The Quentinian National Archives
| Quentinian National Archives | |||||
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| Motto: Preservation to Enhance Learning | |||||
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| Formed | January 1st, 1942 | ||||
| Type | Federal Executive Office (Department of Education) | ||||
| Parent Bureau | National Institute of Public Academics | ||||
| Headquarters | Second National Archives Building 845 Capitol Street Mechanicsburg, GA, USQ | ||||
| Employees | 2,684 | ||||
| Annual Budget | Ð29 million ($290 million) | ||||
| Director | Markus Heiman | ||||
| Operations Archivist | Claire Rohrer | ||||
| Website | nationalarchives.gov.nwd[1] | ||||
The Quentinian National Archives (officially the Quentinian Office of the National Archives) is a building and executive office located in the Mechanicsburg, GA, in the United States of Quentin, which is run by the federal government of the nation, specifically the National Institute of Public Academics (NIPA). The National Archives serves as the home of thousands of documents from across the history of the United States of Quentin, but mainly official documents that pertain to the federal government, such as bills, codes, mandates, decrees, or personal works by politicians.
The National Archives were founded in 1949, seven years after the creation of its parent organization, the NIPA. The NIPA established the National Archives as the first of its three large projects, the others being the Federal Library of the United States of Quentin and the Federal University of Mechanicsburg. The original National Archives building was opened on January 1st, 1973, however after 30 years of materials collection, the Archives building was rebuilt in 2013, and today is the largest hub of political documents in the world. These include the Quentinian Declaration of Independence, the United States of Quentin Constitution, including every amendment, the Quentinian Code of Laws, and even the Logan Charter of Secession, among thousands of others.
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History
The groundwork for the Quentinian National Archives was first laid with President Ali Shamji in 1942. Shamji created the National Institute of Public Academics (NIPA) to create new and regulate existing libraries and federal institutions of learning, and the Institute became a federal bureau within the Department of Education, with its first funding in 1944. Soon after, the Institute realized the need for a storage space of all government materials, which could so easily be lost in a disaster, or simply misplaced, as before this time documents like the Constitution had been kept hanging in the halls of Congress.
So, in 1947 the NIPA used its new funding to establish the Quentinian National Archives as a federal office operating underneath the NIPA, the Archives' official name being the Quentinian Office of National Archives. The National Archives took nearly 30 years after this to collect or buy thousands of political materials from across the country. The most infamous of these collections was in 1950, one of the first the National Archives operated, aiming to secure the Declaration of Independence, Constitution and its amendments, and the Quentinian Federal Legal Guide. That year, representatives visited Congress, hoping to obtain the Constitution, however the mostly Mild RePublican Congress refused to give up the document. The National Archives then attempted to buy the document, however the request was denied several times over. Finally, the Supreme Council had to issue a decree ordering the Congress to accept a buyout, which they did.
In 1970, the federal government finally began construction on the National Archives building, located in Mechanicsburg, the nation's capital. The building was located at 845 Capitol Street, the same street as the capitol building and the Logan Statue, just across from Cupboard Place. In 1973 the construction was finished, and the first building, called the First National Archives Building, was opened to the public. By 1990, the National Archives had uploaded all documents to a computer database, the first federal institution in the nation to do so. In 2000, the institution opened a new exhibit of thousands of personal documents from politicians, allowing citizens views into the personal beliefs and ideas of historical figures.
By 2011, the First Archives Building was run down, and with the expansion of computer databases and equipment, was not operating properly. So construction was begun on a new building, at the same location, but with much more space and technological functionality. The building was designed to look almost identical to the new one, and in 2013 the Second National Archives Building was opened.
Organization
The Quentinian National Archives is a federal executive office, operating under the National Institute of Public Academics, which is itself a federal executive bureau operating under the Quentinian Department of Education. As an executive office, the National Archives is headed by an executive director, currently Markus Heiman, who was sworn in to the position in 2006. The director has authority over all operations, however is a subordinate to the NIPA Commissioner, who is also a direct subordinate of the Secretary of Education. These powers include directing archivists, appropriating funds to different sectors of the archives, and deciding upon new ventures and storage.
The National Archives also employs nearly 2,864 other employees, mostly managers of the archives, tour guides, collectors, and upkeep managers. However, there are 7 archivists at the Archives, who each oversee a different portion of the archives, and who direct all operations falling under their jurisdiction. These archivists consist of the Operations Archivist, who passes on orders from the director and handles top priority documents, the Legislative Archivist, the Judicial Archivist, the Executive Archivist, the Legal Archivist, the Contemporary Archivist and the Accounts Archivist.
Archival Preservation and Recovery Teams
The National Archives also employs two teams separate from the rest of the organization, the Archival Preservation Team and the Archival Recovery Team. The preservation team works to preserve original documents, and keep them at the highest quality, including repairing damages, noting where text or images have been lost, and shielding documents from new damage. The recovery team is in charge of investigating and the loss or theft of archival possessions.
Facilities
The Quentinian National Archives are currently based in the Second National Archives Building in Mechanicsburg, GA, the capital of the nation. The building, located at 825 Capitol Street, is the second incarnation of the National Archives' main facility, the first being the First National Archives Building, which was located at the same address, but was demolished in 2011. The building today is the main facility of the National Archives, and visitors can examine nearly any document, with higher importance documents kept on guarded display. The archives utilizes a digital archive as well, which visitors can access at the building.
For the continued collection and research of new documents, the National Archives also maintains several small facilities across the nation. The office currently has a facility in the capital of every state, as well as one in each of the nation's four territories.
Partnerships
In order to distribute and make available the materials it collects, without allowing them to be circulated on the Megaconn or held by private institutions, the National Archives maintains partnerships with nearly 90 other public institutions across the nation, which includes the loan of materials and access to its digital archives. This includes a partnership with the two largest libraries in the nation, the Quentinian Federal Library in Mechanicsburg and the Quentinian National Library in Liberation City. The other 88 partnerships are either with federal museums maintained by the Department of Monuments or federal public libraries maintained by the NIPA.
