A WTS Case Study
Library Relocations for UCD
Due to planned building refurbishments, WTS were engaged by UCD to temporarily relocate the Library of the School of Veterinary Medicine (SVM) to James Joyce Library (JJL) on the campus in Belfield, Dublin 4. The library would need to be returned to its permanent home in the newly refurbished building once the building works had been completed.
The Customer Need:
In advance of the veterinary students returning to university, it was essential that there was a functioning library, despite the building works planned. So the interim solution was to move the Library of the School of Veterinary Medicine to the main James Joyce Library on the campus, to ensure students could continue to have access to the resources they needed.
Once the building works were completed, the library could be moved to its new location in the refurbished building.
The challenge for UCD was that there were tight deadlines for the moves and these were dependent on the building works being completed to schedule. In addition, the final library move would take place when students were back to their studies, so it was essential to minimise disruption to the main library and the students in the process.
The WTS Solution:
One of the most important aspects of undertaking a library relocation is retaining the positioning of the books on the shelves, to ensure the libraries referencing system is maintained. Our experienced team carefully removed the books from the shelves into our storage and transfer cases, ensuring we retained a correlation between the books in the cases and their positioning on the shelves. Once the books were removed the shelves were fully dismantled and transferred to their new temporary home in the James Joyce Library. These shelves were reassembled and the corresponding cases for each shelving unit were opened and the books positioned on the shelves.
Our team returned to UCD when the building works had been completed to repeat the process transferring all the veterinary books from the main library back to their new permanent home in the School of Veterinary Medicine.
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