Dear All,
I have a records management related question for you all. I hope you can help.
I am beginning to worry about vital records and the way we manage them. Does anyone have a list of series earmarked as vital that I could use as a basis for creating our own vital records database.
Secondly, how are they treated differently to normal "run of the mill" records that aren't vital? I have been waking up in the middle of the night worrying that in the event of a fire all our vital (paper) records will be destroyed because they're not duplicated a thirty-four times, microfilmed and stored in a fireproof bunker - but surely all these are pretty impractical.
Any thoughts would be gratefully received.
Thanks
Matthew Stephenson
Matthew Stephenson
Records Manager
London School of Economics
Houghton Street
London WC2A 2AE
Tel: 020 7955 6481
Fax: 020 7852 3646
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