History Research & Archives Management

We help businesses and organizations tell their story by developing a plan to collect, manage, share, and preserve their history.​

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Research includes:

• Archival and public records research

• Community history research​

• Oral history interviews

• Archives collecting, organization and processing, management and preservation planning

• Digital file management and preservation consulting

• Digitization project planning

 

Past projects include organization history research and archives and records management consultation.

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Deliverables:​ Report, project plan, and/or digital file systems development; informal or formal project presentation

Delivery method: Digital, in-person presentation, paper documents available for an added fee

​Estimated timeframe:  Project-dependent, but past projects completed between 3-12 months*

Cost: Hourly fee ($75) or project fee* (project-dependent), 10% discount for returning clients

​*A more accurate estimate will be provided after consultation.

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More details:

In-depth historical research to help you better understand, preserve and share your organization’s history. This might include research within past or existing organizational archives collections and business records and utilizing other publicly-available records including legal documents, tax records, photo collections and other multimedia, and personal archives collections.

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We're also happy to consult on how best to collect, manage and preserve your organization’s archives including paper-based materials, multimedia, born-digital or digitized files and artefacts and memorabilia. Projects might include crafting an archives management plan, recommendations for preserving and storing materials, creating a web-based or multimedia experience from digitized materials, or making recommendations for donating collection content to a local history organization.