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Re: Storage renovation
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Museum of York County <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 10 Jul 1995 22:27:54 -0400
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>We are renovating our works on paper storage room and need to provide a
>structural engineer with information on the projected weight of the files
>and its contents. Has anyone dealt with this kind of estimate recently?
>Is there a formula for determining this? or is my best bet just to go and
>begin weighing folio boxes? Our collection contains about 3,500 works.
>

Try contacting a commercial storage firm that provides storage for corporate
archives.  I bet they'd have some figures on this.
Janis Beth Wilkens
Curator of Collections
Museum of York County
4621 Mt. Gallant Road
Rock Hill, SC  29732
803-329-2121  Fax: 803-329-5249
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