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| Student worker Jeff Dennison transferring materials to acid free boxes. Placing documents in these kind of environments helps them last longer. Jeff works under the protective hand of Lorenzo Dow, 19th century Methodist evangelist and guardian of the Archives' storage area. | ||
Here are brief descriptions of collections processed during 2002.
Collections Processed - Paper Records and Mixed Media (20 collections: 4 new, 16 updated)| # | NEW/ UPDATED |
Description |
| SC36 | Updated | Ephemera of Dwight Lyman Moody, added handbills and newspaper clippings about Moody's meetings |
| 3 | Updated | Records of the Billy Graham Center; added files and audio tapes on recent BGC activities |
| 16 | Updated | BGEA: Team Office - Crusade Procedure Books; added several books from recent evangelistic meetings |
| 17 | Updated | BGEA: Crusade Files; major addition of files on recent BGEA international crusades |
| 19 | Updated | Papers of Robert O. Ferm; added files of material on the conversion experiences of individuals |
| 26 | Updated | BGEA: Audio Tapes; added some miscellaneous tapes of BGEA events |
| 53 | Updated | BGEA: Records of the International Congress on World Evangelization; added audio tapes of sessions of the 1974 congress |
| 103 | Updated | Ephemera of Aimee Semple McPherson, added copies of the evangelist's sermons and debates |
| 109 | Updated | Ephemera of Rodney "Gipsy" Smith, added clippings and other material from his evangelistic meetings |
| 113 | Updated | BGEA: Films and Videos, 63 more videos of BGEA television programs were added to the collection |
| 128 | Updated | Ephemera of Henry Ward Beecher, added newspaper clippings about his famous trial |
| 191 | Updated | BGEA: Records of the Hour of Decision Radio Programs, added tapes of recent broadcasts up to 2001 |
| 245 | Updated | BGEA: Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Ltd. (Australian affiliate), added 1979-1986 correspondence and 1979 Sydney Crusade files |
| 253 | Updated | Records of the International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists (Amsterdam '83), added mainly photographs |
| 309 | New | Records of National Religious Broadcasters, the major service organization for conservative Christian radio and television broadcasters and producers |
| 426 | New | Papers of Paul Little, a leading author and speaker on evangelism in the 1970s and program chair of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization |
| 527 | Updated | Records of BGEA: North American Ministries: Schools of Evangelism Office, added files on the 1990 SOE held in Uganda |
| 534 | New | Papers of Henry and Maurgerite Owens, missionary to China |
| 560 | Updated | Records of the International Conference for Itinerant Evangelists (Amsterdam '86), added mainly photos. |
| 577 | New | Papers of Vergil Glenn Gerber, deals moistly with his work leading church growth seminars in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe |
| # | New/ Updated |
Description |
| 104 | Updated | Interviews of Bruce Hunt, added material about his work with Koreans in Manchuria in the 1930s and 40s. |
| 464 | New | Interviews of Eileen Kuhn, missionary to Thailand, Burma, Singapore |
| 472 | New | Interview of Paul A. Contento, missionary to China, Singapore, Vietnam |
| 493 | New | Interview of Stella Kasirye, Christian worker in Uganda |
| 498 | New | Interviews of William E. Pannell, evangelist, author and civil rights leader |
| 503 | New | Interviews of Ian M. Hay, missionary and director of SIM international |
| 533 | New | Interviews of Catherine Elizabeth Jeter, co-founder of Have Christ Will Travel, a ministry to children in Pennsylvania and Nova Scotia |
| 535 | New | Interviews of Mona Joyce, missionary to China and the Persian Gulf |
| # | Description |
| 104 | Interviews of Bruce Hunt, T4, T5, missionary to Korea and Manchuria |
| 288 | Interviews of Vincent Crossett, T1,T2,T3,T4,T5, missionary to China and Taiwan |
| 477 | Interviews of Stanley Kline, T1, missionary to China and Singapore |
