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GGD-84-95 1 (1984-07-31)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabnkz0001 and id is 1 raw text is: UNITED STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE GENERAL GOVERNMENT DIVISION JUL31 1984 B-215932 The Honorable Thomas N. Kindness Ranking Minority Member Government Information, Justice and Agriculture Subcommittee 124873 Committee on Government Operations House of Representatives Dear Mr. Kindness: Sub3ect: Observations on a General Services Administration Report on the National Archives and Records Service (GAO/GGD-84-95) As you requested by letter dated July 2, 1984, we have reviewed the May 1984 General Services Administration (GSA) report on the National Archives and Records Service (NARS). That report presented the results of a study conducted by a team from GSA's Office of the Associate Administrator for Policy and Management Systems and contained 52 recommendations to counter the problems at NARS identified by the team. Generally, the GSA team found that, The scope and magni- tude of the problems, both managerial and programmatic, now fac- ing NARS far exceed current (and past) efforts by NARS manage- ment to resolve them. The problems cited by the team included: the lack of an effective planning process, longstanding and con- tinuing personnel management problems, inadequate support for preservation efforts, and poorly planned automated systems and equipment acquisitions. In his reply to the draft report, the Archivist of the United States expressed strong reservations about the report's contents but noted that NARS had either com- pleted, had an ongoing program to accomplish, or in a very few instances would take new action on 35 of the 52 recommendations. Further, NARS planned to consider 9 of the remaining 17 recommendations. In 1982 and 1983, GAO conducted its own review of NARS management systems during which we worked with the Archivist and his staff to gain an understanding of the major challenges (015028)

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