Do you know if Beloit built those cabinets themselves or purchased them
prebuilt?  We've been looking for cabinets along that design and have had no
luck.

Elizabeth Moore

-----Original Message-----
From: Ginger M. Young <[log in to unmask]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.museum-l
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, February 08, 1999 6:03 PM
Subject: Re: Open storage


>Beloit College also employs these pull out drawers with plexi covers.  The
>drawers also have a mechanism that prevents the drawers from being slammed
>shut or opened up too quickly and possibly causing damage to the artifacts
>within them.  This exhibit technique is quite different though from the
"open
>storage" system I briefly described earlier.  The "open storage" system is
>what we students (past students anyway) affectionately called the "glass
>cube".  Another advantage to the "glass cube" approach is that the visitor
>can see what actually happens in a museum as most of us who work behind the
>scenes in collection areas,etc. know that most ppl do not know what it is
we
>do!  I always heard positive remarks from the public as 1) they were able
to
>see more of what we have in the collection and 2) they could see a few of
us
>working in there and ask questions about what it is we were doing.
>
>Ginger M. Young, Registrar
>Ziff Jewish Museum of FL
>