archivist
noun
ar·chi·vist
ˈär-kə-vist 
-ˌkī-
: a person who has the job of collecting and storing the materials in an archive
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That’s apt for a dramatized documentary that looks at its subject from an unusual angle: the discovery of photographs taken at Auschwitz and the archivists who brought them to light.
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Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
Goucher students and faculty, archivists, and descendants of enslaved families and members of Indigenous tribes who lived on the land met Friday at Goucher’s Descendant Engagement Symposium to share research updates.
—Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2024
Magnum and other archivists had to really do that work from their point of view.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Author and archivist Hollace Ava Weiner has had a season’s rental pass at TC Paddlesports at Panther Island since 2021.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2024
This month, archivists will reportedly begin with naturalization petitions from US immigrants who served in the military between 1918 and 1947.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 May 2024
The group first landed in a home in the city's Boston Edison district; but was kicked out within a year due to neighborhood complaints, said Laura Kennedy, archivist with the Detroit Public Library Burton Historical Collection.
—Amelia Benavides-Colón, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
One of the very few people who have come in contact with them during the past two decades is Billy Wade, the Still Picture Branch’s supervisory archivist.
—Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
Carol Roark is an archivist, historian, and author with a special interest in architectural and photographic history who has written several books on Fort Worth history.
—Carol Roark, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2024
Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2024
Goucher students and faculty, archivists, and descendants of enslaved families and members of Indigenous tribes who lived on the land met Friday at Goucher’s Descendant Engagement Symposium to share research updates.
—Lilly Price, Baltimore Sun, 12 Apr. 2024
Magnum and other archivists had to really do that work from their point of view.
—Mia Galuppo, The Hollywood Reporter, 3 Sep. 2019
Author and archivist Hollace Ava Weiner has had a season’s rental pass at TC Paddlesports at Panther Island since 2021.
—Hollace Ava Weiner, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 11 May 2024
This month, archivists will reportedly begin with naturalization petitions from US immigrants who served in the military between 1918 and 1947.
—Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 9 May 2024
The group first landed in a home in the city's Boston Edison district; but was kicked out within a year due to neighborhood complaints, said Laura Kennedy, archivist with the Detroit Public Library Burton Historical Collection.
—Amelia Benavides-Colón, Detroit Free Press, 2 May 2024
One of the very few people who have come in contact with them during the past two decades is Billy Wade, the Still Picture Branch’s supervisory archivist.
—Robert Sullivan, The New Yorker, 29 Apr. 2024
Carol Roark is an archivist, historian, and author with a special interest in architectural and photographic history who has written several books on Fort Worth history.
—Carol Roark, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 20 Apr. 2024
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archivist
noun
ar·chi·vist
ˈär-kə-vəst
-ˌkī-
: a person in charge of archives
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