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Re: Rough processing statistics



It depends on the collection.  Working with governmental records which are
notorious for duplication and superfluous information, we average 3 hours
per cubic foot for textual records (includes weed, housing and description).
Non-textual records up the ante significantly, especially photographs.
Images can take a week or more for the same quantity.

Diana Banning
City Archivist
Recorder's Division
Office of the City Auditor
City of Portland, Oregon
dbanning@ci.portland.or.us
503-823-4564



-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Landis [mailto:blandis@LIB.UCI.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, December 12, 2001 1:20 PM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Rough processing statistics


Colleagues;

I'm sure this has been discussed before, but I'm not coming up with the
right comibination of terms to find anything searching the archives of this
list. I'm wondering if anyone out there has convenient "rule of thumb"
figures for how long it takes to process archival collections (e.g., a box a
day). I need to come up with a rough estimate of processing time and would
like to use as standardized as possible a calculation to figure this out.

Thanks in advance for your collective thoughts on this!

Bill

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| Bill Landis
| Manuscripts Librarian, Special Collections and Archives
| The UCI Libraries, University of California
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