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When accessioning a collection that contains mostly photographs, you should make an appointment with Joanne to review the material and to make final decisions on how to proceed.  Prior to your meeting, assess the collection to help determine whether the collection should be identified as an MC or PC.  Some questions to think about while reviewing the collection and to address with Joanne:

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For larger photograph collections (e.g. usually more than one box) the accessioner will be responsible for the descriptive work.  Collections that are open for research use and would benefit from being described more extensively will need a finding aid. As with MC collections, if the collection is closed until processed the accessioner will create only a bib record and maybe an internal container list. For open collections the accessioner can create both the bib record and a the online finding aid.

For the bib and FA:

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