24 · Survey Results: Survey Questions And Responses
Full finding aid (biography/history, scope/content, inventory), full physical processing (collection housed in acid-free
boxes and folders).
“Fully Processed” refers to material that has been arranged and described at the fonds, series, and folder level, has
been transferred to appropriate archival folders/boxes and other enclosures.
Fully processed – donations of manuscript material that have been appraised, arranged, preserved, described, and made
available to patrons.
Has a complete finding aid in EAD posted on our Web site, OCLC record, and record in the local ILS.
Having a preliminary inventory containing series divisions and container lists and posted to the MU Archives Web site.
Includes rehousing, arrangement, description that includes a finding aid with box lists placed online and a catalog
record.
Items that have been individually cataloged.
Level 3 processing, DACS “Multilevel Optimum Added Value” level used for finding aid, MARC record, and EAD.
Level 4: Intellectual control over entire collection folder-level control full finding aid MARC record Wikipedia links/
entries.
Material arranged, housed, and described according to prescribed institutional procedures.
Material has been accessioned, fully processed and a description and finding aid is available online or in the Library for
researchers to consult.
Material is available for use and has online records in the OPAC.
Materials rehoused into archival boxes, a summary Archon record prepared, and a box and folder level listing prepared.
Meanwhile, it may have had partial refoldering and removal of paper clips.
Materials that are fully processed have a finding aid that describes materials to the folder or item level and a catalog
record. The arrangement of these collections often involves extensive reboxing and rehousing of materials.
Materials that have been organized to the subseries or folder levels and for which basic preservation, arrangement and
description has been performed. These have finding aids and are queued for cataloging.
Materials that have been reviewed, weeded and described to the folder or item level.
New containers and folders, published finding aid or inventory.
Organized and inventoried to folder level with folders labeled placed in durable folders and document boxes.
Organized into any series, any conservation work completed, described to the folder level, rehoused, finding aid and
catalog record completed.
Reboxed and refoldered using acid free materials arranged and described, usually with folder-level finding aid has
collection-level description entered on OCLC and local online catalog.
Records/papers refoldered, reboxed, and labeled finding aid completed.
Refoldering, reboxing, formal arrangement, detailed biographical/historical information, scope and content notes,
container lists of content at folder and/or item level.
Rehoused in archival boxes and folders with fasteners removed individual preservation or conservation treatment or
Full finding aid (biography/history, scope/content, inventory), full physical processing (collection housed in acid-free
boxes and folders).
“Fully Processed” refers to material that has been arranged and described at the fonds, series, and folder level, has
been transferred to appropriate archival folders/boxes and other enclosures.
Fully processed – donations of manuscript material that have been appraised, arranged, preserved, described, and made
available to patrons.
Has a complete finding aid in EAD posted on our Web site, OCLC record, and record in the local ILS.
Having a preliminary inventory containing series divisions and container lists and posted to the MU Archives Web site.
Includes rehousing, arrangement, description that includes a finding aid with box lists placed online and a catalog
record.
Items that have been individually cataloged.
Level 3 processing, DACS “Multilevel Optimum Added Value” level used for finding aid, MARC record, and EAD.
Level 4: Intellectual control over entire collection folder-level control full finding aid MARC record Wikipedia links/
entries.
Material arranged, housed, and described according to prescribed institutional procedures.
Material has been accessioned, fully processed and a description and finding aid is available online or in the Library for
researchers to consult.
Material is available for use and has online records in the OPAC.
Materials rehoused into archival boxes, a summary Archon record prepared, and a box and folder level listing prepared.
Meanwhile, it may have had partial refoldering and removal of paper clips.
Materials that are fully processed have a finding aid that describes materials to the folder or item level and a catalog
record. The arrangement of these collections often involves extensive reboxing and rehousing of materials.
Materials that have been organized to the subseries or folder levels and for which basic preservation, arrangement and
description has been performed. These have finding aids and are queued for cataloging.
Materials that have been reviewed, weeded and described to the folder or item level.
New containers and folders, published finding aid or inventory.
Organized and inventoried to folder level with folders labeled placed in durable folders and document boxes.
Organized into any series, any conservation work completed, described to the folder level, rehoused, finding aid and
catalog record completed.
Reboxed and refoldered using acid free materials arranged and described, usually with folder-level finding aid has
collection-level description entered on OCLC and local online catalog.
Records/papers refoldered, reboxed, and labeled finding aid completed.
Refoldering, reboxing, formal arrangement, detailed biographical/historical information, scope and content notes,
container lists of content at folder and/or item level.
Rehoused in archival boxes and folders with fasteners removed individual preservation or conservation treatment or
