Prioritize baseline control.
Prioritize baseline collection level control over all collections. Detailed processing work should wait until all holdings are minimally accessible.
Establish overall priorities.
Establish overall processing priorities informed by an understanding of the repository’s holdings, mission, collection development policy, and strategic priorities.
Take an extensible approach to processing.
Expand the idea of what processed looks like and apply varying processing levels as appropriate.
Evaluate each collection and perform the minimum amount of work necessary to make it usable.
Apply professional assessment and appraisal skills to make informed decisions about which collections need which types of interventions. Any work beyond the minimum should be justified.
Accept that work done at the point of accessioning can often be good enough to make a collection accessible to a user.