Federal records managers must understand a huge range of laws governing records management in the federal government to ensure compliance, accountability, and the preservation of vital information. Understanding the complex legal framework prevents potential violations, [...]

Electronic records management comes with a key challenge that analog records rarely face: what’s the best format for the record for long-term storage? When it comes to something like paper documents, the question doesn’t even [...]

As the number of federal records continues to increase, and agencies are required to create and maintain electronic versions of a larger portion of these documents, it’s important to choose “sustainable formats.” In other words, [...]

A good records management program is worthless if no one uses it as intended. Worse, there’s more at stake to non-compliance than just running into inefficiencies and increased errors. Non-compliance can also run afoul of [...]

Managing government records is a complicated task. Records managers at governmental agencies must design and execute a complicated array of processes to ensure creation, use, storage, and disposition of records follow all applicable laws and [...]

Over the years, the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has provided the federal government with a wide range of records management services. One of their most important and helpful services is running, in [...]

All the way back in 2019, OMB/NARA memorandum M-19-21 set an aggressive objective to ensure that virtually all Federal records would be created, retained, and managed in electronic formats with appropriate metadata by December 31, [...]