mission, from providing space and managing the inactive and semi active records to managing the records lifecycle from the moment of the creation of a record. The reformatting of paper records to digital ones and the creation and use of born-digital records during daily business activities extended the records management role beyond the doors of the Records Centers directly to the offices, where the records are created, used and disseminated. Currently the Records Management Program of the American University in Cairo is in a process of digital transformation investigating policies, tools, systems and processes for dealing with the digital recordkeeping. This paper aims to present what challenges and possibilities the University Records Management is facing during this process as well as what is the significance of the digital records management for the end of the records lifecycle, namely the management of the digital archives.