Author: Michael Shea State Employee#1: “I’m sending these records to the Archives.” State Employee#2: “The Records Center or the Archives?” State Employee#1: “Yes.” State Employee#2: “Well, which one – are you sending the records to the Records Center or the Archives?” State Employee#1: “Right…them, those people at the Archives in the Records Center.” State Employee#2: “Is it Friday yet?” I’m…
Author: Michael Shea I know, another blah blah blog post from the odd* Records Center Manager. Well, let’s try to do this a little differently, and remove MOST of my flowery/over the top/nearly grammatically correct lingo in favor of a quick…Oh, never mind I can’t even end this sentence quickly. I want to know what…
By Craig Kelso, Director, State and Local Records Management To our state agency and local government records center customers, The FY2014 Fee Schedule for the State Records Center was approved by the TSLAC Commission on April 24, 2013, and will take effect September 1, 2013. You can download a PDF copy of the schedule at:…
Author: Michael Shea So, your critical system goes down and your entire network is wiped out by an employee opening an attachment to answer a desperate plea from a foreign Prince, innocently seeking a onetime small investment to give said swift thinking and acting employee MILLIONS of dollars for their small token of generously donating…
Author: Michael Shea In 2005 (or so) tobacco litigation made an impact on the State Records Center that we are still seeing signs of today. At some point the Records Center was full and we were banned from destroying any records while the lawyers duked out something related to tobacco. I hear they deduced it…
Author: Michael Shea Well, I’ve been cornered, coerced…talked to… by my co-workers (okay, my boss) to begin adding a few words here from time to time in this space about the State Records Center. My name is Michael Shea and in June of 2012 I took over managing the state records center after working in…
By Jan Ferrari, Director of State and Local Records Management and State Records Administrator The history of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission began in the 1830s when Texas was still a Republic. In 1909, the Texas Library and Historical Commission was created to direct the State Library, aid and encourage public libraries, and collect…