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
| Image | Name | Birth date | Death date | Country | Archivist activity |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Joaquín Albareda y Ramoneda | February 16, 1892 | July 19, 1966 |  Spain | Archivist of Montserrat monastery and Prefect of the Vatican Library from 1936 to 1962. | |
| Henri d'Arbois de Jubainville | December 5, 1827 | February, 1910 |  France | Worked at the departmental archives of Aube. | |
| Robert-Henri Bautier | April 19, 1922 | October 19, 2010 | France | Worked at the Archives nationales. | |
| Baldassarre Bonifacio | January 5, 1585 | November 17, 1659 |  Italy | ||
| Henri Bourde de La Rogerie | April 8, 1873 | January 31, 1949 | France | ||
| Charles Braibant | March 31, 1889 | April 23, 1976 | France | ||
| Brien Brothman | Worked at the National Archives of Canada until 1995. He is currently working at the Rhode Island State Archives. | ||||
| Marcel Caya | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Canada | Head of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1][2] | |||
| Marie-Anne Chabin | October 17, 1959 | France | |||
| Émile Campardon | July 7, 1837 | February 23, 1915 | France | ||
| Armand-Gaston Camus | April 2, 1740 | November 2, 1804 | France | ||
| Paul Conway | September 7, 1953 |  United States | 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. | ||
| Terry Cook | June 6, 1947 | May 12, 2014 | Canada | Author and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba.[3] | |
| Craig Barbara L. Craig | Canada | Author and educator. Former university archivist at York University and instructor at University of Toronto Faculty of Information.[4] | |||
| Pierre Claude François Daunou | August 18, 1761 | June 20, 1840 | France | ||
| Robin Darwall-Smith |  United Kingdom | Oxford University College archivist. | |||
 | Arthur Doughty | March 22, 1860 | December 1, 1936 | Canada | Dominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records. |
| Jennifer Douglas | Canada | Professor, University of British Columbia iSchool | |||
| Jules Doinel | December 8, 1842 | March 16 or 17, 1903 | France | ||
| Jean Dryden | Canada | Author and copyright expert. Former archivist of United Church of Canada.[5] | |||
| Luciana Duranti | Canada | Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. | |||
| Terry Eastwood | 1943 | Canada | |||
| Jean Favier | April 2, 1932 | August 12, 2014 | France | ||
| Lucie Favier | August 4, 1932 | October 19, 2003 | France | ||
| David Ferriero | December 31, 1945 | United States | Archivist of the United States[6] | ||
| Margaret M. H. Finch | January 6, 1878 | August 3, 1958 | United States | Specialized in Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records. | |
| Helen Forde | United Kingdom | ||||
| Robert Fruin | November 11, 1823 | January 29, 1899 |  the Netherlands | ||
| Léon Gautier | August 8, 1832 | August 25, 1897 | France | ||
| Arthur Giry | February 29, 1848 | November 13, 1899 | France | ||
| Henny Glarbo | October 12, 1884 | September 9, 1955 |  Denmark | Development of cultural, theatrical and private archives at the Danish National Archives | |
| David B. Gracy II | October 25, 1941 | United States | Worked at the Texas State Archives and taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He also published extensively on Texas history. | ||
| Marie-Claude Guigue | October 16, 1832 | February 8, 1889 | France | ||
| Verne Harris |  South Africa | ||||
.jpg.webp) | Michael S. Hart | March 8, 1947 | September 6, 2011 | United States | Father of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg. |
| Kent Haworth | 1946 | 2003 | Canada | Contributor to establishment of the Rules for Archival Description (RAD), descriptive standard used in Canada | |
| Julie Herrada | United States |
Curator of the Labadie Collection at the University of Michigan. | |||
| J. Franklin Jameson | September 19, 1859 | September 28, 1937 | United States | ||
| Hilary Jenkinson | November 1, 1882 | March 5, 1961 | United Kingdom | ||
| Phyllis Mander Jones | .svg.png.webp){kind=small} Australia | 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 | |||
 | Brewster Kahle | October 22, 1960 | United States | Founder of Internet Archive. (See TED Talk: A free digital library) | |
| Rita Keegan | 1949 | Founder 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 | October 5, 1827 | February 17, 1901 | France | ||
| William Kaye Lamb | 1904 | 1999 | Canada | Dominion Archivist of Canada (1948-1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967.[7] | |
| Gustave Lanctot | |||||
| Charles-Victor Langlois | France | ||||
| Henri Langlois | November 13, 1914 | January 13, 1977 | France | French 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 | November 8, 1970 | Archivist (audio/video) for the Grateful Dead rock band | |||
| Jason Liew |  Singapore | Developed Archival Appraisal 2.0, church archivist | |||
| Mollie Lukis | Australia | First State Archivist in Western Australia | |||
| Heather MacNeil | Canada | Archival theorist. Helped develop theory of the archival bond. | |||
