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What is the difference between sending records to the Archives and Iron Mountain?

April 26, 2017Archives difference iron mountain records

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What is the difference between sending records to the Archives and Iron Mountain?

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The Archives are the repository for permanent UCAR/NCAR/UCP records that are determined by the archivist to have enduring value in accordance with the Archives collecting policy. Iron Mountain is for the temporary storage of records destined for destruction, or for permanent records that may have permanent business value, but do not have enduring value in the archival sense. Another important difference is responsibility. Records held in Iron Mountain are the responsibility of the office that created them and are owned by that office. They may be retrieved by the creating office at any time. Records transferred to the Archives become the property and responsibility of the Archives. The archivist determines what will be kept and what will be deaccessioned from the collection. Archives records may not be removed, but creating offices are always welcome to visit the Archives to view records.