The following memo to our agency contacts was sent out this morning. NARA’s Office of the Chief Records Officer (OCRO) and Federal Records Centers Program (FRCP) are making some changes to the teams that work most closely with agency staff on records management issues-the Appraisal Archivists and the FRCP Account Managers. We are making these [...]

The Washington National Records Center will remain closed on Friday, September 2 for cleanup and repairs. We expect to reopen the building to all staff after the Labor Day holiday on Tuesday, September 6. We will be servicing emergency and high-priority reference requests through Friday, September 9, and we expect to be back to normal [...]

The Washington National Records Center will remain closed on Thursday, September 1 to allow for continuing cleanup and repairs to the building. We will continue to service emergency reference requests for Federal agencies as necessary. While we will continue to update the blog, you can also follow the Federal Records Center Program on Twitter.

The Washington National Records Center (WNRC) will remain closed on Tuesday, August 30 and Wednesday, August 31.  Engineers have determined that the steel frame structure of the building did not sustain any structural damage as a result of the earthquake or hurricane.  However, the building will remain closed to staff to enable clean up of [...]

As discussed in today’s NARA Press Release, the Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland will remain closed today and again on Monday, August 29th because of damage from Tuesday’s earthquake. As we state in the NARA Press Release, during the closure, a small team of National Archives staff members are on-site to coordinate the [...]

The Washington National Records Center will be closed again today, Thursday, August 25, 2011.  Structural engineers continue to evaluate damage to the building from Tuesday afternoon’s earthquake. Based on tours of the facility since Tuesday afternoon, we have not seen any signs of damage to records. We will share more specific information on the building [...]

The Washington National Records Center in Suitland, Maryland will be closed on Wednesday, August 24, 2011, to enable an evaluation of damage to the building following yesterday afternoon’s earthquake. GSA and NARA have taken this step based on an initial assessment of visible damage to the building.  At this time there is no known damage [...]

The following is from David Weinberg, the Director of NARA’s Federal Records Center Program. I would like to communicate with Federal Records Centers Program (FRCP) customers regarding the possible shutdown of the Federal Government after April 8, 2011, and the impact such a shutdown might have on the services the FRCP provides to agency customers. [...]