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A collection of papers stored upright inside a #14 paige box is organized very simply and hopefully will usually fall inside the maximum weight for the box, which is printed on the box itself. (There is a scale if needed, in the Preservation Alcove). However, bound volumes stored upright (or a combination of upright and flat) in Paige boxes can lend themselves to disorganization and excessive weight. This will often cause the box to be returned to the end processor because it is starting to break apart. Or the contents have become a puzzle that can't be fit back in. Unless the organization has some thought or standards applied, volumes can be put back into the box by patrons or staff on their front boards, which will cause their detachment over time. This is why boxes containing volumes stored in Paige boxes need to sometimes have a label that requires people not to return them to the box on their front boards. And, it is why some basic standards may help in filling such boxes especially when smaller volumes are combined with larger ones in the same box. SEE ******
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