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Re: Building design and planning - advice needed



Fire codes are an import consideration as to the amount of space between
the ceilings and the top storage shelf.   This had a major impact on my
design for moveable shelving (--- which we still haven't found the funds for).

Cathleen Baird, Houston


At 10:11 AM 4/28/00 -0400, you wrote:
>Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer
>Special Collections Librarian/Archivist
>Culinary Institute of America
>433 Albany Post Road
>Hyde Park, NY  12538-1499
>(914) 451-1757
>c_crawfo@culinary.edu
>
>>>> Thomas Berry <tberry@WCNET.ORG> 04/27/00 10:17AM >>>
>
>
>>2. One committee member is quite eager to see us install shelving above the
>>file cabinets that will be used to store a good portion of our collections.
>>He wants to mount it to the walls or hang it from the cieling, and he wants
>>to do this in order to not waste the space above the cabinets. The room will
>>have a nine or ten foot cieling, which means that only one shelf could
>>realistically be installed.
>
>The CIA has an archives room (well, large closet-- ca. 8 ft x 8 ft x 8 ft)
which was set up with four-drawer file cabinets. On one wall, over the
cabinets, the carpentry department had installed a custom-built set of
shelves that is set up to hold long boxes for rolled documents and flat
oversized boxes containing scrapbooks, framed items, etc. Luckily, none of
these individual boxes is extremely heavy, and I can easily get at them by
standing on a kick-stool. The shelves are almost as deep as the file
cabinets, so the fronts of the shelves are easily accessible.
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