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Sorry for the late notice -- I found out about this event earlier today. Tomorrow at noon EST, the U.S. National Archives and Records Admi...

Earlier today, Leslie Waffen, the former head of the Sound and Video Branch of the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)...

Since 2009, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has conducted annual surveys of federal government agencies' r...

Last November, President Obama issued a memorandum that marked the start of a sweeping effort to reform federal records management practice...

This week, I’m spending a little time with my parents in Ohio and at the 2011 Best Practices Exchange (BPE) in Lexington, Kentucky. The BP...

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, " National Archives Discovers Date Change on Lincoln Record ," 25 January 2011....

Here's a not-surprising-but-nonetheless-mind-boggling snippet of news: the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) rep...

Late last week, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration released a long-anticipated bulletins concerning management of record...

Last Tuesday (23 March), the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Managem...

On 19 March, the New York State Chief Information Officer/Office for Technology (CIO/OFT)and the New York State Archives jointly hosted t...

Earlier today, National Public Radio's Weekend Edition program aired Liane Hansen's lengthy profile of David Ferreiro, the new Arc...

News that 22 million lost e-mail messages sent or received by the Bush White House have been recovered and that the National Security Archi...

Last week, David Ferriero, the new Archivist of the United States, delivered his first State of the Archives address. I was particularly ch...

Over the past few weeks, the Archives & Archivists listserv has been home to a lengthy series of postings chronicling the shabby manner ...

A few days ago, I noted that the New York Times had, in my view, done less than a stellar job of explaining the National Archives and Reco...

According to the New York Times , the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has "has put into effect an emergency plan t...

According to the Washington Post , the t ransfer of Bush administration e-mail messages to the National Archives might, for a variety of re...

This afternoon, a couple of my colleagues received e-mails stating that Dr. Allen Weinstein had resigned, and now it's official : Washin...