Staff processing during 1999 added or updated fourteen collections (nine consisting of paper documents, five of oral history interviews) to the material accessible to Archives researchers. We continued to emphasize arranging and describing Billy Graham Evangelistic Association records. Almost half the number (44%) of the records collections processed were BGEA-related. More than half of the over half of the 87.8 cubic feet processed in 1999 documented BGEA activities or sponsored events. Irene Wong, as part of her training in the Archives, made a major contribution to the Archives by processing three collections related to missions in China.
We began another transition during 1999, converting guides to a HTML format which would be more searchable at our Web site. We also devoted much time to three one-time administrative tasks: supervising Irene Wong's processing tasks, inserting URLs (Internet addresses) into all our computer records on a national database and Wheaton College's automated catalog, and converting the BGEA chronology into HTML format, searchable over the Web.
Brief descriptions of collections processed during 1999 follow, with collection numbers on the left and a synopsis on the right.
| CN# | Description |
| 13 | Expanded the records of BGEA's Field Directors of Associate Crusades to include an additional 17.3 cubic feet of material on the work of the associate evangelists |
| 14 | Added to the collection new photographs of the 1966 World Congress on Evangelism |
| 81 | Almost doubled the Africa Inland Mission records by adding 25.7 cubic feet of the files of mission US home directors, personnel files and audio tapes |
| 187 | Expanded the Ruth Elliot papers to include 1.2 cubic feet more correspondence and photographs |
| 231 | Added 3.1 cubic feet of materials (five extensive photo albums, correspondence, sermon and lecture notes) to Ian and Helen Anderson's papers |
| 253 | Incorporated an additional 18.6 cubic feet of Amsterdam '83 files, including those of the Executive Director and Registration Department, application forms from participants |
| 357 | Opened for the first time the Percy and Ruth Crawford papers (5.4 cubic feet), including video footage of Crawford's pioneering evangelistic television program |
| 560 | Made available for the first time 8.5 cubic feet of audio tapes and some program materials from Amsterdam '86 |
| 562 | Opened for the first time 7.7 cubic feet of the papers of Roger and Mary Howes, who worked in China with China Inland Mission (1925-1945) and as a mission administrator in the US (1945-1965) |
Five oral history interviews became available during the year, including:
| 446 | Almost six hours with evangelist, broadcaster, ministry founder, camp director and Christian leader Jack Wyrtzen |
| 468 | Four-and-a-half hours with missionary Elizabeth Stough about her work with Africa Inland Mission in French Equatorial Africa, Belgian Congo and Congo |
| 469 | Two hours with Peruvian BGC scholarship recipient Javier Velasquez about his work as a missionary with South American Mission in Bolivia and Paraguay |
| 471 | An hour-and-a-half interview with missionary Arthur Saunders about his work in China with China Inland Mission and in Singapore on the missions language training program |
| 484 | Ten-and-a-half hours with Dave Howard, who was on the staff of Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, a missionary with Latin America Mission, director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization, international director of World Evangelical Fellowship; the collection also includes some of Howard's papers which document his participation the planning of, program of and response to Inter-Varsity's triennial Student Missions Conferences, held at Urbana, Illinois |
Written transcripts of eleven hours of oral history interviews on twelve tapes were also completed and became available in the Reading Room and over the Internet through our Web page, including:
| 314 | Interview with Martha Phillips, first a missionary with China Inland Mission and held in a Japanese internment camp and then with Wycliffe Bible Translators in Mexico |
| 430 | Two interview tapes with evangelist Tom Skinner |
