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As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives is proposing three new schedules for your consideration. We would like these to be submitted to the State Records Committee’s December 11th meeting. First is Animal Control. There are currently 11 county and 11 municipal schedules related to animal control. Can they all be combined into one? The

A change to the proposed general retention schedule for Grievance and Discipline Records requires your input. This schedule is meant to include unsubstantiated cases. The Attorney General’s office requests that the retention be changed from 7 years after case closed to 7 years after end of employment. Changing the trigger significantly changes the retention. -3- Grievance and Discipline Records Initial

There are four General Schedule types: State, County, Municipality and School District. You can view these schedule in HTML and PDF.  As general schedules get updated, changes are reflected on these pages. When a new schedule is approved, there are usually older schedules updated into the new schedule. For example, this Bond Records schedule posted for your review on October

To register for a training event, please click here. Logan, UT November 21, 2014 Management and Care of Historic Records 9:00 am to 12:00 pm This training will cover topics such as appraisal, retention, preservation, and access to historic records. Utah State University Library Conference Room 101 Salt Lake City, UT November 7, 2014 December 5, 2014 Basic Records Management

The General Schedule Update Project has updated a schedule which was approved by the State Records Committee November 2013. This schedule’s description has been amended to capture related records which must be kept for the life of the bond. The broader description is meant to include other records that may not be maintained or created by trustee or paying agent.

As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives is proposing the following changes to the general retention schedules for personnel records. Since May last year, several meetings and discussions have been held with human resource representatives and records officers to clearly define the contents of a personnel file. The seven year retention listed below is based

Thank you to everyone who attended the Electronic Records Conference. We had a great turnout and fantastic presenters! Thank you to Terry, Howard, Ron and Amy for sharing their experiences and expertise with us! You can now view the slides as well as Terry’s Technical Bulletin  on our website at: https://archives.utah.gov/recordsmanagement/training.html

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Upcoming Events October to December 2014 October 2014 Electronic Records Conference Annual fall conference with presentation focusing on care and management of electronic records. To register visit: http://archives.state.ut.us/cgi-bin/traininglist.cgi October 3, 2014, 9:30 a.m.-3:00 p.m. Theme: Technology Working for YouThe schedule is currently as follows:9:30-10:30: Terry B. Nelson, Former Director, Salt Lake County Records Management & Archives DivisionTopic: Managing Electronic Records10:40-11:40:

We are excited to announce that the Utah State Archives is now on Twitter! Follow us @RecordsKeepers to keep up with blog posts from your analysts, training opportunities, information management tips as well as fun history tidbits!