The Records Center currently houses approximately 131,000 cubic feet of government records that are stored in two warehouses, one that is adjacent to the Archives, the other at 375 Executive Boulevard, Elmsford. These inactive records have met the following two criteria:

• They are consulted once a month or less.
• Although more than six years old, they have not yet reached their destruction date as stipulated by the current New York State Records Retention and Disposition Schedule.

The program employs four full-time staffers, who schedule records for transfer, deliver them upon departmental request, and interfile those records returned for safekeeping.

A member of the public who seeks a particular record must apply to the department of that record’s origination, not to the Records Center, as the Records Center is not open to the public.

Each department head is required by county law to appoint at least one Records Coordinator to act as liaison between the records management program and the department. The records management program provides direction for Records Coordinators in training meetings held throughout the year and through an Information and Training Manual.

In addition, the Records Center provides confidential destruction of records that have reached the end of their retention period.

The county's Archives maintains approximately 7,500 cubic feet of records, dating from 1680 to the present. The Archives are the official repository of publications produced by county government. Records are stored according to professional archival standards in a temperature and humidity-controlled environment and in acid-free boxes and folders.

A professional staff includes three trained archivists, as well as a micrographics and scanning supervisor. Approximately 10 volunteers and student interns, working under the direction of a volunteer director, assist in processing collections and in serving the public in the reading room.

The archives staff facilitates workshops to instruct teachers and librarians in the use of government documents in the classroom and for public information, as well as serving the public researchers who utilize the reading room. There is a complete "Guide to the Collections" on the Archives web site, as well as published a pamphlet on doing genealogical research.

A conservation and microfilming program of the archives' maps, photographs, administrative and court records has been in effect since 1990. One of the most important projects in the archives is the scanning of all new maps to meet demands for both preservation and access. In addition, the scanning unit assists in archiving all land records filed in the county clerk’s office, scans important historical documents for Finance and Human Resources and handles discrete one-time preservation projects, such as the imaging of all the personnel cards.

The Archives and Records Center is dedicated to preserving the records that tell the story of Westchester County. Three units within the center manage all inactive and archival county records: the Records Center, the Archives, and the Micrographics/Scanning Area. 

The library collection of the Westchester County Historical Society (WCHS) is conveniently stored and accessible in the Records and Archives Center.  This complementary collection boasts over 100,000 manuscripts, photographs, maps, books, diaries, periodicals, newspapers, and pamphlets.  Particularly noteworthy is the Otto Hufeland Collection, the largest collection of Westchester history ever privately assembled. 

All collections are conserved by trained archivists and dedicated volunteers who arrange and describe collections for storage in environmentally controlled vaults and prepare finding aids to assist in their retrieval.  The staff is also responsible for scanning and reproducing valuable documents to be made available to the public.