Books

Geoffrey Yeo, Record-Making and Record-Keeping in Early Societies (Abingdon: Routledge, 2021).
This book investigates the beginnings of human recording practices and surveys early record-making and record-keeping across a range of cultures. It also examines questions about the relevance – or irrelevance – of modern archival science to the records made, kept, and used in early societies.
It is available as an open access publication at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-mono/10.4324/9780429054686/record-making-record-keeping-early-societies-geoffrey-yeo.

Geoffrey Yeo, Records, Information and Data: Exploring the Role of Record-Keeping in an Information Culture (London: Facet Publishing, 2018).
In Records, Information and Data, I investigate concepts of records and archives and ask whether and how far our knowledge of them can be enhanced by understandings derived from the fields of data science and information management.
Reviews of the book are available at https://geoffreyyeo.webnode.co.uk/records-information-data/.

Elizabeth Shepherd and Geoffrey Yeo, Managing Records: A Handbook of Principles and Practice (London: Facet Publishing, 2003).
Written in collaboration with Elizabeth Shepherd, this best-selling records management textbook has been widely used in educational programmes around the world.
In 2016, it was translated into Japanese: レコード・マネジメント・ハンドブック (Tokyo: Nichigai Associates).