User:Pearcemoses

Richard Pearce-Moses retired in 2015 after working more than thirty years as a professional archivist and archival educator. He 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.

Pearce-Moses was the founding director of the Master of Archival Studies program at Clayton State University in Morrow, Georgia. Previously, he was Deputy Directory for Technology and Information Resources at the Arizona State Library, Archives and Public Records in Phoenix, Arizona. He has also worked as an archivist at the Heard Museum, Arizona State University Libraries, the Texas State Library and Archives, the Texas Historical Foundation, and the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.

He served as President of the Society of American Archivists, is a Fellow of the Society, and has been a member of the Academy of Certified Archivist since its inception. Library of Congress named him a Digital Preservation Pioneer in 2008, and the American Library Association presented him with the Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology in 2007. He was the principal author of A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology (2005).

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).