n. (also semi-current record)records that are seldom used in day-to-day operations and that are appropriate for off-site storageNorton 1938, 80To eliminate these plague spots storage space has been provided in the Archives Building for such semi-current records as the various state departments wish to retain under their immediate jurisdiction.Harris 1942, 237More important noncurrent records ought, of course, to receive special protection. If there is sufficient reasonably safe space left in their present building after provision has been made for personnel shelter areas and for the storage of important semicurrent records, they can be placed there.Norton 1944, 260In this connection one misses any allusion to the Illinois system of departmental vaults. This plan has been notably successful in bringing into the protection of the archives building those semi-current records over which the respective departments are unwilling or unable to relinquish jurisdiction to the archivist, but which transcend in legal value many of the records on file in the archives proper.Richards 1964, 489The new Library–Archives Building, together with our proposed records storage center, should provide the State with a progressive records administration procedure for housing semicurrent records in less costly space and cheaper containers in the records storage center pending their eventual disposition, and for transferring selected noncurrent, permanently valuable records to the archival depository.Evans, Harrison, and Thompson 1974, 430SEMICURRENT RECORDS. Records required so infrequently in the conduct of current business that they should be moved to a holding area or directly to a records center.McLaren 1975, 188The archivist has examined the records of each university department, listing, boxing, and storing the semicurrent records which will ultimately be housed in a university records center in the university library.Pinkett 1978, 420Basic objectives in the use of the [retention and disposal] schedules are to promote the disposal of records of temporary value, direct the storage of semi-current records, and save records of enduring value.
