Richard Pearce-Moses

Richard Pearce-Moses has been a professional archivist for more than thirty years and has been a member of the Academy of Certified Archivist since its inception. He has a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001), a Master of American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (1987), and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin (1976).

He has worked in a wide range of archives with a variety of subjects and formats, including photography, regional history, Native American art and culture, and state and local government. For the past decade, he has focused on digital archives and libraries, including finding ways to capture and preserve digital publications on the Web and new ways to automate processing electronic records.  Most recently, he served as Deputy Director for Technology and Information Resources at the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records.