Here at Utah State Archives, our goal is to ensure the ongoing care and management of the public records that we hold in trust for the citizens of Utah. As we end another year, we take a moment to reflect and share our wins over the past twelve months. In 2022 our staff… It was a time of transition for …
2021 Year in Review
As we end another year, we wanted to take a moment to reflect and share some of the good work that our team at the Utah State Archives and Records Service did in the past twelve months to ensure the ongoing care and management of the public records that we hold in trust for the citizens of Utah. In 2021… …
New Finding Aids at the Archives: April 2019
Our archivists write inventories as finding aids to describe them for research. Here are the new ones created during April 2019: Department of Administrative Services (Utah). Division of Archives and Records Service Research Room quilt, ca. 1985 Carbon County (Utah). County Clerk Birth reports, 1898-1904. Delta (Utah) Budgets, 1997- Delta (Utah) Youth City Council scrapbooks, 1990-1998 Delta (Utah) Youth Court …
Utah Open Government Sunshine Conference! “Building Trust Through Transparency”
Welcome to the Utah Open Government Sunshine Conference! “Building Trust Through Transparency” Tuesday, March 26, 2019 9 a.m. – 3:45 p.m. The Utah Division of Archives and Records Service is excited to announce the second annual Open Government Conference. Come and learn why transparency matters and how to work together for a better open government. Our guest speakers include: Kenneth …
The Nuts and Bolts of Records Management
The class materials for the Records and Information Management (RIM) Conference on September 11, 2018, are now available on the Utah State Archives website: https://archives.utah.gov/recordsmanagement/event_materials/20180911-rim-conference.html The following are highlights from this year’s RIM Conference: Practical tips and solutions for your RIM program Implementing the General Retention Schedules (GRS) and your agency policy Email management practices Managing electronic records and ungoverned data Information …
2018 Records Management Training Schedule
Utah’s Division of Archives and Records Service offers free records access and management training classes, webinars, and conferences to all governmental employees. Most classes are held in Salt Lake City, but we will have two regional trainings this year–one in Vernal and one in Richfield. We may also be able to provide training in your region upon request if you …
You Asked For It! General Schedule Updates!
Here by popular demand, a new publication has been added to the Retention Schedule page of our website! The publication, “General Schedule Updates”, is an appendix that lists all new, edited, or obsolete General Schedules to date. Each schedule type (state, county, municipality, school district) is contained in this appendix twice: alphabetically by schedule name and numerically then by schedule …
Presenter materials now available for Archives' Spring Conference, "A Records Officer's Toolkit: Resources and Strategies for Success"
Thank You! A generous thank you to all 180+ of you who attended yesterday’s conference event. Despite the last minute change in venue we had a full room! A special thank you to our presenters: Brant Hanson from Ephraim City who facilitated a lively discussion on the vital role of records officers and how to gain executive level support for …
New General Schedule for Your Input
As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives is proposing a new schedule for your consideration. This is in addition to the Legal Counsel Records, the Burial Records and Cemetery Records previously posted. We would like these to be submitted to the State Records Committee’s April 9th meeting. This schedule is meant as a sister schedule …