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Great Website on Filing Systems

http://www.tsl.state.tx.us/slrm/recordspubs/fs.html

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Basic Types of Filing Arrangements

The selection of an appropriate filing classification system requires analysis of the information needs of your agency. There are three basic methods for arranging files:

1) Alphabetic - using letters of names, subjects, or geographic locations.

2) Numeric - using numbers in various combinations (including dates, in a chronological system).

3) Alphanumeric-using a combination of letters and numbers.

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There are more ways than...

There are more ways than that one. I see a lot of people/places file by date for example.

 
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