This is something that will probably vary from institution to institution just because of buildings layouts, etc. My predecessor numbered traps by floor. This made it a bit overwhelming to easily determine where a trap was from, however, so I switched to numbering by room. Using a floor plan, I numbered the most northwest trap in each room as "(room number) 1" and the last trap was the most southeast. That way I have a quick sense where in the room the trap came from. And yes, the date the trap was set is always very important.
Secondly, unless the room is 10,000 sq ft or there is an established infestation, 20 traps in a room seems like a lot. I inherited one floor with 99 traps that I reduced to about 35, and I still feel like it has pretty good coverage, plus I don't have to spend 4 hours collecting, replacing and counting traps for that floor alone. The trade off is that I spend more time observing conditions as I walk around that floor, but that also keeps me aware of what is happening. It was this method of looking and noting things that led to discoveries traps would have failed at. Good luck! You have quite a chore ahead, but it will be well worth planning ahead. Alan *Alan Van Dyke* Senior Preservation Technician Harry Ransom Center The University of Texas at Austin P.O. Drawer 7219 Austin, TX 78713-7219 P: 512-232-4614 www.hrc.utexas.edu On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 2:41 PM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm currently in the process of unifying all of the previously isolated > trapping areas in the museum for improved integration. Does anyone have > opinions about the best way to number and identify individual traps? My > plan is to label them as such: > > Month/Year placed > Room or Gallery Number - Trap # > > That seems straight forward, and more or less what we've been doing, but > there are many rooms and some rooms have 20+ traps - some on the ground and > some up on cabinets. Does it help to break large rooms up into something > like A,B,C areas then the trap #? I want to do things right the first time > around, so I'm trying to think ahead to all the information that might be > helpful to have on a label and then in the logging worksheets. > > I'd love to hear/see examples of how everyone labels their traps and learn > what works and what doesn't. > > Regards! > > Julie > Collections Care Assistant > Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Museumpests" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/ed5e00bd-b82b-4b80-bd24-0074ee4ef662%40googlegroups.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/ed5e00bd-b82b-4b80-bd24-0074ee4ef662%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Museumpests" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pestlist/CAHhLO3ZBExEN8auEkuzJ6S9WcLpJdao4XKLk5g955pKZ%3DV32gQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
