Services

What We Offer

From the family photos sitting on your phone to a decade-long institutional backlog, Legacy Forward brings professional archival expertise directly to you. Click on any service below to learn more.

Collections Management, Policies & Workflows +

Practical, sustainable policies and workflows tailored to your institution’s mandate and capacity.

Grant Writing +

For non-profit organizations: identifying funding opportunities and writing grants to obtain funding.

Preservation Planning & Digitization +

Long-term preservation planning for physical and digital materials, including digitization projects.

Cataloguing Art & Objects +

Museum-standard cataloguing of art and three-dimensional objects, including provenance and condition documentation.

Arrangement, Description & Processing +

Hands-on archival processing, cataloguing, and backlog reduction for collections of any size.

Digitization & Photography — Training, Support, or Full Service +

Full-service digitization: I coordinate all logistics, organize and digitize your materials, or recommend professional services where needed, including all shipping logistics.

Want to do it yourself? Learn and work with what you have at home. I will train you and get you started with the tools you already have, so you can begin digitizing your own history.

Digitizing services: I provide digitizing services for photographs, newspapers, albums, and journals, and will recommend professional digitizing services if I am unable to provide the service myself.

Digital Collections Management +

Applying digital preservation best practices and file management, with metadata to document and describe your records, ensuring your digital assets stay organized, accessible, and usable long-term.

We Work the Way That Suits You

In-Home Visits

We come to you, at your home in the Okanagan, for hands-on personal archival support at your own pace.

Onsite Institutional Support

We work directly within your organization at your museum, office, or facility for as long as your project requires.

Remote Consultations

Full consultation, guidance, training, policy development, and planning services are available remotely, wherever you are for in-person and institutional support.