Items will be returned from treatment to the Preservation Assistant. Items will not be returned to the archivist or staff person who initiated the treatment unless specifically requested. The Preservation Assistant is responsible for checking the materials, refiling them, pulling the “Manuscript Item(s) Temporarily Removed” flag, and barcoding any new enclosures.
The archivist is responsible for making any adjustments to finding aids and the catalog record that may be required. These might include number of boxes, overall extent, physical location pointers, etc.
If an item returns from conservation treatment after the final housing and labeling of the collection and it is unexpectedly too large to fit in the folder intended for it, change the folder title for the folder in the original box and the folder sequence to “Material formerly located here is now in folder XX” and follow this with the standard Oversize entry. Add the new folder to the Oversize sequence.
If the item needs to be returned for further treatment, a new set of records will be created. Do not simply annotate the original request: Think of it as a new transaction.