--- title: Improvement Era description: Monthly periodical of the Mormon church, 1897 onward. This library holds the issues of November 1897 to December 1930. authors: - Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations collections: - periodicals tags: - magazine - improvement-era periodical: Improvement Era volume: 11 number: 1 published: 1907-11 publisher: Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations publisher_place: Salt Lake City language: en type: magazine reference: 'Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations, "Records and Roll Books," *Improvement Era* 11, no. 1 (November 1907): 73.' source: url: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1101unse transcription: Transcribed from the Internet Archive scan of each issue (the item for each issue is named in the issue's own source); unnumbered advertising leaves are omitted, printed page numbers are kept as page markers. identifier: improvementera1101unse start_page: 73 end_page: 73 rights: status: public-domain basis: US publication 1930 or earlier (published 1907-11) source: https://archive.org/details/improvementera1101unse publication_year: 1907 note: The Internet Archive item metadata carries a blanket "© Copyright by Intellectual Reserve, Inc." notice. The library owner judged it inapplicable because this issue was published in 1907, before 1931; a scan-level notice does not restore copyright. --- # Records and Roll Books RECORDS AND ROLL BOOKS. Elder Rudger Clawson said in a recent M. I. A. general conference "Anything that is worth doing is worth doing well, and anything that is worth doing well is worthy of being reported, and if it is worthy of being reported, it is worthy of preservation. I wish to emphasize that point. » In some associations, pains are taken to get a record, but after it is completed it is laid aside and lost. I would like to say a word in relation to the roll book. In many instances, the roll book is kept without dates of the meetings or even the year— that is a bad oversight, and should be corrected. I would like to emphasize the statement that in all cases," record books should be kept, and that they should be well bound so they can be preserved. The time may come when the historian will want to write up a general history of the Mutual Improvement organization, and will come to these records in the various stakes of Zion and in the various wards; and if the records are lost, or if the information is incomplete in the records, they will not be of much service." The General Board have prepared a minute book, on sale at the Era office, which is of great assistance to the secretaries in their work. Has your association one? It is well for the stake officers to look into the matter of rolls and records, and see that they are kept so that reports can be made on a moment's call.