[Nhcoll-l] Compactor/mobile storage systems for paleo collections

[Adrain, Tiffany S]

Hi everyone,

If you manage a paleontology collection in compactor (aka mobile) storage, I'd be grateful from some insight into the ease at which carriages full of fossils can be moved. I am planning new storage in a warehouse-style facility

Do you have any difficulty in moving the heaviest carriages along the rails in your collection? If so, what would be the maximum weight/volume per rail you'd recommend.

Have you had any problems maintaining the carriage rails in a variable relative humidity environment (any problem with rusting or seizing up), especially when the carriages are not moved very often?

Any advice or tips you can give me are greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Tiffany


Tiffany Adrain (pronouns: she/her/hers)
Collections Manager, Paleontology Repository
Instructor, Museum Studies Certificate Program
Department of Earth & Environmental Sciences
University of Iowa
115 Trowbridge Hall
Iowa City, Iowa, 52242

phone: 319 335 1822
fax: 319 335 1821
email: tiffany-adrain at uiowa.edu<mailto:tiffany-adrain at uiowa.edu>
website: <http://www.uiowa.edu/~geology/paleo> https://clas.uiowa.edu/ees/

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