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October 2023, UBC IT will automate the records retention schedule for meeting recordings held in Zoom and MS Teams. Find out more at the link below. A one-year data retention schedule for Zoom and MS Teams video recordings is coming October 2023 | UBC Information Technology FAQs can be found here
Records that tell UBC’s stories come to the University Archives (UA) from all across the campus. Institutional records are a unique resource used by researchers, historians, genealogists, and internally, for fundraising efforts. Arguably, no office has more of this type of celebratory documentation then the Ceremonies and Events office (C&E). Earlier this year C&E contacted […]
Guest post by Michael Stewart, Records Manager UBCO “They are cancelling all in-person events and gatherings including the upcoming conference!”, a colleague informed me on the afternoon of March 10, 2020. “We would ask that you take your laptops and tablets home every night, just in case we cannot return to the office for whatever […]
Guest post by Andy Resto. Background and overview In Fall 2021, the records management professionals from UBC Vancouver and Okanagan campuses began the process of updating and completing records retention and disposition schedules for the university. As a worklearn student, I have been able to be a part of the Records Retention Schedule Development (RRSD) […]
In Spring 2022, the Records Management office plan to completely overhaul the records retention schedules on their website. “We’ve been collaborating with our colleagues, Paige Hohmann and Michael Stewart on the Okanagan campus to produce a comprehensive set of schedules covering all the functions at the university,” says Barbara Towell, E-Records Manager at the university, […]
For the past couple of years the Email & Messaging Retention Working Group (now known as RAWG) have been investigating email retention and destruction. One of the first questions we looked into was how to initiate automated destruction, behind the scenes, without asking anything extra of end-users. Last year the Working Group found success in […]