ABOUT RECORDS MANAGEMENT SERVICES

Records Management Services at the University of North Carolina assists university offices and departments in managing records from their creation to their eventual disposal or preservation.

Records Management Services has existed as a part of University Archives since 2002. The scheduling of records began as early as 1985 and a formal records management program was instituted in 1991 with a grant from the National Historical and Public Records Commission. Initially, the record management program was part of the Office of the Provost, but in late 2001, the position of University Records Manager was transferred to the University Archives.

The mission of Records Management Services at the University of North Carolina is threefold:

• To provide guidance to the offices and departments of UNC-Chapel Hill and UNC General Administration in organizing current records, disposing of unnecessary records, and transferring public records of historical or legal significance to the University Archives. This includes the management of digital files, email, and confidential records;
• To identify records of permanent value that document university history or act as evidence of its activities;
• To ensure university compliance with state policy and federal regulations governing public records.

Meet the Archivists

Lawrence Giffin
Records Services Archivist
lgiffin@email.unc.edu

Jay Gaidmore
University Archivist
gaidmore@unc.edu

For information regarding accessing the records currently held within University Archives, please search our collection.

As an institutional archives, we are interested in the acquisition of unpublished records. For information regarding your department's published material, please visit the North Carolina Collection.

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