What is the difference between the Archives and the Records Centre?
Government employees sometimes find the relationship between Records Centre and Archives confusing. The Archives of Manitoba operates the Government Records Centre facility which provides records storage and destruction services to government. The Records Centre provides two kinds of storage: semi-active storage for records during their scheduled retention period, and archival storage for records that are transferred permanently to the Archives after the end of their scheduled retention period. Records in semi-active storage may be retrieved for use in the department. Most of these records are eventually destroyed, once the scheduled retention period has ended. A small percentage of records are scheduled to be transferred to the Archives for permanent preservation, following the “disposal date”. At that point, access to these archival records is through the Archives’ Access Services unit. For more information on the Records Centre and Archives see Managing Records in the Manitoba Gover
