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Utah State Archives presents “A Day of Sunshine” Tuesday, March 13, 2018 from 9-4:00 p.m. Miller Free Enterprise Center Salt Lake City Community College-Miller Campus 9750 South 300 West, Sandy, UT 84070 Join us to celebrate Sunshine Week! Learn more about open government from your colleagues, media representatives, and community activists.

All of an organization’s records need to be managed according to a retention schedule per Utah Code 63A-12-103(2008). To assist in this, the Division of Archives and Records Service (Archives) maintains a general retention schedule, approved by the State Records Committee, to determine retention of common records created by most agencies. You may have noticed a link for departments on

Randy Silverman, Preservation Librarian at the University of Utah, will be teaching Protecting Cultural Collections: Disaster Prevention, Preparedness, Response, and Recovery. If you were unable to attend this great workshop at the Utah State Archives in October, you can attend the final one in Park City on Friday, December 15, 2017.

In an effort to highlight the different aspects of the archival work here at the Utah State Archives and Records Service, we have created a new blog series about our Reformatting Section. We will discuss our Reformatting Team’s interesting projects and technologies that affect our efforts to make our government’s records more accessible. Microfilm is still recognized as a durable

Linda Bright is a GRAMA specialist for the Northern Region of the Division of Child and Family Services (DCFS). She has been working on GRAMA requests for the last 9 years and has been employed with DCFS for 25 years. On average, she completes as many as 60 GRAMA requests and responses per month. As part of her work in

This Friday, the State Records Center is offering tours for records officers and others who would like to see the warehouse and understand some of the services that the State Archives offers. Click here for more information: Flyer for RC Tours_11-3-2017 The State Records Center is a secure warehouse managed by the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service. Records storage at

If you missed the Council of State Archivists (CoSA) webinar we previously highlighted, you can now view it online: What about the Records? Making smart decisions about information systems. The presentation slides are also available online.   Webinar Description Where do your electronic records live? Payroll and accounting systems, personnel records, building and permitting systems, and many other applications all

There have been a lot of updates to the general retention schedule this year. “General Schedule Updates, October 2017” can be found on our website. This new publication lists all new, edited, or obsolete General Schedules from November 2016 to today- alphabetically by schedule name and numerically by schedule number.  There is also an excel file in the table of

Where do your electronic records live? Payroll and accounting systems, personnel records, building and permitting systems, and many other applications all play a role in the lifecycle of your records.  How do you manage those records in systems that were never designed to serve as long-term repositories? How do you keep the records secure, provide access to them appropriately, and

On October 1, 2017, the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service combined our two blogs into a single, new blog: archivesnews.utah.gov. The Utah State Archives serves a diverse audience, yet we are a single institution. Our new blog is an effort to provide a single voice at a single location for all of our audiences. From preserving and providing