We hosted a very interesting and successful industry day – more accurately an industry morning – on Tuesday, September 10, 2013. The theme? The Managing Government Records Directive: A Grand Challenge for Industry. This event supported Goal A3 of the Directive – the search for economically viable automated solutions for electronic records management – by … Continue reading A Grand Challenge for Industry
Not all the work associated with the Managing Government Records Directive is occurring here in the Office of the Chief Records Officer. While all agencies are working towards the main goals, the Directive also charges specific agencies to carry out actions. One of these agencies is the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). They are working on … Continue reading Update on RM Occupational Series
Today, we have issued guidance for Federal Agencies on a simplified approach to managing email. NARA Bulletin 2013-02: Guidance on a New Approach to Managing Email Records introduces a new approach to managing the billions of email messages that are sent or received in Federal agencies. The approach is called “Capstone.” Capstone will help agencies … Continue reading Capstone Bulletin Issued
NARA and the Electronic Records Management (ERM) Automation Working Group have launched several activities this summer that can help you and your agency meet the goals of the Managing Government Records Directive. These activities support goal A3.1, which is about finding economically viable automated solutions to reduce the burden of records management responsibilities by making … Continue reading Update on Goal A3.1 of the Managing Government Records Directive
The following was issued as AC 26.2013 this afternoon. You are invited to attend a free workshop on completing the Managing Government Records Directive (.pdf) requirements 2.2 (identifying records that are 30 years old and older) and 2.5 (identifying unscheduled records). This workshop will be held at the National Archives and Records Administration building in College Park, … Continue reading Managing Government Records Directive Workshop: 2.2 and 2.5 Requirements
This is an update from our GRS Team. In October 2012, we released The New GRS: A Plan for Restructuring and Updating the General Records Schedules. This master-plan document [.pdf ] outlines an ambitious 5-year plan for rewriting the entire GRS to reflect the contemporary Federal workplace. On May 2, 2013, we released for agency review six … Continue reading GRS Team Update: Third Quarter FY 13
This morning, we issued RM Communications AC23.2013. This communication provides information to Federal agencies regarding the reporting requirements that we are implementing to support the goals and actions of the Managing Government Records Directive. Senior Agency Officials (SAO) at agencies are being instructed to compile their Annual SAO Report to the Chief Records Officer for the … Continue reading Reporting Requirements for Agencies
Beginning on April 1, our Appraisal Teams will begin this fiscal year's backlog records schedule reduction project. Backlog schedules are defined as those that are at least two years old and as of October 1, 2012, have an FY 2010 or older registration date. Based on lessons learned last year, this year the Appraisal Teams … Continue reading FY 2013 Backlog Schedule Project
On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, NARA will be hosting a free hour long presentation and discussion about the Presidential Records Management Directive. Preston Huff, Head of the Project Management Office (PMO) in the Office of the Chief Records Officer, will provide a high level overview of the goals set forth in the Managing Government Records … Continue reading Webinar Next Week!
Yesterday, we passed one of the first major milestones called for in the Managing Government Records Directive. David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, convened the first meeting of Senior Agency Officials. This meeting brought together the agency-appointed Senior Agency Officials (SAO), agency record officers, and NARA staff for the first time. Over 100 people … Continue reading Progress! First SAO Meeting
