Thanks, Kathy, and to everyone else for their helpful replies. Most have
been posted to the list, with only a couple to me off-list. I plan to
compile those and share them anonymously in the near future.

 

To answer Kathy's question, we use legal-size folders. Oftentimes in the
re-housing, the folders have to be expanded to their one-inch-thick
capacity, so one box fills up very quickly. It's varied from one extreme
to the other, though.

 

Laurie

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Kathy Mitchell [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:52 AM
To: Langland, Laurie; [log in to unmask]
Subject: RE: cost to process a collection - supplies issue[Scanned]

 

Hi Laurie,

I was curious about your estimate of 10 or 12 folders to 30 or 40
folders per box.  We recently finished processing a large political
papers collection, and it seemed to me there were more folders per box,
so I did a quick estimate.  We also use the legal by letter record
center boxes, and we use letter size folders (for just about everything
except some newspaper clippings).  Our average is 40 folders per box,
with a low of 20 and a high of 101.  I suppose if you use legal folders
you might have only 10 folders in a box, but that struck me as really
low.  I know some of our collections have an average more around 50
folders per box.  I think if I had both legal and letter size folders I
would estimate them separately.

 

Just some thoughts.  Interesting discussion!

 

Kathy

~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 
Kathy Mitchell 
Archives Specialist 
Special Collections & Archives 
Penrose Library 
University of Denver 
2150 E. Evans Ave. 
Denver, CO 80208 
ph. 303.871.3428 
fax 303.871.2290 
[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>  
http://library.du.edu/about/collections/specialcollections/ 

 


A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org.
For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp.

To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask]
      In body of message:  SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname
                    *or*:  UNSUB ARCHIVES
To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask]

Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at
     http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html

Problems?  Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>