Directory of Archival Consultants

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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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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.

Expertise: Historical research; Archival appraisal; Archival program evaluation; Archival standards; Arrangement and description; Budgeting and financial planning; Digitization / digital program development; Disaster preparedness; Electronic records management; Exhibit planning and implementation; Finding aids; Government relations; Management and administration; Outreach and public programs; Policy development; Records management; Records survey planning and implementation; Reference services; Staff training and recruitment; Staffing and implementation; Strategic planning
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Contact Name: Eira Tansey
Location(s):
Cincinnati, OH

 

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. 

Expertise: Audiovisual preservation and digitization; Descriptive metadata; Digitization / digital program development
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Contact Name: Sam Rintoul
Location(s):
Longview, WA

Founded in 1973, the nonprofit NEDCC | Northeast Document Conservation Center specializes in the preservation of paper- and film-based materials as well as audio recordings. The Center serves clients nationwide, including archives, government agencies, other cultural heritage organizations, and  individuals.

NEDCC provides conservation treatment and digitization for book, photograph, and paper collections, including large...

Expertise: Audiovisual preservation and digitization; Conservation Treatment; Digital Preservation; Digitization / digital program development; Preservation policy and procedures development; Disaster preparedness; Preservation; Staff training and recruitment
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Contact Name: Ann Marie Willer, Director of Preservation Services
Location(s):
Andover, MA

We Help Digitize Archives.

Paperboy Digital Consulting is focused on helping libraries digitize their archival materials, making them discoverable for research in support of the Digital Humanities.

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Expertise: Digitization / digital program development; Fundraising and grant writing; Strategic planning
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Contact Name: Bryan Benilous
Location(s):
Boynton Beach, FL

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...

Expertise: Archival program evaluation; Archival standards; Digital Asset Management; Arrangement and description; Cataloging; Digitization / digital program development; Project Management; Selecting and Implementing Collections Management Systems; Facilities planning and development; Fundraising and grant writing; Management and administration; Oral history planning and implementation; Outreach and public programs; Policy development; Preservation; Software applications; Staff training and recruitment
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Contact Name: Rachael Woody
Location(s):
Portland, OR

With more than 40 years of experience working with diverse organizations, our consultants offer expertise in a wide range of services and approaches to managing, protecting, and using historical materials.

Our knowledge of all types of archival records including digital and analog (paper-based) documentation, as well as various image media, and artifacts, allows us to help achieve successful intellectual and physical control, and management of collections.

We help you meet your goals and objectives through program development and project support.

Our Values:

  • History and those who create it matter
  • Access is...
Expertise: Access and classification reviews; Architectural Records; Archival appraisal; Archival program evaluation; Archival standards; Arrangement and description; Budgeting and financial planning; Landscape, Planning and Design Records; Digitization / digital program development; Project Management; Exhibit planning and implementation; Facilities planning and development; Finding aids; Fundraising and grant writing; Management and administration; Outreach and public programs; Policy development; Preservation; Records survey planning and implementation; Reference services; Strategic planning
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Contact Name: Waverly Lowell
Location(s):
Oakland, CA

The Winthrop Group was founded in 1982 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has worked with more than 350 clients located in more than 25 states and 10 countries in addition to the U.S.  Represented among our clients are Fortune 100 corporations and privately held companies, foundations, a range of non-profit and cultural organizations, educational institutions, municipal governments, private families, politicians, and artists.  The firm’s Information & Archival Services (I&AS) practice, which was formed in 1979 as a private consultancy rooted in corporate and organization archives, joined Winthrop’s Histories & Consulting in 1989 to become The Winthrop Group, Inc.

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Expertise: Archival program evaluation; Arrangement and description; Budgeting and financial planning; Digitization / digital program development; Exhibit planning and implementation; Facilities planning and development; Finding aids; Management and administration; Oral history planning and implementation; Policy development; Records survey planning and implementation; Staff training and recruitment; Staffing and implementation; Strategic planning
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Contact Name: Sam Markham
Location(s):
New York, NY