archivist
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6.9
- noun
- /ˈɑːrkɪvɪst/
:
archivista
- He consulted with the archivist to access rare photographs from the city's archives.
- archivists and librarians
- archivist and historian
- archivists and curators
I if, if it if it hadn't been for this defector, Basilia Mitrocan, who was an archivist in in the KGB archives.
- I if, if it if it hadn't been for this defector, Basilia Mitrocan, who was an archivist in in the KGB archives.
- And one day the archivist said, you the one doing this memory stuff?
- You know, so, and also, you know, you just get to know the archivist and the librarians quite well.
- Well, there's this fellow, the there was an archivist at in the get this thing a little closer to you.
- I spoke with Luxembourgian genealogists and Burmese archivists and I pissed a lot of people off in the process.
Examples
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The group was confronting a question that archivists face every day: Who controls information?
Academic text (2011) -
Another fear was that word processing would be a disaster for historians and archivists.
Academic text (2016) -
Only then was he able to leave his job as a scientific archivist and work full-time as a writer.
Academic text (2009) -
He is the archivist assigned to Bobby.
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Ultimately, archivists can more effectively serve their institutions' users by knowing more about them.
Academic text (2015) -
St. Mary's, with its complex past, offers an archivist a broad scope for his or her work.
Academic text (2017) -
I wish to thank Archivist Catherine Hobbs for bringing this second fragment to my attention.
Academic text (2013) -
First, I return calls and answer correspondence from other archivists, and then I catalogue new acquisitions.
Fiction book (1999) -
At Fort Lewis College, we hope to train the next generation of tribal curators, archivists, librarians, and preservation specialists.
Academic text (2004) -
The archivist at the museum carefully catalogues historical documents for future research.
Synonyms
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3.3
A person who writes and keeps the official papers for a group
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3.8
A person who writes and saves important official information in files
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7.0
A person who collects, organizes and preserves important papers and files
A person or program that collects, organizes, and stores records for future use
A person who keeps and updates an organization's official documents
A person who copies and keeps official papers for rulers in ancient times
How Responsible
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Archivist comes from archive, which comes from an old Greek word arkheion meaning 'public office' or 'records'. So an archivist is a person who collects, organizes and looks after these records for the future.