Twice the stacks. Same library.
Every growing university faces the same equation: collections grow every year, and the building does not. Mobile shelving turns the overflow problem into a zoning plan — browsing up front, density behind.
What actually happens to your square metres.
Fixed steel shelving pays for one aisle per run. Mobile shelving pays for one aisle per room. That difference is the whole project.
Capacity in the same footprint
Compacting the runs removes four of five aisles; the freed floor becomes shelving.
Growth headroom built in
Shelf pitch and carriage count are specified with a decade of collection growth in mind.
New buildings required
Most stack renovations run while the library stays open — zone by zone, shelf by shelf.
Three zones. One coherent stack hall.
High-performing academic libraries don’t choose between browsing and density — they zone for both, in one continuous plan.
Browsing collections
Students, self-service, daily traffic
- Fixed open runs at the entrance
- Face-out display shelves for new titles
- Wide 1.2 m aisles for wheelchair access
Study & course reserves
Reading rooms, taught modules
- Manual mobile runs with open cubbies
- Label holders matched to reading lists
- Seat-facing runs inside reading zones
Thesis & back-issue archives
Staff-mediated retrieval
- Full-height compactor runs, max density
- Numbered bays matched to catalogue marks
- Lockable zones for rare and fragile items
RFID-ready shelving for modern library systems.
When the campus library runs an RFID self-service chain — check-out kiosks, return sorting, shelf-reading — the physical shelving has to keep up. Our smart compactor platform is designed as the storage layer of that chain.
- Tag-level positioning links each shelf mark to the catalogue record
- Miss-aisling: the smart compactor opens only the shelf where the requested item lives
- Inventory sweeps read a full zone without opening a single aisle
- Touchscreen terminals log every opening for collection security reviews
Smart terminal · shelf-level control
The small engineering that daily academic use demands.
Adjustable shelf pitch
Folios, octavos, archive boxes and back volumes all live in the same run — shelves re-pitch in 25 mm steps without tools, so the range never forces a re-layout.
Shelf marks & label holders
Every shelf carries a clear acrylic label holder aligned to the catalogue’s own shelf marks — student staff file correctly from their first shift, without training manuals.
Anti-tilt for tall runs
Three-metre compactor runs on a single rail line stay plumb with interlocked anti-tilt guides — a hard requirement when a corridor of students passes a moving aisle every hour.
What goes where — at a glance.
A stack plan only works when every collection class has a matched home. This is the default matrix we start from, then tune to your catalogue and reading-list data.
| Collection | Zone | Configuration | Space outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| New titles & current journals | Zone A · Open | Fixed runs at the entrance with face-out display shelves for daily browsing. | Baseline |
| Course reserves & reading lists | Zone B · Semi-open | Manual mobile runs with open cubbies; label holders matched to reading lists. | 1.6× |
| Undergraduate theses | Zone C · Closed | Full-height compactor runs with numbered bays matched to catalogue marks. | 2.2× |
| Bound back issues & folios | Zone C · Closed | Wide-pitch compactor runs; shelves re-pitch in 25 mm steps for folio sizes. | 2.4× |
| Rare & fragile items | Zone C · Locked | Lockable carriages with sealed dust tops; staff-mediated retrieval only. | Secured |
More sectors we equip.
Bring us the collection count.
Volumes in, floor area available — we return a three-zone stack layout with capacity maths your library committee can defend.