152 · Representative Documents: Procedures for Prioritizing Processing
Louisiana State University
Backlog and Prioritizing Processing Project
Backlog and Prioritizing Processing Project
Goals:
Identify collections that have adequate description and arrangement in their present state (or
will with minimal effort)
Gather information to inform assigning processing priorities to the truly unprocessed collections
(both in terms of level of processing and order to be processed).
Database: This will be based on the form “backlog project” in OLAF.1
Fields:
Describe existing arrangement and description
Preservation issues‐‐condition and housing
Privacy issues
Recommendation for additional processing:
Online record
Rekeying existing finding aid
Rehousing
Additional minimal processing
Additional full processing
Minimal processing from scratch
Full processing from scratch
Fuller description of collection
Processing priority level (see next page)
1 The “new fields” for this project were inserted into the main table of OLAF, then a query was created to identify
records in which the status is unprocessed or preliminarily processed. A form was then created that is linked to
that form. When info is entered through this form, it is actually entered in the main table of OLAF. Do not delete a
record without realizing you are deleting it from OLAF, not just the form, which represents the project.
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