by Geof Huth
Manager, Records Service Development, New York State Archives

Currently, our section is embarking on an interesting new quest, one to develop an online press kit. The section can use this kit to promote its activities, teach the press and others about archives and electronic records, and introduce our section to the world.

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On 12 February 2003, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) released the "Access to Archival Databases" (AAD) System to the public. AAD provides researchers with online access to over 50 million historical electronic records organized in over 350 databases that were created by some 20 Federal agencies.

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NARA's Electronic Records http://www.archives.gov
/electronic_records_archives
/index.html

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At last summer’s ERS meeting in Birmingham, the membership discussed a number of issues related to the ERECS-L mailing list. Concerns were expressed about the low traffic and relative difficulty in establishing and maintaining meaningful discussion on the list...

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