To register for a training event, please click here. Salt Lake City, UT Controlling and Managing Law Enforcement Records, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm February 8, 2012 Providing Public Access to Government Records, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm February 22, 2012 May 23, 2012 Essential Records Protection and Disaster Recovery, 9:00 am to 3:00 pm April 11, 2012 What’s in …
Newly Processed: January 2012
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 January 2012: Weber County (Utah). Clerk of the County Court 1880 Census Lists of …
2012 Resolution Challenge pt. 2: Simplifying Records Retention
On January 4, 2012 we published the first installment of our 2012 Resolution Challenge to Records Managers. In that post, we asked you to evaluate your entity’s records management program or practices. Did you do it? How did you score? Let us know in the comments. Typically, 88 percent of New Year’s resolutions fail, in part because they are too …
Utah State Archives RIMM 2012 Records Management Conference
The Utah State Archives is pleased to announce Philip Favro as session speaker for our 2012 RIMM Conference. Mr. Favro is a Discovery Attorney for Symantec Corporation. During his eleven-year litigation practice, he advised technology companies and other clients regarding complex discovery issues. Phil’s expertise has been enhanced by his legal scholarship. His line of research addresses the changes and …
Holiday Closure
The Research Center for the Utah State Archives and Utah State History will be closed Monday, January 16, 2012 for Martin Luther King Jr. Day. It will open once again Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 9 a.m.
Dept. of Transportation Photograph Index Online
The Community Relations Office of the Department of Transportation created an index to their official photographs. The office assigned a job number to each set of photographs taken or adopted by the office as official photographs. The job number provides access to all photographic material in the official photographs collection. Job numbers include a three-part number series. For each job …
Utah State Archives RIMM 2012 Records Management Conference
The Archives is pleased to announce its morning keynote speaker for the Utah State Archives Electronic Records Management Conference 2012 will be Kenneth Thibodeau. Ken Thibodeau is a records and information management professional recognized around the world as a leading expert on electronic records and digital preservation. He has spoken at more than 150 conferences, published over 30 articles and …
The ten-hour day
Most government offices in Utah are now open from 8-5 Monday through Friday. Though some state employees have retained an option to work four ten-hour days, staff members at the Archives look back with nostalgia at the three-day weekend. Others think a ten-hour day is way too long. With diminished budgets and staff, government offices are attempting to do more …
Records Management Resolution 2012
January is typically a month of new beginnings, a time when individuals evaluate the past year and set goals to make improvements in the upcoming year. This year the Utah State Archives wants to challenge records officers to implement a records management resolution to improve one part of each governmental entity’s records management program. This blog post, the first in …
Newly Processed: November and December 2011
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 months of November and December 2011: Attorney General’s Office Colorado River Commission case files, 1925-1963 Battleship …