About Me

My name is Lila Crum. I graduated from Simmons University in 2024 with my Masters in Library and Information Science, and in 2021 with my Bachelors in Computer Science. I had wanted to be a librarian all my life, but when I started my masters program I fell in love with archives.

Since starting my journey, I have utilized my expertise in varied environments. As an example, I participated in a project at a major university in Boston assessing and digitizing thousands of historic architectural drawings. I have worked in several archival institutions processing, inventorying, and describing collections. Most recently, I worked as a private archivist for a family in Boston. I took hundreds of papers, letters, news clippings and photographs and made interventions for their continued preservation, alongside an inventory and finding aid. It was an incredibly rewarding experience to begin and finish a project independently.

Services

I provide professional private archiving and information management services. Whether you need help organizing your digital files, preserving memories, or assessing the physical condition of your books and papers; I can assist you.

We are all students of history in our own way. I myself am endlessly fascinated by people’s life stories. I don’t believe there is such a thing as a boring life. I love to learn about the history of a person: the local librarian who spent decades running a theater troupe for teenagers, the newspaper photographer that took portraits of his four children lined up by height, the boy away at boarding school in 1895 who doodled on his notebooks. Part of the reason I became an archivist is to help preserve these small pockets of history, which I see as intrinsically valuable.

My services include:

  • Processing and inventory of materials

  • Digitization

  • Assessments of material conditions and storage

  • Writing finding aids and other descriptive documents

Contact me

Do you have a project you need help with? Do you need a damage assessment of your paper materials? Do you need help organizing your documents? Let me assist you. Contact me for details.