Recommended sources for Records and Information Management. If your organization is not recognized here, please contact Steve Geurds. ARMA International: a not-for-profit association and the leading authority on managing records and information – paper and electronic. IIMC: a leading professional association serving the needs of Municipal Clerks, Secretaries, Treasurers and Recorders and other allied associations from cities and towns worldwide. MARAC: a volunteer, regional consortium of archivists who live and work in the states of New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, and West Virginia, and in the District of Columbia. NAGARA: a professional organization dedicated to the effective management of government information. NARA: ensures, for the citizen and the public servant, for the President and for the Congress and the Courts, ready access to essential evidence. New York State Archives: established in 1971 and opened its doors to the public in 1978. It is a program of the State Education Department, with its main facility located in the Cultural Education Center on Madison Avenue in Albany. There it cares for and provides access to more than 130 million documents that tell the story of New York from the seventeenth century to the present. >From its main facility, it also administers statewide programs that reach out to state agencies, local governments and community organizations. Archives staff are located in nine regional offices around the State to address the archives and records management concerns of every area of the State.