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360 - Library Services

Last updated on April 19, 2024

Records relating to services provided by ministry/agency libraries.

Record types include correspondence, lists, forms, manuals, indexes, bibliographies, and reports.

For accounts payable, see primary 925.
For delegation of authority, see primary 265.
For knowledge management, see primary 400.
For library holdings, see primary 358.
For purchase orders, see primary 825.
For memberships in associations, societies, etc., see primary 160.

The ministry or agency OPR is the ministry/agency libraries unless otherwise specified below.

non-OPR NOTE: Offices will retain non-OPR copies of records for: SO nil DE

Primary-
Secondary		 Records Series OPR  
  A SA FD  
360-00 Policy and procedures SO nil DE  
360-01 General SO nil DE  
360-20 Acquisition and cataloguing records
(covers acquisition lists, cataloguing in publication (CIP) program, classification schedules, descriptive cataloguing manuals, indexes to catalogued material, library coding input entry forms (completed), and subject analysis standards, library holdings list, binding, commercial and government publication catalogues, corporate procurement solutions reports, subscription agency services, newspaper and periodical subscriptions and renewals, and new title listings from other libraries)		 SO nil DE  
360-30 Circulation and reference records 
(covers inter-library loans, circulation, on-line search services, reading-room, telephone, and written requests)
1y = The retention period satisfies the one-year retention period specified for personal records under the Freedom of Information and Protection of Privacy Act (RSBC 1996, c. 165, s. 31).		 SO+1y nil DE PIB

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OPR – office of primary responsibility

A – active
SA – semi-active
FD – final disposition

nil – no retention period
SO – superseded or obsolete
y – year
DE – destruction
PIB – personal information bank

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Learn how government records are managed:

Contact information

For general inquires, contact the Government Information Management (GIM) Branch at:

Office
250 387-3387
Email
GRS@gov.bc.ca