Records Management

“How long has this box been here? whO OPENED IT LAST? WHAT’S INSIDE… AND DO WE NEED TO KEEP IT?”

If those questions sound familiar, you’re probably standing in a municipal office in Vermont. Much of Vermont’s primary sources for research can be found within a town vault or office. These invaluable and irreplaceable documents are passed down through generations of town employees, spanning the last 300 years. Over the decades (and centuries), institutional knowledge is lost, and one day that file drawer simply can’t fit one more piece of paper.

With over a decade of municipal records experience, Turn Stone Research can help catalogue, digitize, and consolidate old records according to the retention schedules set by the Vermont Secretary of State’s Office, and the Vermont State Archivist.

Digitization and consolidation is useful for non-permanent records housed in the clerk/treasurer, public works, planning & zoning, and lister/assessor departments. Prior project experience also includes rehousing and cataloging permanent records.