Richard Pearce-Moses

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Richard Pearce-Moses is an American archivist and educator who has helped shape digital preservation and archival education. He served as president of the Society of American Archivists in 2005–2006 and was recognized by the Library of Congress as a Digital Preservation Pioneer in 2009. In 2010, he became the first director of Clayton State University’s Master of Archival Studies program.

Earlier in his career, Pearce-Moses spent nearly twelve years at the Arizona State Library and Archives as deputy director for Technology and Information Resources, guiding the enterprise architecture for the agency’s library, archival, and other collections, including both physical and electronic holdings. He also led roles as Director of Digital Government Information and as Coordinator of the Cultural Inventory Project. His other positions include Documentary Collections Archivist and Automation Coordinator for the Heard Museum; Curator of Photographs at the Arizona State University Libraries; and Local Records Management Consultant for the Texas State Library.

He holds an MA in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin and an MS in Library and Information Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is a certified archivist and has been active in research projects, including service on the National Archives’ Advisory Committee for the Electronic Records Archives. Pearce-Moses received the American Library Association’s Kilgour Award for Research in Library and Information Technology and the NHPRC Archival Research Fellowship in 2002 to write A Glossary of Archival and Records Terminology.