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Shelving



Dear Colleagues,

We are moving the archives to a warehouse facility.  While it will have
better climate control and others are doing the planning for that, I am
asked for weight information and the like regarding shelving.  The plan is
this.  We want to double stack the shelves (that is have two "floors" of
shelving without putting a real floor in there).  Thus, it appears to my
less well tutored eye that we are talking about  stanchions which would be
about 16 or so feet high and sturdy steel shelves would be attached to
them.   There would be a grate in lieu of floor between the levels and
there would be a lift to move boxes of documents from top floor to bottom
and back again.

Do any of you have a quick idea of how much weight the stanchions should
hold under that scheme?  Should I simply take 100 or 150 lbs per shelf and
multiply by the approximate number of shelves (10) in each section and then
by the number of sections in the range (N) to get the amount of weight the
stanchions in that range should /must hold?

It was a warehouse through which heavy equipment moved so we assume the
floor will sustain whatever we pile on it.

I have trolled the listserv archive and missed answers to these questions
and am currently cruising manufacturer's web sites.

Thanks for your help.

Jo Rayfield
Archivist
Illinois State University

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