Blake writes The records keeper is a Federal Computer Week profile on new National Archivist Allen Weinstein. It has some indications that Mr. Weinstein may be better for the National Archives than many thought:
“For the fiscal 2007 budget, he will request a substantial increase for ERA (Electronic Records Archives). The new request will be at least 20 percent more than the fiscal 2006 request of nearly $36 million, a NARA spokeswoman said.
Weinstein also is pushing to stop the dismantling of NARA’s grant program, which supports e-records research and state historical projects. Office of Management and Budget officials cut all funding for the 70-year-old National Historical Publications and Records Commission in the proposed fiscal 2006 budget.
Weinstein said he will pursue Webcasting to educate students and the public about the contents of NARA’s vaults. He said he often hears that people, unclear about the Archives’ purpose, confuse the building with the Library of Congress or the Smithsonian Institution.
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