Not as glorious a story as Christian's example of a Visitor Log but another
example of why "decommissioning records" are of value... even/especially on
assets you took over from prior organizations.

http://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/20130716/articles/130719626

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this page.

Larry
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On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 9:32 AM, Christian Meinke <[log in to unmask]
> wrote:

> I would just add, there are a lot of variables depending on the asset -
> decommissioning a nuclear plant will have a lot more requirements than
> tearing down an old office building. I think one thing you'll want to keep
> in mind is that sites often have multiple assets that may be connected,
> where removing an asset of one kind facilitates it's replacement with
> another so that any "Life of" retention you may be following may require
> some interpretation. Also, while most of us are not trained archivists you
> still might want to give consideration to the preservation of certain
> artifacts, photographs, or other records that might have historic value.
> We recently retired a power plant that had a log book signed by Thomas
> Edison when he visited the site over 100 years ago.. The retention expired
> on that long ago, but we're still going to hang on to that one.
> ***
> Christian Meinke, CRM
>

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*Lawrence J. Medina
Danville, CA
RIM Professional since 1972*

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