Thomas Wilsted

Tom Wilsted is currently a consultant providing services to institutions planning new archival facilities or requiring archival management consultation.  He previously served as director of the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center at the University of Connecticut, Associate Director of the American Heritage Center at the University of Wyoming, Director of the Salvation Army Archives and Manuscripts Librarian at the National Library of New Zealand.

Mr. Wilsted has a graduate degree in history and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists. He has taught SAA workshops on management and planning and on new and remodeled archival facilities. He is the co-editor of Archival and Special Collections Facilities: Guidelines for Archivists, Librarians, Architects and Engineers published by the Society of American Archivists in 2009 which won the SAA’s Preservation Publication Award, author of Planning New and Remodeled Archival Facilities published by the Society of American Archivists in 2007, and co-author of Managing Archival and Manuscript Repositories published by the Society of American Archivists in 1992 that won the SAA's Waldo Leland Gifford Prize and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference Arline Custer Award.