What gets opened when you call
Services
Every engagement starts the same way a good archivist starts any box: by looking before deciding anything. From there, the work scales to what the collection, and the organization holding it, actually needs.
Collection assessment & triage
An on-the-ground read of what you have, what condition it’s in, and what’s genuinely at risk versus merely disorganized. You leave with a prioritized plan, not a lecture.
Emergency stabilization
For collections facing a closure, a flood, a dumpster deadline, or a building sale. Rapid advice, recommendations, rehousing and rescue guidance when there isn’t time for a full plan.
Governance and policy design
The frameworks that keep a collection from becoming orphaned again. These may include an acquisition policy, stewardship agreements, and succession planning for all-volunteer organizations.
Digitization & access strategy
Including augmented and virtual reality approaches for objects too fragile or too dispersed to handle, access built around the object’s real limits, not a trend.
Fraternal, club and organization collections
Specialized guidance for lodges, sororities, fraternities, and civic clubs navigating regalia, minute books, ritual materials, and closing-chapter archives.
Board & volunteer training
Practical sessions for the people who will actually be responsible for the collection after the consultant leaves the room.