Processing Statistics, 1993-2007

1993

1995

1997

1999

2001

2003

2005

2006

2007

Avg
1993-2007

Paper Collections

New/updated collections of primarily paper records

8

8

18

9

24

17

17

13

14

13

Size (in cubic feet)

60

149

311

88

159

106

80

139

52

148

Hours spent processing (including hours from previous year on collections completed this year)

914

986

1765

825

839

746

823

789

609

1011

Processing hours per cubic foot

15.1

6.6

5.7

9.4

5.3

7.0

10.2

5.7

4.9

7.3

Costs (labor and material)

$22,619

$16,570

$51,433

$14,135

$25,336

$14,897

$22,186

$28,311

$15,767

$26,214

Costs per cubic foot

$374

$111

$165

$161

$159

$141

$276

$204

$302

$197

Oral History Collections

Collections

19

23

21

5

9

6

8

3

3

9

Hours of Interviews

33

73

83

24

32

20

16

9

8

27

Hours spent processing

236

364

331

114

142

85

86

40

41

132

Processing hours per 1 interview hour

7.1

5.0

4.0

4.8

4.4

4.3

5.4

4.4

5.0

4.9

Costs (labor and material)

$4,470

$6,259

$8,765

$3,432

$4,228

$2,277

$2,617

$1,131

$1,000,

$3,374

Costs per 1 hour of interviews

$134

$86

$106

$143

$132

$114

$164

$126

$121

$131

Transcripts

# of tapes

--

--

7

12

18

24

13

9

14

15

Hours transcribed

17

8

6

11

15

22

14

4

13

12

Hours spent transcribing

299

180

117

206

210

267

149

65

151

199

Processing hours per 1 interview hour

17.6

22.8

19.2

18.6

14.0

12.1

10.6

16.3

11.9

16.8

Costs (labor and material)

$4,340

$2,178

$2,155

$3,766

$4,002

$4,358

$3,104

$1,228

$3,430

$3,491

Cost per 1 interview hour

$255

$276

$353

$339

$267

$198

$222

$307

$271

$293

Revising Existing Guides

# of guides revised

75

42

58

48

46

50

45

50

24

52

Hours

284

452

105

32

29

27

16

10

8

116

Total number of revised pages

--

1537

448

285

148

193

342

174

50

375

Costs (labor and material)

--

$4,697

$1,985

$677

$538

$582

$373

$371

$171

$1,186

Cost per page

--

$3.06

$4.43

$2.37

$3.64

$3.02

$1.09

$2.13

$3.41

$3.24

Unfinished Processing

Hours spent on collections carried to next year

--

--

--

--

--

421.5

119

47.75

73

187

Costs (labor and material)

--

--

--

--

--

$11,350

$2,573

$579

$1,661

$3,886

Administration

Hours

62

125

184.3

347.8

307.5

83

82.5

34.5

43

136

Costs

--

$3,068

$5,176

$7,545

$9,321

$3,472

$2,573

$1,410

$1,585

$4,113

Other

Processing hours from previous years spent on collections completed 2007

--

--

--

--

--

287

194

71

9

271

Summary

Processing hours (including hours from previous year spent processing collections completed this year)

2487

2250

2702

1543

1658

1304

1238

938

844

1822

Total processing hours this year only

--

2113

2242

2258

2027

1017

1044

916

908

1592

Costs (labor and material)

--

--

$74,025

$30,132

$46,381

$25,676

$30,853

$33,030

$21,782

$43,674

Cost per hour for all completed work

$19.98

$16.36

$27.40

$19.53

$27.97

$19.69

$24.92

$35.20

$25.80

$23.97

Processing hours % of all hours worked

--

23.0%

28.1%

27.5%

24.7%

14.5%

13.0%

12.3%

11.1%

17.3%

NOTE: The cost figures include labor (staff and student worker time), materials, 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 collections.

Some figures are rounded off.