>Dear Museum Affiliates,
>        Can you help us?  Have you recently renovated or developed new
>collection storage?
>We are currently researching and gathering information on innovative storage
>solutions, good products and suppliers ( and ones to avoid), practical
>suggestions or plans.
>        Our Clothing and Textiles Collection is soon to be relocated to
>another building which is being renovated to suit our needs.  Due to the
>sudden funding and budgeting time lines the planning process will be much
>shorter than we would wish-only 2 months ( January and February 1997 and
>perhaps into March).
>        Our collection of 20,000 artifacts includes textiles, clothing and
>related artifacts (eg. tools, photos, paper patterns and periodicals) from a
>wide variety of time periods and cultures.  The collection is very actively
>used for teaching, research and public programming.
>        Our current storage systems include hanging, flat, and rolled units,
>some of which are within compactor systems.  The new space will require new
>systems, but we will utilize some of the existing parts if possible.
>        If you have any suggestions please let us know as we would
>appreciate any comments.  Please cc: our Curator, Anne Lambert at:
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>If you have any suggestions of collection storage systems which would be
>worthwhile visiting, please let us know.
>
>Thank-you,
>Monica Engler
>Planning Assistant
>
>Clothing and Textiles Collection
>Department of Human Ecology
>University of Alberta
>Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
>T6G 2M8
>(403) 492-2528
>fax (403) 492-4821
>
>If you approve: I would be most interested if you would share this
information with the list or with me. Thank you so much. Someone is reading
my mind.

Kristi Alexander
Mcclung Museum
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