At a hearing [last week] focusing on the National Archives and Records Administration and the selection of a new Archivist, National Security Archive General Counsel Meredith Fuchs said: "[The new Archivist] should have a vision for an Archives 2.0."
Discussing electronic records management, classification, presidential records and libraries, and access as critical challenges, before the Information Policy, Census, and National Archives Subcommittee of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Ms. Fuchs called for the appointment of an Archivist who is “an unwavering advocate of transparency and access,” and “embrace[s] the fact that NARA is not a museum of the past, but a resource that should serve the needs of today and tomorrow.” She explained, “NARA can only fulfill its mission if it starts its work long before the boxes of old documents are trucked over to its warehouses.”
The prepared statements by Ms. Fuchs and others testifying before the committee are also linked to in the full post.
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