u/Old_Win_4724

Hello, my team is having a discussion regarding whether it is appropriate to transfer paper records, held in a designated offsite records management facility, back to our organisational archive, after a period of 10 years. For context, the records have already been held for c.10-15 years in office storage spaces. My manager argues that after 10 years in offsite storage they will not be suitable for archival preservation, however it's often the case that records come in to an archive from worse storage conditions. Is there any specific reason why records held at a records management facility, if appraised and considered worthy of archival retention, should not be transferred to an archive? Thank you.