The Records Management Office administers the Records Center and coordinates transfers of university records to the University Archives.
All university records are the property of Harvard University. The Records Management Office helps offices with the storage of records still in the custody of the creating office and with the transfer of custody to the University Archives.
University offices may need to retain custody of records while storing them off site for many reasons. The most common reason is that they are no longer needed in the office but must be retained for a longer period before they can be transferred to the Archives. The Records Center is the appropriate storage location for records waiting for either destruction or archival transfer. Records in temporary storage, whether for 2 or 100 years, belong in the Records Center.
When an office is ready to transfer the custody of its university records to the Archives, the Records Management Office will coordinate that transfer. If the proper final disposition (archives or destruction) of a university record is not clear, the Records Management Office will work with the office to determine the disposition.
|
