Have you ever wondered where the United States constitution is stored? Maybe you saw a movie with Kevin Costner where he tries to be like Indiana Jones so he steals it from a highly fortified vault. Well while it is stored in a vault in the National Archives and Records Administration, it is not quite the way it was in that movie.

Of course this isn’t your average every day document. So document storage experts have gotten involved along the way to make sure this precious piece of paper will last forever. Even though a document imaging service or two have certainly stored it for all of posterity with pictures, it is important that we take care of the original.

But what if something did happen to the original constitution? What if the building burned down or something? Here is something that most Americans don’t know. The one we have stored in the vault in Washington DC in the National Archives and Records Administration isn’t the only copy! There are 20 known copies that date back to the original constitutional convention. These copies are for the most part held in collections owned by universities, state governments and even some in the hands of private collections.

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One of the things that I had never expected about the new job I was hired on for was the amount of learning that was going to be required.  I half expected just to be thrown in and to learn as the days progressed, but I was put on the corporate training program to learn the proper way to use the document management software and high volume scanners.

I had assumed that the training programs that I had taken in the past (in the restaurant industry) would have been similar to what I would expect working for a larger, more professional organization.  But, as it turns out, I was wrong.

In fact, it wasn’t at all what I was expecting.  I didn’t know that there was a right way and a wrong way to manage documents in an organization, or that there were different document storage methodologies that were to be used.

The training program is supposed to take three weeks before I will even be working in the information services department.  They want to make sure that I know what I am doing out there as a simple mistake can cost a lot of time and in some cases a lot of money.

But, I think that I am up for the challenge, and I am looking forward to working at a job where I don’t have to ask, “Would you like fries with that?”

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