[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Processing notes

[Jordon Steele]

Christie,

Like Kevin, we use this note to communicate administrative information that doesn’t need to be published but ought to be conveyed to staff, especially if it’s information that doesn’t neatly align with a specific note that could be unpublished. For example, I used it to explain to staff why we decided to change the identifier of a collection from one normally reserved for manuscript collections to one that we use for university records collections. The idea is that having information like this in the Repository Processing Note ensures that it’s more likely to be seen by staff than having it buried in, say, a more specific note that’s marked “unpublished.”

Best,

Jordon

Jordon Steele
Hodson Curator of the University Archives
Special Collections
The Sheridan Libraries
Johns Hopkins University
3400 N Charles St
Baltimore, MD 21218
410-516-5493
jsteele at jhu.edu

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Clair
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2018 4:34 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group <archivesspace_users_group at lyralists.lyrasis.org>
Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Processing notes

Hi Christie,

At the University of Denver we use it in both Resource and Archival Object records as a note to other archivists indicating processing or cataloging tasks that were left unfinished for one reason or another, or other administrative things that we don’t want published in the PUI. The idea is that if the actions listed in the Repository Processing Note get taken, we remove the text that’s there.

We have a report that pulls the information from that field for review that we run periodically when setting processing priorities: https://github.com/duspeccoll/archivesspace_reports/tree/master/resources/resource_processing_notes_report

-k

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> [mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org] On Behalf Of Christie Peterson
Sent: Tuesday, January 02, 2018 2:28 PM
To: Archivesspace Users Group
Subject: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Processing notes

Hello,

Can anyone on this list speak to what was intended to go in the "Repository Processing Note" text field for Resources, which the tooltip tells me does not appear in any exports or reports?

Can anyone give me a use case for why they populate this field in addition to (or instead of?) an unpublished "Processing Information" note?

Thanks,

Christie Peterson
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Christie S. Peterson
Head of Technical Services for Special Collections
Smith College
Northampton, Mass.
413-585-2996
cpeterson at smith.edu<mailto:cpeterson at smith.edu>

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