Bodleian book storage, swindon a new build book storage facility for national archive and legal deposit storage to bs 5454. Oxford bodleian librarys book storage facility in swindon. Description, the book storage facility bsf stores lowerusage items from the libraries collections including books, maps, manuscripts, microfilms, periodicals. The new book warehouse, in south marston, near swindon, has been built to store the lowerusage items from the libraries collections that had overwhelmed the existing bookstacks and required additional. Visit to bodleian libraries book storage facility, swindon, 30317 oxford opened this facility in october 2010 as a replacement for multiple other stores, including a salt mine in cheshire, which were becoming very expensive. Combining warehouse space with ancillary office and processing space facebook twitter linkedin email. The book storage facility bsf has the capacity for 8 million volumes. The bodleian library, located in oxford, is the largest university library system in the united kingdom. Bodleian libraries completes swindon move bbc news.
This unique purposebuilt warehouse in south marston, on the outskirts of swindon was designed as a bespoke storage facility for the bodleians vast collections. Weston library formerly the new bodleian radcliffe observatory quarter. The book storage facility bsf stores lowerusage items from the libraries collections including books, maps, manuscripts, microfilms, periodicals and newspapers primarily from the 18th century onwards. Inside the bodleian librarys storehouse swindon advertiser. The book storage facility consists of an elevenmetre tall solid shelving system comprising 31 very narrow aisles vna, with seven different bay type configurations to accommodate the different sizes of books and other materials. To store up to eight million volumes and the building has an extended building life of 100 years to avoid future disruption to operations. Book storage facility bsf in the biggest move in the history of the library. The book storage facility consists of an elevenmetre tall solid shelving system comprising 31 very narrow aisles vna, with seven different bay. Welcome to the new home for books owned by oxford universitys. Oxford is a very crowded place, and it is very hard to build anything there. Bodleian book storage, swindon hurley palmer flatt. The bodleians new weston library would not exist without its book storage facility, just north of the a420 in swindon.
As a result, the greatest single part of the university of oxford bodleian library collection the book storage facility, holding 8,328,367 books and roughly 1. Gladstone link previously underground bookstore bodleian s old schools quad. In the year following the bsfs opening, over 6 million books were moved into the bsf in what has been the biggest book move in the bodleians history see book moves. Working alongside architects scott brownrigg, our team designed a bespoke storage facility to hold the overflow of the bodleian libraries vast collections. Bodleian library book storage facility takes delivery of. The bsf was built as shelving space had been running out at the existing bookstacks across the bodleian libraries and in the temporary storage facilities already used by the bodleian both. The current bodleian storage facility a few miles away from oxford is both full and uneconomic it could be redeveloped and pay for this project. Oxford bodleian librarys book storage facility in swindon oxford is a very crowded place, and it is very hard to build anything there. Bodleian libraries book storage facility library technology guides.