The Council of State Archivists (CoSA) and the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) have collaborated on a quarterly webinar series to share information about state and federal archival and records management programs. Below are the recordings of previous webinars. To see a list of our current and upcoming webinars, please visit our Additional Webinars page.
May 25, 2023 | View Recording Jeff Landou from the NARA Office of General Counsel and Mitch Yockelson from the NARA Holding Protection and Recovery Staff will discuss how the National Archives decides ...
February 23, 2023 | View Recording While microfilming has long been the gold standard for capturing archival documents, changes in the technology have caused archivists to question "Is Microfilming ...
June 23, 2022 | View Recording Jill Reilly, the Digital Engagement Director in the Office of Innovation at NARA, will discuss the process NARA is using to begin the very large task of reparative description. ...
February 24, 2022 | View Recording Allison Olson NARA’s Director of Preservation Programs will provide an overview of NARA’s Preservation Strategy and its recent accomplishments. As the National Archives ...
August 2021 | View Recording In this presentation, staff from NARA’s Office of the Chief Records Officer will provide an overview of NARA’s Federal Electronic Records Modernization Initiative (FERMI). ...
May 6, 2021 | View Recording At the start of the pandemic, many archives were shut down or moved to reduced public service hours that impacted their ability to handle research requests. A year later, ...
February 11, 2021 | View Recording Join state and federal colleagues to discuss archives and records management issues in recent and upcoming executive transitions. Topics will include records management ...
October 8, 2020 | View Recording Join us for a discussion of preservation of audiovisual materials. Dan Rooney, Director of the Special Media Records Division at the National Archives, will provide ...
April 9, 2020 | View Recording This webinar will discuss using MPLP (More Product, Less Process), an approach that allows archivists to select a level of processing which best fits the collection ...
December 12, 2019 | View Recording Join NARA’s Jeannette Wise, Director of Litigation, Office of General Counsel (OGC) and Martha Murphy, Deputy Director, Office of Government Information Services ...