What's the difference between archivist and curator?

Archivist


Definition:

  • (n.) A keeper of archives or records.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The former senior KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who has died from pneumonia aged 81, will be best remembered for his extraordinary achievement in noting down the contents of top-secret Soviet foreign intelligence files and, at great personal risk, smuggling them out of the secret police headquarters on almost every working day for 12 years.
  • (2) It was Tim, an archivist from Warners whom I had been pestering for years about trying to track down some long-lost film footage.
  • (3) The issue came up after an archivist discovered documents showing that Hitler and the president who appointed him, Paul von Hindenburg, had been given honorary citizenship of Dietramszell.
  • (4) Murray Melvin, a member of Littlewood's Theatre Workshop company, now the theatre's honorary archivist, recalled the original cast's extraordinary experience.
  • (5) We can do four or five hundred a day,” says one of the archivists, Lucas Behmer.
  • (6) A team of specialist conservation staff from Historic Scotland is now working with the school's own archivists to retrieve and conserve vulnerable materials.
  • (7) As theatre director emeritus and honorary archivist of the Victoria theatre collection at Staffordshire University, he continued his involvement with the theatre he loved.
  • (8) It’s a great surprise for the new year,” said archivist Niurbus Ferrer.
  • (9) Directed by Franny Armstrong (a documentary film-maker and outrider for the Guardian's 10:10 campaign), The Age of Stupid cast Pete Postlethwaite as a mournful archivist in 2055, looking at footage from 2008 of flash floods and rampant air travel and wondering where it all went wrong.
  • (10) What I believe could [provide] context here is that back in the early 20th century there was a small student group that adopted the name Ku Klux Klan,” said archivist William Maher at the University of Illinois, who was listed in the published phone numbers, told the Guardian.
  • (11) A team of archivists is busy cleaning, photographing and indexing crates full of 33, 45 and 78 RPMs.
  • (12) The American diplomatic cables show a long and increasingly futile effort on behalf of the embassy to mediate between the Vatican archivists and outside historians, bedevilled by mutual mistrust.
  • (13) Andrei Tarkovsky: it's time to immerse yourself in the work of a true auteur Read more Many of the images which are particularly technically flawed are expected to be among the most coveted when the collection is sold by his son Andrey, who is also his archivist, at Bonhams auction house in October.
  • (14) According to Lionel Joseph, 90, who was the CTC's archivist until he turned 83, the name change, which came about in 1883, was prompted by protests from those who favoured three wheels over two.
  • (15) Pete Postlethwaite, who stars in the film as an archivist in 2050 looking back at the opportunities mankind had to stop climate change, will arrive in a solar-powered car.
  • (16) After working for King, Maude and Leonard Ballou moved on to what is now Elizabeth City State University in North Carolina, where Leonard Ballou was an archivist.
  • (17) Specialist archivists from the Glasgow School of Art have begun the operation to conserve items damaged by the fire that ripped through the Charles Rennie Mackintosh building in the city centre on Friday.
  • (18) Blake, the assiduous archivist, photographed them – an image now in the Cardiff show, alongside the train ticket he bought for his journey there – and regarded their meeting as a good omen.
  • (19) Volunteer Archivist and Alumni Events Organiser City University London.
  • (20) In recent years, publishers, authors, and archivists have become aware of the destructive effects of acid decay on medical journals.

Curator


Definition:

  • (n.) One who has the care and superintendence of anything, as of a museum; a custodian; a keeper.
  • (n.) One appointed to act as guardian of the estate of a person not legally competent to manage it, or of an absentee; a trustee; a guardian.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Possibilities to achieve this both in the curative and the preventive field are restricted mainly due to the insufficient knowledge of their etiopathogenesis.
  • (2) Eighty four colorectal cancer patients who underwent presumably curative surgery were considered as candidates for control recurrence study.
  • (3) Preventive care is closely linked with curative care, the latter must in future be mainly in the home rather than in hospital.
  • (4) However, the number of those with blastformation rates over 40% decreased markedly in the curative cases of gastric cancer Stage II to stage IV.
  • (5) From 1975 to 1987, 170 unresectable esophageal carcinomas were curatively irradiated.
  • (6) Fifty-seven patients underwent local excision of an invasive distal rectal cancer as an initial operative procedure with curative intent.
  • (7) The presence of vital and sensitive organs such as the spinal cord, heart, and lungs makes curative radiotherapy of non-small cell lung cancer difficult to implement and necessitates use of oblique portals.
  • (8) The curators Pickering and Kaus have painstakingly trawled through the records that may accompany bones for clues.
  • (9) Further studies are needed to assess the curative efficacy with different dosage regimens.
  • (10) Oxygen administered after arthritis is advanced still exerted a significant curative effect.
  • (11) Survival rates after curative gastrectomy for advanced gastric cancer among 238 patients in whom the cancer was invading the serosa were compared with 283 patients without serosal invasion.
  • (12) Salbutamol showed the same protective and curative effect in 30 patients proved in the same way as described before.
  • (13) Drainage of the hematoma was uniformly curative, although six patients had transient postoperative symptoms.
  • (14) The development of dental policy may be benefited by modifying the curative-treatment model of care to one that is preventive-behavioralist oriented.
  • (15) Detection of free malignant cells in the peritoneal cavity following curative resections of colorectal cancer may explain why some patients develop local or peritoneal recurrence after favourable operations.
  • (16) Echography is the method of choice for the study of hydatidosis, since it permits the diagnosis of cysts, the long-term monitoring of patients, and via the use of an echo-guided needle, the performance of cytological, chemical and cultural studies, as well as curative treatment by means of percutaneous drainage and sterilisation with alcohol.
  • (17) Fifty-seven patients with poor prognostic factors following resection with curative intent for gastric adenocarcinoma (T3 or T4, positive lymph nodes, positive resection line) received adjuvant radiotherapy.
  • (18) In the absence of any curative treatment, surgery was required to relieve obstruction and an operation was performed via an antero-lateral extra-pharyngeal approach.
  • (19) Local or regional recurrence without evidence of distant metastases was identified in 11 per cent of cases after 'curative' resections.
  • (20) Unfortunately, despite being a much better tolerated curative procedure involving a very brief hospitalization, the use of high-energy direct current (DC) shocks is associated with a low but significant incidence of serious complications including cardiac perforation, hypotension, coronary artery spasm, and late occurrence of ventricular fibrillation.

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