We provide expert Business / Academic Library Relocation with the expertise and resources to plan and implement the most effective library moves.
Library Relocation Services
- FREE Site Survey, FREE Quotation and FREE advice
- Developing a detailed move plan
- Cataloguing stock (Books/Multimedia etc.)
- Sequential packing and unpacking at destination
- Interfiling and integration
- Dismantling/erection of library shelving and library furniture/fittings
- Crate hire for books, office equipment and computers
- Acid-free packing materials
- Coloured identification labels
- Nationwide and International service
- IT decommissioning and recommissioning
- Moving of specialist collections, artefacts, rare books, and fine art
- Recycling and Re-Use of unwanted stock
- Environmental disposal of unwanted media
- Specialist Storage – We provide an Indoor containerised Storage System that is temperature controlled. Secure storage environment to ensure zero degradation of materials in storage
- 7 days a week service, including night-work
Some Questions Our Surveyor May Ask:
- Are books going from Shelf to Shelf? – variations in shelf size 750mm-900mm
- Continuous sequence?
- Oversized books
- Reconfiguring?
- Expansion or reductions
- Triple-check: given linear measurement + book-stock number, then a shelf counting exercise by our surveyor
Other Library/Collection Relocation Services:
- Hanging Files – e.g. Regular works for the NHS and X-Ray filing Systems
- Blood/Tissue Samples – Refrigerated and frozen, to be kept at specific temperatures with little or no fluctuation
- Gun Collections, Medal Collections – Museum collections individually tagged. Items placed in the museum display or archived as appropriate.
- Fine Art Collections and artefacts – Tagged then displayed or archived as required.
“Specialised Movers excel in all aspects of our work and are the UK’s leading library removals company.
We are a specialised library mover – with the flexibility and resources to overcome any challenges in relocation.
Our library services are available to the public sector, educational/academic sector (schools/colleges), private and commercial libraries.
We are proud to have a long list of extremely satisfied clients providing positive testimony to our high quality library moves.”
Quality Assured Business / Academic Library Relocation
We provide only uniformed staff who complete, and work in accordance with, risk assessments. The BS 8522 Standard is now becoming a key question when actively finding and servicing work. We were actually one of the first companies in the UK to achieve this Standard!
Some of our Successfully Library Relocations
- National Library of Qatar – Doha, Qatar
- Manchester Metropolitan University – Manchester
- Salford University – Greater Manchester. Movement of in excess of a million book and journal stock, plus movement of all existing shelving and return of stock after fit-out. Paul Simpson, the Project Manager at Specialised Movers became a stakeholder manager detailing day-to-day migration of book stock and liaising with the client throughout the project.
- Central St Martins College Library – London
- Newbury Library – Newbury, West Berkshire. 1322m of book stock pack and store on site at Specialised Movers in Sheffield, return and replace after fit-out
- Witney Library – Witney, Oxon
- Brighton Library – Brighton, East Sussex
- American University – London
- Norwich Library – Norwich, Norfolk
- Northampton Central – Northamptonshire. Movement of 1100m of book stock store on site, and return after fit out.
- Kingston Hospital Library – Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
- Spurgeon College Library – Croydon, London. Movement of 3000m of book stock store, on site return and replace
- Church Mission Society Library – South East Oxford
- Roehampton Library – Wandsworth, London
- Pershore College Library – Pershore, Worcestershire
- University of Wales Library – Lampeter, Ceredigion, Wales
- The Geological Society – Picadilly, London
- Kingsbury Library – Brent, London
- Warwick University Library – London
- New Cripps Library – Northamptonshire
- Cardinal Pole School Library – Bracknell, Berkshire
- Nottingham Trent University Library – Nottinghamshire. Movement of 5600m of book stock, return to Specialised Movers storage in Sheffield, then return to University
- Pangbourne Children’s Library – Reading, West Berkshire. 475m of book stock packed and returned to Specialised Movers storage in Sheffield, then returned after fit-out
- Aylesbury College Library – Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
- Bracknell Library – Bracknell, Bracknell Forest of Berkshire, 400m of book stock from various locations centralised to one new purpose built hub
- London College of Communication – London