Keep in mind these are general outlines of steps, not detailed instructions. It is always at the discretion of the Accessioning Archivist, in collaboration with colleagues in Houghton Library, to determine the degree to which accessions are processed. For instance, it may not be entirely practical to consolidate all related accessions, past acquisitions plus the new one, into a single finding aid due to time constraints, size, and/or size or complexity of collections.
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