Correspondence General Schedule Changes

Rebekkah Shaw Records Management

As part of the General Schedule Update Project, the Utah State Archives has posted three schedules for public comment. The schedules are for the retention of correspondence and would replace the current general schedules for Policy and Program Correspondence and Transitory Correspondence. In an age where so much correspondence is conducted by email, a clearer definition of what constitutes permanent …

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 …