Processing Information
An accession inventory is a basic description of an archival collection for
which a detailed finding aid has yet to be created. No attempt at
intellectual arrangement has been made. The depth of description varies
depending on the format of the materials and the amount of pre-existing
description received when the materials were acquired. A collection might
also be labeled an "Accession Inventory" if it is fully digital and the
digital files have yet to be processed.