Volume 1 CDC Part 2 Flashcards
What is AFRIMS specifically responsible for automating?
Preparation and maintenance of the files mainenance and disposition plan, and the files disposition control label
What does AFRIMS provide from the RDS?
An online database of table and rules
What labels does AFRIMS print?
subdivisions, file disposition control, and file folder labels
What type of material is never entered into AFRIMS?
Sensitive, classified, or PA material
What is the decision logic table?
the decision logic tables are a read-only database which allows users to view and print series RDS information, tables, rules, disposition instructions, and notes. The decision logic tables are approved by the national archives and records administration.
What are the first and second numbers of the decision logic tables associated with?
the first number is the publication series and the second number is assigned for control purposes only
What program generates the file disposition control labels?
AFRIMS
How many tables and rules can be applied to each record series?
One
What are the requirements for placing disposition control labels on a guide card?
Usually affixed to the first (left)tap position of the guide card, the main thing is to be consistent throughout your files.
What purpose does the disposition guide card serve?
Serves to identify the records filed behind it and to provide cutoff and disposition instructions for the records.
Where do you place the disposition control label on records located away from the file drawer?
Place the disposition control label either on each container or on a card or sheet of paper in the container or binder where it is obvious.
Where do you place the disposition control label when a series is filed in more than one container?
Place on the first container or on each container.
What purpose do folders serve?
To group related paper records together.
What should be done with folders when they become too bulky for use?
Use more file folders as necessary. Be sure to affix more file folder labels to each additional folder and identify, on the label, the inclusive dates included on each of the file folders
What is shown on the file folder label?
Shows the item number, series title, and the office of record.
What is added to the file folder label when there is a retention period of one year or longer?
The year (calendar or fiscal).
What is done when files expand to more than one drawer?
Review the file plan to determine the inclusive series number to be placed on the drawer labels.
What is the first step in filing a document?
Assemble documents for filing in the same manner as required for their creation, dispatch, and use with the latest action on top.
What should you do prior to filing a document if an attachment is missing?
Take action to get the missing records or information included in the file or make a notation to show what part of the file is missing or where filed, if included in another series.
What items do you remove from a document prior to filing?
Remove all mail control forms and receipts, envelopes, and memo routing or coordination slips, except those containing remarks of significant record value.
How is a record marked for filing?
Mark records for file be using the word “file” and the proper official’s initials. Mark for file and file code in the upper right hand corner of the record. Use the item number of the separate series from the file plan.
What is the primary purpose for maintaining records?
To ensure we can give needed information to decision makers whenever and wherever it is needed.
What is the first item in a file plan?
File plan.
What form you use for cross-reference?
DD Form 2861, Cross-Reference.
What can you use if the official cross-referencing for is not available?
Make copies of the records and file each copy in the applicable series.
What does cross-referencing provide?
Provide more reliable files service as long as excessive cross-referencing is avoided.
Why are records kept?
Because they contain needed information
Why are filing systems developed?
So information can be retrieved promptly and efficiently
Where is the AF Form 614 filed?
Put in place of the removed record or folder.
Define disposition.
A comprehansive term that inclused the destruction, salvage, donation, or transfer to staging area or records center; transfer from one organization to another.
What are two categorized areas of disposition?
(1) Transfer, (2) Destruction
What key roles does the records disposition program play in the management of AF records?
Economic and efficient management of Air Force records.
What does the records disposition program consist of?
Scheduling all records for retention or periodic destruction, preserving recordss that reflect the organization, functions, policies, decisions, procedures, and essential transactions of the Air Force, perserving records that protect the legal and financial rights of the government and of individuals that Air Force action directly affect, offering records of enduring value for permanent preservation in the national archives, promptly and systematically disposing of records of temporary value, and setting up safeguards against illegal removal, loss, or destruction of records.
What are the three objectives of the records disposition program?
(1) Retire long-term (10 years or older) paper records to authorized federal record centers. Long-term electronic records are stored within the Air Force. (2)Transfer short-term paper records, (less than 10 years old) to authorized local staging areas. (3) Dispose of short-term holdings as soon as authorized.
What is the length of time the AF keeps a record?
Retention period.
What retention period do records have that are not authorized for a specific disposition?
Permenant
What does enduring value mean?
The document will remain in existence indefinitely.
Define a temporary record.
Any record identified by the Archivist of the United States to have insufficient value to warrant preservation by the National Archives.
How do you destroy magnetic tapes or other magnetic medium?
Degauss or overwrite.
What should you do with records when a unit is redesignated or reorganized and there is no change in function or mission?
Files are continued and cut off the same way at the same time as if no change of status had occurred.
When can records with a retention period of more than two years be retired to the proper federal records center any time after the cutoff?
In hostile or potentially hostile areas.
When can you dispose of records without regard to the tables and rules?
The records are a menace to health, life, or property; A state of war or threatened war or hostile action occurs and the unit is located outside of the CONUS. In this case, destroy the records; keeping the records would be prejudicial to the interest of the United States; if the records are taking up space urgently needed for military purposes; the records are not considered valuable enough to warrant preservation.
What does the vital records program ensure?
Continuity of government during national emergencies.
What are the two traditional types of vital records?
(1) Emergency-operating records. (2) Records to protect rights.
What is an emergency?
A situation or an occurance of a serious nature, developing suddenly and unexpectedly, and demanding immediate action.
What is a disaster?
An unexpected occurance inflicting widespread destruction and distress and having long-term adverse effects on agency operations.
Given the importance of vital records, how should agencies arrage for offsite storage?
Agencies should arrange a facility not subject to the same emergency or disaster but still reasonably accessible to agency staff.
How do records custodians accomplish the end of year closeout?
By transferring physical records to the inactive files area or to the staging area.
Define cutoff.
A term used for separating active records from inactive records.
How often should the records custodian review the file plan?
At least annually.
What determines the cutoff for active records?
The retention period.
What are the three cutoff periods?
(1) N/A, (2) Monthly, (3) CY/FY
How is the cutoff identified when it does not contain a month or year?
They are marked N/A.
What form is used as a packing list for transferred or retired records?
SF 135
When is a separate SF 135 prepared?
A separate SF 135 is prepared for each series of temporary records in a shipment and for permanent records. You must also prepare a separate SF 135 for unclassified, SECRET, CONFIDENTIAL, and TOP SECRET records, regardless of volume, when records are placed in a staging area.
What minimum items should be included on deployed unit file plans?
Maintenance and disposition, policy and precedent, delegations, general correspondence, office administrative files, transitory, word processing files hard copy maintained in organized file, and presentation in accordance with RDS.
What record management advice did the DoD provide on 15 Aug 2003?
That records on combat operations in Iraq and those of all major deployments are of historical value and must be preserved for future studies and analyses.