28 · Survey Results: Survey Questions And Responses
Accessions with no discovery/access tools (except accession register listing).
As it came in the door.
Boxed in acid free boxes with accession record only.
Brief catalog record created temporary accession number assigned.
Collection has not been arranged but may be described with a catalog record and/or a preliminary inventory (container
list).
Collection is accessioned it is given an accession number but no call number collection is described for internal and
donor needs in a preliminary box list or box and folder list it is not sorted, weeded, or arranged.
Collection level record or no record at all.
Collection may or may not have been appraised. It has not been physically or intellectually processed beyond re-boxing
in some cases.
Donations that have not been processed.
Has a container list for local, in-house use only.
Having no presence on the MU Archives Web site and not yet fully accessioned.
Housed in archival boxes and some times has been rehoused in archival folders “accession description” perhaps with
rough box list catalog record locally and in WorldCat for manuscript collections, but not university records.
In original containers has no finding aid.
In various physical stages of processing, some with catalog records, some with only in-house inventories.
Lacks anything but the most basic description in OPAC, unsorted and untouched.
Limited /Brief finding aid.
Little assessment brief internal description (varies by collection).
Material accessioned, rehoused depending on condition, and minimally described at the collection level.
Material that has not been processed.
Materials have an accessions note in the database and re-housed. They otherwise remain in the condition in which they
were received.
Materials that have been accessioned, but for which more detailed organization and preservation has not occurred and
for which finding aids and catalog records have not been created.
Materials that lack any kind of finding aid, aside from a very general description in an accession record.
May have a brief appraisal, accession report created, may be re-housed, some separated material removed.
Neither of the above.
No inventory whatsoever. (2 responses)
No arrangement or description.
No box list no record. This applies to very few collections, primarily current incoming collections.
Accessions with no discovery/access tools (except accession register listing).
As it came in the door.
Boxed in acid free boxes with accession record only.
Brief catalog record created temporary accession number assigned.
Collection has not been arranged but may be described with a catalog record and/or a preliminary inventory (container
list).
Collection is accessioned it is given an accession number but no call number collection is described for internal and
donor needs in a preliminary box list or box and folder list it is not sorted, weeded, or arranged.
Collection level record or no record at all.
Collection may or may not have been appraised. It has not been physically or intellectually processed beyond re-boxing
in some cases.
Donations that have not been processed.
Has a container list for local, in-house use only.
Having no presence on the MU Archives Web site and not yet fully accessioned.
Housed in archival boxes and some times has been rehoused in archival folders “accession description” perhaps with
rough box list catalog record locally and in WorldCat for manuscript collections, but not university records.
In original containers has no finding aid.
In various physical stages of processing, some with catalog records, some with only in-house inventories.
Lacks anything but the most basic description in OPAC, unsorted and untouched.
Limited /Brief finding aid.
Little assessment brief internal description (varies by collection).
Material accessioned, rehoused depending on condition, and minimally described at the collection level.
Material that has not been processed.
Materials have an accessions note in the database and re-housed. They otherwise remain in the condition in which they
were received.
Materials that have been accessioned, but for which more detailed organization and preservation has not occurred and
for which finding aids and catalog records have not been created.
Materials that lack any kind of finding aid, aside from a very general description in an accession record.
May have a brief appraisal, accession report created, may be re-housed, some separated material removed.
Neither of the above.
No inventory whatsoever. (2 responses)
No arrangement or description.
No box list no record. This applies to very few collections, primarily current incoming collections.
