On Jan 13, 2005, at 5:51 PM, Steve Harris wrote:

I have a need for some redbooks, international standards or even
private standards for the best-practices for physical offsite
handling, racking, stacking and retrieval of tapes. Whilst TSM
specifics would be good, most of this is not TSM specific and could
apply to any product.

I have been able to find none that suit myself,  can anyone point me
in the right direction?

There are various guides and such out there. A good source of info is
http://www.tapecouncil.org/articles.asp .

  Richard Sims