This course will instruct you on how to manage records essential to your agency's business needs and those records needed to protect your agency's legal and financial rights.  This course will also provide you with recommendations on how to create and implement an emergency preparedness program, as well as a disaster mitigation and recovery program within your continuity-of-operations plan (COOP).  

This is an comprehensive vital records management session designed to provide COOP planners and other staff with all the tools and information necessary to meet the COOP-related vital records requirements contained in FEMA's Federal Preparedness Circular 65.

It's never too late to be prepared! 

Basic Records Operations

Friday, October 6, 2006--8:00 am until 4:00 pm

This course will instruct you in what records to file, how to file them, and how to remove inactive files no longer needed for current business functions. The course explains the variety of activities involved in the maintenance, use, and disposition of Federal records. Basic Records Operations, or BRO, is a new addition by NARA to the Federal records management training program.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to define Federal records and distinguish them from nonrecord materials and personal papers. You will learn how to reduce unnecessary filing and know basic files management principles to administer active and inactive records.  Also included are suggestions on how to conduct an records inventory within your agency, applying your agency's records disposition schedules and using the General Records Schedules.  Finally, learn how to effectively transfer inactive records to a Federal records center.

You should attend this course if you are records liaison, executive assistant, secretary, file custodian, administrator, or someone who maintain records as part of their job. Records managers and records officers new to the field or wanting a refresher course will greatly benefit from this course. The course is designed for those needing the task-oriented records management basics, but who are not planning to achieve the certificate of completion.

These courses are available to employees of Federal, State or local agencies, as well as members of international organizations.

To register, call the NARA workshop hot line (781) 663-0148 or send an email to [log in to unmask].

Thank you for your time and consideration.

 

Andy Potter
Archivist
NARA's Northeast Region
(413) 236-3605