Records
Retention Schedules for Quebec Academic Institutions
(The Quebec Schedules) is the product of the collaboration and
contributions of a number of people working within the framework of CREPUQ.
First, thanks must go to CREPUQ’s Secretaries-General Committee for its
unflagging support and confidence, from the project’s inception to its
completion. Great appreciation is also due to the Archivists
Sub-committee, for its meticulous supervision of each stage of the work.
For their
expertise and participation in its meetings, I want to thank the members of
the Working Group on Records Retention Schedules for Quebec Academic
Institutions, composed of Guy Dinel, Université Laval; Christiane Huot,
Université du Québec à Montréal; Pierre Lavigne, École Polytechnique; and
myself (the undersigned), of the Université de Montréal. I especially
want to acknowledge the Université du Québec à Montréal and André Gareau,
their archivist, who so competently managed the project over eighteen
months, and met every deadline. I must also make special mention of
the École Polytechnique and Pierre Lavigne, who developed a database that
could accommodate all the schedules.
Thanks
are due as well to CREPUQ’s Legal Counsel Sub-committee, and particularly
Lucie Dick of the Université de Montréal, and Normand Petitclerc of the
Université du Québec à Montréal, for their thorough review of the legal
implications of the schedules and for their wise advice.
Equally
invaluable were the support work done by CREPUQ’s research staff, Danielle
Laforest and Yvon Albert Laurendeau, who also served successively as
secretary to the Archivists Sub-committee, and the text preparation done by
CREPUQ’s Webmaster, Roger Charland.
Lastly, I
want to thank the Archives nationales du Québec and the Commission des biens
culturels du Québec for the care they took in examining and analysing The
Quebec Schedules, approved by the Archives nationales du Québec in March
2002.
Claude
Minotto
Director,
Division des archives
Université de Montréal
Co-ordinator, Records Retention Schedules for Quebec Academic
Institutions Working Group and Chair, Archivists Sub-committee
