n.a sheet of paper stock doubled over to contain materialsHyde 1919, 362In all probability there will be need for filing cases of the usual correspondence and legal folder widths, the former for letters, bills, etc., and the latter for pamphlets, documents, photographs, and the like.McCord 1920, 10A Folder is a sheet of heavy paper folded over once, the fold becoming the bottom of the container.MHS 1936, 35–37The folders, which are made by Curtis 1000 Inc., 1000 University Avenue, St. Paul, are made of a strong, resilient stock. They are of various sizes. For medium and small boxes, number 420, scored one-half inch, is used; the same folder scored one inch is used when it is desirable to place a large number of papers in a single folder. For large-size boxes, number 530, 14 3/4 inches long and scored one-half inch, is used. Folders measuring 24 by 26 inches before they are folded are used for oversize boxes.Van Schreeven 1944, 26The folders used for the documents in the box should receive more than casual attention. In most cases ordinary letter-size or legal-size folders do not offer sufficient coverage for the records, particularly older ones. It is then necessary to specify folders of a size that will cover them and of course fit into the box. Such folders should in no case be made of ground wood pulp and should be acid free.USNY 1954, 5There are two kinds of filing materials. The one most commonly used is the regular folder that rests upon the bottom of the filing drawer and is held upright by guide cards, other folders and the follow-up block within the drawer. The other is the suspension type folder suspended by hanger rods from a metal rack or framework set in the filing drawer.Ross 1961, 41Places material in a file folder where such material is arranged alphabetically, chronologically or numerically, and withdraws material from files.NARS 1964, 8When he has finished, he will have broken down the file group into small stacks of 10 to 75 papers which are closely related by subject matter, person or organization, transaction, place, thing, or event. These small stacks will have been placed in some type of record housing, normally a file folder, and the many file folders containing the papers of the file group will have been arranged in a logical sequence.UWSAC 1978, 47Unbound papers (such as correspondence) should be placed in folders, preferably low-acid or acid-free, and then boxed in covered document cases, preferably lined or constructed with acid-free materials.NARS 1983, 11Folder capacities vary. The scores, or creases, on the bottom of regular manila folders allow expansion to accommodate varying quantities of paper (¼ in., ½ in., and ¾ in.). When a folder is full, use additional folders to avoid overcrowding.Hackbart-Dean 1990, 57Fragile, rare, or old map sheets were deacidified and then encapsulated in sealed mylar sleeves. All maps were stored within acid-free folders and placed in map case drawers. Typically, five to ten maps could be enclosed in one folder.NPS 2008, 11File Unit Level (Note: A file unit is not the same thing as a file folder. A file unit is a group of documents filed together under a particular topic or title. A file folder is simply a physical device for holding those documents. It is not unusual for a single file unit to contain so many documents that it would take multiple file folders to hold all of the documents contained in that one file unit.)Gentry 2014, 67Only a select few items were housed in protective casings, such as binders or manila folders, though the documents’ subject headers allowed me to quickly identify the contents of each item.Robertson 2021, 123The folder’s value as an enclosure came from its capacity to contain different sizes of papers (this marked a significant difference from the card catalog, which stored only one size). A series of standard-size folders turned an assortment of paper sizes into a file.Computinga computer directory structure to group electronic filesKim, Dong, and Durden 2006, 96With the exception of the corrupted disks, the folders and files from the original disks were copied and saved onto the hard drive of an HRC computer running Windows 2000.Broaddus 2008, 49“File” is thus already hierarchically stable as a part of the intellectual tag structure, and the tag’s attribute-destination “folder” should conceivably be able to cede to “fie.” “Folder” is consistently intellectual, as well as consistently physical, whereas “box” is only consistently, reliably physical.Greene 2010, 102Even at first glance, the organization of most computer files into digital series and folders suggests exactly the same approach recommended for paper material.Prom 2011b, 12Some of my email had been stored in local folders created by Alpine—an old terminal style email application originally developed for a Unix environment.Irwin 2016, 104Typical file types include WAVs, JPGs, TIFs, PDFs, and Word documents. Each oral history interview is assigned an individual folder on the server space, which is organized by the OH collection number. The main folder contains four subfolders: “originals” (preservation copies); “masters” (staff use and production of derivatives); “access” (patron use copies); and “documentation” (internal use documents and metadata.)Kim 2018, 4This selected group accessed a sliver of the total Exit Art born-digital collections files: the so-called Alternative Histories directory folders and digital files (47.6 GB, 18642 files, and 1132 folders), which represents about 4 percent of the total collection.Lapworth, Jones, and Georgieva 2019, 12The majority of the materials in the ENT and CWU collections used complex digital objects to reflect the file-level archival arrangement and description. It was most efficient for each individual folder (which consisted of a variety of material formats) to become one complex digital object made up of all the individual items within that folder.v.to place materials within a folderFisher 1969, 221, fn. 1If archival backlog includes containers of foldered and labeled official files, why must they remain backlog? Under a computer indexing system, the information on the folder labels in current files still retained by offices and in noncurrent files in the archives can be transcribed in machine-readable form with location symbols.Desnoyers 1982, 11If the material is valuable and is finely foldered, it might also be wise to keep it that way for preservation considerations.Dojka 1982, 30Many contemporary collections are foldered, with captions, making an inventory fairly easy. However, folders should be spot-checked to ensure accurate captions. If materials are loose and unfolded, sample handfuls to obtain the necessary information.Fleckner 1991, 9As a graduate student, of course I had done some research in archives—at the Library of Congress, the College of William and Mary, and especially the State Historical Society. But the archivists had taken all the fun out of it—the materials were antiseptically foldered, boxed, and listed. Wheeled out on carts, they were like cadavers to be dissected by first-year medical students. On occasion, perhaps, I even donned white gloves. The documents always seemed lifeless.Rekrut 2005, 25To suit the storage choices of the archives, the final selection may be boxed or re-boxed; two dimensional records may be foldered or re-foldered, folded or unfolded, rolled or unrolled; bound records may be disbound.McCrea 2006, 287In some cases, as when we are processing at the box or series level, we are no longer neatly foldering all loose or irregularly housed materials.Oestreicher 2013, 95Excluding the 170 boxes of books removed from the collection, just over 100 of the boxes consisted primarily of already foldered items with some original order maintained, but the majority of the items (approximately 80 percent) were either loose in boxes or had no semblance of organization.Starratt 2019, 130In addition, paper materials found with the audiovisual item (e.g. slips of paper with notes, album liners, etc.) will be foldered and cross-referenced in the collection inventory along with photocopies of the housing (e.g. notes written on the box) if it contains pertinent information.PSU 2020, 39Materials too large for oversize boxes may be foldered and placed directly into archival quality map drawers rather than boxed, for more information see section on housing for art and artifacts.
