Welcome back to our occasional series “Off the Record,” a curated collection of articles we found interesting on a broad range of topics, some of which are directly related to records management and other which might share common themes. No, we didn’t write these articles—hence the name of this series, “Off the Record”—but, fortunately, we…
The records management assistance unit at the Texas State Library and Archives Commission (TSLAC) receives many questions from state agencies when it comes to recertifying retention schedules. A question we commonly receive concerns the “R” code; what does “R – Archival Review” mean, and what does the State Archives have to do with it? TSLAC…
If you’ve spent any amount of time perusing the local government retention schedules on our website—it is fair to assume this is the case if you’re reading this post in the first place—then you may have noticed in the Remarks section of certain record series a warning to “review before disposal…for historical reasons”. Have you…