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  2. Archivist - Wikipedia

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    Surveying is commonly done to determine priorities for preservation and/or conservation of materials before an archivist begins arrangement and description. 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 ...

  3. Collection manager - Wikipedia

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    According to the Bureau of Labor and Statistics, from 2012 - 2022 archivists, curators, and museum workers "should expect very strong competition for jobs" with a projected growth rate of only 11 percent. [17] In this competitive field, a master's degree in the institution's area of focus, museum studies, or library/information science is ...

  4. Archival processing - Wikipedia

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    The first step in archival processing is to survey the collection. The goal of a survey is to gain an understanding of the originator, determine the context of the creation of the collection, to observe the material's overall size and scope, to ascertain if the collection has access limitations, to locate any existing finding aids submitted with the collection, and to discover any underlying ...

  5. List of archivists - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  6. Registrar (cultural property) - Wikipedia

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    Many institutions now require a graduate education in museum studies or field relating to the museum's collections in this competitive job market. Candidates are also expected to have hands-on experience in museum collection database management, object packing and handling, digitization, collections cataloging, and accession and loan procedures.

  7. Describing Archives: A Content Standard - Wikipedia

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    Archivists must document and make discoverable the actions they take on records. Archival description is accessible. Archival description should be easy to use, re-use, and share. Each collection within a repository must have an archival description. Archivists must have a user-driven reason to enhance existing archival description.

  8. Archivist of the United States - Wikipedia

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    The first Archivist, R. D. W. Connor, began serving in 1934, when the National Archives was established as an independent federal agency by Congress. The Archivists served as subordinate officials of the General Services Administration from 1949 until the National Archives and Records Administration became an independent agency again on April 1 ...

  9. Archives management - Wikipedia

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    Most archivist and library associations now include resources on educating archivists on how to manage their archives to be more accessible. [5] Both archivists and special collections librarians are faced with the issue of making their resources more accessible to the public, as their items were created prior to the consideration of accessibility.

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