| Joseph Marmette | |||||
| Paul Mawhinney | United States | 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) | |||
| Sue McKemmish | Australia | 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 | |||
| P. K. Nair | April 6, 1933 | March 4, 2016 |  India | Indian 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 States | Co-founder of the Society of American Archivists | |||
| Mary Ellis Peltz | May 4, 1896 | October 24, 1981 | United States | creator of Opera News, and founder of the Metropolitan Opera archives | |
| Juan Menéndez Pidal | |||||
| Régine Pernoud | France | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris | |||
| Seymour Pomrenze | First director of the Offenbach Archival Depot | ||||
| Ernst Posner | United States | ||||
| Mila Rechcigl | United States | Archivist of the Czechoslovak Society of Arts and Sciences (SVU). | |||
| Stella Rimington | United Kingdom | Former Director General of MI5. | |||
| Helen Willa Samuels | United States | Archivist of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology | |||
| Celia Sánchez | Archived many documents of Cuban Revolution. | ||||
.jpg.webp) | Jason Scott Sadofsky | September 13, 1970 | United States | 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 BBS: The Documentary and GET LAMP. (See talk: ARCHIVE TEAM: A Distributed Preservation of Service Attack) | |
| T. R. Schellenberg | United States | ||||
 | Henry Spencer | 1955 | Canada | Preserved more than 2 million Usenet messages onto magnetic tapes. The contents were imported into Google's archives. | |
| Marion Stokes | November 25, 1929 | December 14, 2012 | United States | Recorded hundreds of thousands of hours of television news footage spanning 35 years. After her death, the collection was given to Internet Archive. | |
| Shelley Sweeney | 1959 | Canada | She is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections. | ||
| Gerhard Tausche | 1957 | ||||
| Hugh Taylor | 1920 | 2005 | Canada | Author and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.[8] | |
| Édith Thomas | France | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris | |||
| Frank Upward | Australia | Created the Records Continuum Model | |||
 | Dragan Espenschied | 1975 | Germany / United States | Directs the Rhizome digital preservation program, which oversees 2000+ born-digital artworks, as well as the creation of a suite of archiving tools. | |
 | Paul Marie Viollet | October 24, 1840 | November 22, 1914 | France | Worked at the Archives nationales in Paris. |
| Natalis de Wailly | May 10, 1805 | December 4, 1886 | France | Head of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire. | |
| Jean-Pierre Wallot | |||||
| Ian E. Wilson | 1943 | Canada | Former Librarian and Archivist of Canada[9] | ||
| Dharwis Yacob | Indonesia | Archivist of Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia | |||
| Gladys Hansen | 1925 | March 5, 2017 | United States | Expert on the 1906 San Francisco earthquake | |
| Charles J. Farrugia | February 13, 1970 |  Malta | Malta's first national archivist appointed in 2005. He also chaired ACARM and served on the executive of EURBICA. | ||
.jpg.webp) | Meredith Evans | United States | Director of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum | ||
 | Herman Vandenburg Ames | August 7, 1865 | February 7, 1935 | United States | helped guide the widespread establishment of government archives throughout the United States |
| Peter Morris | 1937 | February 2, 2011 | Canada | Founding curator of Canadian Film Archives (later incorporated into Library and Archives Canada.[10] | |
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Judith Hornabrook | 1928 | 2011 |  New Zealand |
Chief Archivist of New Zealand (1972-1982) |
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Alexander Fraser (archivist) | 1860 | 1936 | Canada |
First Provincial Archivist of Ontario (1903-1935) |
| Bergis Jules | USA |
scholar of community-based archives | |||
| Rebecka Sheffield | 1976 | Canada |
LGBTQ2+ community-based archives |
See also
References
- archivistsdotca (2015-06-01), ACA Oral History - Marcel Caya, retrieved 2017-01-31
- "ACA Award Recipient Biographies |". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- Nesmith, Tom (2015-04-29). "Terry Cook, 1947–2014". Archivaria. 79 (0): 207–213. ISSN 1923-6409.
- "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- archivistsdotca (2015-11-29), ACA Oral History - Jean Dryden, retrieved 2017-01-31
- "David Ferriero Biography". U.S. National Archives. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
- "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- Cook, Terry (2006-09-25). "Hugh A. Taylor, 1920-2005". Archivaria. 60 (0). ISSN 1923-6409.
- "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
- https://atom.library.yorku.ca/index.php/peter-morris-fonds
External links
- Society of American Archivists website
- Australian Society of Archivists website
- International Council on Archives
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