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What is the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR)?

What is the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR)?

A topic that appeared throughout the survey comments this year was the need for clarity on who exactly is responsible for the records we create. In this post we will be discussing what is the OPR and what they do. When looking at a Retention and Disposition Schedule (RDS), aside from the time-period that units […]

Jack Dempster and Simon

What I did on my summer vacation: records management edition

Special guest post from Jack Dempster and Simon “Dear mom Life is good here at Camp RM. Camp Counselor Towell has been very patient in teaching me how to swim in the spreadsheet ocean of inventoried digital records. Pretty soon I will be able to do so without drowning! There is no surly lunch-lady, no […]