NARA: Move to digital records 'does not get cheaper,' but easier to manage

Federal News Radio: The National Archives and Records Administration is best known for preserving centuries-old documents, like the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution, but the agency is facing a different set of challenges in storing the government’s troves of emails and website records from the past couple decades.

“It’s interesting to think of records created 270 years ago, which were done with pen and parchment, and now they’re done with bits and bytes. They’re done electronically,” Lisa Haralampus, the director of the records management and outreach at NARA, said Wednesday during a GovExec webinar on records management.

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