<div dir="auto"><div>Hello Ann, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">We've recently completed the installation of compactors for our mammals, fish, herpetology and invertebrate collections. The mammals collection is a dry (skeletal) collection, the others are wet collections. In the future, we may consider doing the same for our herbarium - the problem this time around being that it wasn't in a basement floor so floor weight carrying capability limited our possibilities. The other collections were in basement floors. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">The basic planning considerations included: </div><div dir="auto">1. Choice between electric and manually-moved shelving (problems with electric moving elsewhere made us choose manual. We're quite happy with that, the shelves are easy to move) </div><div dir="auto">2. Shelf carrying capacity (I actually weighed the specimens in random shelves all over the collections to be sure of our requirements in this respect) - this includes how shelves are constructed and whether we could adjust their spacing) </div><div dir="auto">3. Ventilation (since most of the moved collections were in liquids) </div><div dir="auto">4. Guardrails to prevent things from falling off a moving shelf (detachable, to enable putting in and taking out large / tall specimens) - we had some discussions about how to design these</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">That's just off the top of my head in a minute's notice, there were other issues of course! Will send images on Sunday if reminded about it. Space-wise, the entire fish collection which had filled up the entire hall took up only half that same space when moved into compactors. We spent a lot of time measuring and planning different shelving layouts and making sure that the shelving company really understood what we wanted - they did actually measure and count things differently because their reasoning was different, so that is an important aspect! </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Please feel free to ask further questions on Sunday plus ask for images. </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Cheers, </div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Gali</div><div dir="auto"><br><div class="gmail_quote" dir="auto"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">בתאריך יום ג׳, 14 בדצמ׳ 2021, 18:12, מאת Ann Bogaerts <<a href="mailto:ann.bogaerts@plantentuinmeise.be">ann.bogaerts@plantentuinmeise.be</a>>:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hello everybody,<div><br></div><div>We wish to renovate our herbarium with 4 milj. specimens and we want to get some feedback from other institutions who already renovated or renewed their collection buildings. </div><div><br></div><div>One of our main questions is the use of compactors yes or no? So what is your opinion about this? How much space do you save using a compactor and how is it working with this kind of system? For which collections do you use it?</div><div><br></div><div>We are really interested in the do's and don'ts and it would also be nice if you could send us a picture of the compactors you use.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks a lot and enjoy your evening (day),</div><div><br></div><div>Ann</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><font color="#3d85c6" face="verdana, sans-serif" size="4"><img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&id=1Zm4c1N_ZmnDD7pR8SMqlQE85rb4X_tsD&revid=0B3Jp25T3leBLQ3FrZlBxRFpnTnBTWWlKWFRmaU8zYkN0bTZzPQ" width="420" height="363"></font><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6" face="verdana, sans-serif"><a href="http://groenepioniers.be/bioblitz/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer"><br></a></font></span></div><div><span style="background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#3d85c6" face="verdana, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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