April is Strategic Information Management Month.
April 1, 2019

On this date in 2005, the National Archival Development Program (NADP) took effect. It replaced the National Archives grants and contributions program established in 1989 and is administered by the Library and Archives of Canada.
April 1, 2019

On this date in 1985, the United States National Archives and Records Service, a branch of the General Services Administration, became an independent agency with its name changed to the National Archives and Records Administration.
April 1, 2019

On this date in 2002 the Scottish Council on Archives was founded. The Council was officially launched by Glasgow's Lord Provost, Alex Mosson, at a civic reception in the City Chambers attended by around 75 invited guests. Dr. Irene O'Brien of Glasgow City Archives was the Council's first Chair.
April 2, 2019

On this date in 2003, Great Britain's Public Record Office (PRO) and Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC) combined to form a new organisation: The National Archives. Sarah Tyacke CB, was named the first Chief Executive of the National Archives. The new organization was based at the PRO's former headquarters in Kew.
April 2, 2019

On this date in 2006, the Associated Press broke the story that the United States National Archives and Records Administration had signed a secret agreement with the CIA and the Pentagon in 2002 to keep silent about a government reclassification program. The 2002 agreement showed archivists were concerned about reclassifying previously available documents — many of them more than 50 years old — but nonetheless agreed to keep mum. April 14 On this date in 2003, military forces of the United States of America refused to intervene when mobs looted and burned the Iraqi National Library and Archives in broad daylight.
April 10, 2019

On this date in 2003, military forces of the United States of America refused to intervene when mobs looted and burned the Iraqi National Library and Archives in broad daylight.
April 14, 2019

On this date in 1935, the Roerich Pact was signed. It was one of the earliest international agreements addressing cultural heritage. It affirmed that monuments, museums, and scientific, artistic, educational, and cultural institutions and their personnel were to be considered neutral in times of war and accorded respect and protection in peacetime.
April 15, 2019

On this date in 2006, the family of late US columnist Jack Anderson rejected the FBI's demand to allow government investigators to search the famed muckraker's papers and remove documents the investigators deemed confidential or secret. Anderson ’s papers were housed at George Washington University in preparation for their formal donation to the school. Coming in the wake of the Patriot Act and attempts to reclassify as secret documents at the National Archives, observers of academic freedom and libraries viewed the FBI's request as part of a broader renewed emphasis on secrecy in American government, focusing particularly on libraries and archives.
April 18, 2019

On this date in 2004, the National Library and Archives of Canada Act received Royal Assent. The act combined Canada's separate national library and archives into a single institution, the National Library and Archives of Canada, created a new executive called the Librarian and Archivist of Canada, and amended the Copyright Act.
April 22, 2019