Scenario: As a public library's active collection expands, it must use space more efficiently while maintaining security and optimum accessibility for patrons. Solution: Work with an architectural firm on floor loads and layout. Install static and moveable shelving. Incorporate suspended storage systems for newspapers, periodicals, and other oversized, floppy materials.
Whether you're an academic, public, research, or special-purpose library, we have the experience to respond creatively and comprehensively to your needs. Today, you not only need to shelve media, but also display and merchandise it. We draw on the continually expanding line of Spacesaver specialty shelves and accessories to help you keep up with the demands of today, and tomorrow.

Mobile storage systems Specialty shelving Open stacks

Our library specialists can help develop an in-depth space and storage analysis specifically for your institute, considering several issues: The nature of the collection. The flexible design of Spacesaver mobile carriages can accomodate all types of storage housings, from standard cantilever or four-post shelving to specialty housings for microfilm, audio and video tapes, maps, and CDs. Size and shape of the collection storage areas. Spacesaver High Density Mobile Storage Systems can be designed to fit in spaces of all dimensions: as long or as short, as wide or as narrow, as short or as tall as your space requires. Accessibility to the collections. Sophisticated new advances in safety features mean that the space saving benefits of Spacesaver High Density Mobile Storage Systems can be realized in your highly visible, public access collection stacks as well as in your back room storage areas. The weight of the collection. Spacesaver's full line of over 15 standard carriage designs, with load capacities that range from 3,000 to 250,000 pounds or more per carriage gives library space planners a comprehensive selection of options. The welded "uniframe" construction of Spacesaver carriages further enhances its load-bearing capabilities and ensures long system life.     Other specialty products that we incorporate into our library designs include anti-tip devices controlled carriage motors roller bearing guidance for fragile collections precision wheels and rails dust shields fire retardant components fire alarm interfaces light shields for sensitive collections aisle lighting water shields ventilation equipment housing options to control infestation locking devices remote control access indicator lights.

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