Records Management Section
The University of Edinburgh Records Management Section
 

Vital Records

This guidance is intended for the University’s freedom of information practitioners who are setting up records management systems in their sections. It will also be of interest to heads and administrators of sections.

This guidance is intended to give freedom of information practitioners advice on managing vital records, that is, those records which are essential to the running of an organisation. It explains the role of vital records, how to recognise them, how to protect them, and the vital records procedures that should be implemented. It cannot identify the vital records of your particular section, but it does give you a 'toolkit' to help you identify them.

The guidance sheets are available as rich text documents and Adobe PDF.  If you do not already have an Adobe Acrobat reader you can download one free from the Adobe website.

Version 6, uploaded 24/3/05

If you have any comments about this guidance document, we would very much appreciate hearing them. Please contact us with your feedback.


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