Research Center Staff

Molly Kruckenberg, Research Center Director
(406) 444-4787
Email: mkruckenberg@mt.gov

• MHS Research Center program manager
• Program collection management and development
• Long range planning, goals, objectives, and policies
• Staff supervision and budget oversight
• Comments, commendations, and complaints
• Reference assistance

LIBRARY

Brian Shovers, Library Manager
(406) 444-7415
Email: bshovers@mt.gov

• Inquiries re. historic western and Montana maps
• General inquiries re. Montana history, mining, natural history
• Reference assistance

Zoe Ann Stoltz, Reference Historian
(406) 444-1988
Email: zstoltz@mt.gov

• General inquiries re. Montana history and genealogy
• Reference assistance

Roberta Gebhardt, Technical Services Librarian/Supervisor
(406)444-4702
Email: rgebhardt@mt.gov

• Library collection management
• Inquiries re. care and cataloging of books, documents, and maps
• Questions re. electronic access to catalogs and collections
• Reference assistance

Barbara Pepper Rotness, Library Technician
(406) 444-9526
Email: bapepperrotness@mt.gov

• Inquiries re. new materials and book orders
• Questions concerning library databases
• Reference assistance

Lea Solberg, Library Clerk
(406) 444-3485
Email: lsolberg@mt.gov

• Interlibrary loan requests
• New materials processing
• Duplication requests

ARCHIVES

Jodie Foley, State Archivist
(406) 444-7482
Email: jofoley@mt.gov

• Archives collection management
• Contact for donations of manuscripts and documents
• Inquiries re. state and local government records transfers
• Reference assistance

Ellie Arguimbau, Senior Archivist
(406) 444-4774
Email: earguimbau@mt.gov

• Technical assistance re. care and organization of manuscripts
• Information re. corporate records and Montana business history
• Reference assistance

Rich Aarstad, Oral Historian
(406) 444-6779
Email: raarstad@mt.gov

• Technical assistance re. recording and transcribing oral history
• Information re. labor history in Montana
• Reference assistance

Jeff Malcomson, Government Records Archivist
(406) 444-7427
Email: jmalcomson@mt.gov

• Contact for transferring state and local government records
• Information re. state and local government collections
• Reference assistance

Vacant, Government Records Archivist
(406) 444-7428
Email:

• Contact for transferring state and local government records
• Information re. records of Montana's Legislature
• Reference assistance

Emiley Jensen, Electronic Records Archivist
(406) 444-4770
Email: EJensen2@mt.gov

• Contact for electronic records
• Information re. records of Montana's Legislature
• Reference assistance

PHOTOGRAPH ARCHIVES

Lory Morrow, Photograph Archives Manager
(406) 444-4714 FAX: (406) 444-5297
Email: dmorrow@mt.gov

• Photographic collection management
• Information re. Montana photographers and photographic history
• Inquiries re. photograph policies and permissions
• Reference assistance

Becca Kohl , Photograph Archivist
(406) 444-3317
Email: bkohl@mt.gov

• Contact for photograph donations
• Technical assistance re. care, preservation and cataloging of photographs
• Reference assistance

Arian Randall, Photograph Archives Technician
(406) 444-0261
Email: arandall@mt.gov

• Inquiries re. photographic research
• Information re. procedures for ordering photographs
• Reference assistance

Amanda Graham, Photograph Archivist
(406) 444-0261
Email: agraham2@mt.gov

• Information re. recent donations of photographs
• Technical assistance re. care, preservation and cataloging of photographs
• Reference assistance

J.M. Cooper, Archival Photographer
(406) 444-3514
Email: jecooper@mt.gov

• Technical assistance re. photography
• Consultations concerning archival processing and printing
• Production of images

Tom Ferris, Archival Photographer
(406) 444-3514
Email: tferris@mt.gov

• Technical assistance re. photography
• Consultations concerning archival processing and printing
• Production of images