Planning for Archival Repositories: A Common-Sense Approach

Establishing Processing Priorities: Recommendations from a 2017 Study of Practices in US Repositories

“…7 Timothy Nutt and Diane Worrell explain in "Planning for Archival Repositories" that their processing priorities factored in the significance of the collection, its relevance to the university's curriculum, the acquisition date and the requests for use. 8 Research value depended on the collection's relevance to the university curriculum. Greta Reisel Browning and Mary McKay, in "Processing Political Papers," also suggest that research value should be the primary factor, ascertained through conversations with donors and staff, examining the collection inventory and consulting with historians and political scientists.…”