Dear Colleagues: Our organization has set up an "Off-Site Storage" project for paper-based records. This would be for pre-archival records (semi-active), but I have been asked for my input. Only some of this material would eventually be transferred to the archives. I am looking for Standards, Policies, Procedures in this regard, and for those of you in and around Toronto, I am interested in recommendations for storage companies. I am working from the assumption that my "audience" is probably not familiar with records management or archival concepts. So far, I have consulted the following Standards for Records Storage Facilities: * www.bcarchives.gov.bc.ca/infomgmt/policy/rim/pol03_03.pdf * http://archives.gov/about_us/regulations/part_1228_k.html * http://www.armahawaii.org/news3.htm * http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/ps/offsite.htm * http://www.coshrc.org/arc/states/res_stor.htm * ftp://ftp.sara.nysed.gov/pub/rec-pub/local-rec-pub/lgtis42.pdf * http://www.armabrlaf.org/Articles/1999_7_4.htm Any additional help/guidance would be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance, Ani Orchanian-Cheff Archivist / Information Specialist University Health Network Princess Margaret Hospital 5-317 610 University Avenue Toronto, ON M5G 2M9 Tel: 416-946-2081 Fax: 416-946-2084 Email: [log in to unmask]