| 514 | Interviews with two key participants in the 1995 Wheaton Revival. |
| Records/Papers Collections | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | |
| New & updated | 8 collections | 4 collections | 18 collections | 13 collections | 9 collections | |
| Size (cubic feet) | 149.3 cubic ft. | 245.85 cubic ft. | 311.1 cubic ft. | 152.1 cubic ft. | 87.8 cubic ft. | |
| Hours spent processing | 986.25 hrs. | 628.5 hrs. | 1764.75 hrs. | 899 hrs. | 824.75 hrs. | |
| Processing hrs. per cubic foot | 6.6 hrs. | 2.6 hrs. | 5.7 hrs. | 5.9 hrs. | 9.4 hrs. | |
| Labor & materials cost | $16,570.74 | $16,428.11 | $51,432.95 | $23,075.52 | $14,134.65 | |
| Cost per cubic foot | $111.02 | $66.82 | $165.35 | $151.71 | $160.99 | |
| Oral history collections | ||||||
| Finished oral history collections | 23 collections | 6 collections | 21 collections | 4 collections | 5 collections | |
| Hours of interviews | 73.0 hrs. | 20 hrs. | 82.7 hrs. | 12.3 hrs. | 24.0 hrs. | |
| Hours processing interviews | 364.25 hrs. | 96.25 hrs. | 331.0 hrs. | 25.75 hrs. | 114.0 hrs. | |
| Processing hours per interview hour | 5.0 hrs. | 4.8 hrs. | 4.0 hrs. | 2.1 hrs. | 4.75 hrs. | |
| Labor & materials cost | $6,259.34 | $2,515.09 | $8,784.83 | $1,069.89 | $3,432.19 | |
| Cost per hour of interview | $85.80 | $124.82 | $106.23 | $86.98 | $143.01 | |
| Transcribing Oral History Interviews | ||||||
| Tapes transcribed | 8 tapes | 16 tapes | 7 tapes | 14 tapes | 12 tapes | |
| Hours of interview transcribed | 7.9 hrs. | 10.95 hrs. | 6.1 hrs. | 13.0 hrs. | 11.1 hrs. | |
| Hours spent transcribing | 179.75 hrs. | 188.0 hrs. | 117.25 hrs. | 215.5 hrs. | 206.25 hrs. | |
| Processing hours per interview hour | 22.75 hrs. | 17.2 hrs. | 19.2 hrs. | 16.6 hrs. | 18.6 hrs. | |
| Labor & materials cost | $2,178.13 | $3,066.78 | $2,155.45 | $3,855.08 | $3,766.45 | |
| Cost per hour of interview | $275.71 | $280.07 | $353.35 | $296.54 | $336.72 | |
| Changing existing guides | ||||||
| Guides corrected | 42 guides | 55 guides | 58 guides | 39 guides | 48 guides | |
| Hours spent on guide changes | 452 hrs. | 246 hrs. | 104.75 hrs. | 30 hrs. | 31.5 hrs. | |
| Labor & materials cost | $4,697.91 | $3,658.21 | $1,984.66 | $564.24 | $676.85 | |
| Total pages | 1537 pages | 1026 pages | 448 pages | 189 pages | 285 pages | |
| Cost per page | $3.06 | $3.57 | $4.43 | $2.99 | $2.37 | |
| Web versions of guides & transcripts | ||||||
| Gopher versions of guides & transcripts (HTML) | 29 guides | 74 guides | 240 guides | 302 guides | ||
| Guides converted to HTML | 6 guides | |||||
| Hours spent on guides/trans to Web | 26.75 hrs. | 63.25 hrs. | 110.75 hrs. | 123.25 hrs. | 18.0 hrs. | |
| Time per guide | 55 minutes | 51 minutes | 28 minutes | 25 minutes | 3.0 hrs. | |
| Cost for all guides | $632.71 | $1,111.03 | $1,972.41 | $2,271.50 | $576.40 | |
| Cost per guide | $21.82 | $15.01 | $8.22 | $7.52 | $96.07 | |
| Administration hours | ||||||
| Administration hours | 125 hours | 150 hours | 184.25 hrs. | 130.25 hrs. | 347.75 hrs. | |
| Labor costs | $3,067.5 | $4,821.52 | $5,175.75 | $3,884.42 | $7,545.29 | |
| Summary | ||||||
| Processing hours for finished collections | 2,249.5 hrs. | 1,382.5 hours | 2,702 hrs. | 1423.75 hrs. | 1542.25 hrs. | |
| Total 1999 processing hours | 2112.75 hours | 1,362.5 hours | 2241.75 hrs. | 2069.25 hrs. | 2258.25 hrs. | |
| $ per processing hour for collections | $16.36 | $22.97 | $27.40 | $24.39 | $19.54 | |
| Processing % of total year's hours | 23% | 17% | 28.1% | 25.2% | 27.5% | |
NOTE: The cost analysis figures include labor (staff and student time), materials and supplies, and storage costs. Several collections were processed during more than one year, and the figures above are for completed projects only; therefore, they include hours from previous years, but do not include processing still ongoing at the end of 1999. The inclusion of the time of Irene Wong's processing and of overseeing her work did skew the processing statistics somewhat, seen most noticeably in the figure for processing hours per cubic foot of paper records or the figure for the hours devoted to processing an hour of oral history interview processing.