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• All National Archives research rooms will be closed on Monday, May 27, for Memorial Day. Museums in Washington, DC, and at the Presidential libraries will be open.
  
  
• The U.S. Colored Troops (USCT) Service Records Digitization Project is complete.
  
  
• The Online Public Access (OPA) system will be down for maintenance, May 10—May 25.
  
  
• The June 27 Preservation Conference in St. Louis, MO, has been canceled.
  
  
• The 16th Amendment and the first Form 1040 are on display in Washington, DC, through April 30.
  
  
• Free new eBook from the National Archives Celebrates Opening of Baseball Season.
  
  
• DC-area research rooms now have a 3:30 p.m. records pull, Monday–Friday.
  
  
• The Genealogy Fair in Washington, DC, has been canceled.
  
  
• Visitors with timed entry reservations may need to reschedule DC museum visits.
  
  
• Research room and exhibit hours in the Washington, DC, area will be shortened as of March 15.
  
  
• The National Archives helps launch the Digital Public Library of America.
  
  
• "Searching for the Seventies: The DOCUMERICA Photography Project," a new exhibit, opened March 8 in Washington, DC.
  
  
• Apply for a Regional Residency Fellowship to do research at one of our regional archives. Applications due March 15.
  
  
• The LBJ Library has released love letters exchanged by the future President and First Lady.
  
  
• You can now manage your research card account online (add funds, change passwords, and more).
  
  
• The National Archives at New York City is now open at the Alexander Hamilton U.S. Custom House.
  
  
• The Electoral College has met and voted! Learn about the Federal Register's role in this video.
  
  
• The George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum is now on Twitter and Facebook.
  
  
• A display, "Nixon and the U.S. Space Program," kicks off a year of Presidential centennials.
  
  
• A new eBook on the Emancipation Proclamation is now available.
  
  
• Our Citizen Archivist initiative wins the Gellhorn Innovation Award.
  
  
• Public Interest Declassification Board issued its report to the President.
  
  
• Learn about National Archives records that document the path to citizenship in this new video.
  
  
• Unsealed material from U.S. v. Liddy now open to the public.
  
  
• Explore new interactive Electoral College maps on the Federal Register's Electoral College website.
  
  
• "Citizen scientists" to transcribe digitized Historic Navy deck logs.
  
  
• Robert F. Kennedy papers relating to the Cuban Missile Crisis opened.
  
  
• New app from GPO and Federal Register gives easier access to Presidential documents.
  
  
• FOIAonline launched to expand public access to information requested under the Freedom of Information Act.
  
  
• Exhibit on the Cuban Missile Crisis opens at the National Archives in Washington, DC.
  
  
• Materials related to the Katyn massacre during World War II have been declassified.
  
  
• New reproduction fees starting October 1.
  
  
• The National Archives has a new home in the Denver area.
  
  
• Information Security Oversight Office releases Fundamental Classification Guidance Review.
  
  
• Federal records management overhaul announced.
  
  
• A new research page commemorates the anniversary of the American with Disabilities Act.
  
  
• The Federal Register has a new director.
  
  
• The National Declassification Center has issued its fifth biannual report.
  
  
• The George W. Bush Library has launched its new website.
  
  
• The National Archives has released its updated Open Government Plan.
  
  
• Centennials of Pat Nixon and Lady Bird Johnson celebrated in exhibits and website.
  
  
• ISOO issues its annual report.
  
  
• National Archives Leads Restoration of John Huston's Let There Be Light.
  
  
• NHPRC grants for Documentary Editing and Archival Projects awarded.
  
  
• Immigration files opened in San Francisco and research center named for Tom Lantos.
  
  
• Largest photography exhibit ever on the Roosevelts now at FDR Library.
  
  
• A video goes behind the scenes to look at digitizing Civil War widows' pension files.
  
  
• Records of the DC Emancipation Act of 1862 are featured in a video.
  
  
• A DocsTeach app for the iPad is now available.
  
  
• A video takes you inside the Titanic-related records in the National Archives.
  
  
• The 1940 census is now open!
  
  

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