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This easy-to-use Directory of Archival Consultants contains information about experts across the country who provide professional consulting services on various aspects of archives and archiving. All listings in this directory are paid listings. Information provided by consultants is not independently checked or verified.
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With a focus on modern and contemporary art, literature and performance, Lisa can help you preserve your collection and make it easier to access. Working with individuals, arts organizations, collectors and estates, Lisa assesses, inventories, catalogs and digitizes archives, and advises on placing collections as sales or donations. ...
Archivist, theatre kid, travel junkie, and cat lady Beth McDonald has more than a decade of professional experience in archives and museums. As an archival consultant, Beth provides guidance in a number of essential areas, including strategic planning, archival development and organization, processing and cataloging, arrangement and description, oral history planning and development, and exhibit planning and implementation.
She has worked extensively with performing arts and community archives, focusing on transforming complex projects into engaging and accessible collections. Her work has been presented at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting published in The Journal...
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Margot Note Consulting LLC offers information strategy and archives and records management services.
Leaders look to Margot to transform information chaos to clarity, helping them make better decisions, win grants, and save money. Most importantly, they gain peace of mind knowing that their project is handled by an expert. Clients have come to value Margot’s ability to complete projects on time, on budget, and tailored to their needs. They understand that to manage with a sense of history is not to be tethered...
Are you planning new services, facilities, or programs for your archives? Interested in developing new vision and mission statements, strategic plans, and connecting important ongoing staff activities? Considering new ways to collaborate with partners? Evaluating your approach to teaching with primary sources? Looking for ways to engage students in learning at a deeper level with your resources? We'll be happy to help!
For us it's not work, we truly love what we do. With over 35 years of audiovisual production and media conversion experience, Media Transfer Service provides high-level digitization of audio, video, motion picture film and still image formats for archives and private collections both in North America and clients off-shore. We provide full-service audiovisual media digitization as well as enhancement, treatment and recovery of contaminated or damaged audiovisual media formats, tape baking services for both audiotape and videotape formats and audio/video transcription services. We also have the background and experience...
Leverage four decades of experience in archival practice, training, and mentoring with Meissner Archival Consulting. Led by Dennis Meissner—retired Deputy Director for Programs at the Minnesota Historical Society, SAA Fellow, past SAA President, and author of Arranging and Describing Archives and Manuscripts—our expertise is rooted in foundational projects like the influential More Product, Less Process (MPLP) research.
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I specialize in converting physical items into various digital formats. Includes but not limited to: Documents, Photographs, Slides, Negatives, VHS tapes, 8mm film, Vinyl, Cassettes, Mini-Cassettes and Mini-DV tapes. Additional services that I offer are Digital Restoration, Metadata and Transcription. I am an independent contractor and am open to traveling for work. I work with private clients and institutions, most recently being the Clark County Historical Museum, the Cowlitz County Historical Museum and the Washington State University-Vancouver Archives.
MCR provides consulting, curatorial and collections management services to museums, private collectors, businesses and institutions. We are chaos resolution experts involved in cataloging, digitization, and space assessments, as well as new museum and institutional change planning.
Our team is made up of highly skilled professionals with formal academic training in addition to practical museum, collections management, archive, and curatorial experience. We work both on-site and remotely to ensure the highest possible standards for collections care.
Our clients include small, volunteer-run historic houses to major museums, private collections to historic societies,...