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Current procedures:

Preservation Services Digital Projects Procedures

Step-by-step instructions for tasks done by the Preservation Services Unit: preparing materials for digitization, packing and shipping items to scanning vendors, quality control, and disposition of originals.

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Prioritizing materials sent to Preservation Services and then to Document Services:

This example is This is an example of Preservation Services preference from the MIT Energy Lab Reports .  Could project but could serve as a guideline for future projects, esp. research publications:

(Sept. 09) Ann Marie has reported on the preferred prioritization of items to be sent to Preservation Services then to Document Services.  It is as follows: For Preservation, our order of preference is based on the amount of time it takes to prep.  Assuming the items have pages in good condition, the order is:

  • Loose, unbound pages
  • Comb bindings with holes in good condition
  • Velobindings (Document Services may prefer velo to comb based on the hole size...)Velobinding
  • Stapled
  • Stapled with tape over staples
  • Then:  ratty stuff, including loose pages with lots of paste-ins