“There never are enough resources,” says one federal records management specialist of the drive to convert to electronic records management. Federal agencies are under the gun: they are facing an ambitious (and unfunded) mandate to [...]

Failures related to records management can be very serious. When records are not managed properly, agencies and other organizations can fall out of compliance with federal or state laws, make themselves vulnerable to legal action [...]

Social media presents unique issues for federal records managers trying to figure out how to collect, manage, and preserve these digitally complex records. As far back as 2011, the government has been assessing how to [...]

Cyberattacks targeting the U.S. government are growing in frequency, sophistication, and severity. In 2020, for example, a massive attack successfully breached nine agencies and hundreds of private companies that work with governments around the world. [...]

The U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) still expects federal agencies to submit all records in electronic format by December 2022. But, with the COVID-19 pandemic still ongoing after more than a year, is [...]

Once upon a time, records managers only needed to worry about a finite number of records formats, mostly paper and analog documents. That’s not true anymore. In today’s digital world, the number and variety of [...]

When it comes to records creation, management, and oversight, many work-related technology platforms are a double-edged sword. These platforms – which can be anything from productivity suites to communication technologies – typically offer features that [...]