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Re: Moveable shelving



I know a company that did this with their files.  The shrink wrap burst and
scattered papers all over everywhere.  If you do this, be careful.

Jan Hart, CA, CRM
Irving Archives, Irving Public Library
Irving, Texas
Phone 972-721-3729
Fax 972-721-8056
E-mail:  jhart@irving.lib.tx.us
Web Page:  http://www.irving.lib.tx.us



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Langford [SMTP:dudley@UNION.EDU]
> Sent: Monday, April 10, 2000 12:44 PM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Moveable shelving
>
> We didn't use boxes when we moved and the results were great.  The movers
> had carts that were really just shelves with wheels.  Books could be taken
> off in order, placed on the carts (four shelves back-to-back, so really
> eight shelves per cart) the carts were then shrink wrapped and "stuffed"
> so
> the books wouldn't move, the carts rolled onto the van.  Each cart was
> labelled with the new shelf location so that when the carts arrived, the
> books could be placed on the shelves in the same order.  I've moved before
> with boxes and this way is incredibly easier and more efficient.  The only
> problem is that the carts become very heavy when loaded and need to be
> well-constructed.
> We moved the archives the same way with carts with deep enough shelves to
> hold record cartons.  The only place we faced problems were with two
> journal
> collections that were being integrated, title by title.
> Nancy
> &&&&&&&&&&
>
> Nancy Langford
> Archivist
> Dudley Observatory
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