Re: Special Collections move

["Karen Brown" <kebrown@xxxxxxxxx>]

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All the best - Karen

At 11:37 AM 11/19/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi Colleagues,
>
>We're planning a move of approximately 20,000 volumes of our Special
>Collections materials from their current stacks to compact shelving on
>another level of the library over the semester break.
>
>We have the opportunity to contract with an outside vendor who will do the
>actual moving of these materials.  Could any of you who have moved special
>collections or archives materials please advise me of any special
>considerations that you included in the moving contract?  We're very
>concerned about the way these materials are handled, and about security
>issues.
>
>Thanks for your help.
>
>Janice Mohlhenrich
>Coordinator, Preservation Initiatives & Services
>Emory University Libraries
>jmohlhe@xxxxxxxxx
>404-727-2437
>
>

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