Records Management is the systematic and administrative control of records throughout their life cycle to ensure efficiency and economy in their creation, use, handling, control, maintenance, and disposition. Applying records management in your office can lead to more efficient file searches, provides you with legal protection for document discovery or litigation, frees up space otherwise being occupied by seldom-consulted records, and helps the university document its functions and history. ALL university employees are responsible for management and retention of their records according to approved schedules.

UWM Records Management can assist your office with active records maintenance, records surveys and inventories, creating records retention schedules, confidential destruction, archival transfer, and records retrieval of documents already in the archives. For more information, contact Brad Houston, University records officer, at houstobn@uwm.edu or (414)-229-6979.

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UWM Records Management News

March 13, 2008 -- New RRDAs approved by Public Records Board

On February 25, the Wisconsin Public Records Board approved 51 new Records Retention and Disposition Authorities, including three new general records schedules. The records officer is currently working on returning copies of these schedules to the affected offices. Please refer to our general records schedule page to see if any of the three new general schedules apply to your office, or check our specific schedules page to see if you should be expecting RRDAs in the mail.

Additionally, we have just created a page to explain in more detail the kinds of files we are looking to preserve permanently. Take a look!

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February 21, 2008 -- Welcome to the site!

Welcome to the new UWM Records Management website. We have tried to make navigation around the site more intuitive, to answer some frequently asked questions about records management, and while we're at it, to make the site a little prettier, as well. Comments about the redesign, or about what else you'd like to see on this site, are always welcome.

Meanwhile, if you're new to UWM or records management, check out our pages on Records Management Basics and Records Responsibilities of UWM Staff. If you're here for general UWM and UW-System schedules, those can be found here. And why not give our Education page, including presentations and webcasts, a try? You might learn something new!