Records Management

Records management is the administrative term for the process of:

1. the maintenance of currently-active, administratively-useful, public records;
2. the disposition of public records that no longer serve administrative, legal, fiscal, or historical purposes; and,
3. the preservation of those records that have historical value or that must be preserved by law or for other reasons.

At Virginia Commonwealth University, records management is governed both by the state records management program (Public Records Act in the Code of Virginia), and by VCU's Standard for Records Management. Responsibility for the state records management program under the Public Records Act is given to the State Library Board, which delegates the operation of the program to the staff of the Library of Virginia in Richmond. Each state agency is required to designate a records officer/records manager to be responsible for the operation of the records management program at that agency.

R. Scott Davis is the VCU Records Manager. He may be contacted at 8-2103 or by email at rsdavis@vcu.edu.

Information and procedures for records management and disposal may be reached from links on this page.