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.
Baldassarre BonifacioJanuary 5, 1585November 17, 1659 Italy
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 Caya CanadaHead of Records Management and Archives program at the Université du Québec à Montréal.[1][2]
Marie-Anne ChabinOctober 17, 1959 France
Émile CampardonJuly 7, 1837February 23, 1915 France
Armand-Gaston CamusApril 2, 1740November 2, 1804 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 CookJune 6, 1947 May 12, 2014 CanadaAuthor and theorist. Worked at the Library and Archives Canada and taught at the University of Manitoba.[3]
Craig Barbara L. Craig CanadaAuthor 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
Robin Darwall-Smith United KingdomOxford University College archivist.
Arthur DoughtyMarch 22, 1860December 1, 1936 CanadaDominion Archivist and Keeper of the Public Records.
Jennifer Douglas CanadaProfessor, University of British Columbia iSchool
Jules DoinelDecember 8, 1842March 16 or 17, 1903 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 Eastwood1943 Canada
Jean FavierApril 2, 1932August 12, 2014 France
Lucie FavierAugust 4, 1932October 19, 2003 France
David FerrieroDecember 31, 1945 United StatesArchivist of the United States[6]
Margaret M. H. FinchJanuary 6, 1878August 3, 1958 United StatesSpecialized in Revolutionary War and War of 1812 pension and bounty-land records.
Helen Forde United Kingdom
Robert FruinNovember 11, 1823 January 29, 1899  the Netherlands
Léon GautierAugust 8, 1832 August 25, 1897  France
Arthur GiryFebruary 29, 1848 November 13, 1899  France
Henny GlarboOctober 12, 1884 September 9, 1955  DenmarkDevelopment of cultural, theatrical and private archives at the Danish National Archives
David B. Gracy IIOctober 25, 1941 United StatesWorked at the Texas State Archives and taught at the University of Texas at Austin. He also published extensively on Texas history.
Marie-Claude GuigueOctober 16, 1832February 8, 1889 France
Verne Harris South Africa
Michael S. HartMarch 8, 1947September 6, 2011 United StatesFather of e-book and founder of Project Gutenberg.
Kent Haworth19462003 CanadaContributor 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 JamesonSeptember 19, 1859September 28, 1937 United States
Hilary JenkinsonNovember 1, 1882March 5, 1961 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 BorderieOctober 5, 1827 February 17, 1901  France
William Kaye Lamb19041999 CanadaDominion Archivist of Canada (1948-1953?), first National Librarian of Canada from 1953-1967.[7]
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 LemieuxNovember 8, 1970Archivist (audio/video) for the Grateful Dead rock band
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
Mary Ellis PeltzMay 4, 1896October 24, 1981 United Statescreator of Opera News, and founder of the Metropolitan Opera archives
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 Rechcigl United StatesArchivist 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 Sweeney1959 CanadaShe is the Head of the University of Manitoba Archives & Special Collections.
Gerhard Tausche1957
Hugh Taylor19202005 CanadaAuthor and theorist. Founding Provincial Archivist of the Provincial Archives of Alberta.[8]
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.
Natalis de WaillyMay 10, 1805December 4, 1886 FranceHead of the Administrative Section of the Archives de l'Empire.
Jean-Pierre Wallot
Ian E. Wilson1943 CanadaFormer Librarian and Archivist of Canada[9]
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.
Meredith Evans United StatesDirector of the Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum
Herman Vandenburg AmesAugust 7, 1865February 7, 1935 United Stateshelped guide the widespread establishment of government archives throughout the United States
Peter Morris1937February 2, 2011 CanadaFounding curator of Canadian Film Archives (later incorporated into Library and Archives Canada.[10]
Judith Hornabrook 1928 2011  New Zealand Chief Archivist of New Zealand (1972-1982)
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

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  2. "ACA Award Recipient Biographies |". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2017-02-04. 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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  5. archivistsdotca (2015-11-29), ACA Oral History - Jean Dryden, retrieved 2017-01-31
  6. "David Ferriero Biography". U.S. National Archives. Retrieved 2020-06-19.
  7. "ACA Award Recipient Biographies". The Association of Canadian Archivists. Archived from the original on 2016-05-06. Retrieved 2017-01-31.
  8. Cook, Terry (2006-09-25). "Hugh A. Taylor, 1920-2005". Archivaria. 60 (0). ISSN 1923-6409.
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  10. https://atom.library.yorku.ca/index.php/peter-morris-fonds
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