The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) is celebrating Electronic Records Day today, October 10, 2013. CoSA is distributing a brief release which highlights some electronic records management challenges. It is designed to raise awareness and remind everyone of the importance of managing and preserving electronic records. Take a moment to review 10 reasons for e-records 2013. Electronic records are …
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 …
Newly Processed: September 2013 [Updated]
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 September 2013: Cedar City (Utah) Cemetery burial card file, 1858-1992 Cemetery burial records, ca. …
Browse Death Certificates Online, 1962
Although fully searchable name indexes are not yet available for all the latest death certificates, we are now able to offer digital images online that may be browsed by date and county, similar to the process when visiting the Research Center. 1962 Narrow results by choosing both year and county. Within a folder, certificates are chronological by date. Links will …
Webinar for Student General Schedules
The Utah State Archives is hosting a webinar on Wednesday October 23th at 2:00pm. The topic to be discussed is “Using the New Student General Schedules”. All school district and charter school records officers, and their supervisors, will benefit from this training. We will review the new general schedules for student records and how to reconcile the new schedules with …
Registration still available for the 2013 Electronic Records Conference!
Bridging the Gap: Electronic Records and Information Management for the 21st Century Friday, October 4 The electronic records conference is soon approaching! The theme for this year’s conference is Bridging the Gap: Electronic Records and Information Management for the 21st Century. Registration is high but we still have space for more registrants, so please review your calendar and make time …
2013 Best Practices Exchange (BPE) conference
The 2013 Best Practices Exchange (BPE) conference will be coming to Salt Lake City, Utah, November 13-15, 2013. We have an exciting program planned about the preservation and access of electronic records, which is still taking shape. If you would like to submit a session proposal, we have extended the deadline to September 30th. We have also posted our program …
Browse Birth Certificates Online: 1912
Birth certificate images for 1912 are now online at archives.utah.gov/digital/81443.htm. Although they are not indexed by name yet, if one knows the birth date and county it should not be difficult to locate the correct folder and browse through a few images for the time being. Saving and printing of images is available. Would you like to help index birth …
Newly Processed: August 2013
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 August 2013: Benjamin Cemetery Maintenance District (Utah) Burials list, ca. 1876-2007 Eureka (Utah) Cemetery …
Still looking for BPE session proposals
REMINDER! The 2013 Best Practices Exchange conference to be held November 13-15, 2013, in Salt Lake City is still looking for session proposals. The deadline is September 1st, but we’ll let you sneak them in for a little bit past Labor Day. See http://www.bpexchange.org/ for details. Anything related to the preservation and management of electronic records is welcome. Due to …