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Records management is never really finished. A few years ago, the Department of Workforce Services (DWS) completed a major overhaul of its records schedules. Working with then-Records Officer Debbi Class, who brought more than 40 years of institutional knowledge to the role, DWS closed 232 record series, updated 101, moved 21, and created 2 new series. For many agencies, a

Meet Jessica Priskos, Records Manager for the Utah State Tax Commission. Three years ago, as new state privacy laws began to take effect, she stepped into her role and began organizing and updating her agency’s record series and retention schedules to reflect current business processes—a massive project. She quickly discovered that many schedules hadn’t been updated in decades. Now in

Since joining the Department of Cultural & Community Engagement in 2023, Liz Setterberg has been on a mission to preserve Utah’s cultural treasures. As Archivist and Public Art Specialist for the Utah Division of Arts & Museums, she blends her expertise in geography and archival studies with a passion for diversity and oral histories. This year, she stepped into the

Lindsay Hansen has served as a records officer and records program manager with the Utah Department of Transportation (UDOT) since February of last year. Her path to records management was shaped by a strong background in education and training, skills she sees as essential to understanding needs and “figuring out where people are at.” Before stepping into her current role,

When Mark Smith started two years ago at the Division of Finance (within Utah’s Department of Government Operations), there were 219 record series, most of which hadn’t been updated since their creation nearly forty years ago. Luckily for the Division, Mark is smart, meticulous, and organized, and attacked the series clean-up with a vengeance. As the project nears its end,

Sydney Dahle started as a deputy clerk in the Cache County Clerk’s office in 2021, and is assigned to work as the county’s official record-keeper. Originally from St. Louis, Missouri Sydney moved to Utah to attend Utah State University. Sydney has an interest in preserving history and helping people access government records, and recently graduated with degrees in history and

Here at the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service we seek to support government agencies throughout the whole records lifecycle: from records creation, through use and access, from records storage, to destruction and preservation. So when we see a great records management project, we want to celebrate! Murray City recently shared news of their latest records clean-up project with

Many records officers throughout the state recognize or have worked with Kendra Yates, the Chief Records Officer for the state of Utah. Kendra is an integral part in everything that happens at Utah State Archives and Records Service (“Archives”), so I invited her to an interview to learn more about her. Kendra’s Multiple Roles Since 2015, Kendra has been the

As the Utah Department of Corrections works to relocate the Utah State Prison, Program Manager Alexandra Muller and Business Analyst Cami Beach have been hard at work updating the Department’s many records series and retention schedules. In addition to modernizing the Department’s records management practices to match its electronic processes, Muller and Beach are adding new records officers department-wide and

Elyse Sullivan is the City Recorder for Millcreek. While many Utahns have long been familiar with the Millcreek area, the city itself was only officially incorporated in 2016. Which means official city records were created during a digital era, and Elyse’s work managing the city’s records is almost entirely electronic. Elyse offered up some great advice for new records officers,