LIBRARY RELOCATION

Delivery Services have the experience, qualifications and capabilities to plan and implement the physical relocation of your library collection with great care, in an organised and timely manner and with minimum disruption. Our team have consistently over the past ten years achieved the transfer of large quantities of book stock accurately using our unique methodology throughout the UK’s largest University’s.

Over the past number of years our commercial relocation service has been developed to include library relocations. We treat the moving of library stock as a specialist process requiring intense preparation, a specialised methodology, specialist training, experienced supervision and specially designed equipment.

Clients can be assured that a proven team of experienced personnel from project managers to book packers will be committed to the planning and implementation of your project. At the planning stage our team will be found invaluable in its guidance in critical variables such as fill ratios, growth rates and stock measuring that allows for accurate collection mapping and tagging. Maintaining shelf list order is, of course, the primary concern. Delivery Services will maintain this order by using a colour-coding and tagging method specifically designed for library materials. Shelving can be carefully dismantled and rebuilt by experienced fitters if required.

Delivery Services accomplish successful library moves by utilising a specially developed methodology, which is unique to the UK and Ireland, has been specifically designed to relocate book stock such as books, bound periodicals, special collections, and archive material in an exceptionally fast manor whilst ensuring accuracy of shelf list order. This was made possible by our innovative measuring and tagging system and through utilisation of moving equipment on the physical move called ‘missiles’ which can accommodate three shelves worth of pre-tagged books in one mobile vessel. On-site we precisely measured book collections in order to calculate accurate fill ratio’s (percentage of space populated with book stock per shelf), measurements are recorded on specially designed spreadsheets. Numerical coloured tags are used to allow us to address each individual shelf worth of books to an exact shelf at the new location.

The packing of collections will be accomplished by off-loading all volumes in our specially designed mobile containers, designed to access to all aisles. This method has proven to be more efficient and time saving than other methods of moving library materials. Our packing container generally holds three shelves worth of material in layers with corrugated card between layers. Our packing container has proven to clients to be superior to crates in its ability to maximise efficiency with vastly reduced noise and disruption. As all moving equipment is mobile there are advantages in both speed of deployment and rapid flexibility in temporary positioning of book stock waiting to be unpacked and easy recycling of vessels once emptied.

Our clients can be assured that Delivery Services has strong leadership and clear lines of communication, personnel are well trained, health and safety issues are addressed, equipment and vehicles are well managed, environmental issues considered and a quality management system is in place to ensure a consistently high quality service.

With the demployment of our specially designed equipment and well trained operational team we have completed a number of high profile and successful projects in the University sector, notably Imperial College

London, Birmingham City University, University of St. Andrews, Robert Gordon University, Queens University Belfast, Ulster University, University of Portsmouth, University of Greenwich, University of Dundee, University of Aberdeen, and University of Strathclyde.