The following excerpt is from an AP article posted Sept. 13, 2015 at Telegram.com
…The [Massachusetts] archives, built in 1986 with the expectation that it would exhaust its space within 25 years, is bursting at the seams. Officials say the two-story facility at Boston’s Columbia Point has simply run out of room to store the state’s most valuable and timeless records.
The space crunch is triggering a domino effect that threatens to displace countless other public records of less permanent significance. Already the state archive has told other agencies it can’t take their day-to-day records any longer and will begin returning material by the box-load to agencies that in turn must find new places to store it — at costs that officials fear could run into the millions. Some of the material would be destroyed.
“At this point we can’t keep receiving records,” said Secretary of State William Galvin, whose office oversees the archives…
