If your shelves are metal: magnets, outside the plastic. Not near the electronic media!! As far as raising and lowering, this might need some evaluation for an archival application, but there dozens of home decor books that give directions on making window treatments. I am thinking something like a roller shade over each range might be fairly easy to raise and lower. Not sure what the activity would do to the efficacy of the polyester sheeting. Gypsye Legge MLIS 05 On Jun 13, 2006, at 12:08 AM, ARCHIVES automatic digest system wrote: > Date: Mon, 12 Jun 2006 09:47:42 -0400 > From: Beth Kleber <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: polyester sheeting > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --Boundary_(ID_iR1ER/HSx2NLKYU8u1jgPg) > Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed > Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT > > I'd posted a while ago about protection from water damage. Our > insurance company is requiring we do something to protect our > collections from water damage that might result from leaks from the > floor above, a burst pipe, sprinklers, etc. We're now looking into > covering our shelves and flat files with polyester sheeting but are > unsure of the best way to secure the sheeting. We're also looking > for a > mechanism that will make it relatively easy to raise and lower the > sheeting in order to access the collections. Does anyone have any > suggestions? > > Thanks, > Beth Kleber > > -- Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely underemployed. — The Social Audit Consumer Handbook, Macmillan, 1978, p. 41 Charles Medaw A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>