All- Please read below to find out about a RM seminar taking place on April 6th. I would like to get as many Department of Navy people there as possible. The seminar is free but limited (first 75 people). Lets have a good Navy showing. RSVP info is at the bottom of the message. Call me if you have any comments or questions. Thanks.

CHARLEY BARTH -------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU ARE INVITED TO A SEMINAR CELEBRATING NATIONAL INFORMATION AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT WEEK

SPONSORED BY THE SMALL AGENCY COUNCIL RECORDS OFFICER'S COMMITTEE(SACROC) with assistance provided by NAGARA (The National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators)

Hosted by the SACROC Records Management Needs Workgroup Anne Baker, Records Officer/NOAA Carol Brock, CRM, Records Manager/OPIC Bruce Campbell, Records Manager/PBGC John Paul Deley, Records Manager/FTC Greg Fraser/Chief, Information Management Services Division/CIA Alice Gannon, CRM, Records Management Officer/OFHEO Craig Roberts, Systems Integration Specialist/Logicon John Vasko, Records Manager/CIA

To be held on: Tuesday, April 6, 1999, 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon Federal Trade Commission, Rm. 432 6th Street & Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Washington, D.C. (Nearest Metro - Archives)

Topics to be Discussed will include:

Contracting for RM Services & Systems Professional Associations for the RM Practitioner and Formation of a united Council which proposes to combine SACROC & ERMWG into the FIRM Council: FEDERAL INFORMATION & RECORDS MANAGERS COUNCIL

The SACROC Records Management Needs Workgroup has been gathering lists of resources to support Records Managers in their efforts to contract for records services and systems. We will sponsor a panel discussion to share what we have learned and to distribute the resource manual we have compiled (manuals copied compliments of an education grant from NAGARA, the National Association of Government Archives and Records Administrators).

Additional Topics to be addressed will include, but not be limited to:

Contractor's Wish List for Agency Contracting Officers RM Functional Requirements List - Possible Contract Tasks Draft Scopes of Work for RM Contracts RM Contract Vehicles Available to Buy Into FAR Regulations & RM Laws and Regulations RM Position Descriptions & RM Interns Professional Organizations for Federal Records Managers

Speakers representing a number of professional organizations have been invited to address our assembly:

Robert Nawrocki, CRM, Immediate Past President of the Association of Records Managers & Administrators (ARMA)

Al Linden, Association of Information and Image Management (AIIM)

Jeanne Young, Records Officer, National Association of Archives and Records Administrators (NAGARA) will be on hand to share association information and to address the importance of professional associations to records and information management careers.

Please plan to join us! Space is limited to the first 75 respondents R.S.V.P. to Anne Baker at 301/713-3540, x. 145 no later than 4/2//99

-- Anonymous, March 23, 1999