EWING, NJ - Secretary of State Nina Mitchell Wells, joined by representatives from The New Jersey Division of Archives and Records Management (DARM), the Department of State and the New Jersey State Records Committee (SRC), will announce and present the PARIS (Public Archives and Records Infrastructure Support) Awards for Excellence in the following categories: Shared Services; Public On-line Records Access; Records Management Website; Historical Records Focus (County and Municipal); Disaster Preparedness, Prevention and Recovery; Enterprise-Wide Imaging Systems (County and Municipal); Special Award - Artemis Participants.      

WHO:          The Honorable Nina Mitchell Wells, Esq., Secretary of State; Doug Robinson,
                  Executive Director for the National Association of State Chief Information
                  Officers; Karl Niederer, Director of DARM; members of the New Jersey State
                  Records Committee; local governments officials; members of the public.

WHAT:        Presentation of PARIS Awards for Excellence in nine categories to county 
                  and municipal PARIS grant recipients

WHEN:        Tuesday, 29 September 2009
                  5:00 pm (Prompt)

WHERE:     New Jersey State House
                 125 West State Street
                 Trenton, NJ 08625

The PARIS Grants Program, launched in 2005, is funded by fees collected by county clerks and registers for the recording of certain documents, including deeds and mortgages.  Forty percent of these funds are reserved annually for grants to county and municipal governments for public records management, preservation and storage.