Records Retention
Schedules for Quebec Academic Institutions (The Quebec Schedules)
was produced by the CREPUQ Archivists Sub-committee under the authority of
CREPUQ’s Secretaries-General Committee. The project took two years to
complete and represents an original, state-of-the-art contribution to this
field. The painstaking attention given to the various stages of a record’s
life cycle, the structures of university and public archives, and to the
preservation of digital records attests to the vision and effectiveness of
Quebec’s university archivists.
The Quebec Schedules
serves as
a guide and model for the maintenance of records retention schedules in
Quebec universities. It offers a means of better controlling and
efficiently managing records produced and maintained by academic
institutions. Our hope is that it will prove equally useful to other
organizations, especially other teaching bodies, in its on-line format via
the CREPUQ Web site. The Archives nationales du Québec, in approving
The Quebec Schedules, recognized its quality and originality,
especially in integrating computerized files with other types of records.
Thanks and congratulations are due to the university archivists for this
outstanding contribution to the management of our archival heritage. It is
an eloquent example of interuniversity co-operation for the greater good
of all academic institutions and indeed for society as a whole.
Jacques Bordeleau
Director-General,
