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School District schedule 14-20 is being overwritten by state schedule 10-30 and 10-31. If you go to the school district schedule on our website, it will be hyperlinked to the new schedule. Depending on the type of record will determine if retention is now two years shorter or two years longer. Don’t worry if you have already destroyed records per

School District schedule 14-10 is being overwritten by state schedule 13-18. If you go to the school district schedule on our website, it will be hyperlinked to the new schedule. Retention is now one year longer. Don’t worry if you have already destroyed records per the old schedule. Please update your records so the updated retention will be followed from

A guest post by James Kichas. While the Utah State Archives’ focus is on the management and preservation of government records, there are other forms that the State’s history can take. One of these is artifacts. Whether they are artifacts that help tell the story of a governmental entity, or artifacts given to the people of Utah (often through a

County general schedule 1-25 Routine Activity Schedules will be removed from the website next week. As part of the General Schedule Update Project, we are gradually removing general schedules describing items which are not records according to GRAMA. This schedule is also too vague for use. Here is the schedule: Routine Activity Schedules (CO 1-25) These records are routine materials

You may have noticed the General Schedules have been changing. If you are looking for a schedule, but cannot find it, be sure to click the link at the top so the inactive schedules are listed. If the schedule was overwritten, the obsolete schedule has a hyperlink to the schedule it is now attached to. If you still cannot find

We’ve created a new link to view general retention schedules and series-specific retention schedules submitted for public consideration and State Records Committee approval, which is available at https://archives.utah.gov/recordsmanagement/retention-schedules.html. Refresh the page if you cannot see the new link. This page will be updated regularly as all schedules going before the State Records Committee must be available for public review two

Here by popular demand, a new publication has been added to the Retention Schedule page of our website! The publication, “General Schedule Updates”, is an appendix that lists all new, edited, or obsolete General Schedules to date. Each schedule type (state, county, municipality, school district) is contained in this appendix twice: alphabetically by schedule name and numerically then by schedule