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Monocurate LLC is a brick-and-mortar specialized archival consulting firm located in Austin, Texas. Monocurate is dedicated to providing comprehensive services in archival management, preservation, and digitization. Founded by a skilled archivist with a commitment to safeguarding historical and cultural materials, Monocurate works closely with individuals, organizations, and communities to ensure that their valuable records and collections are properly preserved for future generations.

Our Advantages

Monocurate can provide clients with a deep understanding of their archival collections, tailored recommendations for preservation and management, and a strategic framework for ensuring the long-term protection and usability of their valuable materials.

Monocurate regularly helps clients prioritize actions based on the urgency and importance of different preservation needs, enabling them to allocate resources effectively and address the most critical issues first. By identify areas that require immediate attention, such as preservation challenges, organizational inefficiencies, or risks posed by environmental factors Monocurate equips clients with the knowledge needed to make informed decisions about preservation and management efforts.

Monocurate also provides cost-effective strategies that allow clients to maximize the impact of their preservation efforts within their budget constraints. This includes recommending low-cost solutions where appropriate and advising on the most efficient use of available resources. The detailed documentation provided by Monocurate’s assessments can also justify expenditures to stakeholders, showing that funds are being used effectively and in alignment with best practices. In addition, working with Monocurate adds credibility to the client’s archival management efforts, showing a commitment to preserving the collection in a professional and systematic manner.​

• End-to-End Collection Care:  Monocurate offers a mix of collection care solutions for building archives that help you discover, preserve, and share your history.

• Ongoing Support: We are dedicated to working alongside you every step of the way. Our commitment to collaborative success extends to everyone we serve—families, galleries, libraries, archives, and museums—ensuring that together we achieve meaningful and lasting results.

• Unparalleled Combination: We provide an unmatched blend of experienced archival staff, cutting-edge resources, a dedication to innovation, and a supportive environment free from the usual institutional bureaucracy and red tape. 

• Efficient Workflows: Our streamlined process saves you both time and resources. We implement efficient processes to make archival projects smooth and manageable, allowing you to focus on what matters most—your collection.

• Expert Insight:  Our team brings specialized expertise to every project, ensuring that your decisions are informed by deep knowledge of archival best practices. We help you make the right choices to preserve and manage your collection effectively.

• Security: Monocurate provides secure and insured services you can trust. We are committed to safeguarding your materials, giving you peace of mind that your collection is protected and handled with the utmost care.

• Compatibility: Our solutions are designed to integrate smoothly with existing content management systems (CMS) or digital asset management (DAM) platforms, making it easy to manage your collection without disruption. We ensure that the materials we process match your system’s requirements for seamless ingestion.

• Ethical and Impactful Research: At Monocurate, we believe in the importance of ethical and meaningful contributions to the field of archival work. Our interdisciplinary, collaborative approach promotes responsible research practices, making sure that every project we undertake has a positive, lasting impact.

• Proven Results: With a strong history of successful projects and satisfied clients, Monocurate stands by its results. We are proud to have helped numerous individuals and organizations preserve and share their stories, with outcomes that consistently exceed expectations.

Our Offerings

• Archival Consulting: Monocurate offers advice and strategic planning for the management and preservation of archival collections. This includes facility design, collection assessment, and the development of preservation plans that meet industry standards. Monocurate's archivists also follow the Society of American Archivists’ Code of Ethics.

• Preservation and Conservation: Monocurate provides hands-on preservation and conservation services, including item-level inventory, paper repair, custom housing, stabilization of materials, and preparation of collections for long-term storage or donation.

• Digitization Services: Monocurate specializes in the digitization of archival materials, ensuring that records are preserved in digital formats that enhance accessibility and usability. Monocurate also advises on the best practices and technologies for digitization, tailored to the specific needs of each client.

• Project Management: Monocurate manages complex archival projects from inception to completion, overseeing all aspects of planning, execution, and evaluation to ensure that client objectives are met efficiently and effectively.

• Client-Centered Approach: Monocurate is known for its collaborative and flexible approach, working closely with clients to understand their unique needs and constraints, and delivering customized solutions that align with their goals and resources. Every project is treated with the utmost care and respect with non-discriminatory, unbiased practices at the top of mind.

