More Product, Less Process

Greene and Meissner's piece and position (often dubbed "light processing") has created quite a stir in the literature and thinking of archivists. Share your thoughts, references, experiences.

Related sessions and events at this year's Annual Meeting:



Workshop: Implementing "More Product, Less Process"

 Evolving Finding Aids for Basic Processing - Dan Santamaria (Chair), Mark Shelstad, Jennifer Meehan, D Claudia Thompson, 

 Less Process, More Pixels: Alternate Approaches to Digitization and Metadata - Dennis Meissner (Chair), Amanda Focke, Dreanna Belden, Joshua Ranger



Related Resources:
Greene, Mark A., and Dennis Meissner. "More Product, Less Process: Revamping Traditional Archival Processing." American Archivist 68, no. 2 (2005): 208-63.

Hyry, Tom. More for Less in Archives: The Greene/Meissner Approach at Work at Yale. RLG Member Forum: More, Better, Faster, Cheaper: The Economics of Descriptive Practice, August 8, 2006.

Session at the 2004 Annual Meeting: The Perfect Is the Enemy of the Good: Re-thinking the Problem of Backlogs

Session at the 2005 Annual Meeting: “More Product, Less Process”: New Processing Guidelines to Reduce Backlogs

Greene-Meissner at RBMS Preconference - Historical Notes from OHSU (Oregon Health & Science University), June 27, 2007