FAQ: Administrative Value for State Agency Records

State agency records may have several different types of value at their creation. Some, like budget records, have fiscal value and might be subject to audit. Others, like contracts, have legal value and might be subject to litigation. Some, like annual reports and agency policies, have historical value and might be archival. And many others,…

FAQ: Security Storage

What’s the meaning of the © on the Functional Schedule for North Carolina State Agencies? Some records series have these disposition instructions in the appendix: Transfer to the State Records Center when reference value ends for permanent security storage. These records will be stored permanently at the State Records Center, but they will never be…

Archival university records

The current General Records Retention and Disposition Schedule for UNC System Institutions is available on our website at https://archives.ncdcr.gov/documents/university-north-carolina-general-records-retention-and-disposition-schedule.  It includes detailed descriptions of all records, including those that should transfer to the University Archives.  To assist folks who are new to the UNC system or who are new to the concept of records that need…