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
Today's post comes to us from Laurence Brewer, Director of the Life Cycle Management Division in the Modern Records Program. It's been a long time comin', but the program schedule is now up on our RACO 2010 web site. It's shaping up to be a great program on timely topics so don't miss your chance … Continue reading RACO 2010 Program Schedule Now Available!
One of the things that we intend to do on the blog is to highlight something from our Toolkit for Managing Electronic Records each month. By doing this, we hope we call to your attention some new piece of NARA guidance, a helpful product from another agency, or simply something that you may have missed. … Continue reading Tool Spotlight: Cloud Computing FAQ
Today's post comes to us from Matthew Eidson, Supervisory Archives Specialist in the National Archives Permanent Records Capture Section. Southwest Region packs the house; Pacific Alaska schedules an encore show; Headlines read “E-Forums declared a success”. Regional Records Managers across NARA have been holding E-Forums around the nation for about eight years. They were started … Continue reading News from the Field: Spotlight “E-FORUMS”
We will be hosting a Federal Web 2.0 "Jam Session" for Federal Agency records management and web management staff to discuss Federal uses of Web 2.0 technology. The Jam Session will include a discussion among participants of current uses of Web 2.0 technologies within agencies. This is an information gathering exercise to determine how these … Continue reading Opportunity for Federal Agencies to Discuss Web 2.0 Records
Today's post comes to us from Laurence Brewer, Director of the Life Cycle Management Division in the Modern Records Program. Today we released our findings from the 2009 Records Management Self-Assessment. Check it out here. In September 2009, we required all agencies to assess their own records management programs to determine how compliant they are … Continue reading 2009 RM Self-Assessment Report Released!
Congratulations to our colleagues at the Library of Congress on their recent announcement of their acquisition of the complete archive of Twitter. This certainly represents a unique and compelling addition to their collection, and we very much share in their excitement. In light of a comment by an LC official, I would like to … Continue reading Congratulations LC! And ‘tweets’ can be Federal records too
We have all been working hard on putting together a great RACO program for this year's event on May 12. We've already announced our keynote speaker will be Cass R. Sunstein, Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs at OMB. The rest of the program is coming together as well. We are planning … Continue reading RACO 2010 Update
