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The National Archives is overseen by its chief official, the Archivist of the United States who is a political appointee of the President but is not a member of the cabinet. The current Archivist of the United States is Colleen Joy Shogan. [2] The Archivist is directly assisted by the Deputy Archivist of the United States who acts a second in ...
The National Archives of Fiji ( Fijian: Viti ni iTukutuku Maroroi) is a Fijian government agency under the Ministry of Education, Heritage, and Arts. [ 1] It is the successor of the Central Archives of Fiji and the Western Pacific High Commission, established in 1954. [ 1][ 2][ 3] Its name changed to the National Archives of Fiji in 1971 ...
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent agency of the United States government within the executive branch, [4] charged with the preservation and documentation of government and historical records. It is also tasked with increasing public access to those documents that make up the National Archives. [5]
The Archivist is responsible for the supervision and direction of the National Archives. [1] 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 ...
National Archives Building. The National Archives Building, known informally as Archives I, is the headquarters of the United States National Archives and Records Administration. It is located north of the National Mall at 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. in Washington, D.C. The rotunda entrance is on Constitution Avenue, and the research entrance ...
The District of Columbia Archives, formally, the Office of Public Records Management, Archival Administration, and Library of Governmental Information, is the state-level archives of the District of Columbia. [1] Its principal archival holdings reside in a converted stable in the Blagden Alley-Naylor Court Historic District and its much larger ...
The National Archives building at College Park held its groundbreaking in 1989 and opened in 1994 on a parcel of campus donated by the University of Maryland, [1] mostly to alleviate space constraints at the aged National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. [2] [3] By that time, the original facility had become incapable of holding further numbers of records transferred in from various ...
In 2007, the WNRC opened a new Electronic Records Vault. The 976 square-foot vault allows Federal Records Centers to store and service temporary electronic records for Federal agencies. [3] This was after a major criminal fire on Tuesday, 29 February 2000, which destroyed 700,000 pages, as reported by archives officials. [4]