Carol Inglesby has been with the Department of Commerce’s Division of Occupational and Professional Licensing for over 25 years. She has been in her current role with the Division “for so long that the dates have begun to run together.” While her responsibilities extend far beyond records management, Carol works to ensure that records are scheduled, stored, and made available …
Call for Volunteers: Court Index Transcription
The Utah State Archives is looking for volunteers to transcribe typed and some handwritten court indexes to add to the main Name Indexes. Work may be done at the Archives or at home. May include civil cases, criminal cases, or probate for various counties since 1850. Visit Project for Court Indexes for more information!
General Schedules for Your Input
As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives is proposing a new schedule for your consideration. We would like to submit this schedule to the State Records Committee’s December 10th meeting. Remember, there is no designation or classification of general schedules because that needs to be determined by the record series. – Fixed Asset Records- These …
Upcoming Training Events
Upcoming Events The following is a list of training events offered by the Utah State Archives in the month of December. All employees of a governmental entity are invited to participate, especially records officers and chief administrative officers. Utah State Archives’ training events are free of charge. Registration is available online here. The training schedule for 2016 will be published around …
Records for Joe Hill Online
In anticipation of the 100-year anniversary of the trial and execution of the labor icon Joe Hill in Utah, the Utah State Archives has posted online over four thousand images of records concerning the international controversy and publicity generated at that time (http://archives.utah.gov/digital/joe-hill.html). Born in 1879 in Gavle, Sweden, Joseph Hillstrom (also known as Joe Hill) immigrated to the United …
View Proposed Retention Schedules
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 http://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 …
Newly Processed: October 2015
All public records at the Utah State Archives are accessible through the Research Center. However, once processed the records are easier to use with proper storage and fuller descriptions, including online series inventories. The following list includes record series that were processed during the month of October 2015: Lynndyl (Utah) Resolutions, 1979-2007
Conference Presentation Materials Available On State Archives' Website
Conference Presentation Materials Available ! Presentation recordings and handouts for the Law Enforcement Conference and the Electronic Records Conference are now available on the Utah State Archives’ website. You can watch the sessions you missed or watch your favorite sessions again! Some presenters preferred to have their presentation materials on their personal website only, for such cases we have provided a link to the …
Utah Archives Month 2015
October was an extremely busy month at the Utah State Archives, filled with conferences, workshops, and events celebrating Utah Archives Month 2015. The Utah State Archives was one of many repositories around the state who developed special programming to publicize the vital role archives and special collection repositories play in preserving our shared cultural record for future access and use. Perhaps the most …
GRAMA for Law Enforcement Training Tomorrow
The Utah State Archives is offering a training class on GRAMA for law enforcement tomorrow, October 29th from 9:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. The title of the class is Records Access I: Public Records Requests for Law Enforcement. If you are interested in attending, register here: http://axaem.archives.utah.gov/cgi-bin/traininglist.cgi . We recommend that you bring a copy of the Government Records Access …