Research Publications: (or MIT publications)
*Scanning-*
Has any part of this collection been digitized?
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Overhead, sheet fed, requirements for scanning
*Preservation-*
Will these arrive in one load or by batch? (for storage and process handling)
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Sense of condition – as an overview (we will do further assessment)
Page count
Bound
Stapled
Spiral Bound
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Do you have student hours to contribute to the project?
Where will What happens to the original be stored after scanning: storage, circulating stacks, Archives, discard?
Disbinding Some options may have to rebind, staple or batch bindingrequire items to be rebound, boxes, stapled, foldered, etc.
Should Archives review before discarding?
Who discards copies? CSU
The library has to allocate staff to inventory the collection
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Are there any rare archives items that require security (locked room, hand delivery) or on-site scanning with libraries personnel present (and space in Archives or Wunsch Lab)?
Timeframe scanning Timeframe on the project? Are there any events dictating the schedule of the project (presentation, anniversary)?
Who is doing the scanning, what equipment are they using (camera, overhead scanner, sheet-fed scanner), and what are their requirements (picklist, etc.)?
Who needs to be contact along the way (e.g. LSA if items will be stored permanently or temporarily there, perhaps a library head for staffing, etc.)
*Metadata-*
Number of items
What kinds of “things” do you have in this collection (events, notebooks, MIT 150 had events, resources and files. Edgerton and notebooks and pages. Whirlwind had reports. RLE has reports, sections.)
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Intended audience?
Content date
Carrier date (useful for predicting paper condition and media problems)
Repository intentions?
Content Management system in mind or used (IRIS, Archivist Toolkit, Filemaker, Barton, etc…)