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The National Personnel Records Center move to our new building on Archives Drive in north St. Louis County is no small task. The records are in 1.8 million cardboard boxes, each weighing 35 or so pounds. Workers are moving 6,000 boxes a day.
Now that’s archives power!
Read more here about the muscle and the brains that have gone into this massive move.
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Archives Muscle

The National Personnel Records Center move to our new building on Archives Drive in north St. Louis County is no small task. The records are in 1.8 million cardboard boxes, each weighing 35 or so pounds. Workers are moving 6,000 boxes a day.

Now that’s archives power!

Read more here about the muscle and the brains that have gone into this massive move.

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    I am leaving the library/archive I work at now before they...this spring. I’m like… HAVE...
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    wow. I do archives work in real life. I feel strong now, because I lift heavy things too! :)
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