[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Inclusive container management in ArchivesSpace

Fri Sep 6 10:12:56 EDT 2019

Hi Kate,

Here is a summary of how we manage physical inventory at Duke (not recommending this approach, but just providing info as a case study). I’m curious about how varied institutional practices are in this area as well:

--Physical inventory for books and archival holdings is managed in our ILS (Aleph … soon to be FOLIO). Every volume and archival box is barcoded and represented with an item record in the ILS. Bib records for archival collections in the ILS may have hundreds of item records attached.  In the ILS, holdings and item records for mss. containers are sort of modeled like serials or multi-volume sets.  All of this itemization/barcoding work in the ILS happened about 12 years ago for mss. collections.

--We manage archival description in ArchivesSpace (multi-level) and the ILS (collection-level). Archival containers are enumerated in ASpace, but we currently do not store barcodes or location information in ArchivesSpace.

--Books and other published materials that are not part of Archival collections are described only in the ILS and not in ArchivesSpace.

--We use Aeon to manage requests / fulfillment of all special collections holdings (books and mss.). There is some integration between the ILS and our public finding aid interface (homegrown, not ASpace PUI). Patrons can initiate a request from either a finding aid or a catalog record, but are then routed to a separate requesting application that just displays all of the requestable items in a given collection as represented in the ILS. Once a request is placed for a given item, a new request transaction record is created in Aeon. There is some integration between Aeon and our off-site storage inventory management system (GFA) that allow us to push Aeon requests to GFA for onsite-delivery.

All of the above works fairly well in our setup, although we often have discrepancies between containers listed in published finding aids (and in ASpace) and containers represented in the ILS. Keeping these in-sync is an issue. Moving all archival holdings and location data to ArchivesSpace and out of the ILS would be one solution, but with over 100,000 archival containers I’ve put that project on hold for a bit☺

-Noah

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Noah Huffman
Archivist for Metadata, Systems, and Digital Records
David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Duke University | 919-660-5982
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> On Behalf Of Bowers, Kate A.
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Inclusive container management in ArchivesSpace

Do you acquire publications that are not part of collections?  If so, how is their housing and storage placement managed?

Thanks!

Kate

From: archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org> <archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org<mailto:archivesspace_users_group-bounces at lyralists.lyrasis.org>> On Behalf Of Dean DeBolt
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Subject: Re: [Archivesspace_Users_Group] Inclusive container management in ArchivesSpace

We are keeping physical books with collections, noting them on the inventories, but also having our
library cataloging department create a catalog record and the call number being the collection title/number
and location in the Archives and West Florida History Center.

Dean

Dean DeBolt, University Librarian (Professor)/University Archivist
UWF Archives and West Florida History Center
University of West Florida Library
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL  32514-5750
ddebolt at uwf.edu<mailto:ddebolt at uwf.edu>;   850-474-2213

West Florida History Center is the largest and most comprehensive
history collection about Pensacola and the West Florida region.
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On Thu, Sep 5, 2019 at 1:29 PM Bowers, Kate A. <kate_bowers at harvard.edu<mailto:kate_bowers at harvard.edu>> wrote:

Here at the Harvard University Archives (HUA), we are interested to know how our colleagues are managing special collections inventory.

We are hoping to find colleagues who, like us, manage physical inventory of books as well as archival holdings. At HUA we have a long history of storing rare publications and archival holdings together.

We use Alma and ArchivesSpace for description, Aeon for patron fulfillment, and a local database to manage physical inventory (boxes, volumes, locations, etc.)

Is anyone else managing book and archival physical storage in a single system? If so, which tools are you using? Do they meet your needs? Have you achieved integrations between systems?

We are eager to hear from you!

Kate Bowers and Robin McElheny, Harvard University Archives

Kate Bowers
Collections Services Archivist for Metadata, Systems, and Standards
Harvard University Archives
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