[PADG:1231] cost of shelving

I have been asked to provide annual cost figures for 'shelving a book'. Obviously this cost depends greatly on the particulars of the shelving location, such as open or closed stack, regular or high density, location of the building on or off campus, geographical location of University (Manhattan vs. Gainesville), as well as determining if are you worried about overhead and personnel, etc. I have been hunting for one or two key, fairly recent articles on the topic and have been coming up short. I have several from the late 1980's/early 1990's ( Michael Cooper, 'a cost comparison of alternative book storage facilties', from Library Quarterly v.59, no.3 1989 and by the same author, 'Sensitivity of book storage strategy decisions to alternative cost assumptions' Library Quarterly, v.61 no. 4, 1991) plus the Hain-Teper article from 2003 in Collection Management v.28, no.4 ('Time and Cost analysis of preparing and processing materials for off site shelving at the UIUC').

Other than these three, which are not quite right, I have not found much on the topic. Anyone out there have any ideas? I am not looking for any construction information, or processing into an off site facility, or changing shelving locations in the OPAC, I just need a plain old discussion of what it takes to keep a book safe for a year.

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