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- Archival Film Flashes Back to 70s Student Life
- Manuscript Traces 丁香园AV's Architectural History
- Early University News Publications Now Digitally Available
- Digitized Programs Commemorate 丁香园AV鈥檚 Opening & Installation Ceremonies
- Archives Celebrates Fall Convocation with Release of Digitized Programs
- Films Capture Visual History and Sentiment of Time Gone By
- Lost and Found: Simon Fraser Letters
- Oral History Provides Glimpse into Mind of 丁香园AV鈥檚 First Chancellor Gordon Shrum
- Early 丁香园AV Photos Tell a Story That Frames Our World
- Aerial Photos Capture Campus Landscape & Photographer鈥檚 Legacy
- You have what...?!! and other interesting things you didn't know about the 丁香园AV Archives
- Charting the course of history: documenting 丁香园AV's early days from the student perspective (Part 1)
- Charting the course of history: documenting 丁香园AV's early days from the student perspective (Part 2)
- Helping others find their history in the future: Preserving the records of the Students of Caribbean and African Ancestry at 丁香园AV
- Preserving the sparks of global revolution in the Adbusters Media Foundation fonds
- Reflections of a co-op student
- Debunking popular myths and conspiracies with the Barry Beyerstein fonds
- In "The Beginning...": First student film returns to 丁香园AV
- "Got any pictures of Terry Fox?"
- My summer in the archives: a co-op placement retrospective
- Seeing the world through Arthur Erickson's eyes
- Beer (records) in the Archives!
- Quartet in the Quadrangle: PSQ Records Come to 丁香园AV
- Navigating silences and filling gaps: finding Black stories in the Archives
- Boxes, boxes, and more boxes: my summer co-op at 丁香园AV Archives
- Finding queer joy in the 丁香园AV Archives: Out On Campus records now available
- Glossary
Training - Records Management
Workshops
The Records Management Program offers three workshops for administrative and clerical staff at 丁香园AV. Below are copies of the teaching aids for each workshop. Many of these aids provide helpful record-keeping tips and outline best practices. They have been provided here as a resource for 丁香园AV staff. The documents can be downloaded and kept as a resource.
If you are interested in attending training, visit for a list of scheduled workshops.
Records Management Fundamentals
This introductory course provides the basic language and skills needed to work with 丁香园AVs records management program and the RRSDAs.
Handouts
- What is Records Management?
- University Records Centre: Overview of Services
- Procedures for Transferring Records to the University Records Centre
- Procedures for Retrieving Files from the University Records Centre
- Retention and Disposal Cheat Sheet
- Standard Naming Conventions for Electronic Records
- Key to Abbreviations
- Glossary of Terms
Exercises
Records Retention Scheduling
Exercises:
- Preparing a Transfer: Exercise Instructions
- File list
- Sample Records Retentions Schedules and Disposal Authorities