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Wayne processing the papers of William Deans (Collection 586). In part that means he is browsing through them to get an idea of their contents and arrangement so that he can prepare a descriptive guide. Read the completed guide.

Collections Processed

Here are brief descriptions of collections processed during 2003.

Collections Processed - Paper Records and Mixed Media (17 collections: 4 new, 13 updated)
#
New or
Updated
 Description
SC36 Updated Ephemera of Dwight Lyman Moody: photocopies of several documents
8 Updated Records of Christianity Today, Inc.: added several dozen boxes of the administration files, documenting the development of the organization from 1980 through 1994
29 Updated Ephemera of William Ashley "Billy" and Helen Amelia (Thompson) Sunday: added photos and newspaper clippings, correspondence, sheet music
77 Updated Papers of John Wilbur Chapman: added two photographs
91 Updated Records of the Committee to Assist Ministry Education Overseas: added 31 boxes of files tracing CAMEO's assistance in the development of Christian education institutions outside of the United States from 1974 until the group's dissolution in 1990
99 Updated Recordings of the Little Country Church of Hollywood Radio Program: added picture postcard
102 Updated BGEA: Phonograph Records: added a 1974 record to the collection
113 Updated Records of BGEA: Films and Video: added 203 videos to collection
118 Updated Ephemera of Mordecai Fowler Ham: added several pages of newspaper clippings
191 Updated BGEA: Records of the Hour of Decision radio programs: several transcripts of sermons from the 1970s added
225 Updated Records of Baptista Film Mission: added a box of documents, eight films and 55 filmstrips, many with audio tracks, all documenting the activities of an early Evangelical film ministry
275 Updated Papers of Charles Wendell Colson: added audio tape to collection
277 Updated Papers of Philip James Elliot: added several audio tapes to collection, including sermons by Elliot and recordings made for the family
579 New Records of the Asia-South Pacific Congress on Evangelism: recordings and transcripts of the papers delivered at the 1968 meeting, along with a few other documents
584 New Papers of Thomas Fletcher Zimmerman: collection documents Zimmerman's leadership in Christian organizations outside his own Assemblies of God denomination, such as National Religious Boradcasters and the Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization
586 New Papers of William Alexander Deans: collection of the papers of a missionary printer in the Belgian Congo
590 New Papers of John R. W. Stott: this collection consists of documents copied from originals, the originals being returned to Rev. Stott; the files deal with his involvement with the Lausanne movement, mainly from 1974 through 1980

Oral History Interviews Indexed and Described (6 collections: 22 tapes, over 20 hours)
#
New or
Updated
 Description
460 New Interviews of Phyllis Evelyn Taylor: describes her work as a misionary to the Belgian Congo and Taiwan
461 New Interviews of John David Ellison: describes his childhood in Indochina and work as a missionary to Cambodians living in Thailand
475 New Interview with W. Scott Nyborg: describes the development of his Christian faith and his work with Latin America Mission in Miami
502 New Interview with Geraldine Julia (Hinote) Phillips: describes her education at BIOLA, evangelsitic work in Kentucky, and the first years of her time as a missionary in Sudan
512 New Interview with Harry Luther Cox: describes his work as a missionary in Nigeria

Oral History Interviews Already processed Were Transcribed (10 collections: 24 tapes, over 22 hours)
# Description
272 Papers of Jennie Kingston Fitzwilliam: describes her work as a missionary to the Lisu people on the China-Burma (now Myanmar) border
228 Interview with Lyndon Roth Hess: describes his work as a missionary in northern Rhodesia (now Zambia)
288 Interview with Vincent Leroy Crossett: describes his work as a missionary in China and Taiwan
366 Interview with Lemuel "Lem" Simpson Tucker: describes his work with Voice of Calvary Ministries in Mississippi and evangelism in the African American community
381 Interview with Peter Simon Deyneka, Jr., describes his father, Peter Sr., his own education at Wheaton College, and his early Christian work in Alaska, South America and Korea
387 Interview with William McElwee Miller: describes his work as a missionary in Iran
393 Interview with David Howard Adeney: describes his Chistian work among college students in China and Southeast Asia
471 Papers of William Arthur Saunders: describes his education in New Zealand and his missionary work in China
472 Interview with Paul A. Contento: describes his work as a missionary in China, Singapore and Vietnam
477 Papers of Stanley Roy Kline: Tapes T2-T6 describe Kline's missionary work in the Congo and the Seychelles Islands

Processing Statistics, 1993-2003

1993 1995 1997 1999 2001 2002 2003
Paper Collections
New/updated collections of primarily paper records 7 8 18 9 24 20 17
Size (in cubic feet) 60 149 311 88 159 223 106
Hours spent processing (including hours from previous year on collections completed this year) 914 986 1765 825 839 1438 746
Processing hours per cubic foot 15.1 6.6 5.7 9.4 5.3 6.4 7.0
Costs $22,619 $16,571 $51,433 $14,135 $25,336 $43,045 $14,897
Costs per cubic foot $374 $111 $165 $161 $159 $193 $141
Oral History Collections
Collections 19 23 21 5 9 8 6
Hours of Interviews 33 73 83 24 32 27 20
Hours spent processing 236 364 331 114 142 117 85
Processing hours per 1 interview hour 7.1 5.0 4.0 4.8 4.5 4.3 4.2
Costs $4,470 $6,259 $8,765 $3,432 $4,228 $4,017 $2,277
Costs per 1 hour of interviews $134 $86 $106 $143 $133 $149 $112
Transcripts
# of tapes -- -- 7 12 18 16 24
Hours transcribed 17 8 6 11 15 13 22
Hours spent transcribing 299 180 117 206 210 262 249
Processing hours per 1 interview hour 17.6 22.8 19.2 18.6 13.6 20.3 11.2
Costs $4,340 $2,178 $2,155 $3,766 $4,002 $5,298 $4,412
Cost per 1 interview hour $255.26 $275.71 $353.35 $339.32 $259.84 $410.71 $198.72
Revising Existing Guides
# of guides revised 75 42 58 48 46 47 50
Hours 284 452 105 32 29 27 27
Total number of revised pages -- 1537 448 285 148 243 193
Costs -- $4,697 $1,985 $677 $538 $552 $582
Cost per page -- $3.06 $4.43 $2.37 $3.64 $2.27 $3.02
Unfinished Processing
Hours spent on collections carried to next year -- -- -- -- -- 249 421.5
Costs -- -- -- -- -- $3,227 $11,350
Administration
Hours 62 125 184.25 347.75 307.5 102 83
Costs -- $3,068 $5,176 $7,545 $9,321 $3,199 $3,472
Other
Processing hours from previous years spent on collections completed this year -- -- -- -- -- 633 287
Summary
Processing hours (including hours from previous year spent processing collections completed this year) 2487 2250 2702 1543 1658 2194 1264
Total processing hours this year only -- 2113 2242 2258 2027 1561 925
Costs -- -- $74,025 $30,132 $46,381 $59,337 $25,730
Cost per hour for all completed work $19.98 $16.36 $27.40 $19.53 $27.98 $27.05 $20.36
Processing hours % of all hours worked -- 23.0% 28.1% 27.5% 24.7% 19.3% 11.4%

NOTE: The cost 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. Starting in 2002, the time and expense spent in creating an HTML version of a guide was included in the hours spent in processing the collection.