Harwell Case Study: Library move, Queen’s College, University of Oxford. The skills of Harwell’s teams of technicians and support staff in handling and moving collections after incidents of fire and flood damage can also be transferred to library and archive moves. Sensitive and careful handling of antiquarian collections is at the core of Harwell’s service and was part of our successful appointment to move library and archival collections at Queen’s College, Oxford into a new, state-of-the-art facility. This library move had been planned over two years in advance, with Harwell being selected as the move contractor before the construction project had even begun. The move was complex; it was to be completed in three phases over vacation periods, to allow refurbishment of exist

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