Office of Secondary Responsibility

Definition


 The university office or administrative unit considered responsible for the transit of official records to Offices of Primary Responsibility (OPR) and which uses secondary copies to support its own unit operations. 

Source: Dalhousie Records Management Glossary.

Introduction


OSR is an acronynm used to describe Dalhousie offices that are responsible for sending records identified in DalCLASS to the appropriate OPR.

Archival authority records for OSRs


The University Archives creates and maintains archival authority records for all OSRs. Authority records are maintained in the Archives Catalogue.

Office IDs for OSRs


The University Archives assigns a unique and persistent Office ID to each OSR and maintains the ID in the archival authority record (ISAAR 5.1.6 Identifiers for corporate bodies).

Related terms


Access point

Archival authority record

DalCLASS

Office ID

Office of Primary Responsibility

Producer

Producer Source ID