From my previous life working in the records mgmt dept for Allegheny
County,PA (Pittsburgh) gov't comes this true story:
The county planned to change from one large hospital for the elderly,
Kane Hospital, to four smaller regional centers. When the new centers
were built, they wanted to demolish the old hospital. The engineering
drawings for the hospital could not be found. So they had to pay an
engineering firm thousands of dollars to do drawings of the building so
they could blow it up. A few years later the county started its records
program, and the first task was to clear about 20,000 cubic feet of
records, many over one hundred years old, from the courthouse attic. And
what do you think was one of the first things they found in the attic?
Yup, you guessed it.
Gary Link, CRM
Pittsburgh, PA
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From: debbie ferguson [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 11:27 AM
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Subject: [RM] Unusual Missing file stories
I am curious to know if any records managers on this listserv have
particularly interesting/unusual tales of where you have turned up
missing files. We all have ones about the 'one that got away' (i.e. was
never found), and I know that I and my peers are always joking about how
that 'missing' file is probably in attorney so-and-so's
trunk/briefcase/bottom of a moving box. But I would like to know if
anyone has ever turned up a 'missing' file someplace completely
unexplainable (once I found a missing file being used as a mousepad in a
conference room, and I just located a file that had been checked in to
our records system 2 years ago in a pile of files on the desk of a
records staffer we fired last week, but I guess in retrospect those
could make sense to someone).
Debra Ferguson
Senior Records Manager
Duane Morris LLP
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