Re: [ha-Safran]: Library renovations--any discarded shelving

2005-04-05 Thread Olivia Hibel
Yes, out of use old-fashioned book shelves.wooden card catalogs!..please include me as well! I am interested and will bid as well! Olivia Olivia Hibel, Pittsburgh PA Curator, Benzion Hibel Gr

Re: [ha-Safran]: Library renovations-any discarded shelving

2005-04-03 Thread Daniel Stuhlman
I know that you would rather have "free" shelves -- but I have bought used shelves from a dealer. The price was good and I had opportunity to get matched shelving to my exact specifications. When I worked in a library, we got some donated shelving.This was a mixed blessing. The shelving fr

Re: [ha-Safran]: Library renovations--any discarded shelving

2005-04-03 Thread Dan Wyman
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RE: [ha-Safran]: Library renovations

2005-04-03 Thread Aviva Astrinsky
Dear Chaya, I have had the privilege or misfortune to work in 4 renovated and/or new libraries. All of them were built by architects who had never done libraries or museums before. All of them looked pretty (which is the architects's main interest), but were not functional whatsoever. As a resul

[ha-Safran]: Library renovations

2005-03-31 Thread Chaya Wiesman
Dear Safranim, For a presentation, I need to talk about the merits of hiring an architect that specializes in library renovations (and not just a general run-of-the-mill architect). What I need is stories of library renovations that went wrong due to the lack of such a specialist. Here is your c