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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">All our cabinets (botany, paleo, insects, and vertebrates) are double-stacked Delta Designs cabinets. I believe the very highest cubbies/drawers are empty across the collections (we are organized to move up vertically
into our empty “expansion” space as needed). I’m not very tall (64” or 1.6m) and I can reach *<b>almost</b>* all the herbarium specimens with a 1-m stepstool. I occasionally use our WAV to access things up high; I think our vertebrates manager uses the WAV
the most, because the tray is very handy for fetching multiple specimens rather than going up and down the stepstool for each one. It can maneuver in fairly tight spaces (tight turns) so it fits in our compactor aisles pretty easily after some practice.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Cheers,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">Sarah<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D">(sorry I don’t have a scale for this photo, but for reference, I can walk along the compactor aisle without ducking when the upper cabinets are open. VERY convenient and I’ve never conked my head!)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Sarah Taylor, PhD<br>
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Scientific Collections Manager <br>
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George Safford Torrey Herbarium (CONN)<br>
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology<br>
<b>University of Connecticut</b><br>
75 North Eagleville Road, Unit 3043<br>
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-3043<br>
U.S.A.<br>
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P: 860.486.1889<br>
F: 860.486.4320 <br>
<a href="https://biodiversity.uconn.edu/herbarium/"><span style="color:#1F497D">https://biodiversity.uconn.edu/herbarium/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>From:</b> Nhcoll-l <nhcoll-l-bounces@mailman.yale.edu> <b>
On Behalf Of </b>Donald McAlpine<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, April 11, 2024 12:34 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> nhcoll-l@mailman.yale.edu<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Nhcoll-l] Seeking information on the multiple stacking of natural history cabinets<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA">The New Brunswick Museum is undergoing a $150 M building expansion that will include some new collections space. There is currently a plan (proposed by architects) to double stack botany and entomology cabinets (each
on a separate shelf) on compactors. Zoology cabinets will be stacked 4 high, again, on shelves and compactors. I would be interested in hearing from anyone that is double stacking botany or entomology cabinets and triple or quadruple stacking zoology cabinets.
We can get access to cabinets using WAV 60 (Work Assist Vehicle), but removing trays from zoology cabinets to accommodate rearrangement of collections is very awkward and time consuming. I would be interested and grateful to hear of any others who are stacking
specimens cabinets more than 2 high and the process around managing collections in these circumstances.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Donald F. McAlpine, Ph.D.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Head, Department of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Research Curator and Head, Zoology Section<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">New Brunswick Museum<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">277 Douglas Avenue,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Saint John, New Brunswick,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Canada E2K 1E5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Phone (cell) 506-343-4432<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:#1F497D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">fax 506-643-2360<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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