Hi Stephen,

Thanks for the illumination on this. I recognize that not all schedules from a given 
institution are available on the live web (my own institution has a number of department-
specific schedules that are only available on request, though we're working on fixing 
this), but if a retention schedule for student records DOES exist then that is something 
that the author of the piece I quote in my post should mention (see complaint about 
making me work for it directly below the red flag paragraph ;). 

I think the situation you describe re: records management being a "backdoor" operation 
within university libraries is probably more common than any of us would like. Being 
connected to the Archives helps, though it does tend to focus one's efforts on identifying 
and soliciting records with permanent value, at the expense of time spent on the 
temporary ones (though the risk management side of things has helped me talk up the 
part of my job that deals with sensitive records at least). It does look like the RM 
program at Yale has suffered from disuse in recent years, based on the currency of both 
the GC and MSSA records pages, though to the Beinecke's credit they did recently put out 
a job ad for a records manager. It is, sadly, a term position, but you have to start 
somewhere I guess.

Would you mind reposting this email as a comment on the original post, or may I quote 
from it in an "edited to add" note in the post itself? I think the additional context re the 
origin of the schedule and the state of records management in the Yale Law School would 
be valuable for the blog's readers, not all of whom necessarily subscribe to RECMGMT-L. 
Thanks!

Brad Houston
University Records Archivist, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
UWM Libraries, Archives Department
http://records.uwm.edu

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