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Re: shelving



Absolutely.  Shelving can and does collapse often enough that you should be
absolutely certain the shelves are solid.  Among the problems are things
like metal fatigue that you can't see, and you wouldn't know anything about
it until it collapses on somebody.  The best that could happen if they _do_
collapse is your collections are horribly messed up; the worst is that
someone gets badly hurt.

At my last job we had a set of shelving that we eventually unloaded; we were
very concerned about it because if they had been unloaded in the wrong way
we would have risked the whole thing going over.  Fortunately, before it
became an issue we had someone come in and reinforce the shelving with
additional brackets - not terribly elegant, but we felt a lot safer when the
time came to move.

And I do think it's worth making a stink over.  Frankly, we all have to make
noise sometimes whether or not we think it's a big deal to make sure the
higher-ups understand the issues and take us seriously.

Just my 2cents, per ususal.

DS

______________________________________
Daniel Sokolow, Archives Coordinator
David Taylor Archives
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System
155 Community Drive
Great Neck, NY 11021
mailto:dsokolow@nshs.edu

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Annie Armour [SMTP:aarmour@SEWANEE.EDU]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 3:08 PM
> To:   ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
> Subject:      shelving
>
> Do any of you out there use regular library shelving for your archival
> materials? I currently do (11" shelves) and I like them because I can
> adjust them. Should this be an important safety issue?
>
> Our safety officer, at my request, came to look at my area because my
> aisles are way too narrow to retrieve boxes safely (17-23" wide!). It had
> not even occurred to me that the shelving itself was unsafe too, but he
> said it was.
>
> I guess what I'm saying is, is use of library shelving enough of a safety
> issue to raise a big stink about it? Knowing I'm unlikely to get any money
> quickly to remedy the situation, I'd like to at least get the aisles
> widened, and I can do that with some fancy rearranging and storing. I'm
> amazed I'm not already paralyzed from a box retrieval accident, but I've
> never felt the boxes might fall off the shelves or the shelves might tip
> over.
>
> Please advise.
>
> Thanks,
> Annie Armour
> aarmour@sewanee.edu
> University of the South
> Sewanee, TN
>
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