OSIA
Annual Report
Fiscal Year 1997


Director's View

Staff and Associates




Overview

Administration

National Collections Program

Electronic Records Program

Institutional History Division

Archives Division

Holdings Use

Conservation and Preservation

Outreach and Exhibitions

Professional Activities




Appendices

A: Volume of Holdings Summary

B: Chart of Volume Growth

C: Sources of Holdings

D: Records Center Services

E: Reference Service Statistics

F: Lecture Series

G: Publications of OSIA Staff & Associates

H: Publications Using OSIA Holdings

List of Abbreviations




Return to

Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian Institution Archives

Archives Division

Institutional History Division

National Collections Program

APPENDIX A:

Volume of Holdings Summary
(in Cubic Feet as of 30 September 1997)1

Archives
1996 Total
Added 1997
Discarded 1997
1997 TOTAL
Smithsonian Records 15,656.78 506.20 17.00 16,145.98
Oral/Videohistory 30.470.460.0030.93
Professional Society Records2 1,692.3249.170.001,7413.49
Donated Personal Papers32,884.28103.460.002,987.74
Total Archives 20,263.85659.2917.0020,906.14
Records Center
1996 Total (Corrected)4
Added 1997
Discarded 1997
1997 TOTAL
Courtesy Storage5 168.507.0091.0084.50
For Appraisal6 239.50.009.00230.5
For Disposal7 1,598.10445.00692.001,351.10
Total Records Center 2,006.10452.00792.001666.10
TOTAL HOLDINGS 22,269.958 1,111.29 809.00 22,572.24


NOTES:

1. For approximate linear shelf meters, divide cubic feet by 2.44.

2. Official records of scholarly and professional societies that have designated the Smithsonian Archives as their official repository.

3. Personal papers of principle Smithsonian staff and research associates.

4. An extensive FY1997 shelf read at the records center revealed inaccuracies in each of the categories recorded for FY1996. New, corrected numbers for FY1996 appear in this report.

5. Materials held in temporary custody as a courtesy to other Smithsonian units.

6. Materials awaiting determination of potential archival value.

7. Inactive Smithsonian records that are not of permanent value, but that must be retained for a time tosatisfy statutory and other regulatory requirements.

8. This is a revised total volume of holdings for SI Archives for FY1996.


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