Leo Baeck Institute London Collection

Files received from LBI London between 1997 and 2010 were processed into the existing collection AR 6682, which was itself reprocessed. Four accretions and the existing collection AR 6682, totaling thirty-five linear feet, were surveyed. Some archival collections were identified and removed for separate processing. Preliminary series were identified by the survey. During a previous processing, some records had been re-foldered and had had paper clips and staples removed, but most were unprocessed.

Series were determined based on function and on folder and binder titles provided by LBI London, where existing. Files were physically arranged into series order and then placed in acid-free folders. Many complete issues of periodicals having only one relevant article were found. The articles were photocopied onto acid-free paper and the periodicals provided to the LBI library. Thermal fax paper and newsprint that was affecting nearby items was interleaved with acid-free paper.

The correspondence and yearbook files appear to have been stored in binders and often heavily used. Some documents are worn and dirty, especially at the front and back of the binders. Some of the onion skin and thin copy paper is folded or torn. Records and newsprint from the 1950s are fragile. Some thermal fax paper from the 1990s is fading.

Four additional boxes of material were located in May 2011. These materials were processed and rehoused, and are found in Boxes 22-24. Books and pamphlets were removed to the LBI library. Four individual folders in box 24 are listed within the finding aid in their proper intellectual location, rather than their physical location.