List of archivists explained

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

Image width=150px Name !width=150px Birth date !width=150px Death date !Country Archivist activity
data-sort-value="1988-05-19" May 19, 1988 - - Archivist of Pakistani national songs from 1945 to present.
data-sort-value="1892-02-16" February 16, 1892 data-sort-value="1966-07-19" July 19, 1966 Archivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962.
data-sort-value="1827-12-05" December 5, 1827 data-sort-value="1910-02" February, 1910 Worked at the departmental archives of Aube.
data-sort-value="1922-04-19" April 19, 1922 data-sort-value="2010-10-19" October 19, 2010 Worked at the Archives nationales.
data-sort-value="" January 5, 1585data-sort-value="" November 17, 1659
data-sort-value="1873-04-08" April 8, 1873 data-sort-value="1949-01-31" January 31, 1949
data-sort-value="1889-03-31" March 31, 1889 data-sort-value="1976-04-23" April 23, 1976
Marcel Caya data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Head of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1]
data-sort-value="1959" October 17, 1959 data-sort-value="-"
data-sort-value="1837-07-18" July 7, 1837 data-sort-value="1915-02-23" February 23, 1915
data-sort-value="1740-04-02" April 2, 1740 data-sort-value="1804-11-02" November 2, 1804
data-sort-value="1953-09-07" September 7, 1953 data-sort-value="-" Worked at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and for the Society of American Archivists. He has published extensively on library preservation and conservation issues.
data-sort-value="1946" June 6, 1947data-sort-value="2014" May 12, 2014 Author and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba.[2]
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Author and educator. Former university archivist at York University and instructor at University of Toronto Faculty of Information.
data-sort-value="1761-08-18" August 18, 1761data-sort-value="1840-06-20" June 20, 1840
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Oxford University College archivist.
data-sort-value="1860-03-22" March 22, 1860 data-sort-value="1936-12-01" December 1, 1936 Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records.
Jennifer Douglasdata-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Professor, University of British Columbia iSchool
data-sort-value="1842-12-08" December 8, 1842 data-sort-value="" March 16 or 17, 1903
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
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data-sort-value="" April 2, 1932 data-sort-value="" August 12, 2014
data-sort-value="" August 4, 1932 data-sort-value="" October 19, 2003
data-sort-value="1945-12-31" December 31, 1945 data-sort-value="" Archivist of the United States[3]
data-sort-value="1878-01-6"January 6, 1878 data-sort-value="1958-08-03" August 3, 1958 Specialized in the US Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records.
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data-sort-value="" November 11, 1823data-sort-value="" January 29, 1899
data-sort-value="" August 8, 1832data-sort-value="" August 25, 1897
data-sort-value="" February 29, 1848data-sort-value="" November 13, 1899
data-sort-value="" October 12, 1884data-sort-value="" September 9, 1955Development of cultural, theatrical and private archives at the Danish National Archives
data-sort-value="1941-10-25" October 25, 1941 data-sort-value="-" Worked at the Texas State Archives and taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He also published extensively on Texas history.
data-sort-value="" October 16, 1832 data-sort-value="" February 8, 1889
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data-sort-value="1947-03-08" March 8, 1947 data-sort-value="2011-09-06" September 6, 2011 Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg.
data-sort-value="" 1946 data-sort-value="" 2003 Contributor to establishment of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD), descriptive standard used in Canada
Judith Hornabrook19282011Chief Archivist of New Zealand (1972–1982)
data-sort-value="" September 19, 1859 data-sort-value="" September 28, 1937
data-sort-value="" November 1, 1882 data-sort-value="" March 5, 1961
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" State 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
data-sort-value="1960-10-22" October 22, 1960 data-sort-value="-" Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library)
data-sort-value="1949" 1949 data-sort-value="-" Founder of Women Artists of Colour Index at the Women Artists' Slide Library and former Director of the African and Asian Visual Arts Archive
data-sort-value="" October 5, 1827data-sort-value="" February 17, 1901
data-sort-value="" 1904 data-sort-value="" 1999 Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948–1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967.[4]
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data-sort-value="1914-11-13" November 13, 1914 data-sort-value="1977-01-13" January 13, 1977 French film archivist and cinephile. A pioneer of film preservation, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema.
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data-sort-value="1970-11-08" November 8, 1970 data-sort-value="" Archivist (audio/video) for the Grateful Dead rock band
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" First State Archivist in Western Australia
