Archival Services

Appraisal, organization, description,
and management of historical materials

The records you create today may prove to be critically important tomorrow. Managing this often voluminous, sometimes sensitive, and frequently overwhelming legacy can be a daunting task, but you can rely on our skilled archival services professionals for help. We will work with you to identify, preserve, and make available those documents and artifacts, regardless of media, that will create a functional archives from collective memory.

Read on or call us at (301) 279-9697 or contact History Associates to learn more about our archival services.

Trusted, Comprehensive Archival Services from Experienced Professionals

You can trust History Associates to arrange and describe your historical materials so they are safe and accessible now and in the future. Our staff of professionals, which includes Certified Archivists, can work at your site or ours, saving you time and money. We can supplement your existing staff on a regular or on a project basis, for an extended term or on a tight deadline. We can even store your records in our secure, climate-controlled facility, freeing your space for more cost-effective use.

History Associates will design an archive service solution to your requirements. We use appraisal guidelines tailored to each institution to identify items of enduring value and weed out items you can safely discard. We deliver our customized reports, finding aids, policies and procedures manuals, and other work products in the format and media appropriate to your needs.

Our experienced archivists and records managers bring a great variety of knowledge and skills to every project — knowledge and skills earned through their broad experience working with government and private sector clients. View our archival service client list, or learn about our experience providing government records management services on the GSA schedule.

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Archival Services include:

• Needs assessments
• Facility and program planning
• Records surveys
• Inventories
• Collection processing
• Descriptive cataloging
• Other archiving tasks for projects large and small.

Get a Free Custom Archival Services Proposal

Getting started is easy, just contact History Associates Archival Services. Call us at (301) 279-9697, or (714) 529-3953 on the West coast, or contact History Associates for a customized proposal for your archive project.