Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One who is in charge of archives.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A keeper of archives or records.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare A keeper of archives or records.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who is in charge of, or performs the task of creating, collecting, cataloguing, and organising, archives.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a person in charge of collecting and cataloguing archives

Etymologies

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From archive + -ist.

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Examples

  • As an afterthought, Taen recalled that the King of Pirates revered books; on Cliffhaven, his archivist was the only hale man not required to bear arms.

    Shadowfane Wurts, Janny 1988

  • Underscoring the idea of archivist-as-peacemaker, this year’s award was shared by representatives of both sides in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Khader Salameh of the Al-Aqsa Mosque Library in Jerusalem, and Yehoshua Freundlich of the Israel State Archives.

    Are Archivists Today’s Real Peacemakers? « ResourceShelf 2010

  • Also, what kind of archivist allows a student this kind of access?

    digg.com: Stories / Popular 2010

  • Last night, Jon Stewart (who needs some help with the pronunciation of "archivist") got into the act.

    ArchivesBlogs 2009

  • For example, "One of the main guiding forces behind the changing role of the archivist is the dialectic between objectivity and subjectivity in archival theory.

    ArchivesBlogs 2009

  • Edward McCarter, supervisory archivist for still pictures at the National Archives, concurred.

    Mathew Brady's photographs made a president, captured reality of Civil War Jacqueline Trescott 2010

  • Sara Marcus's new book, "Girls to the Front," chronicles the vibrant period, and she'll talk about it with D. C.'s own punk archivist, Mark Andersen.

    Going Out Guide's nightlife agenda Going Out Guide 2010

  • Sara Marcus's new book, "Girls to the Front," chronicles the vibrant period, and she'll talk about it with D. C.'s own punk archivist, Mark Andersen.

    Going Out Guide's nightlife agenda Post 2010

  • Instead of the usual chest beating and ultimatums before the calculators were pulled out, a representative from the Writers Guild of America made a surprising proposal: instead of figuring out what Google had to offer the rights holders to pursue its current plan, what if Google took on an even more ambitious role—not just as an archivist for books, but as the designated digital bookstore for the millions of tomes otherwise unavailable?

    In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

  • This was a protracted process, as mother is something of an amateur archivist.

    Alteration Steve Almond 2011

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