AC 05.2015

November 13, 2014

MEMORANDUM TO FEDERAL AGENCY CONTACTS: NARA will host an ERA Boot Camp on January 14, 2015 at Archives I

The National Archives and Records Administration will host an Electronic Records Archives (ERA) Boot Camp on January 14, 2015.  The ERA Boot Camp will consist of a morning and an afternoon session: 

• In the morning session 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM participants will learn how to complete ERA records scheduling tasks. 
  
  
• In the afternoon session, 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM, participants will learn how to use ERA for permanent records transfer tasks.

The ERA Boot Camp will be presented by NARA staff experienced in the use of ERA for scheduling and transfer tasks.  NARA staff will be available after the training sessions to answer agency-specific questions.

The ERA Boot Camp will be held in the Jefferson Conference Room at the National Archives and Records Administration downtown building, 700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW (Metrorail's Yellow or Green lines to the Archives/Navy Memorial station). Please enter on the Constitution Avenue side of the building, the "Special Events" entrance (which is actually the exit for the general public).

The ERA Boot Camp is offered to federal agencies at no charge. Participants must complete the ERA online training and have an active ERA user account before enrolling in the boot camp. Agencies may enroll in either session or both through NARA’s Learning Management System (LMS)

For further information, please contact ERAtraining@nara.gov.

PAUL M. WESTER, JR.
Chief Records Officer
for the U.S. Government