With multiple-sheet specimens or separate fruits, each component should have a label before they are sent to mounting or to another institution. When working with specimens always keep the newspaper, the plant, and labels together. If you take only the plant to another area, an interruption may occur that will cause you not to be able to put the label and plant back together. Sorting plants to family and working on all of one family at a time is more efficient than working on a few at a time. It also puts less wear and tear on the herbarium and literature.
Determinations tend to be more accurate and one can update the herbarium at the same time.