Office of Secondary Responsibility
- Creighton Barrett
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
Office of Primary Responsibility