The State Library of South Australia takes this opportunity to acknowledge the significant contribution MoveCorp made to the successful completion of the $41.2 million State Library of South Australia Redevelopment – on time and on budget.

MoveCorp acted as principal consultant, as part of a large project team on the extensive and complex storage and relocation components. These included the design, arrangement and relocation of equipment, staff and office moves, the selection of new storage facilities for the full range of library collections on open and closed access, advising on environmental conditions for collection storage to recognised preservation standards, and integrating the reuse of storage equipment and facilities.

Over the nearly 4 years of the project 50 kilometres of collections were relocated three times and 150 staff twice; the bulk of the collections and staff remained onsite during the redevelopment. The success of these three manoeuvres, coordinated and managed by MoveCorp, allowed the Library to remain open and provide a service, with access to the collections throughout the building works.

MoveCorp’s approach is collaborative, responsive and consistent. They listen, advise and provide direction and leadership as needed.

MoveCorp’s Library Planning Group provides specialised facility and collection planning support services to libraries.  These are centred around achieving cost effective service delivery solutions with complete integration of front of house, back of house and storage functions.

For over 15 years MoveCorp have specialised in assisting with the design and planning of functional spaces for reference and lending libraries. This includes the analysis of library services and service delivery; collection planning, projections and layouts; screen & book based learning services; through to relocation and maintenance of service delivery during construction.

MoveCorp’s extensive knowledge enables us to rapidly become an effective team member, minimizing the learning curve and  MoveCorp’s range of specialist library analysis and planning skills  adds significant value to a project.  These include:

• Scoping Studies – identifying issues, developing a vision & framework, establishing order of costs, determining required outcomes
• Facility planning - review of facility(s), strategic and service delivery options analysis, Collection and storage analysis, block and stacks, budget & costing, preparing information for business case and strategic planning
• Architectural brief - preparing detailed architectural brief including: room data sheets, block and stack, concept diagrams and sketches, storage design, collection placement plans, service delivery methodology
• Sketch design - Layouts and sketch designs to enable implementation of refurbishment of smaller scale projects
• Implementation – strategy, control and management of the delivery process to ensure on time and on budget delivery; relocation project management; service continuity planning.

Collection experience

MoveCorp have worked with an extensive range of collection materials including:

• Manuscripts & archives
• Special Collections
• Rare books
• Works on paper
• Memorabilia and ephemera
• Rolled works
• Paintings
• Sculpture
• Photographs, negatives & slides
• Film & audio
• Microfilm & fiche

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