Library Moving
Experienced Staff
We have moved a lot of libraries— large and small, public and private, general and ultra-specific—including the San Diego Public Library, Tulane University, the U.S. Naval War College, and all of the libraries at the University of Chicago. Decades of experience developing and implementing a wide variety of relocation plans allows the Hallett team to offer insightful project management, careful logistical planning, and effective on-site problem solving. When Hallett is your library move partner, we provide:
Hallett combines experience with innovation and technology with human care and understanding to create efficient solutions for even the most confounding library move scenarios. Most libraries can remain open and functional during their entire move. Our practices to facilitate this include:
Hallett is a one-stop-shop for your library move needs. In addition to our unparalleled move management, we offer:
We have moved a lot of libraries— large and small, public and private, general and ultra-specific—including the San Diego Public Library, Tulane University, the U.S. Naval War College, and all of the libraries at the University of Chicago. Decades of experience developing and implementing a wide variety of relocation plans allows the Hallett team to offer insightful project management, careful logistical planning, and effective on-site problem solving. When Hallett is your library move partner, we provide:
- Project management along with or independent of our physical moving services, including:
- Pre-bid review
- Bid specification development with samples provided
- Fill ratio computations and growth analysis
- Integration and segregation planning
- Space planning
- Regular communications with your Project Administrator and key staff
- On-site project management, staff training, and coordination with other vendors
- You can also hire Hallett Project Managers months — even years — in advance to advise in planning your move to present a plan for success to your board, planning committee, trustees, faculty, or city council. Hiring Hallett as a consultant to your planning process helps to prevent common oversights, identify potential problem areas early enough to devise smart solutions, ensure all aspects will be covered in a request for bids, and, ultimately, save you time and money. These services include:
- Assistance with move planning, schedule, and move sequencing
- Collection measurement
- Advice on logistics as well as collection layouts and flow
- Budget figures
- Recommendations on new furniture and shelving as well as re-use of existing items
- Seminars to ready employees for the move
- Moving teams with the depth of experience to be undaunted by moves involving multiple locations, expansive document collections, or collection components needing to be flipped, reordered, or reunited.
Hallett combines experience with innovation and technology with human care and understanding to create efficient solutions for even the most confounding library move scenarios. Most libraries can remain open and functional during their entire move. Our practices to facilitate this include:
- Our project management team meets with your project administrator and staff to identify top priorities and concerns, so we can determine the best way to get the move done:
- Timelines designed to avoid unnecessary interruptions in your daily operations.
- Early, extensive site surveys to avoid surprises and eliminate obstacles as well as accurately determine costs and estimate labor, equipment, and time required to complete relocation.
- Hallett utilizes proven methods and the latest technology to produce the most efficient and effective means for library relocations:
- Stack moving: our stack mover lifts and moves up to 30 feet of shelving fully intact (books remain on the shelves)
- Portable hydraulic lifts, cranes, and conveyer belts allowing quick movement of library map cases, files, microform cabinets, and bindery equipment
- Chicago-style dollies equipped with soft, non-marring wheels
- Moving containers designed and manufactured specifically for Hallett Movers library moving
- “Hallett Sky Box” portable elevator allows access to buildings via outside windows, doorways, or inside mezzanine level when standard elevators are not available
- Portable exit and entrance ramps and conveyors custom fit to your library building
- Color-coding and numbering systems that identify all collection items to be moved and their exact placement in the new facility and a floor plan of your new facility that reflects the exact placement of office furnishings, files, and equipment.
- Dynamic warehousing, and long- and short-term collection storage available.
Hallett is a one-stop-shop for your library move needs. In addition to our unparalleled move management, we offer:
- Collection reorganization, integration, separation, and weeding
- Collection measuring and layout
- Collection cleaning: tank vacuums with Hepa filters for main collections and hand cleaning for fragile materials
- Shelf cleaning
- Shelving installation, disassembly, move, and reassemble services
- Shelving rental/purchase program available to meet short- or long-term needs
- Carpentry by skilled staff working nationwide
- Archive and rare book moving {link to specialty services page}
- Collection processing for off-site high density storage or injection projects that include identifying, picking and pulling, sorting, sizing, scanning, labeling, and/or barcoding materials; experience with collection management softwares
- Proposals and pricing in writing; never hidden or surprise charges
- Commitment to green, sustainability practices