Kelvin Smith recently retired as Head of the Accessions Management Unit and Records Management Consultant in the Records Management and Cataloguing Department of The National Archives of the United Kingdom. He spent all his career (beginning in 1967) with The National Archives (formerly the Public Record Office) and during that time was awarded a B.A. by the Open University. His particular specialisations include records appraisal and archiving, records management standards and the promotion of records management in Government. Most recently he drafted the Lord Chancellor’s Code of Practice on the Management of Records under Freedom of Information and developed Model Action Plans for compliance with the Code. He also published Freedom of Information: A Practical Guide to Implementing the Act (Facet Publishing, 2004), Planning and Implementing Electronic Records Management (Facet Publishing, 2007), and Public Sector Records Management: A Practical Guide (Ashgate, 2007). As well as being a regular presenter of records management issues at conferences, workshops and seminars, he has undertaken frequent assignments in developing countries, mainly in East and Southern Africa, on behalf of the International Records Management Trust, and is Honorary Secretary of the Association of Commonwealth Archivists and Records Managers.