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Our Clients

Monocurate has successfully partnered with a range of clients, including religious institutions, city governments, large private collections, community organizations, collectors,  families,  and individuals to preserve and enhance the accessibility of a broad range of archival collections.

MCR provides consulting, curatorial and collections management services to museums, private collectors, businesses and institutions. We are chaos resolution experts involved in cataloging, digitization, and space assessments, as well as new museum and institutional change planning.

Our team is made up of highly skilled professionals with formal academic training in addition to practical museum, collections management, archive, and curatorial experience. We work both on-site and remotely to ensure the highest possible standards for collections care. 

Our clients include small, volunteer-run historic houses to major museums, private collections to historic societies, libraries, universities, multinational corporations, science centers and galleries.

Client List:

• The Algonquin Club, Boston, Massachusetts
• Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the U.S. Senate, Boston, Massachusetts
• H. L. Fergusons Museum, Fishers Island, New York
• The H. Ross Perot Collection, Dallas, Texas
• Jack Kerouac Estate Papers, UMASS Lowell
• Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi
• Museum of African American History, Boston, Massachusetts
• National Park Service - Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March Museum, Alabama
• Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, Simi Valley, California
• T. Boone Pickens, Dallas, Texas / Stillwater, Oklahoma

Founded in 1973, the nonprofit NEDCC | Northeast Document Conservation Center specializes in the preservation of paper- and film-based materials as well as audio recordings. The Center serves clients nationwide, including archives, government agencies, other cultural heritage organizations, and  individuals.

NEDCC provides conservation treatment and digitization for book, photograph, and paper collections, including large collections and oversize materials.  NEDCC also offers audio preservation for at-risk or unique recordings on grooved media or magnetic or digital audio tape.  The Center’s paper and book conservators provide collections-level and item-level assessments. www.nedcc.org/assessm 

NEDCC’s Preservation Services department provides preservation training webinars, workshops, and conferences, which can be customized for an organization or association. Preservation Services staff members provide preservation needs assessments; digital preservation assessments; consultations on a variety of preservation issues; a free "Ask NEDCC" reference service for preservation questions; and a 24/7 Collections Emergency Hotline.  

NEDCC's Staff members are highly trained and are skilled in working with rare, fragile, and significant collections materials. 

NEDCC is a trusted resource for preservation information and training. www.nedcc.org

We Help Digitize Archives.

Paperboy Digital Consulting is focused on helping libraries digitize their archival materials, making them discoverable for research in support of the Digital Humanities.

Paperboy Digital Consulting helps develop digitization and collection programs in support of Open Access and Digital Humanities initiatives. Paperboy can manage the full project lifecycle — from ideation, to funding, to project and vendor management, providing support to deliver a smooth and efficient project.

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We work with all archival formats — Books, ephemera, maps, periodicals, recordings, and more; including metadata capture.

www.paperboydigital.com

info@paperboydigital.com

Rebecca Hankins is a President Barack Obama appointee to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC). As a Commission member, she was responsible for evaluating and dispensing between $5-10 million dollars in grants annually for the National Archives. Prior to her appointment, Rebecca was elected a Distinguished Fellow of the Society of American Archivist-- the highest honor an archivist can achieve. In 2016, Rebecca was also made a Wendler Endowed Professor at Texas A&M University. Rebecca has been a librarian and  certified archivist for over 20 years. She is an approved affiliate faculty in Africana and Religious Studies, while also serving as a faculty liaison to Women’s & Gender Studies. Throughout her career, Rebecca has provided a gentle and a reassuringly steadfast voice of tolerance for different social and cultural points of view. 

Rebecca has served as a consultant for over 20 years where she has collaborated with numerous domestic and international organizations, including: New Orleans Public Schools, Prairie View A&M University, religious institutions, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR) in Amman, Jordan. Through her work, Rebecca strives to highlight the importance of diversity, equity, social justice, and inclusion as imperatives that promote thriving environments. 

Rebecca has been presenting in the archives, library, religious, community-based, social justice and DEI sector for over 30 years. She specializes in creating hourly, day-long and/or multi-day workshops that engage audiences with interactive activities and exercises. Her long track record consists of hundreds of presentations geared toward academic, community-based and global audiences. Rebecca views her career as a weaving quilt where she fills in the missing squares with a scholarly record that analyzes the literary and visual narratives of race, gender, religion, and sub-culture to develop a more inclusive tapestry.

