Austin Community College - Records Management Services

This video addresses the main issues behind record retention and is intended for all levels of management. A "must see" for Records Custodians. Training Topics Include:
	"Biography of a document": How one letter survived scheduled purges, only to be discovered years later and used as adverse evidence
	Saving documents "just in case"
	Need to retain and destroy records systematically
	Segregating records according to the retention timetable
	Retaining as required for operational, legal, or archival needs
	Destroying scheduled records wholesale
	Suspicious gaps in the record — result of weeding out "bad" documents and keeping only "good" ones
	Suspending document destruction during discovery
	Off-site and centralized storage
	Costs of failing to follow retention policy: Waste of space, legal cost
	Role of Records Manager: Document retention policy administration
If you are interested in viewing this film, please contact Mary Bridges, Records Management, 223-1142.
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