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a person who has the job of collecting and storing the materials in an archive
consulted with the archivist in conducting her research
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Recent Examples of archivists
For many filmmakers, publishers, programmers, and archivists, Public Domain Day is one of the most consequential dates on the creative calendar.
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Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2025
Rats and other rodents and pests can make great archivists.
—Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
For the last 50 years, archivists have been cataloguing and preserving the naturalist’s lifetime of surviving correspondences, resulting in 30 volumes of edited material.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
The headquarters is an homage to the work of the Internet Archive’s 200 staff members, which include engineers, librarians and archivists.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
Folk archivists hunted down Delta legends Son House and Skip James, who were still alive, and rekindled their careers.
—USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Their story lines are connected by the Talamasca, a secret society that keeps tabs on the world’s vampires, witches, ghosts, and demons, like archivists and librarians trained in combat and engaged in spycraft.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
In addition to her work at Iron Mountain, Kalas also heads the Academy Digital Preservation Forum, a platform where archivists, filmmakers, and technologists come together to swap ideas, share best practices, and tackle the challenges of keeping both digital and analog cinema safe for the future.
—Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Attendees can learn how to maintain family collections from professional collectors and amateur archivists, and view rarely seen objects from the Natural History Museum.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 26 Dec. 2025
Rats and other rodents and pests can make great archivists.
—Alexandria Mitchem Hansen, The Conversation, 19 Dec. 2025
For the last 50 years, archivists have been cataloguing and preserving the naturalist’s lifetime of surviving correspondences, resulting in 30 volumes of edited material.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 27 Nov. 2025
The headquarters is an homage to the work of the Internet Archive’s 200 staff members, which include engineers, librarians and archivists.
—Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Nov. 2025
Folk archivists hunted down Delta legends Son House and Skip James, who were still alive, and rekindled their careers.
—USA Today, 10 Nov. 2025
Their story lines are connected by the Talamasca, a secret society that keeps tabs on the world’s vampires, witches, ghosts, and demons, like archivists and librarians trained in combat and engaged in spycraft.
—Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 25 Oct. 2025
In addition to her work at Iron Mountain, Kalas also heads the Academy Digital Preservation Forum, a platform where archivists, filmmakers, and technologists come together to swap ideas, share best practices, and tackle the challenges of keeping both digital and analog cinema safe for the future.
—Lise Pedersen, Variety, 15 Oct. 2025
Attendees can learn how to maintain family collections from professional collectors and amateur archivists, and view rarely seen objects from the Natural History Museum.
—Linda McIntosh, San Diego Union-Tribune, 11 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for archivists
Noun
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Both Tracy Wolfson and Evan Washburn will be the sideline reporters.—
Mark J. Burns,
Forbes.com,
23 Jan. 2026
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Robert Steele, Marshall's fiance at the time of her death, told reporters after the hearing that sentencing Thompson to life in prison without parole is the right thing to do.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
22 Jan. 2026
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Initially, curators, working with academic historians, planned a show that would call attention to Japanese civilians’ suffering and question the use of nuclear force.—
Lily Meyer,
The Atlantic,
22 Jan. 2026
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To infuse the Lost Shtetl Museum with sounds rooted in historical and geographic accuracy, Beckerman’s team, which included composers and technologists, consulted historians affiliated with the museum.—
Leslie Katz,
Forbes.com,
21 Jan. 2026
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But while publicly lauding the diligence of IRS officials is an appropriate move for Treasury secretaries, those officials will need resources, and possibly more colleagues, to maintain it.—
Marie Sapirie,
Forbes.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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They were joined by five former Treasury secretaries appointed by presidents of both political parties and other former high-ranking economic officials.—
Arkansas Online,
Arkansas Online,
21 Jan. 2026
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And in ordinary academic buildings and offices tucked up in the corners of the athletic department, university registrars and academic advisors were setting their hair on fire, trying to figure out how to approve transcripts and shoehorn new students into classes that were already full.—
Dana O’Neil,
CNN Money,
9 Jan. 2026
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Advertisement For the next several years, activists knocked on the doors of sharecroppers and drove folks to county registrars’ offices, often facing denials or delays, arrests, and violence.—
Time,
Time,
12 Sep. 2025
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