Scope and Contents

This series contains correspondence, agency reports, copies of feasibility studies, agency directives and related papers. These records document one of the chief missions of the Records Management Division, namely working with Records Management Officers in the various agencies of state government in an effort to coordinate, assist and supervise the establishment and conduct of the statewide records management program.

Scope and Contents This series contains three different types of annual reports produced by the Records Management Division covering the same time period. First is the report of annual records holdings which are statistical in format and, as the name implies, report on the number of records stored and serviced by the Division. Secondly, the Savings Registers report the savings to the State of Georgia realized by the surplusing and reassigning of filing equipment in all agencies of government. Thirdly, the...

Scope and Contents This series consists of records retention schedules, often referred to as disposition standards. In order to properly appraise records for length of retention by the State, the creating agency is required to complete a form to supply the following information. The agency must, of course, supply its name, address, the date of the application for the schedule and a consecutive number. The agency employee who is responsible for the creation and maintenance of the record series must indicate his...

Scope and Contents This series contains minutes of infrequent meetings, correspondence and disposition standards and other exhibits. The summary minutes are very brief, rarely more than two pages in length. Among subjects discussed are methods of referral of applications for disposition standards to committee members, approval and review of specific disposition standards, progress of the Records Management Division and the opening of the State Records Center. The correspondence consists primarily of...

Scope and Contents This series contains correspondence, memorandums, copies of legislation, procedures manuals and other records documenting the activities of the Georgia Records Management Officer, the head of the Records Management Division. The file folder listing in the finding aid indicates the varied role of the office including the very significant number of files on curriculums for records management in various colleges and universities throughout the nation. Many of the file folder labels would lead...