This month, our Toolkit for Managing Electronic Records spotlight highlights a .PDF from the State of Michigan Records Management Services that serves as a quick visual aid to determine simple email retention guidelines . It also provides users with some easily understood examples to determine the record status of email messages. The Toolkit was developed … Continue reading Tool Spotlight: Michigan Electronic Mail Retention Guidelines
As we noted last week, on Thursday, June 17th, the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's Subcommittee on Information Policy, Census, and the National Archives held at hearing entitled, "Federal Electronic Records Management: A Status Report." If you are interested in the issues surrounding Federal electronic records management, including issues involving NARA's Government-wide authority in records … Continue reading A Report Back on the “Federal Electronic Records Management: A Status Report” Hearing
The Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is holding a hearing tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. This hearing, entitled "Federal Electronic Records Management: A Status Report" will examine the current state of electronic records management in Federal agencies. The Archivist of the United States David Ferriero; NARA's … Continue reading Federal Electronic Records Management Hearing
Today's post comes to us from Laurence Brewer, Director of the Life Cycle Management Division in the Modern Records Program. At yesterday’s Bimonthly Records and Information Discussion Group (BRIDG) meeting with Federal agencies, I announced the release of NARA’s Electronic Records Project Summary Report, FY 2005 – FY 2009. It is now available on our … Continue reading Electronic Records Summary Report Released
I want to highlight a particular GAO activity and resolve some confusion that might be out there among our Federal stakeholders. The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is currently conducting a survey of Federal records managers to assess our effectiveness in (1) overseeing records management, including our ability to preserve permanent records and our capacity to … Continue reading GAO Survey
In 2008, we released a bulletin entitled “Guidance concerning the use of e-mail archiving applications to store e-mail”. The bulletin recognized that Federal agencies may have a business need for using e-mail archiving products to store e-mail messages in a central repository for later retrieval. These applications are advertised and marketed as solutions to control … Continue reading Technology Update: E-mail Archiving
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
