This page contains links to archival processing manuals which provide guidelines for implementing minimal processing techniques. To return to the homepage click here.
La Guardia and Wagner Archives:
National Park Service
UNC- Chapel Hill:
http://www.lib.unc.edu/wikis/archproc/index.php/How_to_Proceed
Additional Information?
UC Irvine
https://webfiles.uci.edu/schmitzd/ProcessingManual_UCI.pdf
William and Mary
2010
http://scrc.wmwikis.net/Accessioning+and+Processing+Manual
This brief manual states that their approach is to “make all collections accessible to researchers, even if it is not on the ideal level immediately.” It outlines a list of minimum descriptive elements, describes their six processing levels (tin, aluminum, copper, bronze, silver, gold, platinum), and also articulates their criteria for prioritizing collections for processing.
University of Maryland, College Park
2010
http://www.lib.umd.edu/special/publications/umprocessingmanual.pdf
Includes extensive documentation of their minimum processing procedures.
To be examined:
Duke University
2004
http://library.duke.edu/specialcollections/about/techservices/procmanual.pdf
Beinecke Library, Yale University
1997
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/manuscript/process/index.html
2009/2010
Beinecke_Manuscript_Unit_Processing_Manual_(draft_2009).pdf
Beinecke_Manuscript_Unit_Baseline_Processing_Documentation.pdf
UT Arlington
2001
http://library.uta.edu/archivesManual/spcoProcessManual1.jsp
South Carolina State University
2005
http://library.scsu.edu/Archives/processingmanual.pdf
Moravian College/Moravian Theological Seminary Archives/Bethlehem Area Public Library
2005
http://home.moravian.edu/public/arch/resources/manual.pdf
University at Albany
2008
http://library.albany.edu/speccoll/processing.htm
University of South Florida, Tampa
2007
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=ttaylor
National Library of Medicine, History of Medicine Division
2000
www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/manuscripts/processmanual.doc
Georgia Institute of Technology
2009
PACSCL/CLIR: “Hidden Collection in the Philadelphia Area: A Consortial Processing and Cataloging Initiative”
2010
http://clir.pacscl.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/Processing-Manual_Spring-2010.pdf
Mount Saint Mary’s
undated
http://faculty.msmary.edu/fitzgerald/msm_processing_manual.htm