The Archives and Records Office (ARO) provides a number of archiving and records management services, including the transfer, retrieval, and destruction of Laboratory records at no charge to the customer. This service includes consultation, boxing, transporting, processing, indexing and limited scanning of research and development (R&D) records.
Before researchers leave the Lab, they should contact R&D Records Specialist Beret Ranelletti ([email protected], extension 4685) to discuss their scientific records.
Please note that all records are not kept permanently. Under the DOE R&D Records Retention Schedule, most are kept from 10-25 years. Only 5% of records are permanent. This means that most likely you will get notices for destruction of the records at some point. If you choose not to have them destroyed by the Federal Records Center and we cannot reschedule them, you will be given the records back. Federal records must remain on site. They cannot be stored at home. Because work space is limited, we encourage the destruction of records when it is no longer a legal requirement to keep them.
Materials that cannot be archived include:
- All types of publications (we want original documents only)
- Raw data older than 10 years
- Personal papers
