Browse Death Certificates Online, 1961

Gina Strack Digital Archives

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. 1961 Narrow results by choosing both year and county. Within a folder, certificates are chronological by date. Links will …

Holiday Closures

Gina Strack News and Events

The Research Center for the Utah State Archives and Utah State History will be closed Monday, December 26, 2011 for Christmas. It will open again Tuesday, December 27, 2011 at 9 a.m. We will also be closed Monday, January 2, 2012 for New Year’s Day, opening again Tuesday, January 3, 2012. Happy Holidays!

Keeping Everything? Applying General Retention Schedules

jbulloughrm Records Management

Utah has general retention schedules designed to assist governmental agencies in managing their records. These schedules provide a description of the records, a suggested GRAMA classification (public, private, protected, controlled, or exempt), a length of time that they must be kept (retention), and a final disposition for the records. The disposition of records falls into two categories: 1) destroy the …

Simplifying Access to Government Records

Susan Mumford GRAMA, Records Management

Simplifying Access to Government Records One duty of a records officer is to provide public access to government records. To help simplify the records request process, records officers and the public should be clear about the records or information requested. Records retention schedules can be used as a tool to accomplish this. Some questions to ask are: Where are the records kept? …

Email isn't dead, yet.

mspring Records Management

On November 26, 2011, Jim Naughton of The Observer posted an article reacting to Facebook co-creator Mark Zuckerberg’s declaration that email communication is a dying format. Three days later, an ABC News article, “Tech Firm Implements Employee ‘Zero Email’ Policy” seemed to validate Zuckerberg’s claim. As Naughton aptly observes, “The average employee now-adays receives something like 100 email messages a …

Records Center Move

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The Utah State Archives and Records Service will relocate the State Records Center from the warehouse in West Valley (Decker Lake) to a new State owned facility in Clearfield. This move is scheduled to begin on February 1, 2012 and will take an estimated 4 weeks to complete.   In order to facilitate this move, some services will be temporarily …

SAVE THE DATE! Utah State Archives April 2012 RIMM Conference

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Information professionals have centuries of experience working with records on paper, and have developed effective practices for controlling these records. Yet, we have only a couple of decades of experience actively managing electronic records. As a profession records managers are engaging the unique challenges of this radically new format and are developing approaches to efficiently manage e-records.     In …

Retention Talk – A Few Thoughts about Utah General Schedules.

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When it comes time to schedule records with the Utah State Archives and Records Service there may be some confusion about general retention schedules. What are general schedules? What purpose do they serve? How do I use a general schedule? ARMA International defines a retention schedule as: “A comprehensive list of records series, indicating for each the length of time it is …

Holiday Closure

Gina Strack News and Events

The Research Center for the Utah State Archives and Utah State History will be closed Thursday, November 24, 2011 for Thanksgiving Day. It will re-open Friday, November 25 at 9 a.m.