This communication has a dual objective. Its first aim is to set out the different solutions by means of which we have integrated electronic records into the general record management system of the Department of Culture. The second is to calculate the savings resulting from some of these solutions. The Central Archives of the Department of Culture of the Generalitat de Catalunya (the Government of Catalonia) (illustration 1) has been employing, since 1991, a records management system (SGDA) which pursues the task of integrating the management of records, irrespective of their media or format. On the basis of the experience presented at the last Forum on machine-readable records, we have continued to develop the system and, above all, to link together individual one-off actions with the aim of achieving a genuinely integrated management system.