Audit of NARA's Specially Protected Holdings
Report Information
Recommendations
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure SPHs inventory listings are completed at the item level. Establish a timeframe for when the listings must be completed...
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure initial inspections of SPHs inventory are completed.
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure locked hard copies of the inventory listings are maintained.
The Executive for Business Support Services should ensure Security Management performs security inspections of SPHs storage areas.
The Executive for Business Support Services should ensure Security Management performs initial certifications of SPHs storage areas.
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure a finding aid is created for the agency’s entire SPHs collection at the item level.
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure Inventory listings are reviewed to determine their accuracy and update as necessary.
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure custodial units are in compliance with NARA 1572, including randomly inspecting at least 3% of SPHs inventory annually...
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure detailed procedures are documented for each custodial unit.
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure annual inspection results are adequately documented and communicated to Security Management and office heads.
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure annual inspection reports include at a minimum date of inspection, individuals that complete the inspections, and a...
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure a process is in place for periodic review of procedures and updates are made as needed.
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure SPHs inventory listings are maintained in HMS. Until HMS is implemented by all offices, all electronic versions of the...
The Executive for Business Support Services should ensure Security Management maintains copies or obtains access to SPHs inventory listings and use them to randomly select records and verify their condition and location during inspections.
The Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure all Presidential Libraries are in compliance with NARA 1572 policy of conducting annual inspections.
The Executive for Research Services and Executive for Legislative Archives, Presidential Libraries, and Museum Services should ensure required elements for the handling of SPHs for each record storage area should be communicated to each custodial unit.