List of archivists

This is a list of archivists. An archivist is an information professional who assesses, collects, organizes, preserves, maintains control over, and provides access to records and archives determined to have long-term value. Some of the people listed here were not professional but amateur archivists, although their archivist activities preserved large amounts or important data.

Archivists

ImageNameBirth dateDeath dateCountryArchivist activity
Joaquín Albareda y RamonedaFebruary 16, 1892July 19, 1966 SpainArchivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962.
Henri d'Arbois de JubainvilleDecember 5, 1827February, 1910 FranceWorked at the departmental archives of Aube.
Robert-Henri BautierApril 19, 1922October 19, 2010 FranceWorked at the Archives nationales.
Howard Besser1952 United StatesFounder of the Moving Image Archiving & Preservation Program (MIAP) at New York University.
Baldassarre Bonifacio
Henri Bourde de La RogerieApril 8, 1873January 31, 1949 France
Charles BraibantMarch 31, 1889April 23, 1976 France
Brien BrothmanWorked at the National Archives of Canada until 1995. He is currently working at the Rhode Island State Archives.
Marcel CayaHead of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1][2]
Marie-Anne Chabin1959 France
Émile CampardonJuly 7, 1837February 23, 1915 France
Armand-Gaston Camus France
Paul ConwaySeptember 7, 1953 United StatesWorked at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and for the Society of American Archivists. He has published extensively on library preservation and conservation issues.
Terry Cook19462014 CanadaAuthor and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba.[3]
Barbara L. CraigAuthor and educator. Former university archivist at York University and instructor at University of Toronto Faculty of Information.[4]
Pierre Claude François DaunouAugust 18, 1761June 20, 1840 France
Arthur DoughtyMarch 22, 1860December 1, 1936 CanadaDominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records.
Jules DoinelDecember 8, 1842 France
Jean Dryden CanadaAuthor and copyright expert. Former archivist of United Church of Canada.[5]
Luciana Duranti CanadaArchival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
Terry Eastwood Canada
Jean Favier France
Lucie Favier France
David Ferriero
Margaret M. H. Finch6 January 18783 August 1958 United StatesSpecialized in Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records.
Robert Fruin the Netherlands
Léon Gautier France
Arthur Giry France
Marie-Claude Guigue France
Verne Harris South Africa
Michael S. HartMarch 8, 1947September 6, 2011 United StatesFather of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg.
Kent Haworth Canada
J. Franklin Jameson
Hilary Jenkinson United Kingdom
Phyllis Mander Jones AustraliaState Librarian, New South Wales, known for her work with promoting and establishing a separate archives association in Australia and for her work on the Australian Joint Copying Project
Brewster KahleOctober 22, 1960 United StatesFounder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library)
Rita Keegan1949Founder of Women Artists of Colour Index at the Women Artists' Slide Library and former Director of the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive
Arthur de La Borderie France
William Kaye Lamb19041999Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948-1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967.[6]
Gustave Lanctot
Charles-Victor Langlois France
Henri LangloisNovember 13, 1914January 13, 1977 FranceFrench film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema.
Abel Lefranc France
Waldo Gifford Leland
David Lemieux
Jason Liew SingaporeDeveloped Archival Appraisal 2.0, church archivist
Mollie Lukis AustraliaFirst State Archivist in Western Australia
Heather MacNeil CanadaArchival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
Joseph Marmette
Paul Mawhinney United StatesHe collected vinyl records. When the collection grew up to thousands, he created the shop Record-Rama. Then, he started to archive a copy of every sold album. In 2003, his music archive held 2 million items, twice the size of the Library of Congress similar collection. When the store was closed in 2008, there were 3 million items. (See documentary: The Archive)
Sue McKemmish AustraliaCo-founder of the Records Continuum Research Group and academic at Monash University (Professor) in archival systems. Contributed to the development of the Records Continuum Model
P. K. NairApril 6, 1933March 4, 2016 IndiaIndian film archivist and film scholar, who was the founder and director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) in 1964.
Margaret Cross Norton United StatesCo-founder of the Society of American Archivists
Juan Menéndez Pidal
Régine Pernoud FranceWorked at the Archives nationales in Paris
Seymour PomrenzeFirst director of the Offenbach Archival Depot
Ernst Posner United States
Mila RechciglUnited States}Archivist of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU).
Stella Rimington United KingdomFormer Director General of MI5.
Helen Willa Samuels United StatesArchivist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Celia SánchezArchived many documents of Cuban Revolution.
Jason Scott SadofskySeptember 13, 1970 United StatesCreator and maintainer of textfiles.com, a web site which archives files from historic bulletin board systems; founder of Archive Team, a group to preserving copies of websites that close down (e.g. GeoCities); and filmmaker of BBS: The Documentary and GET LAMP. (See talk: ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack)
T. R. Schellenberg United States
Henry Spencer1955 CanadaPreserved more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The contents were imported into Google's archives.
Marion StokesNovember 25, 1929December 14, 2012 United StatesRecorded hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years. After her death, the collection was given to Internet Archive.
Shelley Sweeney (archivist)1959She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Gerhard Tausche1957
Hugh Taylor19202005Author and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.[7]
Édith Thomas FranceWorked at the Archives nationales in Paris
Frank Upward AustraliaCreated the Records Continuum Model
Dragan Espenschied1975Germany / United StatesDirects the Rhizome digital preservation program, which oversees 2000+ born-digital artworks, as well as the creation of a suite of archiving tools.
Paul Marie ViolletOctober 24, 1840November 22, 1914 FranceWorked at the Archives nationales in Paris.
Rodrigo Moura VisoniMarch 21, 1980Living BrazilArchivist of Specialist in the History of Brazilian Inventions.
Jean-Pierre Wallot
Ian E. Wilson1943Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada[8]
Dharwis YacobIndonesiaArchivist of Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia
Gladys Hansen1925March 5, 2017 United StatesExpert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
Charles J. FarrugiaFebruary 13, 1970 MaltaMalta's first national archivist appointed in 2005. He also chaired ACARM and served on the executive of EURBICA.

See also

References

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  2. Archivists, The Association of Canadian. "ACA Award Recipient Biographies | The Association of Canadian Archivists". www.archivists.ca. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  3. Nesmith, Tom (2015-04-29). "Terry Cook, 1947–2014". Archivaria. 79 (0): 207–213. ISSN 1923-6409.
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