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October 9, 2015
Wondering what to do with your social media accounts? Texts? Emails?
Happy Electronic Records Day! Are you wondering what to do with your social media accounts, texts, or emails? On this Electronic Records Day, consider these points to help keep your agency out of legal trouble and to ensure that critical records are preserved. Tips for Managing Electronic Communications in Government Content, not format is important. Just as you wouldn’t keep
November 3, 2014
Upcoming Training Events
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
October 29, 2014
Personnel Schedules for Your Review
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
August 6, 2014
General Schedules for Your Input
As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives is proposing the following changes to the general retention schedules for records management related information as well as construction records. We appreciate your input. -Information Governance Records- Records used in establishing and implementing records management practices. Included are inventories, finding aids, records management procedures and related information. SG
May 20, 2014
Administrative Correspondence Retention Change
On May 8, 2014 the Utah State Records Committee (SRC) again reviewed the proposed correspondence general retention schedules for approval. The correspondence general retention schedules were originally presented to the SRC on April 10th, but were not approved. Instead the SRC provided some clarity to the proposed description and moved to have the schedules posted for another 30 days. The
December 31, 2013
Quarterly Events: January to March 2014
Quarterly Events January to March 2014 January 2014 Lunch ‘n’ Learn Lunch ‘n’ Learn sessions are live, online sessions. A link to the session will be sent to participants on the morning of the event. To register visit: http://archives.state.ut.us/cgi-bin/traininglist.cgi Jan 10, 2014, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Topic: Public Records Management Act In-Person Training Events To register visit: http://archives.state.ut.us/cgi-bin/traininglist.cgi Jan 17, 2014,
October 9, 2013
Quarterly Events: October to December 2013
Quarterly Events October to December 2013 October 2013 Lunch ‘n’ Learn Lunch ‘n’ Learn sessions are live, online sessions. A link to the session will be sent to participants two days prior to the event. To register visit: http://archives.state.ut.us/cgi-bin/traininglist.cgi Oct 18, 2013, 12:00 p.m.-1:00 p.m. Topic: Meet the Government Records Ombudsman Rosemary Cundiff is the government records ombudsman. In that
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