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Transfer Guidance WebinarNext week, we will host a webinar about NARA transfer guidance and the effort underway to revise this guidance. This session is an encore of the session offered on February 13 and will be held on Thursday, February 28 at 11:00 AM Eastern. As the nation’s records manager, The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on February 22, 2013, under General, Upcoming. Research Services Washington DC Accessioning Web PageWe are happy to announce a new on-line presence for the Washington DC area accessioning staff: http://www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/accessioning/. The accessioning staff has created this robust and informative resource as a hub for information about transferring permanent Federal records to NARA. Staff consulted other NARA units including the National Declassification Center, FOIA and Special Access, research room [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on February 12, 2013, under General. February BRIDG MeetingPlease mark your calendars for the next BRIDG meeting scheduled for Wednesday, February 13, 2013. The meeting will be held at the National Archives and Records Administration downtown building, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (Metrorail’s Yellow or Green lines to the Archives/Navy Memorial station) in the McGowan Theater. Please enter on the Constitution Avenue side of [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on February 11, 2013, under Upcoming. GRS Team Update: First Quarter FY 13This update is from the GRS Team Back in October, the GRS Team issued its plan for updating and revising the GRS (RM Communication AC 02.2013). The plan may be downloaded (as a .pdf) at www.archives.gov/records-mgmt/grs/plan-2012.pdf. This year, the team is working on approximately ten schedules in the Finance Management, Technology Management, and Information Management [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on January 8, 2013, under General. Webinar Next Week!On Wednesday, January 16, 2013, NARA will be hosting a free hour long presentation and discussion about the Presidential Records Management Directive. Preston Huff, Head of the Project Management Office (PMO) in the Office of the Chief Records Officer, will provide a high level overview of the goals set forth in the Managing Government Records [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on January 7, 2013, under Presidential Memorandum, Upcoming. Webinar This Wednesday!This Wednesday, December 19, 2012 at 3:30 pm EDT we will be hosting a free, hour-long encore presentation and discussion about the recently issued Request for Disposition Authority Quality Control Checklist. There are a limited number of seats available for this presentation. Recall that back in October, we wrote about the “backlog schedule” project. During [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on December 17, 2012, under Upcoming. PIDB Report Released!Today, the Public Interest Declassification Board released online its recommendations to the President on Transforming the Security Classification System. The full Report can be found at http://www.archives.gov/declassification/pidb/recommendations/transforming-classification.html. The report centers on the need for new policies for classifying information, new processes for declassifying information, and the imperative for using and integrating technology into these processes. [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on December 6, 2012, under Uncategorized. Public Interest Declassification Board Announces MeetingThis is being reposted from Transforming Classification The Public Interest Declassification Board will host an open meeting on Thursday, December 6, 2012 to discuss its recommendations to the President on Transforming the Security Classification System. The full Report to the President will be published online on December 6th at http://www.archives.gov/declassification/pidb. The meeting will focus on [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on December 3, 2012, under Upcoming. Progress! First SAO MeetingYesterday, we passed one of the first major milestones called for in the Managing Government Records Directive. David Ferriero, Archivist of the United States, convened the first meeting of Senior Agency Officials. This meeting brought together the agency-appointed Senior Agency Officials (SAO), agency record officers, and NARA staff for the first time. Over 100 people [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on November 29, 2012, under Presidential Memorandum. FAQ: Senior Agency OfficialsThe first deadline in the Managing Government Records Directive that was released earlier this year is fast approaching. Agencies have two weeks to name their Senior Agency Official (SAO). Goal 2.1 of the Directive requires the designation of the SAO by November 15, 2012. We have received many questions about this process and have compiled [...] Posted by Arian Ravanbakhsh on November 1, 2012, under Presidential Memorandum. |
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