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Efforts to separate the District's archives date to at least 1982 and were formalized with the D.C. Public Records Management Act of 1985. [4] [1] Philip W. Oglvie was made the original director of the office, and a National Archives employee named Dorothy S. Provine joined as D.C.'s first archivist.
In addition, many of the 50 states have state archives similar to the federal National Archives and Records Administration to keep records relating to information on state laws, census information, etc. [4] [5]
Many presidential libraries include archives. Many large organizations such as universities , corporations , newspapers , and so on maintain archives consisting of the papers and records which have been created during the course of the organization's life.
The first Archivist, R. D. W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established as an independent federal agency by Congress. The Archivists served as subordinate officials of the General Services Administration from 1949 until the National Archives and Records Administration became an independent agency again on April 1 ...
The Archives Research Room houses Kentucky's historic public records including: [3] City, county and state government records; Birth and Death Records (1852 through 1910) Death certificates 1911–1965; Marriage Records; Census records; Military records; Judicial records (Civil, Criminal and Court of appeals) Wills and Deeds; State agency records
Kenneth Francis Thibodeau (born 1945) is an American specialist in electronic records management who worked for many years at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). He was responsible for development of the pioneering DoD 5015.02 standard for electronic records management and for creation of NARA's Electronic Records Archives ...
Archives management is the area of management concerned with the maintenance and use of archives.It is concerned with acquisition, care, arrangement, description and retrieval of records once they have been transferred from an organisation to the archival repository.
Some national archives collections are large, holding millions of items spanning several centuries, while others have been created more recently and have modest collections. Many national archives are effectively dispersed, especially in post-colonial countries, and often have smaller local collections due to cultural imperialism and the theft ...