Montana Department of Highways, Centralized Services Division records
Scope and Contents
This collection is a sub-subgroup under the Montana Department of Transportations records, RS 492. The Centralized Services Division is now defunct and its functions have been transferred to the Administrative Division. To see the other Department of Transportation records, visit the primary finding aid, RS 492.
There are two distinct collections for the Centralized Services Division, RS 391 and RS 409, as they were initially processed separately and have not yet been integrated. Please see RS 409 to view the other Centralized Service Records.
Montana Department of Highways Centralized Services Division records (1971-1989) include interoffice correspondence (1971-1988) regarding policies and procedures; minutes of administrative staff meetings (1989), a Department of Administration Centralized Services Working Group meeting (Sept. 15, 1987), Highways' Centralized Services' portion of the District Engineers' meetings (1985-1989), a maintenance meeting (Apr. 8, 1986), and the Division supervisors' meetings (1987-1989); monthly activity reports (1987-1989) of Centralized Services Division and several of its bureaus; year-end report (1988); and subject files concerning the Cash Management Reform Task Force (1986-1988), the Performance Appraisal Task Force (1983-1988), the Productivity Task Force (1985-1986), a review of the department computer system by Frank Smoyer, and the Surface Transportation Reauthorization Act (1986).
Dates
- Creation: 1971-1989
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
The Montana Historical Society is the owner of the materials in the Research Library and makes available reproductions for research, publication, and other uses. Written permission must be obtained from the Research Library before any reproduction use. The Society does not necessarily hold copyright to all of the materials in the collections. In some cases, permission for use may require seeking additional authorization from the copyright owners.
Biographical / Historical
In 1971 the Department of Highways took over all but the advisory functions of the State Highway Commission. In the same year, the Centralized Services Division was formed. On July 1, 1991, the Department of Highways was renamed the Department of Transportation and the administrative functions previously performed by the Centralized Services Division became part of the Director's Office.
Extent
1 linear feet
Abstract
Records of the Dept. of Highways Centralized Services Division (1971-1989) consisting of interoffice correspondence (1971-1988), minutes (1985-1989) of various divisional meetings, monthly activity reports (1987-1989); and subject files (1983-1989) concerning various task forces and information regarding the computer system.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged by series.
Physical Location
34:6-4
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Acquisition information available upon request
Processing Information
In 2024, the various collections of the Montana Department of Transportation were integrated under one collection identifier, RS 492, in order to help facilitate access, reduce redundancy in the MTHS catalog, and to follow best archival practices.
Collections from Montana Department of Transportation's various Divisions and Bureaus that were previously treated as separate entities are now integrated into this collection, RS 492. Rather than reprocessing over 280 linear feet of Transportation materials, MTHS staff decided to keep the past arrangement of those collections/finding aids, and provide access to them via links in this Master finding aid. This decision has allowed the MTHS archival staff to maintain intellectual control over the collection, while removing the need to reprocess it. It also keeps State Agency finding aids at manageable sizes.
- Title
- Guide to the Montana Department of Highways, Centralized Services Division records. 1971-1989
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by Kathryn Otto, 1993; additions by Ellie Arguimbau, 1994.
- Date
- 2006
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the Montana Historical Society, Research Center Archives Repository
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