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National Archives at College Park

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19: 236:: The Reference Branch of Textual Records responds to all written correspondence concerning the holdings at College Park and provides referral information for other records in other National Archives facilities. The reference archivists also work in tandem with research room operations and provide on-site consultation for researchers seeking specific types of records. There are two divisions of the reference branch respectively, concerning military records and records of the civilian United States government. Military records at College Park pertain primarily to organizational records, orders, and 224:: Physically receives records into the National Archives from government agencies. The Accessioning Branch is divided into two divisions, the first for records which are automatically and annually transferred to the National Archives each year (known as "Annual Move" records) while the second division deals with records which are offered to the National Archives on a case by case basis from the government (known as "Direct Offer" records). A small portion of the Accessioning office is also devoted to reviewing donated records to the National archives, which are known as "gifted" records. 70:, mostly to alleviate space constraints at the aged National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. By that time, the original facility had become incapable of holding further numbers of records transferred in from various branches of the government. Due to its more modern facilities, the Archives at College Park quickly assumed a role as the de facto headquarters of the National Archives, hosting several of the more important operational and administrative offices. Officially, the seat of the National Archives remains at the National Archives building in Washington, D.C. 103: 479: 518: 580: 230:: The Processing Branch organizes newly received records into understandable and coherent files which may be easily understood by researchers. This normally involves creating file lists for records and reboxing the records into user friendly containers rather than the shipping type boxes in which records are provided by the government. The Processing Branch further enters records information into the National Archives Catalog. 159: 74: 316:. The Electronic Records Division is essentially a mirror of the textual (paper) division of the National Archives at College Park and contains its own accessioning, processing and reference branch for dealing with electronic records. The branch also maintains a "Digital Preservation Service Office" for the upkeep of records in electronic format. 324:
To avoid duplicate offices, the National Archives at College Park oversees several of the functions of the main National Archives building in downtown Washington. The overseen offices are known as "Archives I offices" and consist of the Archives I Research Room, overseen by Research Room operations
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The director of research room operations also oversees "pull and refile section" which physically retrieve records from the archival record area and deliver them to on-site researchers in the research room. Written correspondence concerning reference requests is handled through the Textual Records
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The National Archives at College Park primarily holds government records of the 20th century and receives current holdings from the 21st century as they become available from government agencies. The center also possesses a small number of 19th century (and earlier) records; however, the bulk of
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All references correspondence from the Archives I building is under direction of the Archives II Textual Records Division. The intake and accessioning of all records to Archives I (which in the modern day are few) is also overseen by College Park and Archives I does not maintain an independent
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for the Washington, D.C. archives region. The building does not have a single director, but is instead divided into several divisions which maintain day-to-day operations. The building also contains the office of the chief operating officer as well as several other senior National Archives
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The National Archives at College Park maintains the most number of research rooms of any National Archives facility, in total there are five separate research rooms including a researcher orientation and registration center. The research rooms are organized as follows.
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The Textual Records Division of Archives II prepares records for release to the public and also responds to written inquires concerning records already on file. Until 2020, the three main branches of the textual records division were:
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these historic holdings are maintained at the National Archives Building in Washington. A security vault is maintained at College Park which contains high profile historical artifacts. Among these include burned wreckage from the
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Approximately 80% of the records on file at College Park are open to the public. The remainder are considered classified records and may only be reviewed by authorized government agencies. For records which contain
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Beginning in 2020, the Textual Records Division of Archives II underwent a major reorganization where the offices of Accessioning, Processing, and Reference were merged into two new offices as follows:
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The merger also placed operation of the research rooms, previously as their own office branch, under the Textual Records Division and further divided into:
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in College Park, as well as the Archives I Processing Branch which is considered an extension of the processing office of Archives II.
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The National Archives building at College Park held its groundbreaking in 1989 and opened in 1994 on a parcel of campus donated by the
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maintains an auxiliary office on the premises, but mostly conducts business from the archives building in Washington.
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Beginning in the early 2000s, the National Archives began a dedicated effort to provide specific records support for
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in Washington, D.C. which serves as the ceremonial headquarters of the National Archives in that this is where the
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provided to the National Archives at College Park a large number of microfiche records relating to
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National Archives and Records Administration, "Annual Holdings Reports" (Volume 75), June 13, 2011
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branch") which reviews and redacts records prior to release to a public researcher.
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National Archives and Records Administration, "Records of Foreign Records Seized",
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are typically not considered special media, but rather as regular textual records.
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Washington Post, "New archives building largest in country", April 17, 1995
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4th Floor: Microfilm Research Room and Moving Image and Sound Research Room
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Buildings and structures in Prince George's County, Maryland
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Division which is a separate office from the research room.
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The National Archives at College Park is overseen by the
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Reference, Research Rooms, & Augmented Processing
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Maryland
major facility
National Archives and Records Administration
College Park, Maryland
organization of the National Archives
National Archives Building
Archivist of the United States
University of Maryland

Branch Davidian
Waco, Texas
last will and testament of Adolf Hitler

personally identifiable information
FOIA
Berlin Document Center
Nazi Germany
service records
SS
SA
NSDAP
World War II

Access Coordinator
Archivist of the United States
after action reports
Military Personnel Records Center
St. Louis
cartographic

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