A person who maintains, organizes, and preserves archives; someone responsible for collecting and storing historical documents or records.
From 'archive' (from Greek 'archeion' meaning magistrate's office, then historical records) plus '-er' (agent suffix). The term evolved as institutions began employing people specifically to manage their collections of documents and artifacts.
Archivists and archivers do one of history's most important but invisible jobs—they're basically librarians who work in the basement organizing thousands of old letters, photographs, and documents so that future historians and curious people can actually find and read them.
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