[Publib] wtb: used book carts

[Judith Turner]

Hi, John --

You might check around campus for a carpenter/carpentry shop.  When we got to the point that 2 book carts were insufficient -- the archival boxes pulled for visiting researchers and book sale leftovers left us with 0 carts for shelving and cataloging/processing new items -- we had the museum carpenters construct 2 more for us and they were great.

We needed oversize wheels because the ramp into the Spacesaver System was steep and crossing the floor rails was a bit tricky (providing a great challenge to newly hired students or new volunteers -- we'd explain to them they needed to take it slowly and demonstrate but almost everyone tipped a cart before catching on).  The oversize wheels were no problem for the museum carpenters and the new carts arrived stained cherry (and with a non-reactive enamel approved by the museum conservator) to match the circulation desk and panels on the ends of the Spacesaver rows -- a much better solution than buying commercial, imho.

Judy Turner
Whitefish Bay, WI



--- On Thu, 10/2/08, Hauf, John <JHauf at dominican.edu> wrote:
From: Hauf, John <JHauf at dominican.edu>
Subject: [Publib] wtb: used book carts
To: publib at webjunction.org
Date: Thursday, October 2, 2008, 1:35 PM




 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 







Does anyone happen to know of a source to buy used book
carts? 

Thanks. 

   

   

John Hauf 

Alemany Library 

Dominican
 University of California 

San Rafael,
 CA 94901 

415 482-3522



      
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