Today's post comes to us from Matthew Eidson, Supervisory Archives Specialist in the National Archives Permanent Records Capture Section. Don't miss out on our upcoming e-forums and other regional seminars this summer in Philadelphia, Chicago, Denver and Kansas City.
For our Toolkit for Managing Electronic Records spotlight this month, we are going to focus on the 2008 Continuing Study of Federal Agency Recordkeeping Technologies. <.pdf link here> This study looked at how 4 specific Federal agencies were handling electronic records and e?mail messages. Sections 4.0 and 5.0 of the report document the responses that … Continue reading Toolkit Spotlight: Continuing Study of Federal Agency Recordkeeping Technologies (2008)
Today's post comes to us from Matthew Eidson, Supervisory Archives Specialist in the National Archives Permanent Records Capture Section. I learned recently while reading the 2009 RM Self-assessment that not only is RM Training is an essential ingredient to an effective agency records management program, but that it was rooted in the CFR. The requirement … Continue reading News from the Field: Spotlight on TSA’s RM Field Training Initiative
Laurence Brewer is now on-stage and opening the festivities at this year's RACO. We'll be updating this post throughout day as different sessions get started. Follow along here, where we have posted the program. Also on Twitter. Enjoy! 9:45 Update: The Archivist has finished his speech and fielded questions from the audience. One question about … Continue reading RACO 2010
Just a reminder that tomorrow is our big day, the Records Administration Conference! We've worked hard to put together a great program that includes a keynote presentation by Cass Sunstein, the administrator of OIRA and remarks from the Archivist David Ferriero. Additional sessions will be Jason Baron on the Future of e-Mail Preservation, a panel … Continue reading Tomorrow is RACO!
This week News from the Field welcomes guest blogger, Mark Ferguson, CRM/CBCP who is the Director of the Records Management Division, Rocky Mountain Region in Denver, CO. NARA has been using a Records Management Application (RMA) product in selected offices for several years now, including the Rocky Mountain Region in Denver, Colorado. The Regional Archives, … Continue reading News from the Field: “Practicing what we preach” Compliant electronic recordkeeping in the NARA Rocky Mountain Region
The process to schedule the records of the 2010 census has reached an initial milestone. The Census Bureau has submitted a schedule providing for disposition of 2010 decennial census records for NARA approval. NARA’s initial review indicates that the proposed schedule meets the concerns of genealogists and other users of decennial census records for research … Continue reading Update: 2010 Decennial Census Records Schedule
