Directory of Archival Consultants

Tamara Gaydos provides practical solutions for organizations and individuals looking to organize and preserve their historic records. Tamara is a professionally certified archivist with 20 years’ experience. She holds a Master’s in Library and Information Science from Simmons University and is a member of the Academy of Certified Archivists, the Society of American Archivists, and the New England Archivists.

to organize and preserve their historic records.

The Luster Company is an archival consulting community that specializes in uplifting and unearthing the often marginalized voices of Black folk in America.

We offer personal and organizational archival services that uplift Black stories

With more than 40 years of experience working with diverse organizations, our consultants offer expertise in a wide range of services and approaches to managing, protecting, and using historical materials.

Our knowledge of all types of archival records including digital and analog (paper-based) documentation, as well as various image media, and artifacts, allows us to help achieve successful intellectual and physical control, and management of collections.

We help you meet your goals and objectives through program development and project support.

Our Values:

• History and those who create it matter

• Access is essential

• Acknowledging that the past shapes the present and the future

• Understanding history is powerful and fun

• Imagination and history need each other

• Creativity in all things is important

The Winthrop Group was founded in 1982 in Cambridge, Massachusetts and has worked with more than 350 clients located in more than 25 states and 10 countries in addition to the U.S.  Represented among our clients are Fortune 100 corporations and privately held companies, foundations, a range of non-profit and cultural organizations, educational institutions, municipal governments, private families, politicians, and artists.  The firm’s Information & Archival Services (I&AS) practice, which was formed in 1979 as a private consultancy rooted in corporate and organization archives, joined Winthrop’s Histories & Consulting in 1989 to become The Winthrop Group, Inc.

The Information and Archival Services practice provides professional services and expertise on a consulting and contract basis, as well as on-going management through retainer arrangments to a roster of 30+ active clients.  Based in New York City, Winthrop currently employs 36 full-time professionals including archivists in New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Michigan, Washington, and Oregon.  Our services range from the establishment and maintenance of archives, large-scale processing projects, digital initiatives (e.g. digitization, digital asset management, digital preservation),  development of archival and records retention systems, oral history projects, and relocating archival collections.

Winthrop professionals are practiced at discerning what is required to meet the specific needs of each client, to ensure identification and efficient retrieval of significant documentation and information, and to develop practical and affordable solutions.  We are accustomed to working with records in a wide variety of formats and collaborating with clients to achieve project objectives. 

Winthrop has provided archival services to a wide variety of sectors, from financial services, consumer products, food and beverages, manufacturing, and professional services firms to arts organizations, museums and not-for-profit organizations and foundations, to religious and academic institutions, to non-governmental organizations. 

Winthrop is an equal opportunity employer.

Since 1985, Valerie Metzler Archivist/Historian has been helping individuals, families, businesses, churches, and universities discover and preserve their history.  Through the practical establishment of archives and through historical research including genealogy, Valerie Metzler Archivist/Historian makes your history available and accessible for generations to come.

Archives:

Your institution’s history is reflected in the letters, journals, newsletters, photographs, audio- and videotapes that it has created.  Setting up a proper archives means that these unique records will be both preserved and accessible.  Your family also has its unique archival material.  Organizing them to be relevant for your grandchildren’s children is part of what an archivist does.  Archivists bring the past to the present—and future! 

Historical research:

VMAH can bring to life the story of your house, your farm, your church and your business.  Through oral history interviewing and traditional research in historical source material, your family’s roots and stories can be unearthed and perpetuated.