About HAI
Archival Research & Management.
History Associates Incorporated (HAI), are a team of dedicated professionals—researchers, archivists, and museum experts—who bring passion and precision to every project.
We understand that your records and archives are more than just documents; they are the foundation of your company’s story. Our expert archival services help you organize and preserve these valuable assets, ensuring they remain secure, accessible, and ready to support your business goals.
From conducting detailed surveys and analysis to providing archival evaluation, meticulous organization, cataloging, and creating rich, structured metadata, we bring deep expertise and unwavering commitment to every task. We take personal pride in the success of your project, delivering exceptional results every time.
With a team of over 50 historians, archivists, museum professionals, and support staff, we also leverage a trusted network of specialized consultants to meet the unique needs of any project. Our collective experience and academic training ensure that every job is handled with the highest level of expertise and care.
Key Features:
- A solid reputation for providing high-quality historical services, since 1981.
- Help you organize and preserve your records, ensuring they’re secure and accessible.
- Expertly delivering detailed surveys and analysis, comprehensive archival evaluation, meticulous organization and cataloging, with rich, structured metadata creation.
Megan O'Hern-Crook
HAI - Director of Archives & Information Services
Megan O'Hern-Crook is a trained archivist and project manager and got her start in the field through working in public libraries. As a result, she is passionate about ensuring that information—and archives—are accessible to everyone. Megan worked with the AFL-CIO’s George Meany Memorial Archive at the University of Maryland. She also spent time working with the Maryland State Archives, where she conducted extensive historical research on the historic town of Brookeville, Maryland, “U.S. Capital for a Day” during the War of 1812.
As an archivist, Megan doesn’t specialize in just one subject—every collection she works with is unique and provides an immersive learning opportunity. Megan is fascinated by the ways that technology has changed the way we create information. She keeps up-to-date on changing best-practices revolutions in methodology pertaining to electronic records. She also maintains HAI's institutional membership with the Association of Centers for the Study of Congress. Megan specializes in collections assessments, action plans and roadmaps, archival organization and processing, cataloging, metadata creation, records management, collections management, and born-digital preservation.
HAI FAQ's
- Many factors go into processing your collections before digitization happens. HAI works with you and our digitization partners to ensure the safety, organization, and thoroughness of digitizing your collections. HAI will make sure your collections are housed in archival containers and free of fasteners to limit the risk of harm and extend their preservation.
- Our team works with NOS to create a step-by-step playbook to guide the organization of materials and capture metadata in order to facilitate digitization and the return of your physical and digital materials, ready for research and ingest into your DAMS and access platforms.
- The physical processing of your collections ensures the seamless transition from physical to digital collections while preserving the arrangement and security of your archival collections throughout.
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