Overview

Once the Lead Archivist for Collections Management has reviewed and approved the processor's processing plan, they will begin to actually appraise, arrange, and describe their material. 

Unlike pre-processing work, which has a more defined set of steps, processing is a more fluid experience. As such, the order of steps taken by the processor during this stage are ultimately dependent on the nature of the material and level(s) of processing selected by the processor. 

Ultimately, though, the processor will typically do the following when processing material:

• Appraise the material to determine what should be retained, restricted, or separated.

• Arrange and rehouse material.

• Describe the material in a MARC record and some kind of finding aid. 

• Submit conservation request(s) to the Bentley's conservator if conservation issues are uncovered.

Consult each of the site's subpages, which have been ordered alphabetically based on their names, for more information on each of these processes.