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Re: waxed floors



 Are there any problems with waxed floors?

Another thing to consider is safety of your staff.  Years ago, when I
first started in Special Collections, we had a Manuscripts Librarian,
RIP, who always wore high heels.  We could always tell she was
coming by the "click-click-click" of the heels; she also wore her
hair in a bun, looked at you over her glasses perched on the end of
her nose, and had a permanent disapproving look.  For that reason
we always called her "nazi heels" or, since her first name was
Della,  "the Dellatollah."

Anyway, one day just after the linoleum floors had been freshly
waxed she came out of the office area (the Glass Room) from
carpet to the new wax and pow!  Took a fall on the floor, where her
high heels had slipped on the waxed floor.  Had to take her up to
the Emergency Room and on and on; she retired not too long after
that.  So a few  years after that, the then-library administrators sent
forth a decree that sandals were unsafe and henceforth banned in
the library.  Not that I wore sandals but many people in the area
did, so I fired off a memo saying that based on experience, we had
never had an accident caused by someone wearing sandals,
whereas we had had one accident caused by wearing high heels.
Therefore high heels, not sandals, should be banned.  Last we
heard of the sandal ban, although it didn't do my reputation as a
team player any good, ah well.



Roy Webb, C.A.
Multimedia Archivist
Special Collections
J. Willard Marriott Library
295 South 1500 East
University of Utah
Salt Lake City, Utah   84112
(801) 585-3073  //  fax (801) 585-3976
rwebb@library.utah.edu

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