Thirty years of electronic records

by Bruce I. Ambacher (Editor)

Overview

As the institution with the oldest, largest, and most actively managed program in the world, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) encompasses thirty years of experience in appraising, accessioning, preserving, describing and providing access to archival electronic records. In this collection of essays, twelve contributors, each of whom has been involved in NARA's development, discuss the application of archival theory and practice in NARA's development of these functions and trace how they evolved over time. The result is a fascinating and awesome amalgam of achievement, anecdote, and aspiration.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780585482811
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	08/19/2003
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	216
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Bruce Ambacher is an information technology specialist with the Modern Records Program, National Archives and Records Administration. He also is an adjunct instructor at the University of Maryland and George Mason University, Arlington, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Organization Names
Chapter 3 Chronology
Chapter 4 Recollections of an electronic Records Pioneer
Chapter 5 History of NARA's Custodial Program for Electronic Records: From the Data Archives Staff to the Center for Electronic Records, 1968-1998
Chapter 6 Appraisal of Electronic Records: Traditional Principles Endure
Chapter 7 The Evolution of Processing procedures for Electronic Records
Chapter 8 Three Decades of Description and reference Services for Electronic Records
Chapter 9 Building the Future: The Electronic Records Archives Program
Chapter 10 The PROFS Decade: NARA, E-Mail, and the Courts
Chapter 11 Views of Managers
Chapter 12 An Insider/Outsider Perspective on the Electronic Records Program of the National Archives of the United States
Chapter 13 Which Drawer Do You Use?
Chapter 14 The Machine-Readable Branch, National Archives and Records Service, January 1984 ? January 1986
Chapter 15 Comments of Former Branch Chief, 1986 ? 1988
Chapter 16 Early Intervention: The NHPRC's Electronic Records Program
Chapter 17 About the Authors