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Richard Pearce-Moses
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Richard Pearce-Moses was appointed director of the program in 2010. He has been a professional archivist for more than twenty years and has been a member of the Academy of Certified Archivist since its inception. Pearce-Moses has a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (2001), a Master of American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin (1987), and a Bachelor of Journalism from the University of Texas at Austin (1976).
Pearce-Moses has worked with a variety of subjects and formats, including photography, regional history, Native American art and culture, and state and local government. For the past decade, he has focused on digital archives and libraries, including finding ways to capture and preserve digital publications on the Web and new ways to automate processing electronic records.
Most recently, Pearce-Moses worked as the Deputy Director for Technology and Information Resources at the Arizona State Library and Archives in Phoenix, Arizona. While at the Library and Archives, he help establish policies and guidelines for digital archives and records management for state and local governments. He was also the principal investigator on the Persistent Digital Archives and Library System (PeDALS), a multistate research project funded by the Library of Congress National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program to discover new ways to automate curation of large collections of digital records. Previously, he was Documentary Collections Archivist and Automation Coordinator for the Heard Museum and as the Curator of Photographs at the Arizona State University Libraries. Before moving to Arizona, he worked as a Local Records Consultant for the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, and as Assistant to the Curator at the Photography Collection, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
Pearce-Moses served as President of the Society of American Archivists from 2005 to 2006. In 2007 the American Library Association presented him the Fredrick G. Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology in recognition of his work, and the Library of Congress named him a Digital Preservation Pioneer in 2008.
Pearce-Moses is the principal author of A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (Society of American Archivists, 2005).