[Genealib] local history room features

[Local History]

As someone else mentioned, this collection will not get weeded and will continue to grow.  Be careful to make sure the floors can support the weight of the growth.  Also for shelving, document boxes need wider shelves than books so designing the shelving units to be able to mix up the sizes or move them around as your needs change.
Julie H. Bartlett
Archivist
Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library & Museum 
Hampshire Room for Local History
Forbes Library 
20 West St. 
Northampton, MA  01060
(413) 587-1014
jbartlett at forbeslibrary.org
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Deena Butta 
  To: genealib at mailman.acomp.usf.edu 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2007 3:45 PM
  Subject: [Genealib] local history room features


  Hello, all,

  we are designing a new library, which will include a genealogy and local history room.

  have any of you recently designed a room for this purpose? what features do you think sre important to include?  what do you wish you had included that perhaps you did not?

  we have a special collection that we inherited from a local genealogist, it is about 400 volumes in a locked case.  we also have old phone books, a couple hundred titles of bound magazines, and a reference genealogy collection of about 350 titles.

  i am thinking we need to be sure about security, climate control, blackout shades to control sun and heat, and work space for volunteers to do indexing projects, orah histories, etc.

  what am i forgetting?  i will be grateful for your suggestions.

  thank you!

  deena
  glenview public library


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