| 446 | Interviews of Jack Wyrtzen, T3, T4, T5, T6, T7, evangelist and founder of Word of Life ministry |
| 514 | Ephemera of Wheaton revivals, T9, T10, T11, interviews by professor Timothy Beougher about his participation in the 1995 revival |
| 1997 | 1998 | 1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | |
| Records/Papers Collections | ||||||
| # of new & updated collections | 18 | 13 | 9 | 9 | 24 | 20 |
| Size (cubic feet) | 311.1 | 152.1 | 87.8 | 273.5 | 159.3 | 223.0 |
| Hours spent processing (includes hours from previous years spent processing a collection) | 1764.75 | 899 | 824.75 | 2156 | 838.5 | 1437.5 |
| Processing hrs. per cubic foot | 5.7 | 5.9 | 9.4 | 7.9 | 5.3 | 6.4 |
| Labors & material costs | $51,432.95 | $23,075.52 | $14,134.65 | $51,604.97 | $25,336.19 | $43,045.18 |
| Cost per cubic foot | $165.35 | $151.71 | $160.99 | $188.86 | $159.10 | $193.04 |
| Oral History Collections | ||||||
| Finished oral history collections | 21 | 4 | 5 | 13 | 9 | 8 |
| Hours of interviews | 82.7 | 12.3 | 24 | 31.6 | 31.8 | 26.9 |
| Hours spent processing | 331 | 25.75 | 114 | 159.25 | 142 | 116.75 |
| Processing hours for 1 interview hour | 4.0 | 2.1 | 4.75 | 5.0 | 4.5 | 4.4 |
| Labor and materials costs | $8,784.83 | $1,069.89 | $3,432.19 | $5,112.49 | $4,228.00 | $4016.59 |
| Cost per 1 hour of interview | $106.23 | $86.98 | $143.01 | $161.79 | $133.17 | $150.15 |
| Transcribing Oral History Interviews | ||||||
| Number of tapes transcribed | 7 | 14 | 12 | 14 | 18 | 16 |
| Number of hours transcribed | 6.1 | 13 | 11.1 | 12.3 | 15.4 | 12.9 |
| Hours spent transcribing | 117.25 | 215.5 | 206.25 | 146.25 | 209.75 | 261.75 |
| Processing hours per 1 interview hour | 19.2 | 16.6 | 18.6 | 11.9 | 13.7 | 20.3 |
| Labor & materials costs | $2,155.45 | $3,855.08 | $3,766.45 | $2,667.63 | $4,001.54 | $5,298.13 |
| Cost per 1 hour of interview | $353.35 | $296.54 | $336.72 | $217.23 | $260.69 | $411.67 |
| Revising Existing Guides | ||||||
| Guides revised | 58 | 39 | 48 | 16 | 46 | 47 |
| Hours spent on guide changes | 104.75 | 30 | 31.5 | 48.25 | 28.57 | 26.5 |
| Labor costs | $1,984.66 | $564.25 | $676.85 | $704.45 | $538.09 | $551.83 |
| Total pages | 448 | 189 | 285 | 132 | 148 | 243 |
| Cost per page | $4.43 | $2.99 | $2.37 | $5.34 | $3.64 | $2.27 |
| Unfinished Processing | ||||||
| Processing hours spent on collections which were not finished this year | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 249 |
| Labor costs for unfinished collections | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | $3,226.56 |
| Administration | ||||||
| Hours | 184.25 | 130.25 | 347.75 | 152.75 | 307.5 | 102 |
| Labor costs | $5,175.75 | $3,884.42 | $7,545.29 | $4,797.29 | $9,321.14 | $3,198.75 |
| Time spent transferring guides in old formats to Web version (1997-2001) | 110.75 | 123.25 | 18 | 451.25 | 131.5 | --- |
| Labor costs for transferring guides in old formats to Web version (1997-2001) | $1,972.41 | $2,271.50 | $576.40 | $9,052.71 | $2,956.14 | --- |
| Entry of collections into national and local data bases, such as OCLC and Dynix (1997-2001) | $2519.03 | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Other | ||||||
| Processing hours from previous years spent on collections completed this year | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | 632.75 |
| Processing hours (including hours from previous years spent on collections finished this year) | 2702 | 1423.75 | 1542.25 | 3113.75 | 1657.75 | 2193.5 |
| Total processing hours this year only (including processing, guides transfer to Web, guide revisions, unfinished collections and administration) | 2241.75 | 2069.25 | 2258.25 | 1723.75 | 2036.75 | 1560.75 |
| Total labor and materials costs | $74,025.08 | $34,720.66 | $30,131.83 | $73,939.54 | $46,381.10 | $59,337.04 |
| Cost per hour for all processing work | $27.40 | $24.39 | $19.54 | $23.75 | $27.98 | $27.05 |
| Processing % of total year's hours | 28.1% | 25.2% | 27.5% | 23.6% | 25.7% | 19.3% |
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. 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.
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