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond.
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data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" He 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)
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Co-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
Anahera MorehuChief Archivist of New Zealand (2023–)
data-sort-value="1933-04-06" April 6, 1933 data-sort-value="2016-03-04" March 4, 2016 Indian film archivist and film scholar, who was the founder and director of the National Film Archive of India (NFAI) in 1964.
data-sort-value="1946-06-28" June 28, 1946 data-sort-value="2022-06-28" June 28, 2022 Archivist for the Duchy of Lancaster, and co-creator of the Walker-Neesam archive of research papers at the Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate, England.
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists
data-sort-value="1896-05-04" May 4, 1896 data-sort-value="1981-10-24" October 24, 1981 creator of Opera News, and founder of the Metropolitan Opera archives
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data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris
data-sort-value="1915-09-01" data-sort-value="2011-08-25" First director of the Offenbach Archival Depot
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data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Archivist of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU).
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Former Director General of MI5.
data-sort-value="1943" data-sort-value=""
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution.
data-sort-value="1970-09-13" September 13, 1970 data-sort-value="-" Creator 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 and GET LAMP. (See talk: ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack)
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data-sort-value="1955" 1955 data-sort-value="-" Preserved more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The contents were imported into Google's archives.
data-sort-value="1929-11-25" November 25, 1929 data-sort-value="2012-12-14" December 14, 2012 Recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years. After her death, the collection was given to Internet Archive.
data-sort-value="-" data-sort-value="-" She is an assistant professor in the UCLA School of Education and Information Studies and an expert in Black archival studies.
data-sort-value="1959" 1959 data-sort-value="-" She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
data-sort-value="1957" 1957 data-sort-value="-"
Hugh Taylor1920 2005 Author and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.[5]
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris
1975 Directs the Rhizome digital preservation program, which oversees 2000+ born-digital artworks, as well as the creation of a suite of archiving tools.
data-sort-value=1840-10-24"" October 24, 1840 data-sort-value="1914-11-22" November 22, 1914 Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris.
data-sort-value="1805-05-10" May 10, 1805 data-sort-value="1886-12-04" December 4, 1886 Head of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire.
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data-sort-value="1936" 1936 data-sort-value="" First State Archivist of New York State Archives (1974–1980), Deputy Archivist of the United States National Archives and Records Administration (1980–1982), State Archivist of Georgia Archives (1982–2000)
Anita Wilson19432006Established Tuvalu's archive in 1978. Archivist for Government of Hong Kong (1986–1997). Archivist at British royal family archive (2001–2006)
data-sort-value="" 1943data-sort-value="" Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada[6]
data-sort-value="1925" 1925 data-sort-value="2017-03-05" March 5, 2017 Expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake
data-sort-value="" data-sort-value="" Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
data-sort-value="1865-08-07" August 7, 1865 data-sort-value="1935-02-04" February 7, 1935helped guide the widespread establishment of government archives throughout the United States
Alexander Fraser (archivist)18601936 CanadaFirst Provincial Archivist of Ontario (1903–1935)
Laureano Macedo1978 Portugalportuguese scholar.
Rebecka Sheffield1976 CanadaLGBTQ2+ community-based archives
Guddu PakistanArchivist of film posters and photographs

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: ACA Award Recipient Biographies . The Association of Canadian Archivists. 2017-01-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20170204085552/http://www.archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies#Caya. 2017-02-04. dead.
  2. Nesmith. Tom. 2015-04-29. Terry Cook, 1947–2014. Archivaria. en. 79. 207–213. 1923-6409.
  3. Web site: David Ferriero Biography. U.S. National Archives. 15 August 2016. 2020-06-19.
  4. Web site: ACA Award Recipient Biographies . https://web.archive.org/web/20160506230755/http://archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies. dead. 2016-05-06. The Association of Canadian Archivists. 2017-01-31.
  5. Cook. Terry. 2006-09-25. Hugh A. Taylor, 1920-2005. Archivaria. 60. 1923-6409.
  6. Web site: ACA Award Recipient Biographies . The Association of Canadian Archivists . 2017-01-31. https://web.archive.org/web/20170204085552/http://www.archivists.ca/content/aca-award-recipient-biographies#Wilson. 2017-02-04. dead.