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recommended that the
National Archives and all other non-current government repositories of records be placed under a newly created Federal Records Administration, which would operate Federal Records Centers. It also recommended a Federal Records Management Act to provide the legal framework for life
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Paperwork Management in Government, part of the second Hoover Commission to reduce costs and improve efficiency and service in the federal government. His task force showed that millions of dollars could be saved annually through government-wide
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Kingdom that archivists should not be involved in this process because they would no longer be seen as impartial. He described processes for defining classes of valueless records, storing them and defining standard times when they would be destroyed, with records of their destruction.
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Leahy pioneered the concept of saving space by holding inactive records in high-density storage units in record centers. The navy's
Archival Service established the federal government's first intermediate records centers, releasing floor space and filing cabinets for use in the war effort. Naval
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National Records Management Council in 1953 to focus on his private consultancy and records storage business. The work he had done for the federal government gave great credibility to these enterprises. In 1953 he founded Leahy Archives Inc., which took over the Business
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He also introduced procedures to manage active files and correspondence, and to microfilm large and important records, and records for which security back-up was required. This included millions of microfilm copies of engineering drawings of aircraft, ordnance and ships for use in repairs. He
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to found the non-profit
National Records Management Council. This organization developed educational material concerning records management, and helped private and public organizations improve records management. Leahy became its executive director.
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introduced the "Correspondex" system of standardized letters and paragraphs for routine correspondence, greatly reducing manual effort. His innovations reduced costs by $ 21 million in the navy, for which he was awarded the Navy
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and worked for two years in the management consultant and microfilming divisions. He developed the ideas of defining a life cycle for records, and of producing statistics on the costs of keeping records. In 1948 Leahy obtained funding from the
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cycle management of federal government records, and a records officer of each federal department and agency. The proposal to separate records administration from archives was rejected, but the new
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summarized his findings from analysis of archives and registry administrations in Europe and Egypt, and the ways in which they eliminated valueless public records. He rejected the view of Sir
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