National Archives Seeks Input on Digital Preservation Framework

The National Archives and Records Administration is seeking public comment and discussion on its digital preservation framework, which consists of the agency’s approach to determining risks faced by electronic files, and plans for preserving different types of file formats. The deadline for submitting comments is November 1, 2019, on GitHub. In June, the Office of Management more >


Senate Appropriations Committee FY 20 Funding Bill for the National Archives Would Eliminate NHPRC

On September 19, the Senate Appropriations Committee marked up the Fiscal Year 2020 Financial Services and General Government (FS&GG) bill that provides funding for the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). The bill includes more funding for NARA than the bill that passed the House in more >


Tickets to the 2019 NEH Jefferson Lecture Now Available

Online registration for tickets to the 2019 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities with Father Columba Stewart opens today. Father Columba Stewart, OSB, Benedictine monk, scholar of early Christianity, and executive director of the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library (HMML) at Saint John’s University in Collegeville, Minnesota, will deliver the 2019 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, titled more >