[Nhcoll-l] Alcohol bottle trays

[Bentley, Andrew Charles]

Paul

I do know of some ichthyology collections that arrange their specimen bottles on cardboard "flats" on shelves to facilitate moving and working with collections.  However, I would check with your fire marshal to see he/she is OK it's this.  Our fire marshal would not allow us to have anything of trays of any sort as he want water from the sprinkler system to be able to permeate down through the shelves to lower shelves in the event of a fire.  It is however a trade off between this and containing any liquid that may be released from any broken jars in such a tray.

Andy

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Andrew Bentley
Ichthyology Collection Manager
Specify Usability Lead
Biodiversity Institute
University of Kansas
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1345 Jayhawk Boulevard
Lawrence, KS 66045

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On Jun 23, 2014, at 2:58 PM, "Callomon,Paul" <prc44 at drexel.edu<mailto:prc44 at drexel.edu>> wrote:

Folks,

Does anyone know of a fluid collection in which loose bottles and jars have been placed in long, narrow open-top boxes or trays on open shelving? We are considering doing this, in order to make our collection both safer and easier to maintain. I know many Entomology collections arrange 4- and 6-dram vials in long racks (we do this too), but I haven’t seen the same thing done for larger bottles and jars.

Paul Callomon
Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General Invertebrates
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