Dear collective wisdom --
Do you know of a carpeted library with tall compact shelving whose top
shelves must be reached with a portable, rolling ladder?
The Bard Graduate Center Library is just such a place, and we are in dire
need of good ladders that can roll easily over the carpeting as well as fit
through the narrow openings of the compact shelves. Our current rolling
ladders (lightweight, spring-loaded aluminum models from library vendors
like Highsmith) must surely work on hard flooring surfaces like linoleum or
wood, but are absolutely useless on our carpet, where they skid and stick,
then trip and enrage the unlucky souls who must use them.
If your library has carpeted floors and you have rolling ladders that work
well on the carpet (or if you know of another carpeted library we could
contact re: their ladders), please respond off-list.
Kind regards --
Karyn Hinkle
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Karyn Hinkle
Reader Services Librarian
Bard Graduate Center for
Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, & Culture
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Tel: + 212.501.3035
Summer 2009 location:
BGC Library at Bard Hall
410 W. 58th Street
New York, NY 10019
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