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Records Management & Archival Web Resources Links

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Archives and Records Management Organizations

Department of Energy and National Laboratories Records Management

Electronic Discussion Lists

Records Laws and Regulations

Records Retention Schedules

Special Archives and Records Office Records Projects

 

Archives and Records Management Organizations

Academy of Certified Archivists

The Academy of Certified Archivists, founded in 1989 at the annual meeting of the Society of American Archivists, is an independent, nonprofit certifying organization of professional archivists. Individual members qualify for certification by meeting a series of defined professional standards.

Association of Records Managers and Administrators (ARMA)

ARMA International - the Association of Records Managers and Administrators, Inc. - is a not-for-profit professional association of over 10,000 records and information management professionals in the United States, Canada, and around the world.

National Archives and Records Administration

Established in 1934, The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency that preserves the nation's history and oversees the management of all federal records. See especially the following:

Federal Records Management Information

NARA's Pacific Region (San Francisco) Records Services Facility

National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA)

The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) is a nationwide association of local, state, and federal records agencies interested in improved administration of government records.

Society of American Archivists

Founded in December of 1936, the Society of American Archivists (SAA) serves the educational and informational needs of its members and provides leadership to help ensure the identification, preservation, and use of the nation's historical record.

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Department of Energy and National Laboratories Records Management

Records Management at Oak Ridge National Laboratory

This site provides a description of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) records services, staff names and email addresses, and records transfer instructions.

Roadmap to the Year 2000

The first Department of Energy's Records Management Tactical Plan. Projects were planned and completed by teams comprised of Records Managers from across the DOE complex.

Roadmap II: The Next Generation (2000-2006)

Roadmap II is a continuation of work begun in the first Roadmap and incorporates both a Strategic and a Tactical Plan as separate documents.

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Archives and History Office

The SLAC Archives and History Office (AHO) site provides links to a number of online SLAC resources that document the history of the facility, including photographs, newsletters, physics reports, published histories, and Nobel Prize winners. The SLAC AHO ensures that the facility's history is identified, collected, preserved and made accessible to the SLAC and Stanford communities, to researchers and the public.


Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) Records Management

The Records Management at SLAC site provides information on records appraisal, applying records retention schedules, transferring records to storage and retrieving files. Records Management at SLAC is provided through the Business Services Division and is responsible for helping SLAC preserve, schedule and dispose of the temporary records. There is also a link to the web site of the SLAC Archives and History Office (AHO) site, which is responsible for the laboratory's permanent historical records.


United States Department of Energy's Records Management

The Department of Energy's site provides links to records disposition regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations; relevant records retention schedules; numbered DOE memoranda; policy, guidance and publications, strategic and tactical plans; and information on Federal Records storage costs as well as meetings and other events.

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Electronic Discussion Lists

Archives & Archivists

An electronic discussion list and World Wide Web site for the international archival community.

Records Management Listserv

An electronic discussion list for Records & Information Management related issues.

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Records Laws and Regulations

Archives and Records Management

Section 1.17 of the Berkeley Lab's RPM - Regulations and Procedures Manual outlines the records management program at the Laboratory.

NARA Regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations

See especially:

Subchapter B - Records Management

LBNL Prime Contract

Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231 for the Management and Operation of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL).
See especially:

  • Clause H.7 - Privacy Act Records, pp. 49-50
  • Clause I.31 - FAR 52.224-1 Privacy Act Notification (Apr 1984), p. 159
  • Clause I.32 - FAR 52.224-2 Privacy Act (Apr 1984), p. 159
  • Clause I.80 - DEAR 970.5204-3 Access to and Ownership of Records (Dec 2000), pp. 210-212

DOE Directive, O 243.1, Records Management Program

See especially:

Contractor Requirements Document

DOE Directive, O 243.2, Vital Records

See especially:

Contractor Requirements Document

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Records Retention Schedules

  1. General Records Schedule (GRS) -- The only GRS Schedules currently in use at Berkeley Lab are GRS 7, 8, 10, 13, 15, 24 and 25

  2. Work for Others & CRADAs

  3. DOE Research and Development (R&D) Records Retention Schedule

  4. DOE Environmental Schedule

  5. DOE Administrative Records Schedules

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Special Archives and Records Office Records Projects

Office of Human Radiation Experiments

Established by the Department of Energy in March 1994 to lead the Department's efforts to identify and catalog relevant historical documents regarding the agency's Cold War story of radiation research using human subjects. Relevant citations of Berkeley Lab's contributions to the project can be found at:

OpenNet

As part of its Openness Initiative, the Department of Energy has developed the OpenNet database to provide easy, timely access to recently declassified information. To retrieve the cataloging records for recently declassified Berkeley Lab documents, enter OOB* in the Accession Number field of the OpenNet Database Search Form.

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