archivist

/ˈɑrkəvɪst/

Other forms: archivists

Do you love collecting and organizing things? You might want to get a job as an archivist, someone who is in charge of cataloguing and maintaining historical documents.

Archivists' work involves acquiring and caring for records, papers, books, and items with some kind of historical importance. A collection of these documents is known as an archive, and the place where they're kept is also an archive. Museum archivists carefully organize items, often writing descriptions of each piece and storing them protectively. Other archivists care for the collected writings — including drafts, letters, and diaries — of famous authors.

Definitions of archivist

1. noun

   a person in charge of a repository of documents and records
   type of:

   aggregator, collector

   a person who collects things