University & College Storage Solutions

We provide school storage for all your educational storage needs from athletic & classroom storage, library shelving, and media centers.

It’s More Than a School or a Campus. It’s a Community.

Every year, campuses evolve to better support their students' needs.

It is becoming increasingly important that educational institutions offer a variety of valuable options focused towards attracting and retaining students. High schools are offering more STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) education and online courses, and community colleges are offering more 4-year programs. To increase student engagement and achievement, these educational institutions must focus on a strong and diverse school community.

With that comes the need for more space to store essentials, such as books, research materials, athletic team equipment, school records, and more. Without adequate space, classroom environments become disorganized, inefficient, and can limit learning and growth.

Libraries

The traditional library concept—a collection of books in a building with people reading them quietly—is shifting.

Increasingly, libraries are becoming anchors for their communities, reaching beyond books and materials to provide seminars and classes, collaborative workspaces, media labs, and more.

At the same time, technology consistently transforms the way information is consumed. From e-books and online courses to live trainings and hand-on learning, there are plenty of mediums competing for space in today’s libraries. That’s not to say that books, periodicals, microfilm, audio, and video are a thing of the past—far from it.

To accommodate everything, libraries have to get creative with space.

Smart Lockers for Temporary Storage

Students can easily use their student ID or phone to open a locker that can store their personal items as they spend time at the campus library. These experiences provide a seamless experience this generation has come to expect.

Pick-Up Lockers

Package delivery lockers allow students and faculty to retrieve things they’ve ordered on their own time, such as checked-out books or other materials from the library.

At Wake Forest University’s Z. Smith Reynolds Library, they added a smart locker bank in their 24/7 accessible foyer. The lockers, through an integration with the University’s RFID campus ID cards, created a solution that’s still big on service — and bigger in efficiency.

High-Density Mobile Storage

If you’ve wrestled with the challenge of trying to cull a large book collection to make room for additional spaces within your library, we’re here to tell you that there’s another option. Mobile storage systems allow you to store double the amount of books and other printed materials in the same amount of book storage—or half in the same amount of space.

In placing existing shelving into mobile carriage, book collections are compressed into a space with one aisle, reducing wasted space. Simply pressing a button on the carriage or turning a three-spoke mechanical assist handle creates access to other aisles—allowing library patrons to retrieve what they need when they need it.

Cantilever Book Storage

Cantilever shelving’s appealing and modern look, united with its durability, makes for a great compact book storage solution. For academic, corporate, public and legal library purposes, cantilever shelving offers a comprehensive range of options and accessories to address the needs of your library today and plan for the future. The system accommodates an array of media formats, books, articles, newspapers, and much more.

Off-Site Library Storage

When book collections expand to the point where they can’t be kept in one location, many libraries are choosing to invest in off-site facilities for additional library storage. In the case of North Carolina’s Wake Forest University their off-site warehouse had a small footprint with tall ceilings. In creating a high-bay mobile storage system,the university was able to maximize every available inch of a narrow building.

rental lockers

Students, faculty, and visitors can rent lockers as needed, no matter where they are on campus. Smart lockers can be incorporated into multiple areas around campus such as:
  • Libraries
  • Student Unions
  • Fitness Centers
  • Stadiums and Arenas
  • Performing Arts Centers
  • …And more!
Rental lockers can benefit students by allowing them to have a safe, yet temporary space to store their belongings without worry. Using a student ID or even a phone to get into a locker means easier, more efficient access.

Museums

Fine art collections need proper storage to ensure their integrity and preservation.

Santa Clara University’s De Saisset Museum of Art and History needed a solution to a non-existent space for fine art storage. A Hang Glider Pro with specific dimensions between racks not only allowed them to hang all of their artwork in one place, it also assisted the museum with securing a grant to improve even more of their storage space.

Art racks can either be hung from the ceiling or integrated into a museum’s existing floor, and can store double the amount of art by allowing pieces on both sides of the rack without interference.

Campus Police

Keeping students safe—the primary goal of campus police.

At Stanford’s Public Safety Department, the Chief was retiring, and wanted to build a new locker room for his officers before his tenure was through. In utilizing banks of Personal Storage Lockers in the room, the officers had a customized space of their own that could fit extra uniforms, protective boxes for guns, storage for personal items, and a separate drawer to keep boots and helmets upright. Keeping equipment in one central location added to the productivity of personnel—resulting in a better day on duty.

Retail/Bookstore

Campus retail outlets need organizational methods for quick retrieval and access to stock—and the IT Employee Store at Lawrence Berkley National Labs was no exception. Employees couldn’t get work done in a very disorganized stockroom—and with a Modular Shelving System, we were able to double the storage in the existing footprint and offer flexible options for hanging inventory.

Library book rentals can be exchanged in an easier way by implementing smart lockers for pick-up services. Not only do they offer a contactless way to exchange books and other items, they also are easy to use, leading to a seamless and efficient user experience.

Athletic Equipment

College sports recruiters know that the look and feel of athletic facilities play more of a role in recruiting than ever before. This was the case for the University of Notre Dame, who upgraded to mobile shelving from static wooden shelving that was wasting precious space. The high density storage doubled the amount of equipment that could be stored in the same footprint. The system is one piece of a completely renovated football storage room that has become a showpiece for the Division I school.

University Hospital & Laboratories

On-campus hospitals and clinics are typically smaller than the average public healthcare facility—and with smaller medical buildings come far less space for supplies. Efficient healthcare storage solutions can increase efficiency and organization, helping healthcare practitioners on campus spend more of their time treating students. Similarly, medical and science laboratories require workstations suited to their specialties. Utilizing ultra chemical resistant and durable phenolic resin work surfaces in laboratory casework helps meet safety and quality standards.

University Laboratories

Modern research and teaching labs need the best in safety, security, and storage. That’s why we offer storage capabilities that allow you to build high performance and precise work spaces. Our custom capabilities include cabinets, locked glass drawers, raceways, and more.

Cabinets

Every lab uses a variety of different equipment and supplies, and classroom setups can be changed multiple times a day. To make storage more efficient and effective for varying needs, our cabinets can be designed specifically for you.

Locked Doors

Keep hazardous supplies and expensive equipment out of harm’s way with locked glass doors. Locked drawers and cabinets can also be used to store student’s personal belongings.

Raceways

Work islands and base cabinets can house Ethernet, electrical and plumbing easily with raceways. They are easy to access for maintenance, and keep areas free of wires and plumbing.

Administration & Campus Mailrooms

Digital records are king on college campuses—but in administrative offices, there’s still a need for paper and supply storage. Mobile shelving can give you organized and immediate access to files and records, and for those that need to be kept confidential or under restricted access, PIN pad and audit trail capabilities can be added for extra security. For environments such as campus mailrooms, modular casework allows you to configure storage as needs change.
From delivery to pick-up, packages can take up a large portion of staff’s time to sort and deliver. To dramatically reduce time spent on student deliveries, consider implementing smart lockers into campus mailrooms. Not only does it increase productivity and efficiency, it is able to be integrated with mail tracking systems, which can lead to labor savings with multiple deliveries and mail tracking.

The storage challenges on a campus are endless.

Check out our “School Your Space” Lookbook to get ideas on how smarter storage can transform your educational community.