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. She will discuss how they selected where to begin and how they engaged both...
2022-06-23_CoSA-NARAWebinar_ReparativeDescriptions_SlideDeck.pptx
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 seeks to serve more customers in a fast-changing and information-overloaded era,...
2022-02-23_CoS-NARAWebinar_PreservationActivities_SlideDeck.pptx
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). FERMI is designed to help Federal agencies obtain electronic records management (ERM)...
2021-08-26_CoSANARAWebinar_SlideDeck.pptx
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, many archives are still closed to the public or are operating under unusual conditions, but...
2021-05-06_CoSA-NARAWebinar_ReferenceDuringCOVID_SlideDeck.pptx
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 work during the administration, collaborating with officials on archives and records...
2021-02-11_CoSA-NARAWebinar_ExecTransitions.pptx
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 an overview of NARA's Moving Image and Sound Branch activities. The discussion will focus on...
2020-10-08_CoSA-NARAWebinar_FullSlideDeck.pptx
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 being processed, and anticipated use. In 2016 NARA adopted a Processing Policy and later that...
CoSA-NARA_April_Slide_deck.pptx
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 (OGIS), along with Rosemary Cundiff, Government Records Omsbudsman for the Utah State Archives...
October 10, 2019 | View Recording Join Hilary Parkinson and Mary King, who manage the flagship Twitter and Instagram accounts for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), and Mariessa Dobrick and Sally Blanchard-O’Brien of the Vermont State Archives and Records...
June 20, 2019 | View Recording Join Billy Wade. Supervisory Archivist for the Still Picture Branch of the Special Media Records Division of NARA and Tim Baker, Maryland State Archivist for a discussion of still pictures and photographs. Billy will focus on the accessioning, processing and...