Archives and Records Centers information Systems (ARCIS)

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Archives and Records Centers information Systems
(ARCIS)

• User Administration for Agency Customers

5/25/11
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Objectives

• At the end of this training, participants will be
  able to
• Understand what ARCIS is and how its used.
• Create new users with appropriate access rights
  and capabilities.
• Modify existing user profiles.
• Resolve user access and capability problems
  associated with the users ARCIS profile.

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Topics Covered

• ARCIS Overview and Tour
• Records Transfers and Reference Requests and
  their Relationship to User Profiles
• User Administration

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What is ARCIS?

• Web-based application for the management of
  records transactions between the owning agency
  and NARA Records Centers.
• Modernizes the entire records management process.

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Interdependent ARCIS Components

• User Administration Set up ARCIS users and
  assign them capabilities.
• Access Control Restrict what records each user
  can access.
• Records Transfers Submit SF 135s online and
  track the status of records transfers.
• Reference Requests Submit OF 11s online and
  track the status of reference requests.

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Two sides of ARCIS

• NARA employee portal

• Customer portal

• Used by FRC staff to process transactions.
• All transactions are now being handled via ARCIS
  (records transfers, reference requests, refiles,
  dispositions, etc.)

• Used by customers to submit transactions to the
  FRC.
• Until recently, only the Reference Requests
  module was available.

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Benefits of ARCIS

• ARCIS expedites data entry and submission
• ARCIS provides precise bar-code tracking of
  records and transactions
• ARCIS keeps track of exactly where records are
  shelved (so you dont have to!)
• ARCIS keeps track of the status of every
  transaction

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Online Resources for Trainers and Students

• http//www.archives.gov/frc/arcis/

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ARCIS System Tour

• Login to ARCIS
• http//gpeatest.archives.gov/arcistrncustqa