"The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is an independent federal agency "that preserves our nation's history and defines us as a people by overseeing the management of all federal records." NARA holds "about 21.5 million cubic feet of original textual materials [...] from the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the federal government. The National Archives multimedia collections include nearly 300,000 reels of motion picture film, more than 5 million maps, charts, and architectural drawings, more than 200,000 sound and video recordings, more than 9 million aerial photographs, nearly 14 million still pictures and posters, and about 7,600 computer data sets." This site offers general information on NARA, its services and publications. NARA offers a variety of resources and research tools, and online access to the National Archives Library."