Per the Commonwealth’s Appropriation Act, the Library of Virginia annually receives General Fund monies to support fifteen full-time positions “to relieve the 54-year backlog in processing significant archival, special, and other historical collections." This report is submitted in compliance with the Budget’s instruction that the Librarian of Virginia and the State Archivist shall report annually to the Governor and to the Chairs of the Senate Finance and House Appropriations Committees on the Library’s “progress to date in reducing its archival backlog."

This report is for the period July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2009 and thus covers the tenth fiscal year under the special program instituted. Cubic feet processed for the period total 892.8 (approximately 1,339,200 items) or 74.4 cubic feet per month, 1.3 percent below the target of 904 cubic feet per year. The average rate of processing over the first ten years of the program equals 1,081.2 cubic feet per year, or 90.1 per month.