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Academic and library removals

We have a wealth of experience with academic and library removals, working with many well known educational institutions over the years. Based in Sheffield, our team cover the UK, providing a thoroughly professional service as you would expect from a company with our reputation.

Professionals in academic and library relocations

We have experienced teams of project managers, move managers and surveyors who can both listen and advise to provide the perfect solution for your move. You can feel confident that Specialised Movers will not only double check, but triple check all your requirements to ensure an efficient and problem free move.

Specialised Movers can provide the following for 
academic and library removals:

  • FREE site survey, FREE quotation and FREE advice
  • Development of 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
  • 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
  • Provision of indoor containerised storage system that is temperature controlled. Secure storage environment to ensure zero degradation of materials in storage
  • Nationwide and International service
  • 7-days a week service, including night-work
Academic and library removals provided by Specialised Movers

Questions we may ask

  • Are books going from shelf to shelf? (variations in shelf size 750mm-900mm)
  • Do the books need to be kept as a continuous sequence?
  • Are there oversized books?
  • Does anything need reconfiguring?
  • Are any expansions or reductions needed?
  • Everything is triple-checked – linear measurement, book-stock number and shelf counting by our surveyor

Other library/collection relocation services we provide:

  • 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

Academic and library removals

We have a wealth of experience with academic and library removals, working with many well known educational institutions over the years. Based in Sheffield, our team cover the UK, providing a thoroughly professional service as you would expect from a company with our reputation.

Academic and library removals provided by Specialised Movers

Professionals in academic and library relocations

We have experienced teams of project managers, move managers and surveyors who can both listen and advise to provide the perfect solution for your move. You can feel confident that Specialised Movers will not only double check, but triple check all your requirements to ensure an efficient and problem free move.

Specialised Movers can provide the following for 
academic and library removals:

  • FREE site survey, FREE quotation and FREE advice
  • Development of 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
  • 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
  • Provision of indoor containerised storage system that is temperature controlled. Secure storage environment to ensure zero degradation of materials in storage
  • Nationwide and International service
  • 7-days a week service, including night-work

Questions we may ask

  • Are books going from shelf to shelf? (variations in shelf size 750mm-900mm)
  • Do the books need to be kept as a continuous sequence?
  • Are there oversized books?
  • Does anything need reconfiguring?
  • Are any expansions or reductions needed?
  • Everything is triple-checked – linear measurement, book-stock number and shelf counting by our surveyor

Other library/collection relocation services we provide:

  • 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

Plan for your library move with the help of Specialised Movers. Contact our team today on 0114 261 1183 or email service@specialisedmovers.com

We are proud to have a long list of extremely satisfied clients providing positive testimony to our high-quality library moves

  • National Library of Qatar – Doha, Qatar
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  • Manchester Metropolitan University – Manchester
  • Salford University – Greater Manchester
  • Central St Martins College Library – London
  • Newbury Library – Newbury, West Berkshire
  • Witney Library – Witney, Oxon
  • Brighton Library – Brighton, East Sussex
  • American University – London
  • Norwich Library – Norwich, Norfolk
  • Northampton Central – Northamptonshire
  • Kingston Hospital Library – Kingston upon Thames, Surrey
  • Spurgeon College Library – Croydon, London.
  • 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 – Piccadilly, London
  • Kingsbury Library – Brent, London
  • Warwick University Library – London
  • New Cripps Library – Northamptonshire
  • Cardinal Pole School Library – Bracknell, Berkshire
  • Nottingham Trent University Library – Nottinghamshire 
  • Pangbourne Children’s Library – Reading, West Berkshire
  • Aylesbury College Library – Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
  • Bracknell Library – Bracknell, Bracknell Forest of Berkshire
  • London College of Communication – London

You're in good hands

Our experience

Over 35 years in meeting our customers’ removals and storage needs locally, nationally and internationally.

Our people

Our staff are trained in all aspects of removals, and hold all the essential safeguarding and security clearances.

Our customers

Our business exists to meet the needs of our customers and their individual removal and relocation needs.

Our values

We are a professional and trustworthy company, honest and transparent in all our dealings with customers.

Specialised Movers have over 35 years in meeting our customers’ removals and storage needs.

You're in good hands

Our experience

Over 35 years in meeting our customers’ removals and storage needs locally, nationally and internationally.

Our people

Our staff are trained in all aspects of removals, and hold all the essential safeguarding and security clearances.

Our customers

Our business exists to meet the needs of our customers and their individual removal and relocation needs.

Our values

We are a professional and trustworthy company, honest and transparent in all our dealings with customers.

Get in touch with us today, please call one of our team
on 0114 261 1183 or email services@specialisedmovers.com