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 complexity of collections or records.
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Item comes to Houghton/Pusey Library via mail or hand delivery - Collection materials are logged in Incoming Collections Log and an email is sent to collecting curator with a link to pre-filled Houghton Accession Web Form
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Collecting curator fills out Houghton Accession Web Form -
Acquisitions and accessioning archivist receive alert that new form has been submitted -
Acquisitions creates stub MARC record -
Accessioning archivist creates minimal accession record in ArchivesSpace (identifier, title, extent) - Item is forwarded to the single-item cataloger for all further processing
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Cataloger creates or updates baseline SNAC record (see separate SNAC workflow document)
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