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For what it's worth. After seeing a link to the retention requirements for
the state of GA on one of these lists, I found out that the GA Archives is
not too far from me. I set up an appointment with the Assistant Director
to see the facility and learn about how they handle electronic records. It
should be quite interesting. I had noticed that some of the statements in
the retention schedule said "permanent". I asked him about that. He said
that while they may debate about what should be permanent, permanent means
forever. He was very definitive about it. I thought that was
interesting. I'm not sure anyone quite knows how to store records forever,
particularly electronically.
Sincerely,
Ron
At 11/8/2006 10:27 AM -0500, you wrote:
><So I've found that the term "long-term" works a lot better. "We're
>saving these records for the long term."
>No one ever asks me to define long term which of course is eternity.>
>
>For years, ANSI and ISO standards defined longevity as "short term" -
>less than 10 years, "medium term" - more than 10 years, "long term" - up
>to 100 years, "permanent" - more than 100 years or forever. I haven't
>looked at them recently to see if the definitions have changed.
>
>Ginny Jones
>(Virginia A. Jones, CRM, FAI)
>Records Manager
>Information Technology Division
>Newport News Dept. of Public Utilities
>Newport News, VA
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