Gray-bellied Night Monkey (Aotus lemurinus), family Aotidae, Colombia

A group of Spix's night monkeys (Aotus vociferans) in Sucumbíos, Ecuador

Panamanian Night Monkey Aotus zonalis

Found in Panama and the Chocó region of Colombia. The Panamanian night monkey is arboreal and nocturnal, and found in several types of forest, including secondary forest and coffee plantations. They are one of the few monogamous monkeys, and generally give birth to a single infant each year, although twins occasionally occur.

Dr. Colleen Shogan takes the oath of office, assuming the role of Archivist of the United States today. She is the 11th Archivist and the first woman to permanently hold this position.

Shogan will maintain two official presences on social media. Follow her at @aotus11_shogan on Instagram and Twitter.

Shogan Confirmed by U.S. Senate as 11th Archivist of the United States

Press Release: Wednesday, May 10, 2023

The United States Senate voted today to confirm Dr. Colleen Shogan as the 11th Archivist of the United States.

Nominated by President Biden on August 3, 2022, Shogan will begin her tenure as the head of the National Archives and Records Administration next week. She will be the first woman to hold the position permanently, succeeding David S. Ferriero, who retired in April 2022.

Most recently, Shogan served as Senior Vice President and Director of the David M. Rubenstein Center at the White House Historical Association. She previously worked in the United States Senate and as a senior executive at the Library of Congress. Shogan was the Vice Chair of the Women’s Suffrage Centennial Commission and the Chair of the Board of Directors at the Women’s Suffrage National Monument Foundation.

A native of the Pittsburgh area, Shogan holds a BA in Political Science from Boston College and a Ph.D. in American Politics from Yale University, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa, the Order of the Cross and Crown, and the Literary Society of Washington, DC.

Press Release: https://www.archives.gov/press/press-releases/2023/nr23-31

Today NARA is releasing the entirety of our digital preservation framework for public comment. This digital preservation framework consists of our approach to determining risks faced by electronic files, and our plans for preserving different types of file formats. The public is encouraged to join the discussion, September 16 through November 1, 2019, on GitHub.

Read the full post on the AOTUS blog.

Three-Striped owl monkeys (Aotus trivirgatus) in Zoo Zagreb, Croatia