Quick Tips

Important Reasons
for Having a Records Management Program

• Compliance with state and federal law
• Space management to free up office space and clear out crowed storage areas
• Recovery of vital records in case of a disaster
• Ability to respond to litigation and open records requests
• Preservation of historical records
• Security of confidential records

Yolanda Miller, Director of Purchasing and Distribution Services, is the Records Management Officer (RMO) for UTSA.  She can be reached at yolanda.miller@utsa.edu if you have questions about the Records Retention Program.  Information about the UTSA Records Retention can be found at http://www.utsa.edu/pds/records/index.cfm.

From UTHSCSA Compliance Outlook newsletter, July 2006