The City of Toronto Archives' Spadina Rd. record centre is one of the
city's two memory banks. Inside the climate-controlled, fire-proof building
stand rows of gigantic 11-metre tall shelves, packed with boxes of
documents, photographs, maps, architectural plans, audio tapes, and videos,
the majority of them accessible to the public.

In total, there are 133,797 boxes at Spadina Rd., more than twice the
number of the seats in the Rogers Centre. To access a box requested by a
member of the public, specially-trained record centre workers clad in
bright yellow protective toecaps and safety harnesses are lifted high in
the air by a hydraulic picking machine.
http://bit.ly/1vfdC7X
http://bit.ly/1vfdC7X+

-- 
Peterk
Dallas, Tx
Save our in-boxes! http://emailcharter.org
"The problems of our economy have occurred not as an outgrowth of
laissez-faire, unbridled competition.
They have occurred under the guidance of federal agencies, and under the
umbrella of federal regulations."
Senator Ted Kennedy, in defending trucking deregulation in 1978.

List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html
Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
To unsubscribe from this list, click the below link. If not already present, place UNSUBSCRIBE RECMGMT-L or UNSUB RECMGMT-L in the body of the message.
mailto:[log in to unmask]