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The problem of the rate of growth of the number of record values and weak record values in an iid sequence of integer valued random variables is attacked as a perturbation of the case for continuous random variables. Conditions in terms of either the underlying probability mass function or the hazard function of the underlying distribution are given for the rate of growth of the number of records...