Rebecca Hankins provides fee based services (email to inquire)

Rachael Cristine Woody is the owner of Relicura LLC, a firm that provides services to archives, museums, and cultural heritage organizations. She specializes in establishing collection programs, assessment and planning for historical collections, teaching grant acquisition strategy, and vetting and implementing Collection Management Systems (CMS). Previously she revived the archives at the Freer|Sackler Museum of the Smithsonian Institution and launched the Oregon Wine History Archive at Linfield College. During her career she's successfully launched multiple digital projects that included advanced digitization technology, collaborative portals, and the migration of collection information into collections management systems. She received her Master of Science in Library and Information Science with a concentration in Archives Management from Simmons University, and has 15 years of experience in the museum and archives field. Woody is active in Northwest Archivists and the Society of American Archivists’ Committee on Public Awareness, the Ad-Hoc Salary Transparency Working Group, and the Independent Archivists group; and is an alumna of the Archives Leadership Institute. Additionally, she led the creation of the Archivist-in-Residence pilot program at Northwest Archivists and is a staunch advocate for the value of archivists.

Collection Planning and Management: Launching or reviving collection programs is no easy feat. I've worked with dozens of organizations, from small to federal-level, and I can scope your collection plan appropriately; including pragmatic steps to manage your collection with ease.

Digital Collections Management: Digital collections are a powerful tool when you have the right CMS platform in place. Whether you need help with cutting-edge digital technology, choosing a new CMS, or creating a collaborative portal--I've successfully done it all.

Grant Writing and Teaching: From small local grants, to private foundations, to large federal grants--I've applied to them all and won. Working with me is an investment in your organization so that you can get the money and resources you need to get the job done. 

Here are some of the places I’ve worked and the projects I’ve done:

• Astoria Public Library (2018-present): I conducted a collection assessment, wrote a collection report and plan, advised on program creation, drafted policy and procedure documents, and trained staff and volunteers. More recently, thanks to a grant I secured from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, I created a digitization program for APL that includes acquisition of digitization equipment and the vetting, selection, and implementation of a CMS. Workflows, catalog samples, and training documentation were included. 

• Western Carolina University and University of North Carolina Asheville (2019-2020): I worked with WCU and UNCA to conduct a digital collections assessment, worked with stakeholders to create CMS specifications, researched and vetted CMS vendors, work with vendors to provide use case demonstrations, and led the stakeholders through CMS selection. I then provided a presentation and report to the institutions to use for requesting the necessary funds for implementation; and they were successful.

Education
MS in Library and Information Science, Simmons University
BA in History, minor in Anthropology, Pacific University

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Second Space Archives Consulting provides consultative services on all aspects of the care and management of digital and physical archival collections, including management, appraisal, processing, preservation, conservation, and access. We are available to assist cultural heritage organizations including academic and public public libraries, community-based archives, museums, federal libraries & archives, and individuals with private collections, with management of their collections by applying professional standards to their archives assets. We are experienced experts with extensive knowledge in the care of traditional, digital, and audiovisual collections.

Sepia Archival Management works with individuals, cultural organizations and corporations to provide an array of services. Hands-on work includes collection organization and description, digitization, light preservation work and cataloging home libraries and art collections. Our strategic services include providing overarching archival strategies, making archival software recommendations and documentation and description planning.

Shelley Diamond Archival Solutions LLC specializes in archival and collection management services for artists, private collectors and estates in New York City, and home inventory services for NYC homeowners and renters. We help private individuals ensure the long-term preservation of their collections, protect their private property assets, and identify and manage risk.

Our services help working artists organize their art, studio and business records, and aid families and executors overseeing the stewardship and legacy of an artist’s estate.  Our collection management services guide collectors in the care, storage, organization, documentation, safe display and long-term preservation of their fine art, decorative art, antiques and collectibles. 

Archival Solutions also provides custom home inventories, helping homeowners, renters, and family estates document tangible personal property before a move or renovation, to supplement insurance and as invaluable protection in case of an unplanned event.

Contact us to see how our archival, collection management and home inventory services can protect your private property assets.