NARA offers an individual records management certification program for Federal employees, contactors, as well as, state and local records managers who successfully complete Knowledge Area (KA's) training. This training program will improve the effectiveness of an agency records management program while increasing the level of professionalism of those managing the records.
  
Participants may take examinations upon completion of KA's 2 - 6 for certification. Those who successfully pass all five examinations will receive NARA's Certificate of Federal Records Management Training, signed by the Archivist of the United States.
 
You can start on the path to certification with KA2: Creating and Maintaining Agency Business Information and KA3: Records Scheduling beginning January 13 through January 16 at the JFK Federal Building in Boston.
 
Knowledge Area 2:  Creating and Maintaining Agency Business Information
 
Creating and Maintaining Agency Business Information focuses on the development and implementation of polices and procedures for adequate and proper documentation of agency business. It demonstrates how recordkeeping requirements for creating and maintaining records can improve the economy and efficiency of agency operations.
 
Who should attend? Anyone involved with the development or implementation of a records system, whether using traditional paper filing methods or electronic document/records management applications. 
The course is recommended as a prerequisite for KA 3 and KA 4. This will be the only time KA2 is offered in the Boston area this year. In order to receive certification in Federal records management skills and practices you will need to successfully complete all 5 of the certification courses. 
 
Get started with KA2 in January!  For more information on the National Archives and Records Administration-Northeast Region's training program contact us at (781) 663-0148 or by email: [log in to unmask] 
 
January 13-14 * Boston * $300
 
Knowledge Area 3: Records Scheduling
 
What do you do with information and records that you no longer need for business purposes? How you schedule your records determines the basis for meeting your agency's operating, fiscal, and legal needs. This course includes the legal requirements and practical advantages in scheduling records as well as the disposition practices necessary to meet an agency's business needs and NARA's recordkeeping requirements.
 
Outcomes 
 
By the end of the course, participants will be able to: Perform a business and records analysis to determine information needs and identify risks associated with records disposition; Gather information about records as a basis for preparing a records schedule; Apply the General Records Schedule to appropriate administrative records; Develop disposition instructions for records, in all media, based on agency business needs, accountability, legal issues and archival value; and Know the steps in obtaining internal and external approvals of the Standard Form 115 (SF 115), which is used to schedule records.
 
Who should attend?
 
Anyone responsible for developing or updating agency records schedules or whose work is associated with developing records retention requirements for records and information systems.  
 
January 15-16 * Boston * $300  


Andy Potter
Senior Records Analyst
NARA's Northeast Region
(413) 236-3605  

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