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Archive for 'DC-area Researchers'Next DC-Area Researchers Meeting on September 28, 2012Researchers are invited to the next researcher meeting on Friday, September 28, 2012 to meet with Research Services Executive Bill Mayer. The meeting will be held at the National Archives at College Park (Archives II) at 1:00 PM in lecture rooms B and C. See you there! Posted by Mary (admin) on September 19, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Research. Have Your Say! We need your input on Digital StrategyOn May 23, 2012, the White House released the Digital Government Strategy, which outlines how all federal agencies will work to make information and services easily accessible on the internet, anytime, anywhere, and on any device. President Barack Obama said, “Ultimately, this Strategy will ensure that agencies use emerging technologies to serve the public as [...] Posted by Meredith Stewart on August 23, 2012, under Archives.gov Redesign, DC-area Researchers, Digital Government Strategy, Digitization, Education, Genealogy / Family History, Miscellaneous, Online Research, Open Government, Wikipedian in Residence. Roof Work at the National Archives Building (Archives I) This SummerToday’s post comes from James Garvin, General Engineer at the National Archives The replacement of the tier 20 upper roof at the National Archives Building (Archives I) began in mid-July. This project is scheduled for completion in mid-October 2012. Each day, part of the old roof will be removed and the exposed area prepared [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on July 26, 2012, under DC-area Researchers. Records Heading West to St. LouisThe following post is by guest bloggers Rebecca Warlow, Description and Digitization Supervisor, and Ann Cummings, Supervisory Archivist for Textual Records. At the DC-Area Researchers Forum in November we announced that some records would be moving from the National Archives at College Park to the National Archives at St. Louis in 2012. The time has [...] Posted by Dawn on June 26, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Genealogy / Family History, NARA Coast to Coast, Research, Veterans / Military. Progress Report on Construction Activities in the Archives I Research CenterWe know that you must be wondering when the dust will settle in the Archives I research center. So far, the classroom, finding aids room, and microfilm research room have been reconfigured. The cork floor and the new wood paneling are beautiful. The floor in the research commons (lobby) remains a work in progress. When [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on June 25, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Research. DC-Area Researcher Forum Meeting Minutes from May 18th AvailableResearchers are invited to read the minutes of the Researcher Forum meeting on May 18, 2012, posted to the DC-area Researcher Forum web page. The main feature of the meeting was a discussion with NARA’s digitization partners: Sabrina Petersen from Ancestry.com; Aaron Spencer from Fold3 (formerly Footnote.com); and John de Jong from FamilySearch.org. Rebecca Warlow [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on June 1, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Digitization, Open Government, Research. DC-Area Researcher Forum on Friday, May 18thJoin us for our next National Archives Researcher Forum! This forum will be held on Friday, May 18, at 1:00 p.m. in room G-25, the new classroom in the National Archives Building in Washington, DC (Archives I). NARA’s digitization partners will return for continued discussion of the digitization of archival records, begun at the September [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on May 11, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Digitization. New Microfilm Research Room Set to Open at Archives I on May 21Today’s guest blog post comes from Rick Blondo, management and program analyst involved with NARA building projects. A new Microfilm Research Room is scheduled to open on Monday, May 21, 2012, in the Robert M. Warner Research Center in the National Archives Building, Washington, DC. It will house 27 researcher carrels, 5 public use computers [...] Posted by Mary (admin) on April 30, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Research. Help Create a Name Index for the 1940 Census!Calling all Citizen Archivists! The 1940 census has been online for two weeks now. We have heard many great stories about people you have found in the census. We also know there are some of you who don’t know where people were living in 1940 and therefore cannot search the census without an name [...] Posted by Rebecca on April 17, 2012, under 1940 Census, DC-area Researchers, Genealogy / Family History, Miscellaneous, Online Research, Research. Legislative Archives FellowshipToday’s post comes from Peter A. Shulman, Assistant Professor of History at Case Western Reserve University. In 2011 he held the inaugural Legislative Archives Fellowship at the National Archives. The National Archives is now accepting applications for the 2012 Fellowship position. For an application and more information, please visit the Center for Legislative Archives. I’d [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on April 11, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Research. |
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