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WlLCOX, CADMUS M., History of the Mexican War. Washington, 1892. Gift of
Oden Bowie.

WILDES, HARRY EMERSON, Voice of the Lord: A Biography of George Fox. Phila-
delphia, 1965. Purchase.

WISCONSIN STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Bulletin of the John R. Commons Labor
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———————, Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Report 1964-1965. Processed.

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———————, Report of Activities, April I960-March 1964, Submitted to the 26th
Zionist Congress. Jerusalem, 1964. Exchange.

RECORDS MANAGEMENT DIVISION

The Hall of Records continued to make steady progress in its
efforts to manage and control the records of State and local agencies
of government. The task becomes ever more demanding as new and
more complex techniques of record-making and keeping are developed
and governmental services and offices expanded, for these techniques
must be understood and applied if an effective program is to be
developed to meet the needs of State and local government.

The control of State and local records by schedule again received
considerable attention, as it has in past years. The retention and dis-
position schedule remains the most important single instrument in the
records disposition program, because it is more than just legal author-
ization to destroy obsolete records. It is, in a single document, a
complete program governing the disposition of all records. It identifies
and provides for the permanent preservation of records with long-term
historical and administrative value; it provides for the immediate
destruction of obsolete records and for the continuing disposal of
records as they become obsolete; it provides for the transfer of records
to the State Record Centers for ultimate destruction or further transfer
to the Archives; it provides for microfilming when economical or
feasible. By tying all these operations together in one instrument, the
schedule is a records retention and disposal program, rather than mere
authorization to destroy records. Because of its importance, the schedule
must be sufficiently detailed to insure its proper and easy use. To be
meaningful, it must be kept up-to-date, so that it will reflect any changes
in the organization or procedures of the agency. During the year, fifty
schedules governing 465 separate record series were established, many
of them representing revisions of schedules previously issued.