FYI... Stefanie Rixecker ECOFEM Coordinator ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- This message is being posted to a number of Listservs. Please forgive cross-posting and length. This message updates information last posted July 23, 1998. ========================================================== The Center for Electronic Records, (U.S.) National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has updated the 'Title List: A Preliminary and Partial Listing of the Data Files in the National Archives and Records Administration.' The 'Title List' is current as of September 25, 1998, and now has entries for more than 14,000 of the over 100,000 electronic records files in the custody of NARA. The Title List' is available via the NARA homepage. The general URL is http://www.nara.gov/ with information about the electronic records program and holdings available at http://www.nara.gov/nara/electronic. The direct link to the Title List files is http://www.nara.gov/nara/electronic/tlintro.html. Title List files are also available via FTP. Anonymous FTP (password 'guest') to FTP.CU.NIH.GOV, directory NARA_ELECTRONIC. A READ.ME file on the FTP site provides further information about the 'Title List' and Title List extract files. Note that the full 'Title List' file has 23,246 lines and is approximately 1.5 megabytes in size. Among the new entries in the 'Title List' are: 1) Section III, Department of Commerce, Records of the Bureau of the Census (R.G. 29): Decennial Census of Population and Housing, 1990: Summary Tape File 4A (858 data files). 2) Section IV, Department of Defense, Records of the Office of the Provost Marshal General (Record Group 389): World War II Prisoners of War Punchcards [includes 11 files recently converted by NARA from punchcards to an electronic form] 3) Section VI, Department of Health and Human Services, Records of the Centers for Disease Control (R.G. 442): National Hospital Discharge Survey, Multi-Year Files (Newborns and Not-Newborns), 1979-1992. 4) Section VI, Department of Health and Human Services, Records of the Health Resources and Services Administration (R.G. 512): Area Resources File, electronic Record Layouts and Users Guides, 1985-1991. 5) Section XV, Independent Establishments and Government Corporations, Records of the National Labor Relations Board (R.G.25): Case Handling Information Processing System, Master, Naem & Address, and Electionc Files, 1984-1995. 6) Section XV, Independent Establishments and Government Corporations, Records of Office of Personnel Management (R.G.478): Central Personnel Data File: Suppressed and Unsuppressed Versions, 1985. I hope this information is useful. THEODORE J. HULL Archives Specialist Center for Electronic Records National Archives and Records Administration (301) 713-6645 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ************************************ Dr. Stefanie S. Rixecker Division of Environmental Management & Design Lincoln University, Canterbury PO Box 84 Aotearoa New Zealand E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fax: 64-03-325-3841 ************************************
