Under the Regulation of records management, records management is defined as: [...] set of rules, measures in records handling, in their keeping and publishing, their registering and delivering to work, processing, using, safekeeping, extraction and passing them on to assigned archive or other assigned authority. Iti s ussualy connected to contemporary society and it is essential part of it. However, if the historical context is more closely examined it is apparent that it does not have to be connected to last hundred years of human development. Records management is connected to different records that are constituted on scripture regardles of the way they are made. In that case, with appearance of the scripture, the search for records management began. Mesopotamia, Egypt, Ancient China, anthic civilization of Greece and Rome all reached the certain point of development wich can be considered sufficient to create a need for certain form of records managment. Thus the records management finds its way to medieval courts and curias, modern aged absolutist monarchies and all the way up to contemporary times. This development can be recognised on the territory of Croatian Republic from medieval time sup to the present According to available historical dana it can be concluded that records management has much larger way at first then it seems.