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Re: Lessons Learned in Houston--Disposal of Flood Damaged Boxes
While coroplast boxes are available from a number of vendors, one needs to
be aware that they are not sealed boxes. Their use could prevent seepage
from a damp floor, but rising water would go right in along the vertical
edges. The same would be truce for document cases -- all these boxes are
shopped as a flat piece and need to be built.
Anita M. Weber
Senior Archivist
History Associates Incorporated
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Lambert [SMTP:mlambert@STCL.EDU]
Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 10:43 AM
To: ARCHIVES@LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU
Subject: Re: Lessons Learned in Houston--Disposal of Flood
Damaged Boxes
Sharon:
I hate to sound like an advertisement, but Gaylord does sell
coroplast
currogated plastice storage cartons in document case and record
center
carton size, but at around $10/box, about twice the price of the
standard stuff, I know I won't be running out and buying any. I've
never known an archives that had all the money it needed, and I
think
most of these problems can be solved in a much cheaper way by
following
standard archival/preservation/risk management thinking on these
subjects, such as:
Never store stuff on the floor (sorry Paul)
Never use a basement to store irreplacable stuff e.g. archives (too
bad
resource allocators don't listen, if they don't, go ahead and buy
the
plastic cartons by the gross, maybe they even float.) ;-)
Have a disaster plan ready
Have you hugged your BMS Cat, Belfor, Munters rep. lately?
As the man said, "you can pay me now, or you can pay me later!"
Oh, and I predict the next one hundred year flood will arrive in the
next five years-start planning now.
Mark
Mark Lambert
Special Collections and Government Documents Librarian
South Texas College of Law Library
Houston, TX
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