 The library and archive building right across from the Capitol Building in Carson City, Nevada, is here to help state agencies preserve the history of the state, and we also provide services to help them with their records management. We maintain records that date back to before Nevada was a state, up to current day. So we've got land deeds, governor's records, anything that somebody might need to know about the state or the history of the state. As a senior records analyst, I'm primarily responsible for helping state agencies with their retention schedule. So understanding what records retention is, what their requirements are, and then drafting a schedule that works for their needs and the legal needs that go along with whatever the subject matter is. What I really like about my position is working with customer agencies. A lot of people don't understand the nuances of records retention and what is a record, what isn't a record. And so they just keep everything because they think if we keep everything then we're okay. That's a lot of data, and if you never get rid of anything you kind of become buried by it. I decided to get my master's when I left forensics. I was a forensic investigator, so I investigated crime scenes, and I'm an organizer at heart. So that led me to the MARA program at San Jose State. The program was one of those that people in the records industry held in a high regard and it was completely online, which was great for me. It was very challenging in a good way. You know, that where you didn't feel overwhelmed or drowning in the subject matter at least I didn't. I use my MARA degree the information that I learned in the program every day. Whether I'm working on a retention schedule or project management, and I took project management specific to libraries during my MARA program. And so using those skills to manage all the different projects and learning the different coding for metadata has helped me in coding the website. So I use it every day. So if there weren't archives and archivists in the world and information professionals, we would lose our history. We wouldn't know what had come before us or how we got to where we are today.