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Inactive Records Storage
Using the Records Center
Records Retrieval
Interfiling
Disposition of Records
Shredding of Confidential Records


What's a Vital Record?
Why Are Vital Records so Important?
How Do You Identify a Vital Record?
How Do You Protect and Store a Vital Record?
Steps for Offices to Follow
Appendices


Why File Management?
File What?
Developing or Improving a Filing System
Purging
Maintaining a Filing System: Inactive Storage
Appendices

Balanced Scorecard

 

Vital Records: Appendix 1: Categories and Examples


These are some general examples. The records in each office will vary depending on each office's specific functions. For the definition and retention period of the records listed below, please see the University General Records Retention Schedule.

  • VITAL RECORDS - Official Copies of:

    Administration Records for Grants/Contracts
    Application for Internal (UW) Research Support Funds - Awarded
    Bid Documents
    Blueprints of Facilities
    Board of Regents Minutes
    Consent Forms - Adult and Minor
    Contracts - Purchase, Lease or Rental
    Deeds for University Owned Property
    Endowment Fund Records
    Equipment Inventory Reports (Physical Inventories)
    General Ledgers
    Human Subject Review Committee Applications - Awarded
    Insurance policy information
    Meeting Minutes
    Organization Charts and Listings
    Patents and Trademarks
    Payroll Folders
    Personnel Folders
    Policies and Procedures
    Research Data
    Research Protocols (Drug Development and Human Subjects)
    Security Codes
    Technical System Documentation
    Transcripts

  • Important Records - Official Copies of:

    Accreditation Documentation
    Annual/ Monthly/ Quarterly Reports
    Billing Source Documents
    Current Calendars, Appointment Books, and Daily Schedules
    Faculty Effort Certifications
    Grade Appeals and Grievance Files

  • Useful Records

    Bank Records
    Correspondence
    Equipment Maintenance/Service Reports
    Registrar's Statistical Reports - Copies
    Subject files

  • Non-Essential Records

    Material that may be disposed of without a specific retention period, including:
    Advertisements/Announcements
    Phone messages
    Requests for information - answered
    Routing slips
    Trade catalogs