Weight of books in a Library

[Barbara Wall <bwall@OSWEGOBOCES.ORG>]

Hello Friends,

One of the libraries in my educational cooperative is on the second floor of
a school.  The floor has a slight dip in it now.  They will be adding
another schools books on a short term - one year or so - basis and need to
know for the architects how much weight a bookshelf holds or how much do say
3 feet of children's books weigh.  The architects are trying to determine
how much weight is created by the books and then can the floor hold it or
what reinforcement will be needed.  We have no reference material that
addresses this issue and are hoping for some help from the greater good of
librarians.   Thanks in advance.

Barbara Wall
School Library System Director, Oswego and OCM BOCES
Mexico and Syracuse (snow not sun), NY
bawall@northnet.org
bwall@oswegoboces.org

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