Title and statement of responsibility area
Title proper
Archives and records management reports
General material designation
- textual record
Parallel title
Other title information
Title statements of responsibility
Title notes
- Source of title proper: Title based on the content of the series
Level of description
Series
Reference code
Edition area
Edition statement
Edition statement of responsibility
Class of material specific details area
Statement of scale (cartographic)
Statement of projection (cartographic)
Statement of coordinates (cartographic)
Statement of scale (architectural)
Issuing jurisdiction and denomination (philatelic)
Dates of creation area
Date(s)
-
1988-2000 (Creation)
- Creator
- British Columbia Archives
-
1979-1987 (Creation)
- Creator
- British Columbia. Records Management Branch
Physical description area
Physical description
24 cm of textual records
Publisher's series area
Title proper of publisher's series
Parallel titles of publisher's series
Other title information of publisher's series
Statement of responsibility relating to publisher's series
Numbering within publisher's series
Note on publisher's series
Archival description area
Name of creator
Biographical history
The Records Management Branch was established in 1982 to provide records management services to the BC Government. The branch was merged with the Central Microfilm Bureau at the time of its creation.
The branch provided the following services to government: classification of government records, management of records storage services, advisory and training services, and centralized microfilming.
The Records Management Branch was merged with the Provincial Archives in 1989 to form the British Columbia Archives and Records Services.
Name of creator
Biographical history
From 1893 to 1908 all archival functions were performed by the Legislative Library. In 1908 R.E. Gosnell was appointed as the first Provincial Archivist. The original name of the organization was the Provincial Archives, later expanded to the Provincial Archives of British Columbia (PABC). The archives grew alongside the legislative library, and shared the same building and facilities until 1970, and the same individual held the dual positions of Provincial Archivist and Legislative Librarian until 1974. On March 1, 1989, the Provincial Archives of British Columbia was merged with the Records Management Branch of the government of British Columbia to form the British Columbia Archives and Records Service (BCARS). In 1996, BCARS was united with the Information and Privacy Branch of government. The resulting organization was called the BC Information Management Services (BCIMS). This was divided into two sections with Information and Analysis Services providing for records management and information and privacy and Archives and Information Access branch representing the traditional archives as it existed before its merger with the records management branch in 1988. This administrative structure lasted for two years until 1998, when the Information and Privacy Branch was removed and the remaining portions were renamed the British Columbia Archives. This structure existed unchanged until 2003 when the British Columbia Archives was merged with the Royal British Columbia Museum as a branch of the Royal British Columbia Museum Crown Trust.
Custodial history
Scope and content
Series consists of records management studies. Includes studies about the establishment and organizational structure of the records management programs in the British Columbia government (including the 1981 Acton "Records Management Study" and the 1980 report by Archives staff, "Records Management in the Government of B.C."), record surveys of the holdings of government ministries, a 1984 survey of computer programs, and British Columbia Archives studies on archival programs. Many of these reports were maintained in the Records Management Branch's library for reference purposes.
Notes area
Physical condition
Immediate source of acquisition
Arrangement
Language of material
Script of material
Location of originals
Availability of other formats
Restrictions on access
No access restrictions apply.
Terms governing use, reproduction, and publication
Finding aids
Associated materials
There is a copy of "Records management study for the Province of British Columbia / Acton Information Resources Ltd." in the BC Archives Library under call number NW 351.714 A188.
Accruals
Alternative identifier(s)
Standard number area
Standard number
Access points
Subject access points
Place access points
Name access points
- British Columbia Archives (Subject)
- British Columbia. Records Management Branch (Subject)