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In this Tuesday, June 18, 2019 photo a sign for the entrance to the National Archives is seen in College Park, Md. A Virginia National Guard sergeant is accused of stealing World War II-era dog tags from the National Archives and Records Administration in Maryland, at least the second theft case involving the research facility. Robert Rumsby, of Fredericksburg, Va., told investigators he took dog tags that belonged to four U.S. airmen killed in plane crashes in 1944, according to a criminal complaint filed in federal court last month. (AP Photo/Michael Kunzelman)

Tennessee Valley Authority takes on NARA’s digitization mandate

Records are made up of a variety of formats. What were primarily reports on paper make up about 70% of what is generated at TVA.

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

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Federal records officers see need for automation, collaboration across agencies

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

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NARA targets collaboration platforms, social media for improved records management

Laurence Brewer, the chief records officer for the National Archives and Records Administration, said a new bulletin and a new report demonstrates ongoing…

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The Librarian of Congress marks a cool seven years in the job

Not too many people nominated during the Obama administration are still around. But the next guest recently marked seven years in a crucial, but largely…

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A conversation with America’s 11th National Archivist and the first woman

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The National Archives doesn’t hang on to every document the government generates – only the 5% or so that are deemed to have “continuing value”. But that’s still billions of pages of text, plus all kinds of other media, from maps to electronic records. There’s a new official in charge of figuring out how to preserve and present those records to the public.

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