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Comb jellyfish at the Georgia Aquarium, Atlanta, Georgia, 2 August 2016. Even though I always make it a point -- at least when I'm p...

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...

A few things you might have missed: Late last month, President Obama issued a memorandum directing each federal government agency to perfor...

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...

I've made it back to Albany and am wading through piles of mail and other stuff that either accumulated in my absence or simply wasn...

Last week, the Chief Information Officer of the United States released the Federal Cloud Computing Strategy , which outlines how the federal...

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

Last week, the Boston Phoenix published an article by Chris Faraone highlighting how local, state, and federal governments are struggling ...

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

Prompted by the release of a scathing April 2005 U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations report , in June 2005 U.S. News ...

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

Today was the first day of Documenting Leadership: A Symposium on Public Executive Records in the 21st Century . About 100 journalists, cur...

The New York State Capitol, as seen from the Empire State Plaza, 24 November 2008. If you have a personal or professional interest in ensuri...

Do you have a personal or professional interest in ensuring that the official records of presidents, governors, attorneys general, mayors, a...

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...

Approximately 150 people -- IT professionals, archivists and records managers, public policy experts, and journalists -- attended the Open G...

Earlier today, Slate 's Farhad Manjoo examined why the Obama administration hasn't been able to live up to its campaign promises to...