Directory of Archival Consultants

Kilberg Archival Services strives to help individuals and organizations preserve historical records and artifacts. We offer a range of services in archives management, preventive conservation, and mountmaking.

Allison Kilberg has more than 15 years of experience in galleries, archives, and museums. She has worked for distinguished organizations including the Art Institute of Chicago, the Smithsonian Libraries, and the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections at the University of Illinois. She earned her Master's Degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, specializing in archives and special collections. Allison has worked with a wide variety of historical materials, from family archives to presidential manuscripts.

Liz Phillips Consulting, LLC works with organizations and individuals looking to organize and preserve historic materials. We offer archives and collections management services for physical and digital collections as well as strategic services in policy development and project planning.

Archivist, theatre kid, travel junkie, and cat lady Beth McDonald has more than a decade of professional experience in archives and museums. As an archival consultant, Beth provides guidance in a number of essential areas, including strategic planning, archival development and organization, processing and cataloging, arrangement and description, oral history planning and development, and exhibit planning and implementation.

She has worked extensively with performing arts and community archives, focusing on transforming complex projects into engaging and accessible collections. Her work has been presented at the Society of American Archivists Annual Meeting published in The Journal of Western Archives, and shown in exhibits at California State University, Dominguez Hills and ONE Archives at USC Libraries.

Most recently an archivist with , working with collections related to the LGBTQ community in Los Angeles, Beth has plied her trade in the archival programs at Griffith Observatory, Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego, ONE National Gay and Lesbian Archives at the University of Southern California Libraries, California State University Dominguez Hills, Wilmington Historical Society, San Francisco Maritime National Historic Park, University of Southern California, and Sequoia Kings Canyon National Park.

Beth received her MLIS in Archival Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles, a BFA in Theatre from Auburn University, and holds a certification through the Academy of Certified Archivists.

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With over 40 years of expertise managing congressional collections, institution archives, and the archives of non-profits, Margery N. Sly has focused on collection development and archival appraisal, both by building the research collections at Temple University and reviewing existing collections for Temple Libraries' move to a new building.  She was involved in program planning and the move into Temple's new Charles Library (opened in August 2019) and previously managed the closure of an archives facility and relocation of collections for the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). In addition to serving as a member of the team building Temple Libraries' digitization program and digital preservation infrastructure, Margery was PI or co-PI on five grants, 2016-22, that built the Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries In Her Own Right digital project, http://inherownright.org/, that worked with 24 institutions to digitize, describe, and contextualize primary sources documenting women working for their own and others' rights, 1820-1920.

Margot Note Consulting LLC offers information strategy and archives and records management services.

Leaders look to Margot to transform information chaos to clarity, helping them make better decisions, win grants, and save money. Most importantly, they gain peace of mind knowing that their project is handled by an expert. Clients have come to value Margot’s ability to complete projects on time, on budget, and tailored to their needs. They understand that to manage with a sense of history is not to be tethered to the past but, rather, to acknowledge its power.

For projects, contact Margot to discuss your goals and how she can support your work: https://www.margotnote.com/contact

For targeted guidance or one-time consultations, book a session: https://calendly.com/margotnote/1-1-meeting

Are you planning new services, facilities, or programs for your archives? Interested in developing new vision and mission statements, strategic plans, and connecting important ongoing staff activities? Considering new ways to collaborate with partners? Evaluating your approach to teaching with primary sources? Looking for ways to engage students in learning at a deeper level with your resources? We'll be happy to help!

For us it's not work, we truly love what we do. With over 35 years of audiovisual production and media conversion experience, Media Transfer Service provides high-level digitization of audio, video, motion picture film and still image formats for archives and private collections both in North America and clients off-shore. We provide full-service audiovisual media digitization as well as enhancement, treatment and recovery of contaminated or damaged audiovisual media formats, tape baking services for both audiotape and videotape formats and audio/video transcription services. We also have the background and experience to walk you through each step of your local, regional or national grant-funded applications. For select projects, we offer personal transportation of your collection from many parts of the country to our facility to insure it is transported safely. We are proud corporate/institutional members and supporters of Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC), Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA) and the Society of American Archivists (SAA).

For an update on the current projects we are working on visit: http://www.mediatransferservice.com/whats%20new.htm

For a review of what clients are saying about our company visit: http://www.mediatransferservice.com/clients.htm

I specialize in converting physical items into various digital formats. Includes but not limited to: Documents, Photographs, Slides, Negatives, VHS tapes, 8mm film, Vinyl, Cassettes, Mini-Cassettes and Mini-DV tapes. Additional services that I offer are Digital Restoration, Metadata and Transcription. I am an independent contractor and am open to traveling for work. I work with private clients and institutions, most recently being the Clark County Historical Museum, the Cowlitz County Historical Museum and the Washington State University-Vancouver Archives.