Tag: Offsite storage

  • Deepstore cardboard boxes.

    Library team outing : Deepstore

    A couple of weeks ago our team made the journey up to Winsford in Cheshire to visit Deepstore. This is where much of our collection lives underground in the space created by Britain’s largest salt mine. It is important for at least one member of the library team to visit Deepstore a year in order…

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  • Showing a Deepstore cardboard box with green writing, and a box barcode.

    Captain’s log #2

    Captain’s log. 1 April 2025. Regular readers of our Blog will know that normally posts are for Fridays. However, today is an important day in the flight of the Heythrop Library’s workship: 1. Our place of workship is gaining a new first officer, Sophia. 2. The charity funding all our work (and I mean all…

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  • Project introduction : Crown to Deepstore

    One of the long-term projects we have been working on as the Heythrop library team is sorting through the vast number of our uncatalogued books stored offsite at Crown Records Management. Our goal is to organize, catalogue, and then send these books to our other offsite store location Deepstore.

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