National Archives at College Park

The facility serves as the primary base of operations for the bulk of the senior offices[citation needed] within the organization of the National Archives.

The National Archives building at College Park held its groundbreaking in 1989 and opened in 1994 on a parcel of campus donated by the University of Maryland,[1] mostly to alleviate space constraints at the aged National Archives Building in Washington, D.C.[2][3] By that time, the original facility had become incapable of holding further numbers of records transferred in from various branches of the government.

The center also possesses a small number of 19th century (and earlier) records; however, the bulk of these historic holdings are maintained at the National Archives Building in Washington.

In 1995, the Berlin Document Center provided to the National Archives at College Park a large number of microfiche records relating to Nazi Germany.

The Archivist of the United States maintains an auxiliary office on the premises, but mostly conducts business from the archives building in Washington.

Beginning in the early 2000s, the National Archives began a dedicated effort to provide specific records support for electronic data.