Planning for Processing

• Suggested Guidelines for Determining if a Collection is Suitable for Minimal Processing
• Guide for Repository Staff: Preparing for a Surveying and/or Minimal Processing Project
• Installing the Archivists’ Toolkit and Connecting to a MySQL Database

“The PACSCL Method”

Manuals

• Surveying and Minimal Processing Manual
• Guide to the Archivists’ Toolkit
• Spreadsheet to XML:  Using the PACSCL Finding Aids Spreadsheet
• Best Practices for Data Entry and Optimizing Input for PACSCL Finding Aids Site

Worksheets and Checklists for Surveyors and Processors

• Survey and Processing Plan Worksheet
• Processing Worksheet
• Preservation Worksheet
• Exhibits/Digitization Worksheet
• Post Processing Research Value Rating Evaluation
• Processors’ Checklist

Presentations

• Sharing Power and Glory: PACSCL’s Success with Survey and Processing Grants, Mid Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Wilmington, DE, May 1, 2010
• Join or Die, Collaboration in Special Collections, presented at the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section Pre-Conference, Philadelphia, PA, June 23, 2010 (narrative)
• Minimal Processing with Maximal Description, Drexel University Society of American Archivists Chapter, Philadelphia, PA, November 2010
• Hidden Histories, National History Day Philly, Teacher Event, November 9, 2010
• PACSCL’s “Hidden Collections” Processing Project, Temple University Barnes Club, Philadelphia, PA, November 18, 2010 (narrative)
• The Archivists’ Toolkit, presented at Mid-Atlantic Regional Archives Conference, Harrisburg, PA, November 23, 2010 (narrative)
• Revealed:  Treasures found in “Hidden” Collections, Philadelphia Area Consortium of Special Collections Libraries meeting, December 13, 2010
• Unhiding Philadelphia’s Archival Collections, McNeil Center for Early American Studies, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, February 2011 (narrative)
• Forty-two Heads are Better than One:  PACSCL’s Approach to a Cross Repository Processing Program, Society of American Archivists, Chicago, IL, August 26, 2011 (narrative)
• Then Join Hand in Hand, brave [Archivists] All, by Uniting we Stand, by Dividing we Fall, Society of American Archivists, Chicago, IL, August 27, 2011 (narrative)
• Mining Online Catalogs, Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, September 10, 2011 (also presented on April 9, 2011)
• Philadelphia Museum of Art Library Committee, Philadelphia, PA, November 1, 2011 (narrative)
• Can You Tell Fact From Fiction?, National History Day, Teacher Event, November 2011
• PACSCL Hidden Collections Processing Project, University of Pennsylvania Librarians’ Assembly, Philadelphia, PA, December 20, 2011