The first monthly chapter meeting for 2013 will be held in downtown Salt Lake at the LDS Church History Library on January 17th from 11:45 AM to 1:00 PM. An optional tour of the facility will be available after the normal monthly meeting for those who desire to get a behind the scenes look at the Church’s Archives. The primary …
2012 in review
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: 600 people reached the top of Mt. Everest in 2012. This blog got about 6,100 views in 2012. If every person who reached the top of Mt. Everest viewed this blog, it would have taken 10 years to get that many views. Click here …
Online Records Officer Certification Training is Now Available
Effective January 1, 2013, all records officers for the state of Utah are required to take annual Government Records Access and Management Act (GRAMA) training. This training is to be completed online. The Utah State Archives has posted the required training to our website. 63G-2-108. Certification of records officer. Each records officer of a governmental entity or political subdivision shall, …
Holiday Closures: Christmas and New Year’s Day
The Research Center for the Utah State Archives and Utah State History will be closed Tuesday, December 25, 2012 for Christmas Day. It will re-open Wednesday, December 26 at 9 a.m. We will also be closed Tuesday, January 1, 2013 for New Year’s Day.
Public Notice Website: Registering and Posting
Public Notice Website Registering and Posting Utah’s public bodies are required to post notices of open meetings and other public notices on the Public Notice Website. Previously, municipalities, local districts, and special service districts with an annual budget of less than $1,000,000 were exempt from posting notices of public meetings, although they were encouraged to do so. As of January 1, …
A New Website for the Archives
December 2012 is a season of change here at the Division of Archives and Records Service. This week, the Archives, along with the Department of Administrative Services, will launch a fully redesigned website. In addition to a brand new look, here is a list of changes records officers can expect on the new website. 1. Access to all Divisions of …
Mini-Grant Applications Accepted until December 19th
The Utah State Archives and Records Service under the auspices of the Utah State Historical Records Advisory Board has grant funding available to non-profit organizations and local governments for historical records preservation projects. Funding can be used to help repositories statewide preserve at-risk, historic records and to provide access to important collections. Historical records preservation projects might include purchasing archival …
Highlights of Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
Thank you to all who came out and celebrated the opening of the new State Records Center! A special thank you to Representative Oda and Mayor Wood for attending and touring the facility. Also, thank you to Kim Hood, Wayne Christensen, and Darrell Hunting for speaking at the ceremony. Lastly, a thank you the State Record Center employees: Mark Dalton, …
Website Update
UPDATE: This has been postponed a couple of weeks. Most pages (and bookmarks) will not be affected when that time comes, though we always welcome feedback if something breaks or is particularly hard to find. The website at http://archives.utah.gov will be moving to a new server on December 1, 2012. Please be patient as we find and fix any broken …
Still Time to RSVP for Unique Opportunity
Unique Opportunity Tour State Records Center Thursday, November 29, 2012 The State Records Center will open its doors this Thursday, November 29th for a Ribbon Cutting Ceremony and Open House. The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony will be held at 1:30 p.m. with an Open House and tours of the facility following from 2:20 p.m. until 3:40 p.m. The State Records Center is usually …