I would recommend reading Tom Wilsted's
booklet,Computing the Total Cost of Archival
Processing, Technical leaflet No.2,(Mid-Atlantic
Regional Archives Conference: N.p., 1989)
There is also a brief discussion of some of the relevant
literature in Paul Ericksen and my article,
Shocks: The Place of Processing Cost Analysis in
Archival Administration" in the American Archivist.
Vol. 58, No.1, Winter 1995
Some of our experience at the BGC Archives on
calculating processing costs (including labor, materials,
storage) can be found online at:
http://www.wheaton.edu/bgc/archives/ar/2004/17.html
Our average for eleven years, including all types of
collections, was 7.4 hours per cubic foot, $181 per cubic
foot. You might also want segregate the different types
of processing you are doing, since costs can differ
widely depending on whether you are processing a huge
collection of hundreds or thousands of boxes, updating
an existing collection, adding a few individual items to a
collection, working on a collecting that includes oral
history interviews as well as other types of material, etc.
Bob Shuster
BGC Archives
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