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Re: Lifting weights



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Elayne Goyette [SMTP:ElayneG@HFMGV.ORG]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 1:57 PM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      Re: Lifting weights
>
> The Research Library has pages to get the boxes and put them back.  As
> Archivist, I don't have any staff to do the box lifting for me.  Luckily,
> my
> husband works in the same museum.  When I have a lot of filled, 1 cubic
> foot
> boxes to move, I "persuade" him to give me a hand.
>
> Have a nice day,
> Elayne Goyette
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Holly Hodges [SMTP:holly-hodges@UTC.EDU]
> > Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2000 1:45 PM
> > To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > Subject:      Lifting weights
> >
> > When I'm lucky, I can borrow one of the six foot something guys from the
> > library's Circulation Department to do
> > jobs involving more than ten boxes or so.  But mostly I'm on my own
> > lifting the stuff.  I figure I average a
> > hundred to a hundred sixty pounds a day in box lifting...
> >
> > Should we consider a box-lifting competition at SAA conferences?
> >
> > Holly Hodges
> > in Chattanooga
> >
> >
> > Lori Sprague wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings from "Archive Girl" who can lift 50 lb. boxes over her head
> > while standing atop a "rolling" stairway!
> > >
> > > All kidding aside, I, too, lift boxes of all kinds on a daily basis.
> > >
> > > >>> "O'Brien, Jeff (Clerks)" <Jeff.OBrien@CITY.SASKATOON.SK.CA>
> 02/01/00
> > 11:18AM >>>
> > > How necessary is the "lifting and carrying" skill? I can't speak for
> > anyone
> > > else, but there isn't a single day goes by that it isn't necessary for
> > me to
> > > lift and carry something weighing in excess of 20 pounds. Maybe in
> large
> > > organizations archivists get to have special employees who do all
> their
> > > lifting and carrying for them, but I fear for most of us this is not
> the
> > > case... Of course the legislation cited doesn't apply to me anyway, so
> I
> > > suppose it's a moot point.
> > >
> > > Jeff
> > >
> > > > ----------
> > > > From:         Duncan Kinder[SMTP:dckinder@MOUNTAIN.NET]
> > > > Sent:         Tuesday, February 01, 2000 1:45 PM
> > > > To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> > > > Subject:      Re: inquiry
> > > >
> > > > >Next they want someone who can lift, carry, and place on library
> > shelves
> > > > higher than one's head boxes >of records weighing up to 40 lbs.
> > > >
> > > > I presume this has to do with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
> > > >
> > > > Query as to how much this skill actually is needed.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Duncan C. Kinder
> > > > dckinder@mountain.net
> >
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