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With over eight million books, Oxford University’s Bodleian Library is now the proud owner of a shelf that is 153 miles long.

As the University has a copy of every book published in the UK, it had understandably started to run out of storage space.

This week the collection has been moved into a massive warehouse in South Marston which has the capacity to offer enough storage space for the next two decades.

The facility is so large that the floor area is on a par with 1.6 football pitches while the shelving is almost ten times this size due to its high density.

Moving the books has been no easy feat however as they have been kept in storage far underground in a former Cheshire salt mine. Now almost six million books and 1.2 million maps will be transported to their new home over the next year.

Although this new storage facility offers a large space to store books, the University has chosen to only store its books that are not often requested in this new facility.

Students have been given the guarantee however, that if they request a book from the facility before 10am, they will be able to collect it in Oxford at 3pm the following day. That said, the University are only expecting around 200,000 requests of this nature each year.

Among the books that are to be retained in Oxford are the four original manuscripts of the Magna Carta treaty from the thirteenth century.

Speaking to The Independent, head librarian Sarah Thomas admits that this solution could not have come sooner.

She said: “ The BSF will prove a long-awaited solution to the space problem that has long challenged the Bodleian. We have been running out of space since the 1970s and the situation has become increasingly desperate in the last few years.”

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A company that makes storage furniture in a flat pack format, has recently added some new items to its product range.

Prepac Manufacturing Ltd now has a range of platform beds that have additional room for storage that would be very welcome in any home crying out for additional space to store clutter away.

Additionally there are a number of new DVD and CD storage racks available to buy and there are also a number of television stands.

In total, there are around 242 new items from the manufacturer that are now available to buy from the American and Canadian websites of Wholesale Furniture Brokers.

As a lot of the items are made using composite wood which uses reclaiming wood fibres from wood chips, Prepac goods are very often considered to be very environmentally friendly.

The goods are also stored and transported in a flat pack format meaning they take up less space on planes and lorries and therefore weigh less when being flown to other parts of the country. As the goods are all made in Canada and need to be transported this is very important.

Jim Mathison from Prepac Manufacturing explains: “ From an environmental standpoint, shipping unassembled products results is a much smaller carbon footprint.”

He is also very excited about the collaboration with Wholesale Furniture Brokers which will help Prepac products reach a wider audience.

Mr Mathison added: “ Wholesale Furniture Brokers is a good fit for Prepac as they are focused in our key categories and meet other criteria including having a wide selection of products, high product visibility, professional e-commerce websites and online presence.”

Prepac Manufacturing Ltd started to sell its first furniture in the early 1980s. Steve Simpson is the company’s President and established the company, which these days offers a wide range of furniture including office desks, in 1979.

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