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Manuals

• How to Proceed - A Procedures Manual for the Southern Historical Collection and General Manuscripts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

• XML at UNC: A Guide to Writing EAD 2002-Encoded Finding Aids Using NoteTab Software

• Born-digital oral history preservation project documentation

Frequently Used Pages

• Container Types
• Getting Rid of Stuff
• Where to Put Away Materials
• Supply Location List

The Louis Round Wilson Special Collections Library

Additional Processing Information

• Additions
• Items Separated
• Technical Services Stylesheet

• Annotating Manuscript Materials
• Box Labels: templates and instructions for mass label-making
• Checklist for Finished Collections
• EAD Coding Examples
• DACS Annotated Finding Aid
• Example Finding Aids
• How to Humidify and Flatten Documents
• Identifying Conservation Candidates (includes mold images)
• Identifying Photograph Types
• Life Cycle of a Publication (diagram)
• Location Database
• Materials Not Appropriate for Retention
• Microfilming
• Preservation Photocopying
• Ready Reference: Drive paths for saving finding aids, abbreviations for state names, extent info...
• Researching People in the North Carolina Collection
• Sensitive Materials Processing Guidelines
• The Spreadsheet Method
• University Archives Processing Instructions
• Vacuuming Archival Materials