Last week was busy,busy, busy! The UCLA service students are helping the collection move along rapidly. I have two students processing a particularly large collection, The Marilyn White Collection. To successfully have two students process one collection they must; confirm that they will come in on different dates, adhere to the same processing standards, and complete the box they started that day. So far, 10 boxes have been processed in 18 hours, an excellent rate!
The processing procedure I developed for this collection is based on the fact that MCLM is a library. Because MCLM is a library we must know exactly what type and quantity of book is in each collection that is donated. In order to determine this the procedure is to create an excel sheet only for the books, pamphlets, brochures and other printed matter (excluding correspondence) that details the title, quantity and year of each item. This excel sheet can then be compared to our current holdings and then a weeding process can then occur.
An interesting item that I found in the collection yesterday was some of Mayme's water color paintings. She made these drawings in a class that Avery taught, MCLM currently has the paints and the works she created. A fun little piece of institutional history!
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