Annual Report 2011: Major Activities in Processing of the Public Policy Papers

As a con­tin­u­a­tion of our series on our 2011 Annual Report, please see a descrip­tion of major activ­i­ties in pro­cess­ing of the Pub­lic Pol­icy Papers:

The main focus of Pub­lic Pol­icy Papers pro­cess­ing in FY2011 was the NHPRC-funded ACLU grant project, led by Adri­ane Han­son, which is on sched­ule for com­ple­tion by the end of June 2012. The entire group of records, more than 2,400 lin­ear feet has been sur­veyed, and described at the box level. The first round of inven­to­ries for the project (Series 2, 3, 5 and 6; a total of 1,123 lin­ear feet) is com­plete. Inven­to­ries are a mix of box and folder level descrip­tion. Since the project was sub­stan­tially ahead of sched­ule, we then ana­lyzed the inven­to­ries and iden­ti­fied 100 lin­ear feet that had been inven­to­ried at the box level but have bet­ter sub­ject access if inven­to­ried at the folder level. The stu­dents have cre­ated folder lists for half of these boxes, and the work will be fin­ished in August 2011.
Other Pol­icy pro­cess­ing projects include the Harold Med­ina papers, which were recalled from ReCAP with a plan for pro­cess­ing devel­oped by Mau­reen Calla­han; pro­cess­ing is sched­uled for com­ple­tion in fall 2011. The Harold Hoskins and Leo Crespi papers will also be final­ized by Dulles Fel­low Kate Dun­don by the end of sum­mer 2011.
Stay tuned for fur­ther dis­cus­sion of our 2011 work involv­ing pro­cess­ing of the Uni­ver­sity Archives, acces­sion­ing, dig­i­tal projects, records man­age­ment, col­lec­tion devel­op­ment, exhi­bi­tions, and more.