About the Toolkit
The Toolkit for Managing Electronic Records is a web portal that provides summary descriptions of a collection of guidance products for managing electronic records and resources (“tools”) that have been developed by NARA and other organizations. The Toolkit works much like a library catalog or document index that you can search and browse. The summary descriptions are intended to help you save time and effort. Instead of reading the complete text of the resource to determine its usefulness, you can search and browse this collection of descriptions to see if a resource seems to apply to your needs. If it does, with another click, you can then link to the resource.
The collection can be searched by topic (what the tool is about—a good place to start), by occupation (the intended audience for the tool), by the organization that created the tool, or within the descriptive text. Alternatively, you can browse through the complete alphabetical list of titles or a complete list of titles arranged by the creating organization to get an overview of the collection. All lists of search or browse results provide a high-level description of the resources. Clicking on the title provides more detailed information about the resource. Clicking on the "Get the Tool" link takes you to the complete resource.
If you know about a useful guidance product that you would recommend, you can ask NARA to consider it for the Toolkit for Managing Electronic Records collection by clicking on “Suggest a Tool”. We welcome your suggestions.