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Basics in archives and libraries
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2.12 Climate and Integrated Pest Management (IPM) in storage
technology
When positioning shelving in the room, it must be borne in mind that the movement
of the air in the room is not hindered anywhere by too little space between the
shelves and the walls and ceilings. In order to accommodate the necessary air
ducts and the lighting, a space of 50cm for the air is usually required above the
shelves.
The shelves must be set up in such a way that they are not placed by the outside
walls if possible, because the outside walls are in most cases the coolest (and
therefore the dampest) places throughout the year. Pests prefer to live there or
they find the most favorable living conditions there. It therefore makes sense to
move the shelves away from outside walls and to make sure that these risk zones
can be checked regularly and cleaned easily.
2.13 Light between the shelves
Lighting narrow corridors between fixed or moveable shelves is not without prob-
lems. Fixed corridors can easily be lit by an appropriate number of lamps. For
moveable shelves, the lighting has to be above the shelves or moveable on each
individual shelf.
The storage technology must be adjusted to the given conditions and co-
coordinated with other aspects such as room lay-out, static, climate, security (fire
safety and fire security) and pest monitoring.
2.14 Planning process for archives and libraries
Most planning processes for archives and libraries are triggered by a more or less
significant lack of space or by external circumstances such as the conversion or
the restoration requirements of the existing building. Definitive planning consists of
the six steps succeeding each other: analysis, clarification, determination of re-
quirements, requirements, implementation and check.
Fig. 5 Process planning
Analysis
Clarification
Requirement Demand
Implementation
Control