Part of the overview series about Washington State Archives, this video comes to you from the Isabella Bush Records Center in Tumwater.
Unlike the branch locations around the state that possess and preserve historical records available to the public, the Records Center stores records that are still in possession of state agencies (kind of like a giant file room); it is not open for public research.
The facility and its hard-working crew provide low-cost, secure storage for records that must be retained for audit, legal, fiscal, or administrative needs, but are no longer used frequently enough to justify expensive office storage.