As i did not attend the field trip, i will be blogging about their website.
About the National Archives.
Anyone who has cleaned out a family attic knows the importance of keeping family records. You may have military records from relatives who served in one of the World Wars—or even the Civil War. Or pictures of your great-great grandparents on the day they became American citizens. Or the canceled check that paid for your first home. Now imagine the task of the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)—the nation’s record keeper. This is what they do. They preserve our ancestors information with them.
Then you wonder, what is an Archieve?
An archives is a place where people can go to gather firsthand facts, data, and evidence from letters, reports, notes, memos, photographs, and other primary sources. The National Archives is the U.S. Government’s collection of documents that records important events in American history. The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is the Government agency that preserves and maintains these materials and makes them available for research.
Their services which they provide.
In addition to assisting Federal agencies and the public with research and reference services, we deliver educational programs and public workshops to help Americans learn how to use archived records.
Social media use:
Social Media and Web 2.0 At The National Archives
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has launched some Web 2.0 technologies and has signed agreements to create NARA sites on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook, and Flickr. NARA is using these tools and sites to create new ways of communicating with the public and look forward to your feedback. Also if you mouseover to their bookmark and share, you are able to see that you can actually save their webpage or publish it on your facebook. This makes it increase awareness of the National Archieves.
Sources:
-http://www.archives.gov/about/info/whats-an-archives.html
-http://www.archives.gov/publications/general-info-leaflets/1.html
