Appraisal Questions

• What criteria do you use to decide to keep an email message? To delete one?

• What criteria do you use to decide to keep an electronic document? To delete one?

• Do you think any of the email messages or documents that you receive or produce in the course of your daily work should be preserved for years to come by the university? Why/why not?

Electronic files must undergo "appraisal" in order to assess their importance, their need for long-term preservation, or their "recordness." So we asked the following questions:

• [click] What criteria do you use to decide to keep an email message? To delete one?

• [click] What criteria do you use to decide to keep an electronic document? To delete one?

• [click] Do you think any of the email messages or documents that you receive or produce in the course of your daily work should be preserved for years to come by the university? Why or why not?