Christina, Lori Benson who teaches our Moving Museum Collections course at Museum Study recommends this book: Bendix, Caroline. Moving Library and Archive Collections. British Library Preservation Advisory CentreFirst published January 2005 as Packing and moving library and archives collections, Revised August 2013. -- Brad Bredehoft CEO Museum Study, LLC www.MuseumStudy.com On 7/16/2019 2:21 PM, Christina Lillpopp wrote: > > Good afternoon! > > I would love to hear from anyone who has ever done a Library > move/renovation. We are in the preliminary planning stages and would > love any feedback and insight from your own experiences. We are also > looking for resources where we might be able to *rent mobile book > trucks for a period of time* to move books from point A to point B. > > Our library consists of about 11k items, including books, magazines, > yearbooks, scrapbooks, pamphlets, manuals, hardcover books > fiction/non-fiction. The oldest and most fragile books of our > collection are actually boxed individually. While renovation is > taking place, the items will be stored/staged in a temporary location > within our Museum. > > Feel free to email me directly off list to share any pearls of wisdom. > > Thank you in advance! > > > > Christina Lillpopp > > Collections Manager > > FASNY Museum of Firefighting > > 117 Harry Howard Avenue > > Hudson, NY 12534 > > 518-822-1875 ext. 14 > > [log in to unmask] > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > To unsubscribe from the MUSEUM-L list, click the following link: > http://home.ease.lsoft.com/scripts/wa-HOME.exe?SUBED1=MUSEUM-L&A=1 > ========================================================= Important Subscriber Information: The Museum-L FAQ file is located at http://www.finalchapter.com/museum-l-faq/ . You may obtain detailed information about the listserv commands by sending a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "help" (without the quotes). If you decide to leave Museum-L, please send a one line e-mail message to [log in to unmask] . The body of the message should read "Signoff Museum-L" (without the quotes).