Below you'll find a list of all posts that have been tagged as “Electronic records”
Many records officers throughout the state recognize or have worked with Kendra Yates, the Chief Records Officer for the state of Utah. Kendra is an integral part in everything that happens at Utah State Archives and Records Service (“Archives”), so I invited her to an interview to learn more about her. Kendra’s Multiple Roles Since 2015, Kendra has been the …
As the Utah Department of Corrections works to relocate the Utah State Prison, Program Manager Alexandra Muller and Business Analyst Cami Beach have been hard at work updating the Department’s many records series and retention schedules. In addition to modernizing the Department’s records management practices to match its electronic processes, Muller and Beach are adding new records officers department-wide and …
Elyse Sullivan is the City Recorder for Millcreek. While many Utahns have long been familiar with the Millcreek area, the city itself was only officially incorporated in 2016. Which means official city records were created during a digital era, and Elyse’s work managing the city’s records is almost entirely electronic. Elyse offered up some great advice for new records officers, …
Start looking for answers here: we’ve published a new Email Management Guideline! The guideline was written by the Division of Archives and Records Service for Utah’s local and state government agencies. Find tips on: Creating an email management policy Applying the updated retention schedules to email Exporting emails from your system Using your system’s records management tools Complying with legal …
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 …
Join us September 11th for the Records and Information Management Conference: The Nuts and Bolts of Records Management! Registration is still open for in-person and online attendance, the event is free to attend. Meet our all-star presenters: Do this, Not That: Taking a Practical Approach to Records Management. Renée Wilson is a RIM specialist at the Utah Division of Archives and Records Service. She …
This month’s spotlight features Tonya Smith, the Medical Records Department Manager, Privacy Officer, and Records Officer for the Utah State Hospital, an inpatient psychiatric facility in Provo administered by the Department of Human Services. Tonya manages both paper and electronic patient medical records, as well as agency administrative documents. Tonya has been in this position for 17 of her 32 years working …
Where do your electronic records live? Payroll and accounting systems, personnel records, building and permitting systems, and many other applications all play a role in the lifecycle of your records. How do you manage those records in systems that were never designed to serve as long-term repositories? How do you keep the records secure, provide access to them appropriately, and …
Answer to your question as a records officer on non-paper and electronic media being transferred to the Utah State Archives or Utah State Records Center.
We received the following question from a records officer, and thought it might be helpful for all records managers to hear the answer. So here it is in ‘Dear Abby’ form: Dear Records Analyst, I am in the process of preparing boxes to send to the Records Center, but heard that I should not send cassette tapes, VHS, DVDs, CDs, …
