NARA open?
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NARA open?
Do you have any idea about when it will be possible purchase NARA materials again?
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No, everyone has to watch their status page about their specific locations in the US.
NARA College Park’s page still says closed:
https://www.archives.gov/college-park
Also, on this general page:
https://www.archives.gov/coronavirus
1/2 way down is a section called “Agency Memoranda for Employees”. If you expand the [ + ], the memos about certain buildings opening or closing are listed here. A new memo every 1-2 weeks. This will be an indirect indication since this is just about letting the employees return, not the public, including contractor-for-hire researchers.
Unfortunately the state of Maryland seems to be slower than average in getting enough people vaccinated and virus infection cases down so they can meet the reopening guidelines.
Tom
NARA College Park’s page still says closed:
https://www.archives.gov/college-park
Also, on this general page:
https://www.archives.gov/coronavirus
1/2 way down is a section called “Agency Memoranda for Employees”. If you expand the [ + ], the memos about certain buildings opening or closing are listed here. A new memo every 1-2 weeks. This will be an indirect indication since this is just about letting the employees return, not the public, including contractor-for-hire researchers.
Unfortunately the state of Maryland seems to be slower than average in getting enough people vaccinated and virus infection cases down so they can meet the reopening guidelines.
Tom
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Good news from NARA:
"Separately, NARA has allowed some federal employees to return to work full-time in NARA and this is seen as a major step towards reopening."
"Separately, NARA has allowed some federal employees to return to work full-time in NARA and this is seen as a major step towards reopening."
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is it possibile order material on line?
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US National Archives, College Park, still closed to researchers.
UK National Archives, Kew, open to researchers.
Free download of digitized files has closed - back to paying for them.
But if you personally visit UK NA Kew you can download digitized files for free.
UK National Archives, Kew, open to researchers.
Free download of digitized files has closed - back to paying for them.
But if you personally visit UK NA Kew you can download digitized files for free.
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NARA is open
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Free downloads via the Kew website are still ongoing and still limited to 100 files in a 30 day period. I have just downloaded a couple of files to check.
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Not College Park which holds most WW2 records. “ NARA is not currently accepting public researcher requests for access to the facility during this initial pilot. ”
https://www.archives.gov/college-park
https://www.archives.gov/college-park
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Do not expect NARA II in College Park to re-open and have reasonable access for public researcher any time soon. The re-opening process will be slow, methodical, and will significantly limit access to records and available spaces for researchers.
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It is totally understandable that NARA is currently not open to the public, but I don't understand why they suspended digitalizing records again so soon after restarting this important work. I would assume that the staff is vaccinated and they should even be able to work on their computers or in the magazines without direct contact to their co-workers. I have a cousin who is a Beamter in a German Landeshauptarchiv, and they have been doing just that since the beginning of the CoVid-19 pandemic.
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The reason NARA closed for a second time is that a least one employee contracted COVID while working in the archives building. The digitization program is run by a contractor. If there are no government employees on site to oversee the contractor, then the contractor cannot enter the building. My guess is that soon the digitization program will have been suspended for two years. That means to restart the program an new contract may be required, new people hired and trained, and so on.
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My NARA order is on "Servicing" status since July 2021. Is there anybody who has received orders since then? I would like to make sure that the order has not been lost / forgotten in the system during Covid. If the queue is really that long, I wonder how they will ever make good the delay. If they are really digitalizing records so fast, maybe the documents will be available online before the order has been completed.
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I know of orders made in March 2020 - that is, 2 weeks before shutdown - which were served in June 2022, two months ago.