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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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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...
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...
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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Memory Rising offers professional archival consulting services for individual, nonprofit, and corporate clients in the Ohio River Valley (Ohio/Kentucky/Indiana/West Virginia). Led by Eira Tansey, a professional archivist of more than 17 years, Memory Rising ensures that clients’ historical materials are preserved and accessible through expertise in collection assessments and organization, records management, and staff/volunteer training. Memory Rising also offers research support, assisting with the selection and digitization of archival materials for exhibits and publications.
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,...
Rebecca Hankins is a President Barack Obama appointee to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). As a Commission member, she was responsible for evaluating and dispensing between $5-10 million dollars in grants annually for the National Archives. Prior to her appointment, Rebecca was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Society of American Archivist-- the highest honor...
Rachael Cristine Woody is the owner of Relicura LLC, a firm that provides services to archives, museums, and cultural heritage organizations. She specializes in establishing collection programs, assessment and planning for historical collections, and vetting and implementing Collection Management Systems (CMS). Previously she revived the archives at the Freer|Sackler Museum of the Smithsonian Institution and launched the Oregon Wine...
Sepia Archival Management works with individuals, cultural organizations and corporations to provide an array of services. Hands-on work includes collection organization and description, digitization, light preservation work and cataloging home libraries and art collections. Our strategic services include providing overarching archival strategies, making archival software recommendations and documentation and description planning.
I am an archivist with over ten years experience in archives, specifically performing and visual arts collections that defy traditional best practices. I can help you develop digitization plans, write grants to obtain funding, and connect you with vendors who prioritize artists and arts institutions.
As the manager of digital and special projects at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club Archives (2018-2023) I oversaw the digitization and management of over 60 years of Off-off Broadway history. At NYU's Fales Library and Special Collections (2014-2017), I worked closely with artists to process their papers, and provide reference services to patrons of all kinds. At the New York City...