<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Thanks, Dawne for the response. That looks like the only current option to attach a note specifically to a container, so we have considered just using that field as well. But very often the information is unrelated in any way to the location, so as you say, not the best place for it.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div>Sigh,</div><div>Olivia</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 12:18 PM Lucas, Dawne Howard <<a href="mailto:dawne_lucas@unc.edu">dawne_lucas@unc.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’ve added this kind of information to the locations note field in the top container record, although it often doesn’t seem like the best place for it…more like it’s there so I use it when needed.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">Dawne Howard Lucas (she/her/hers)<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;padding:0in"><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:livsolis@utexas.edu" target="_blank">Olivia S Solis</a><br>
<b>Sent: </b>Monday, December 13, 2021 1:13 PM<br>
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<b>Subject: </b>[Archivesspace_Users_Group] Generic top container note?</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I was wondering if any other institutions out there had an interest in a field that we have consistently found a need for: a generic note for staff attached to top container records. Reasons have included:<u></u><u></u></p>
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We renamed a box. Because boxes may be part of citations or referenced in numerous places in internal documentation, staff sometimes goes to absurd lengths to keep an old box number when it is no longer relevant or the box really should be renamed. Having the
old box # in a note that is indexed gets rid of that problem as there is an immediately obvious place to document the change. Staff and researchers often look for a box number they've found in citations and notes. Keeping this information in a note on the
container record would allow us to locate the correct container through a key-word search.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
We merged two boxes into one.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
We want to document the space left in a box and ASpace currently allows no way to do that.<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
The box has a nonstandard size (no container profile yet)<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
The box needs some upkeep (new label, new container, it's missing a lid)<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
We can't find a box. It's happened. We want to document all the places we've looked<u></u><u></u></li><li class="MsoNormal">
Other internal notes about the box's status, condition, barcode or indicator or history, restriction status.<u></u><u></u></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal">It seems like ASpace wants us to document information about top containers in other places including Processing Notes attached to specific archival objects/resource records/accessions, assessments, location notes. Location notes sometimes
could work, but we have limited staff time and can't update numerous records (all the archival objects/collections attached to a box or assessments attached to AOs/collections) to document a single change.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">A generic note attached to top containers would solve a lot of problems for us. If you have encountered any similar issue, how have you approached them in ASpace?<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks,<u></u><u></u></p>
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Olivia Solis, MSIS (she/her)</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Metadata Coordinator</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Dolph Briscoe Center for American History</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">The University of Texas at Austin</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">2300 Red River St. Stop D1100</font></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><font color="#000000">Austin TX, 78712-1426</font></div><div style="color:rgb(136,136,136);font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px">(512) 232-8013</span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>