Building an Electronic Records Archive at the National Archives and Records Administration: Recommendations for a Long-Term Strategy
The Boomer Chronicles (Free subscription) | 11 hours ago
Can you imagine being a librarian or archivist and getting the best job in the country? Well, it’s happened to a man named David S. Ferriero, who has been confirmed as Archivist of the United States at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Ferriero was nominated by President Obama in July. Ferriero will become just [...]
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
... Hunt, the Center’s director. “From the 1980s up to the present, our holdings of House and Senate records have been doubling every 10 to 15 years,” a nearly incomprehensible amount considering the Center currently has a half-billion documents to track, enough to circle the globe three times, if one laid the pages end-to-end. As if organizing and storing these documents weren’t difficult enough,...
Eastman's Online Genealogy Newslett (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
The following announcement was written by the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration: WASHINGTON, Nov. 6 -- Today, the United States Senate voted to confirm David Ferriero as the 10th Archivist of the United States. Mr. Ferriero was the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the New York Public Libraries and is a leader in the field of library science. Mr. Ferriero, who was nominated...
Resource Shelf (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
Footnote.com is once again partnering the National Records and Administration Agency (NARA) to digitize massive amounts of content and then make that material available, often for a fee, available online. Footnote is becoming–and for some has already become–and important resource for historians, genealogists, students, and others. This time around, Footnote.com, is digitizing...
PortlandOnline (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
[- November is Native American Heritage Month -]The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans.[- Sculptor Brian Jungen -] Strange...
