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NEWS UPDATE ON THE COLLECTION MOVES
22 September 2008
The construction of the new storage building at Boston
Spa, West Yorkshire, is progressing on time, with completion due
in late Autumn. Premier Moves Ltd has now been appointed as the
contractor to manage the transfer of material from London sites
and its installation in this new building.
We will be preparing for Phase 1 of the collection
moves, which starts in January 2009, by transferring a limited amount
of material in November 2008. These will be Foreign Official Publications,
with the following shelfmark ranges:
SE French publications
SG Greek publications
SH Italian publications
SJ Dutch publications
The movement of this stock between buildings at Boston Spa will
enable us to start Phase 1, by freeing storage
space. These items will only be unavailable for a few weeks; they
are not part of the minimum nine months embargo in Phase
1.
The minimum nine months embargo period will not affect St Pancras
high-use material e.g. rare books, monographs, standard-use monographs,
maps, sound archive and music scores.
At the end of November 2008, full details of the low-use items
involved in the embargo period will be made available. As this is
a rolling programme, it will include the planned times for when
particular items will be transferred to the new storage facility
at Boston Spa. Once items are moved, they will be unavailable during
this minimum nine months move period.
In addition, we will soon issue the next Collection Moves News
Bulletin, with news on the small quantity of newspaper collection
items that will transfer from Colindale to Boston Spa, part of Phase
2 of the collection moves, starting at the end of 2009.
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