National Archives and Records Administration

National Archives & Records Administration

NARA takes on digitizing modern textual records and other formats

The deadline for agencies to submit digitized records for archiving and preservation by the National Archives and Records Administration came and went.

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How CBP got its records management program off NARA’s high risk list

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National Archives clears pandemic-era backlog for vet records, seeks to digitize decades of paper

Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan told Federal News Network in an interview Friday that NPRC employees who put in extra hours on holidays and…

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Federal records officers see need for automation, collaboration across agencies

The Federal Records Officers Network is a self-organized community that looks to lead on federal records issues, like digitization.

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What does the Veterans Affairs Department do when disaster strikes one of its record-storage facilities?

In July 1973, a fire damaged or destroyed up to 18 million Army and Air Force official military personnel files at the National Archives and Records Administration’s National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. These records are important for veterans who are looking to make claims with the Veterans Affairs Department. So how did the government do in helping those whose records were lost or damaged in the fire? The VA’s Office of Inspector General looked to answer that question with a recent…

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