Good afternoon! Of particular interest to Federal employees and contractors but worth considering more broadly as well, even if you just read about culturally arcane government issues in the news. The *Records Express* blog of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) features training opportunities, updates, and cogent, savvy overviews of issues in the news. https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/ . Those of you who work in the Federal environment may already be following it; *Records Express* is NARA's oldest blog. But it also serves to clarify issues for non-Federal RIM practitioners and for the general public, as well. Two examples, one from 2011 on court records https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2011/08/10/appraisal-of-us-district-court-records/ and one from 2017 on Review of Accessioned Government Email. https://records-express.blogs.archives.gov/2017/04/28/review-of-accessioned-email/ The latter especially is useful if you need to reassure busy program officials unfamiliar with the details of archival practice that NARA does not do undifferentiated data dumps. And is prepared to take in a wide array of records. (In my work in NARA's Office of Presidential Libraries, I handled the full spectrum of pertinent archival records.). I looked at recent Federal Transition work this morning at my blog in the context of Public Service Recognition Week and an awards ceremony yesterday at NARA. https://archivalexplorations.wordpress.com/2017/05/12/the-work-we-do/ In that context, as Federal contractors or civil service employees, your work with the Chief Records Officer staff is part of being "agents of the future," to quote the Archivists Code. Much thanks! Have a good weekend, Maarja [log in to unmask] @ArchivesMaarja Blog: https://archivalexplorations.wordpress.com/ Washington, D.C. List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message. mailto:[log in to unmask]