Dan Matei wrote:
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Say, 200 working days/year. That is 725 volumes/working day.
Say, 8 working hours/day. That is about 90 volumes/hour, that is about 1,5 volumes per minute.
Imagine a list of volumes to move, sorted by shelf numbers, at hand. In these conditions, I would
say a person could handle on the average (not 1,5/minute, but) 1 volume/minute. That is 96,000
volumes. Say, roughly, 100,000 volumes a year.
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I guess I wasn't clear in my meaning. At the technical level of simply moving materials from one place to another, it can certainly be done to actually move the volumes with enough staff. But to make a separate decision on each volume--to consider it in relation to other books available, plus getting a agreement with faculty(!) is impossible to achieve.
But once the decision has been made to move x number of books from here to there, it can be figured out and achieved, as you point out.
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Received on Fri Oct 01 2010 - 04:53:04 EDT