Add new extent by clicking the “Add Extent” button
Portion (required): Select “Whole” if the accession is entirely analog or entirely digital. If it’s a hybrid accession, select “Part” and enter analog and digital extents separately.
Number (required): For analog materials, a numeric value for the number of cubic feet (for single items or anything less than one manuscript box in extent, use numeric value 0.1). For digital materials, a numeric value for the storage space in megabytes, gigabytes, or terabytes.
Type (required): Choose one of the following from the drop down menu
Cubic Feet
Megabytes
Gigabytes
Terabytes
Container Summary (required): For analog materials, used to describe the containers that the materials were initially housed in when they arrived at IASC. For digital materials, used to describe the size of the accession in digital files; also use to call out specific digital formats that may require special accessioning procedures. Text in the Container Summary field should be in parentheses.
Examples:
(2 record cartons and 1 legal manuscript box)
(5 audiocassettes)
(1 manila folder)
(12,345 digital files)
(2,429 digital files; 253,374 emails)
(3 record cartons, including 30 floppy disks)