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Re: Moveable shelving



We did this for a big move too and had equally good results.  We use this
method for "little" moves as well - even as little as one (full) book
truck that has to go to a building across campus.

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     Ellen L. Chapman
     Archivist for Congressional Papers            voice:  (808) 944-7656
     University of Hawaii at Manoa Library         fax:    (808) 956-5968
     2550 The Mall                                 email: ellen@hawaii.edu
     Honolulu, HI 96822  USA
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On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Nancy Langford wrote:

> 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
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