Organizational Preservation

We work with galleries, libraries, archives, and museums (GLAM) as well as other nonprofit organizations and small businesses on building archives that document your organization’s legacy and impact.

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Archival Services

Monocurate’s archival services encompass the comprehensive management and preservation of historical collections to ensure their long-term accessibility and research value. This process involves systematically organizing and documenting materials logically, enhancing research accessibility and discovery of your collection materials.

Consulting Services

Whether it’s facility planning or ensuring compliance with industry standards, we provide clear, actionable recommendations that help you make informed decisions. We can provide the project management, planning, and implementation that will meet your organization’s specific requirements. Our recommendations and reports range from comprehensive needs assessments to environmental control testing, policy development, recommendations for specialized equipment, and archival staff needs.

Preservation Services

Our modular preservation solutions meet the unique needs of every piece to offer the best protection. This may include special storage conditions, cleaning, or repair to ensure your collection’s longevity.

Specialty Treatments

We provide dry cleaning, paper mending, repair, and advanced deacidification treatments for all your important paper and bound items. Our treatment approach prioritizes maintaining the authenticity and integrity of your materials by focusing on reversible methods; we ensure the provenance and character of the collection without compromising its physical integrity.

Digitization

From U-matic conversion to paper scanning to metadata creation, we offer professional analog-to-digital conversion services for film, video, audio, photographs, paper documents, and 3D artifacts. We deliver detailed digital files that are easy to navigate, no matter the format or size of your project.

If you are looking to digitize in order to donate electronic records, we work with universities, archives, and libraries to match ingestion requirements to ensure successful interoperability.

Inventory Creation

We catalog dates, names, places, titles, locations, creators, inscriptions/markings, formats, acquisition details, and so much more of your collection material.

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Risk Management

A thoroughly documented and digitized collection can help validate your documentation in the case of a catastrophic event, such as a fire, flood, or theft. We also assist in comprehensive needs assessments, environmental control, storage, and on-site evaluations to ensure your organization’s collection is always stored safely, regardless of where it is.

Donation Assistance

We assist organizations and businesses in successfully donating their collections in whole or in part to universities, archives, museums, and special collections nationwide. We prepare physical collection materials for donation, digitize material for donation, and help you connect with and navigate memory institutions to ensure your organization’s legacy is accessible forever.

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Research Assistance

We fill the gaps in your organization’s history and progression. We find answers to missing details in your collection, locate hard-to-find copies of records, answer reference questions, and conduct in-depth research using primary and secondary sources to ensure the facts are straight.

We regularly assist in commemorating organizational founding, anniversaries, special and philanthropic events, as well as ongoing endeavors. Our trained archivists and librarians help you maintain a collection of relevant and accurate reference sources. We also help you find information and provide training in reference and citation techniques.