Hi Katia,
We also use the Uline bins above, I think S-20588 (ours are approximately 20x14x9). We typically have 4-6 totes picked up each day. Our shipping is centralized in the main library, so they take our totes there and sort for the different library locations. We do pre-pack and label any padded mailers that are going to campus offices/through campus mail, and add those to the totes. We use grey bins for most everything, with green used for preservation and red for disaster response.
Neither of our loading dock areas (at main or at the facility) are covered, and so we do have to be particularly mindful if there's rain, snow, etc., though they are only outside long enough to be brought in from the truck so we haven't had any significant issues.
Warm wishes,
Jenny
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Jennifer Maddox Abbott
Collection Management Librarian
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
She/Her/Hers
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Original Message:
Sent: Oct 15, 2021 11:32 AM
From: Katia Strieck
Subject: Bins for transit of material
Good Friday afternoon --
I'm interested in hearing about what kind of bins everyone uses to transport material from their storage location to circulation desks on campus. We currently use postal bins -- they're that plastic corrugated material and have no lids.
I'd like to transition to using lidded bins (aka totes) and am interested in hearing about:
- what size bin(s) are generally used;
- do you use a mix of bin sizes to accommodate different sized material? what sizes?
- do you use dedicated bins for each stop?
- if yes, how do you label the bins and how many bins do you have dedicated per location stop?
- if not, how do you label a bin for each stop?
- do you use color coded bins?
- what vendor you used to supply the bins?
- durability of bins
I see ULINE has a product of Round Trip totes which are basically what I'm thinking of when I say "lidded bins"
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Thank you! I'm looking forward to hearing what everyone uses.
Katia
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Katia Strieck
Director (interim), LIBRA
Head, Metadata Services
University of Pennsylvania Libraries
3420 Walnut St., Philadelphia, 19104
215.475.2225 (voice & text)
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Katia Strieck
Librarian
University of Pennsylvania
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